BlandClan

To test please use this thread. Please do not start another testing thread. Just testing.....

A micro is anything film canister sized and smaller. The smaller they get the more difficulty they can be because of the needle in the haystack effect. More spots in the same space are available the smaller they get. The smallest that I've ever found was the size of the eraser on a pencil. Based on your post, two spots I'd of looked are: The lamp post has a skirt as it's base that lifts up. A popular spot. A chain link fence has caps on the posts. Some are loose. Personally I find there are now so many caches I can skip micros and still keep my caching calender too full to get to them all. Thank you for the suggestions. There was a metal sqaure piece that did lift up. We felt up inside it looking for something magnetic, but our fingers only found rust. There was a piece off the lightpost and you could reach inside, but wires were exposed and my husband thought it was an accident waiting to happen and shouted at our daughter to stop before her hand got in. I'll try the caps idea. I looked on the backside of the posts, I thought it might be stuck there where you just had to look over, but no dice. I'm in a rural area, and for some reason 80% of the caches within easy driving distance are micros. We were trying to hit the local ones first where we knew the streets and neighborhoods. It's really fun when you can find something!

Yes, we have learned a great deal from the logs. One of them we couldn't find had no cyphered clue at all and the logs were short....'thanks for the hide'....'quick find'.... etc, which leads me to believe it is our inexperience since others seem to be able to find it easily. The other did have a clue, but looking at all the things in the area, it made no sense to me. Our teenage son has said he will go back with us 'girls' and show us how to find it. I can't wait. Although if he walks right to it, I'm really gonna feel dumb!

Thanks for the pictures! That helps. I was looking for something about the size of my pinkie and I see it could be much smaller. These caches were rated 1 and 1.5 I think they need to reconsider..... Of course, the next time I go back I may swat myself for overlooking it. :-)

We went to Clinton today to shop and I thought I would try out my new sleuthing skills. Unfortunately the 4 we went to were all micros. We didn't find any of them. We were right on top of it according to my gps, but didn't see it. grrrr My question....is there a website where I can see what a 'micro' is? I'm not sure what I'm looking for. One co-ord was next to a light pole. One co-ord was between a tree and the chain link fence in a park. I was looking for something about the size of a nut or hex screw and magnetic. Is that what a micro is? Susan