team_malaglot

My wife got me an Etrex back in 2004 for Christmas and I didn't know what to do with it. While online I stumbled across geocaching.com and we did our first geocache the next day. Been doing it ever since!

Now THAT's a cache that wouldn't creep me out because it's extremely visible, no one has to wonder what you're doing because it's obvious and I wouldn't have to stealthily "creep" all around your yard looking for it.

Gotta admit it but this and geocaches placed in children's playgrounds are my two biggest pet peeves. I skip em' and move on but it still bugs me to no end!

Yep. It happened to me the other day. I had just parked my patrol car on a side street to use my cell phone and I happened to look down at the base of a yield sign and guess what I saw? A geocache! It was a find as far as I was concerned. I logged it.

And, I put the CO on my ignore list. Yeah it was cute when my kid was a great excuse to hang out near the jungle gym. Now it's just creepy. What I hate most is that you might have wasted a bunch of time going to do that one cache only to find it was at one of those places when you could have been spending time at another location.

Making that search is a choice. Since you chose to do that search you have no right to complain. If I see that info in the description or arrive at the site and feel it isn't appropriate I don't seek it and place it on my ignore list. Asking the cacheing world to change their procedures because of a personal dislike seems a bit egotistical. Since this hobby has a strong anarchist bent it wouldn't be well received. Next you will want to vote on cache ratings. Walter no one is askng the caching world to do anything. We are just venting our pet peeves about cache placement. If you like placing/hunting for caches on playgrounds, in the middle of shopping mall parking lots, or in blackberry patches you go right ahead and knock yerself out. The rest of us will (in the anarchist spirit) do as we please and vent our pet peeves as we please. Lighten up.

I also wish people wouldn't put them right in their front yard either. Sure you have permission to enter the property but not everybody seems to explain geocaching to their neighbors and when you are snooping around the fire hydrant in front of their house trying to zero in on the cache hidden next door at their neighbors.....well lets say a lot of us have found ourselves uncomfortably trying to explain to the neighbor why they shouldn't call the cops.

One other spot that bugs me. Micros in the middle of busy parking lots. No problem at night when no one is around but mighty uncomfortable during the day when your poking around makes you look like a car prowler.

Ever found or hunted for a geocache that was hidden in an area that was less than appropriate or made you uncomfortable? I hunted for one that was hidden somewhere on a children's playground INSIDE a piece of playground equipment! Yeah that's just what I want to be doing. A grown man skulking around a playground carrying a piece of electronic equipment looking up under the kiddie slide doesn't look suspicious at all. Please stop hiding geocaches in places like this!!!

We love our Garmin Etrex Legend. It's easy to use, affordable and well that's about it!

no...stupid people with laser pointers should be banned.

My wife and I love geocaching and since many good ones are in quiet and secluded wooded settings we have taken advantage of the privacy and enjoyed a few "romantic" moments. It has made us a better couple and strengthened our marriage. Anyone else out there couple thier love for geocaching with romance with a signifigant other?

your tax dollars at work. How much does this crap legislation cost to enact and do they actually plan on eforcing this garbage? Let the sponsors of this bill know just how you plan on voting in the next election as a result of this silly waste of time and money.

I agree with the cemetary thing. Not because i have some belief that caching in a cemetary is disrespectful or anything like that but for two other reasons. Very often but not always, cemetaries are on private property and as such, if we aren't there to visit a loved one who PAID to be interred there, we would be tresspassing. A geocacher wouldn't have legal right to be there unless of course permission was obtained from the property manager or caretaker or whatever. And there is of course the fact that we would be wandering around for apparently no reason (in the eyes of the casual observer) and might very well upset someone who has a loved one there. Now if all geocachers were discrete and polite I would say have at it. But not everyone is discrete and polite and it might be better to avoid places like that especially since there is a lot of really clever places for some great caches if only you get creative. You don't need much space for a good micro!

Hide some of your own. When I hid my first two caches....actually my only two. (they are as much as my time would allow to maintain) there were only two others in that area. Now there are at least 10 that i can think of off the top of my head. When you find a great area to cache and other come, they realize it's a great area too and other caches will follow.

You know this is a fantastic idea! We could call it "GeoMunching" or some such name. I like this idea!

Just curious. Has anyone else ever stumbled upon (not literally) an amourous couple in the woods having "relations"? I have several times and not that I'm against that kind of thing, but sometimes I have my kid along for a cache hunt. Don't really want her seeing some guy's "john thomas" This ever happen to anyone else?