Unkle Fester

Do you use one of those big, chisel point markers? yes. you know the chisel-tip that comes in jumbo size? that's the one. I was going to suggest a giant crayon, but the marker is much better. I was actually about to post a thread, after reading another thread where the folks nabbed a buch of caches and used stickers to sign. I got beat to the punch

This is easy... Hogwarts is the school for wizards in Harry Potter. There is no Hogwart, Mongolia that I can find. These are obviously wizards in training or full blown wizards on staff at the school. Since magic exists outside the reality of space and time, it is perfectly acceptable to log both places on the same day.

1480 +/- too late

Start walking in the woods shouting "MARCO"... If I come across a difficult hide, I start looking for anything out of place; A lock on the side of the gate, sticks piled up, a rock of a different type or color, an extra bold on a sign post... If it doesn't look like it belongs, that may be your clue.

Yup, sounds like Jersey alright... (still haven't seen a garden there either)

<snicker> I know these... good ones too.

We didn't plan on it. There is a cache in north central Oregon (darned state is big enough to have zones) GC19PF8, Dufur Threshing Bee. This was erroringly placed in Washington and the coords shifted south but still came up as a Washington cache. I'm noticing this morning that it now lists itself as being in Oregon, but for a while it wasn't. (edit spelling as usual)

If there is obvious geo trails or other damage occuring, then it's smart to archive them. If it's just to replace a cache with 200 finds so people get another smiley, that's a different thread.

If you get tired of TFTC logs on your caches, you are free to archive them and throw them away. I asked for that, didn't I... and for the record, I am But even my good hides get the TFTC and nothing else, it really doesn't bother me, just an observation. Last I checked, about 6.8% of my finds have been archived, but about 15% of my DNFs were and another 40% +/- were replaced for being missing.

Calculate time and effort, you may find it's cheaper to buy one.

We've cached in cemeteries and hidden in them too. It's a matter of respect. I do not let my kids run willy nilly through them, but show them to walk between and never on a headstone, to look at the dates and find the interesting stones. Until about WWII, families and communities used to gather and have picnics in cemeteries. Yes Virginia, they used to be family destinations. By bringing the kids here, it lets them formulate questions about death and dying, helping them prepare for the day a pet or relative dies. It helps them understand. Now, if you shield your kids from death, what happens when a friend or close relative dies? a pet? Do they "run off to the circus"? If you never expose them to things, nothing will ever happen to them. If you never let anything happen to them, then nothing will ever happen to them. That leaves them woefully unprepared for life. Just My Opinion.

You could pick up a cheap cubicle used on craigs list and hide the laptop in the cube in the woods, imagine the hunter walking along and see's that...

I totally agree with this & see it done all the time. Double ditto. Odd, I only see it once per cache, at most.

Lincoln City Parks had this issue, the guy would place caches and within days a letterbox would appear within feet of a cache or waypoint. I've found maybe 15 letterboxes that were not the cache, small odds considering.

We could have Sally Struthers do an infomercial: "Can someone please help them? They have no home, they're wet and moldy, someone please help, for the Caches..." In the background would be pictured a moldy mess under a rock in the woods, maybe a broken film can in a parking lot, an LPC with a ziplock bag hanging out from undernieth... Then pan to some poor guy, shoulders slumped, soaked by the rain, sobbing lighty to himself - he looks to the heavens and cries "for the love of Signal, why can't we help them? The horror, THE HORROR!"... Sorry, not helping again. I think I need to 'up' my medication. (edit spelling)

You could buy a surplus Soviet era submarine... Smaller? anything with gaskets or o-rings will work best, but nothing is 100% when it comes to water, other than 100% it will get wet.

I'm with you all on this one. On the one hand, geocachers have to be responsable, hiders and seekers. On the other, not all damage is geo related, but come on, you can tell...

Yeah, before geocaching, I used to wander around in the woods with a chainsaw and a hocky mask. Darn-it, who told you! Those were being released in secret, I thought.

A well Placed Micro solves that problem...

I don't own one or have a manual either, but dink around with it and be SURE it is set to WGS84 datum, not NAD27 or something similar. Good point, check the coordinate datum (it's in one of the menue options)

I'm not familiar with that model, but I use a Garmin Rino 530HCx and I had the same problem setting caches until I learned about the Average function on the mark waypoint screen. Helps the GPSr zero in on your exact description. As for finding caches, we have a bunch of caches from the same person that are all about 40' off for the same reason. On top of that, sometimes the software may need updating. My Rino went a little haywire and I went to Garmin.com and uploaded updates to the unit. It works even better now. Go to Magellin online and follow the instructions A friend bought a GPSr that was a demo model and would do some odd things. They uploaded the software and it works great... Not a big deal really. Good Luck

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Instead of an altoids tin, why don't you modify an altoids mint itself, glue it to a magnet an hide it.

No, Thursdays is Monty Python - your confusing that with the second Sturday after the first new moon of any month that ends in a Y.

Does this post qualify for the dead horse thread? It crops up every couple months. My personal take is nano is a class of micro. many people are already putting film cans in the call of small, but I don't think that's right. (edit, my spelling suckkks)