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Please, please please log your visit even if you didn't find it. I love clues in the logs but please do not give it away, I like the hunt and when someone logs "It is behind the red tombstone" it kind of ruins it. I think the best information sometimes, not always can be the type of container. I love it when I know that as I can get an idea of what size it is. Also, I went to some of the stores linked off the main webpage and looked at all the different type of containers they sell to get an idea of what may be out there. Some of the containers are viciously sadistic, you could trip on one and not know it was the cache.

The logs usually contain clues, whether intentional or not who knows. Some have an encypted clue as well. The key to the encrption is usually on the right side of the screen opposite the encoded clue. Also, in my local area it seems that if there is a cemetery then there is almost always a cache in it. To further answer your question - I open the Cache information page, click on the title such as #14 on the Critter Trail (GC1DM6F) then I go to my printer button on the windows tool bar and hit print preview and print if it looks like it is going to print out correctly. Then I scroll down and click on "Driving Directions" that is located in the boxed titled "PRINT:" After that pops up you enter your starting location and the caches' location should already be in the destination box. Once you have your start location loaded look at the upper right corner of the map box and you will see hyper links for print, send and link, mine are purple/blueish color. click on print. Another window will pop up with our directions. Depending on how much information you want you can do text or text with map directions, I use either but prefer the text with maps. I also click the check box for include large map. If you choose to include the large map make sure it is zoomed in/out correctly to be usefull, sometimes the default zoom is useless and you end up with a small section of the route that gives you no references. Once you have the maps you want click on the large white print button in the upper right corner of the map window. Then fill up the car and have fun. Please email me directly if you want more help or if I confused you, I tend to include way too much of the wrong info...

The family and I are saving our pennies so we can get a GPS unit, the Garmin Colorado actually but we have found 11 out of 12 caches printing the pages and maps. Be careful with the maps though, google maps sent us to the wrong place but since I printed the page with pictures of the site we figured out which exit was the "correct" exit and found the cache, actually the wife found it as I had walked right past it. Use maps just to find the general location, use the clues to find the item.

I am new too, so new that I don't even have a GPS unit yet. I print them out off the website and the family and I go hunting. We are good for about 6 a day in the local area. So far we are 11 out of 12 found using this method. My son has found one, my wife one and I have found the rest. I have a devious mind so may be that is why I find them before they do. The best thing of all, so far, is all the wife and I have to do is mention going geocaching and the son shuts down his video games and ready for the hunt. He has really gotten into this. Not so much the riding around but the actual hunt once we get to the location. We let him navigate last weekend and interpret the clues, that took a LOT of patience and fuel for my truck but he seemed to learn from the experience.

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