Current Resident

This sounded like a possibility to me also, until I read somewhere here that small animals can become ensnared in such tethers, so it's best not to use them.

If a landowner grants me permission to hide a cache on his property, is he opening himself up to a lawsuit by an accident-prone cache hunter? And what about my liability as the cache owner - and does it differ if I hide one on private vs. public land, assuming I obtain the necessary permissions? I'm concerned with WI and MN, if the governing statutes vary state by state.

I'm very much a newbie, but the log books for half of the caches I've found have been so wet they often couldn't be written on. Yet including a log book in any physical cache seems to be such an important requirement that a new cache won't be approved unless you include one. Why is it so crucial - doesn't everyone log their visits and swaps here on the web site anyway? And even if they don't bother, what difference would it make?

Backpackers carry water in wide-mouth (2" diameter opening) screw-top bottles that have very good waterproof seals. Nalgene is the brand name, and the Lexan version (less that $8/copy) is considerably tougher than the slightly cheaper polyethylene version. I'm going to try the quart/liter size, and slip it inside a sack sewn from camoflage fabric. I recently filled one with dry scraps of paper, sank it under a foot of water for 12 hours - and it came up bone dry inside! Nalgene also makes little 1 oz. and 2 oz. wide-mouth polyethylene "bottles', and their excellent seals might also make them good choices for micros. Of course, we always have to rely on visitors to carefully secure the watertight seals before they re-hide them - and that is never a certainty. So I think waterproof log books are a worthwhile idea, and Travel Bugs and trade items that are also impervious to dampness also make sense.