Scenic_Rhodes

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Boy. We just moved back from Montana to Arkansas and are loving the ability to cache during the winter. Januarys were always pretty slow. We have grabbed more caches these winter months than many of our months in Montana! Snow caching is definitely a little harder than you made it to be. I remember looking for a decon container that was under a bunch of rocks.. under 4 inches of snow...at the top of a mountain. Would normally have taken us 2 minutes to find that day it took us 30 minutes!

D'oh. Can see where that just might be a pain. We have a personal TB. Use it primarily for trips though. Can't see any real reason for dipping into every cache that we find. Certainly am not going to dip into each and every local cache! But why is it appearing on caches that have been muggled? The person can't possibly have visited and logged as it is no longer there! Occassionally people will retroactively dip their TBs. This is a tedious process where they go back and relog their TB into caches they have found to chalk up the milage. This might be caches they had found years ago that, were then, active.

Does anyone have a good link to a German geocache merchandise shop. We're looking for something for my girlfriend, but I don't speak German...yet. Thanks!

As far as I can tell. You haven't said anything that's against the guidelines. The first thing I will ask is where are these 4 locations? They're not businesses are they? I don't think it's abnormal. I've seen a number of caches on a theme. They've been really fun.

I really didn't even know that 1 meant wheel chair accessible. I put a 1 on a terrain if it's on level ground. About half of my caches could be considered park and grabs which have a 1 rating. I don't consider them wheel-chair accessible or if I do I use the attributes tag for it.

I find that most times, nanos are kind of easy. For the most part they are magnetic, sooo.. they are usually found on things that are magnetic. This rules out a lot of things at first if you're searching, say in a rock garden that has one lone mettalic sign. One three seperate occassions I've walked right up to the nano and found it. On another I looked for less than 5 minutes. However, there are more creative ones out there that people have made that aren't magnetic. My best advice, check the magnetic metallics first. Then expand from there.

I leave PEZ dispensers too. But I seldom trade. I'm always looking for dice. Or really anything game related (playing cards). I figure one day I might have enough dice to play pirates dice with all my friends. Also thought about making a pirates dice cache. I hate seeing cruddy swag that people have left. I mean I know they're little trinkets but if you believe that no one ever would be interested in it, maybe you should just leave it at home. Also business cards? Really, REALLY?

So, a ministry is something you would do on a regular basis, right? It seems that a multi-cache would be something that make it hard to do on a continual basis. For one thing, it would take a lot of planning and preperation to do this one a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Secondly, If the people aren't into, you might not get a whole lot of people repeating their visits. Last, if the idea is for a lot of folks to get together then seperating them into small groups for what might be 2 hours or more seems to be counterproductive. That's just my thoughts. But if you goes, well more power to ya. I'd do it. P.S. Yeah, I wouldn't post on Geocaching.com

I don't know how that "Y" got in Idea. I hate typing on laptops for this reason!! Thanks for the advice. I've seen some questionable caches, so I just thought I would ask. I'll have to find something that fits my needs.

I'm assuming most people are familiar with the ole "let's put a magnetic altoids can under a lamp post skirt" cache. It's overused and really unoriginal. These come up for topin in my geocaching group and I thought I would have a little treat for those in my area. Here's the idea: Have GZ lead the cacher to a lamp post. There might be some other areas for them to look but they will assume it's under the skirt. They lift it up and voila no cache. After they look around a bit more they come back to the lamp post. With some close inspection they realize there is a fishing line attached to the skirt that runs up the lampost and into a hole. The trick is they have to lift the skirt up far enough so that the bison capsule lowers and they can finally sign the log? What are your thoughts. Good idea? And also, in able to build this cache I would have to drill a small hole in the lamp post. Your thoughts on that as well? Thanks!

OUr first cache was one of these. We were quite bewildered for a long time. Finally girlfriend figured it out and I tugged it free. It was not the easiest one to pull off.