NotThePainter

I've recently moved to an area that is surrounded by both water and National Park land, not quite geo-caching hell but you get the picture. It isn't impossible to place a cache here but it isn't easy. My plan is to start placing puzzle caches in the National Park land. No container, but I'll have you find something that is already there, hopefully after a decent hike, count so number of things, and then hike out. The puzzle will be super easy. Not like my usual hard ones. Near the parking area, outside of the National Park, I'll find a guardrail or stop sign and do the obvious. It is like a decent traditional without the ammo can.

I was in a similar situation and back when I hated having them as my nearest "unfound" cache (before the ignore option was available) I just marked them as found, noted that I was doing this, and then found other caches and marked them as "Notes." This way they were gone from my "nearest" list and my numbers weren't padded.

Great idea! : - )

I was given 8 green ones to seed NH caches. To avoid the "gimme attitude" and the gotta grab it first. I went out and placed them all... ... and didn't log them into the caches! So we had 8 surprised and happy geocachers. Of course they've probably all disappeared by now... Just checked, 2 of them have been logged in 2008! Not too bad...

Some caches just don't get visited often.

Man, that sure brings new meaning to the "Trade up, trade even, or don't trade at all." motto. And please, check with the cache owner before punching air-holes in the ammo can, they might not like that.

From a nighttime FTFP run

opps, sorry, it was the 2006 CITO Geocoin #1 that I was having problems with.

Wild! I've been marking that coin as missing for the better part of a year now. So I do it, and its gone. poof! Awesome. Moderator, you can close the thread.

One of my caches, Cherokee Rose, says that there is a coin in it. If you go to that coin's page, it thinks it is in the cache even though the last log doesn't place it there. I've tried marking it as "missing" many times. Can some admin take care of this for me? Thanks.

When I place a cache I stock it full of good stuff from the Dollar Store, kids stuff, grownup stuff and so on. And that's it. I don't consider necessary to restock the caches. For me, it is about the hike or the hide or the puzzle, not about the contents. I'm became disenchanted about trading about my 20th cache or so. We say "trade up, trade even, or don't trade at all" but we all know that that isn't followed, if it was, all our caches would be stuffed with jewels and gold.

In my opinion putting in the oak tree is what transforms it from tedious into hard. I have a hollowed out white birch branch as one of my caches. It is hanging from a tree and there isn't a white birch for hundreds of feet. Yet I've watched a group of about half a dozen cachers stare right at it and move on.

Imagine that, cache hides placing caches on land without getting permision from the owners? :- ) BTW, I can host a cache on my land, email me if you want to set it up. Paul

I did not have the MIT sticker on either bike and Facilities removed them, bikes get abandoned on campus all the time. Sadly, once I placed the cache I moved about 50 miles away (instead of 5 miles) and maintenance was a problem. I was thinking of archiving it then but I got such positive comments on it that I decided not to. Once construction on the site started, however, I had no option but to pull it. Bike parking had been plentiful and it became scarce, I didn't want to take a spot from a real bike commuter. And ironically, I start a new job in a week or so about a mile from that location!

That would have been my cache, now archived. Here's the photo where you can see the cache if you know what you are looking for... and here is the close up. The cache was a 1 liter water bottle that was cable tied to the bike, so it clearly was usable as a water bottle. It was brightly colored with the Groundspeak colors and had a typed label on it, facing up that said www.geocaching.com The original cache was 80 Feet of Waterline, Nicely Making Way which was a hard puzzle. Before I archived it I turned it into a traditional 79 Feet of Waterline, Nicely Making Way just so non-puzzle solvers could have their fun. And yes, I went through 2 bikes and 2 locks there! Paul PS: And to those who say you have to find some before hiding, this was my second hide and I think I only had about 20 finds at the time, but that's another topic.

Yeah, I was hoping for that, been surprised myself.

Here's what I do with the junk... Trade Up, Trade Even, or Don't Trade at All

In my neck of the woods, the owner buys you beer at the next event. Or, as the case may be, he buys many people beers at the next event. Mess up your cache at publication time? Buy beer. This is a good tradition.

In my neck of the woods, the owner buys you beer at the next event. Or, as the case may be, he buys many people beers at the next event. Mess up your cache at publication time? Buy beer. This is a good tradition.

man, maybe I shouldn't join it but here goes... Until recently, my wife and I hosted an event that was very popular. We had between 50 and 80 people show up on a "school" night at a local restaurant pub and talk geocaching. Tons of fun. We got a corporate sponsor, it was a lot of working getting one to sign on but we did. We started giving away stuff, good stuff. $80 backpacks, $50 gift certificates. At the hey-day we were probably giving out $200, maybe $250 worth of stuff to local cachers. But the sponsor needed a link to their website. The big vinyl sign we hung up at the event wasn't good enough. That was all they asked. Eventually we were asked to take the link down, and obviously, we lost the sponsor. So yes, I have tried to host an event and run afoul of the guidelines. I can understand Groundspeak's position, they certainly don't my my sponsor's link appearing on a cache page that has an ad from a competitor to the sponsor. Right? But, the fact remains, there are cachers in my area who don't get free stuff anymore from my sponsor. Oh well...

I've done it on at least one of my puzzles, and what is worse, when you start the puzzle you don't know this. And even after you know it, you're not sure what you need from the others. Yes, it is meant to be hard, layers upon layers.

IF you are near NH, check out my hides. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/nearest.aspx?u=NotThePainter

If you want to complain to the DJ's, email b-real@wbcn.com what a waste of time, sorry.

yeah, she hung up on it. No point in continuing that. What a waste of time.