TwistedCube
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7 minutes ago, arisoft said:
For this kind of cache you need a permission.
I would ask permission for sure. There is a local apple orchard who might let me place a gadget geotrail on their property. It is a public place, no admission, open year-round.
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How about a wooden post hammered into the ground? Then nail/glue the birdhouse onto that. I have seen this on occasions.
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Most cachers say that nails in trees are frowned upon. But I recently heard, that depending on the size of the nail, it won't affect the tree. Most assume that straps are better for securing birdhouses. However, I also heard that straps will suffocate the tree and deform it, or not let it grow.
What is your thoughts on this? Which is better for the cache and the tree? Also, is there a better alternative for securing birdhouses to trees?
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28 minutes ago, cheech gang said:
I am currently 71, but I have found that it seems to change every year.
Strange, I thought I was the only one...
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When I moved from Texas to Indiana, I asked someone I know to maintain my caches for me. I just gave them credit in the description. That way I can change/monitor them because I still own the caches.
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12 hours ago, mvrinc said:
That’s it! The second Lat/Lon is precisely where I found it. I parked my truck at the fork in the road and found it to my left after flushing a bird out of the brush while returning to my truck. Thank you very much. I will return it to its proper location in mid-November. I will also post an entry in the log confessing my transgression and apologizing for my short-lived career as a muggler. I may even give geocaching a try as I have discovered some pretty astounding things while roaming the woods that might be of interest to others. Thank you all for the help!
I'm glad my thread was for the better!
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This doesn't use the app, but I have thought of printing a satellite map of my property and sticking a dot a putty on a cache location that family members can find. Or use a map app like Google Maps to enter coords from there.
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22 minutes ago, Stoplight25 said:
I beg to differ. there are many great caches in my area, with a fair amount of quality maintenance. the only real problem I have had is with a lack of geocoin etiquette.
Same here. I know quite a bit about caching, but I don't know much about GeoCoins, partially because around my area there isn't much GeoCoin activity. I do know they work similar to TB's though.
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10 minutes ago, on4bam said:
Chinchilla, is that like a big spider on a leash?
Google it...
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46 minutes ago, usyoopers said:
Personally, I would find it fascinating to know that someone hikes with their pet chinchilla!
I think I was overstating my original thought, but yeah, I would find it funny to know that someone hikes with their pet rodent every time they cache!
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13 hours ago, noncentric said:
I've been fortunate not to have any 'evil' encounters yet. Have been approached by a police officer once and by a park 'ranger' once. In both cases, they were familiar with the hobby and just said 'be careful'. The worst muggle that comes to mind was while on a public biking/walking trail that was across the street from a residential street. We'd stopped along the trail and I was looking around one of the bollards, as I thought it might be a reflector cache. I couldn't find it and so I brought up the cache on my phone to try and find some hints in the previous logs. A woman came out of a house across the street to roll out her garbage cans and asked us what we were doing 'waiting there' and that we were on a 'private street'. I then noticed that my bike was half off the trail, so I pulled my bike back a couple feet so that it was 100% on the trail and said to her 'sorry, we're on the public trail now. is that okay with you?' Admittedly, I was a bit snarky when I said it. It was a hot day and we'd had a lot of DNF's, so I was a bit irritable. The muggle just gave me a dirty look and went back into her house. I could see her silhouette through the door's opaque panels and knew she was still watching us, so I got out my water bottle and took a drink before getting back onto the bike and abandoning the search on that one.
I don't think any time of day would be pleasant to go caching in "slums". But 'large cities' are not necessarily dangerous at night and I have often found it easier to cache in downtown Seattle at night or on holidays, since there are usually less muggles around.
I think caching in suburban areas at night is worse, since residents of such areas will be cautious of people roaming around their neighborhoods under the cover of darkness. I've found weekdays to be best for such areas, since most residents are away at work.
I never really thought of suburban areas being "dangerous," but I get your point. Large cities aren't necessarily dangerous, but the rough areas are. I haven't gone city caching that much. Maybe a few times in Houston in the summer. (what is wrong with that statement?!?!)
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Most of the threads I have seen were of creative cache containers, but there was no threads that I could find that had clever urban caches. Not necessarily the container, but how it is hidden. Just a normal container, like a bison tube or magnetic key holder.
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Magnetic Nanos Here ---> http://www.crazycaches.com/nano-cache-black/
For 50 cents more you can get better camo'd nanos.
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3 minutes ago, hzoi said:
Depending on your start and end points, just altering your route a little would take care of that without adding too many hours to the trip. Diverting over to St. Louis and then taking I-44 and I-35 would give you Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and (with another slight side trip) Kansas. Or going down through Montgomery on I-65 would get you Alabama, Florida (with another slight diversion off the interstate) and Mississippi.
Hmm. Maybe I'll try that! I can also go through the edge of IL and MO. I have been that way before but didn't get any caches.
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When I went to an event I assumed most Geocachers were 20-30 years old. But to my surprise a large group of them were over 45.
So that made me thinking, what is the most common age of Geocachers?
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I've been caching for years, but I really didn't get into it until early this year. However, I still want to have goals, so......
1. Find my 250th cache by New Years Eve.
2. Get my 10th State. (I drive back and forth between Indiana and Texas a few times a year. So that's why I have most of my states even though I have only found 200 caches.)
3. Achieve Greatness {Insert Superman GIF here}
4. Place better caches. Out of the 12 I currently have at the time of this post, 3 of them are at least somewhat clever. So from now on I will ONLY place good caches.
That's about it. But I will try to go the GeoWoodstock in May of 2018.
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9 hours ago, Mama514 said:Here's a log written by a guy who searched for this one after a friend and I got the coveted FTF. I thought it was hilarious and had a conversation with the cache owner, who's a friend of ours, about it at an event. He just thought the guy was loopy, which made it even funnier to me. I have this on my watchlist.03/14/2017
No joy. Pulled up the manhole cover, got my wife to belay the rope while I went down into the underground tunnels. Got lost. Ran across some dude in a clown costume who offered to sell me some watches, but I didn't have any cash. He said he'd show me the way out, but that it would cost me an arm and a leg. Declined his offer. Followed some rats and found this crypt-like area. Thought maybe the cache was inside one of the skulls, but no luck. Floor fell out when I pulled one of them, booby trapped, I guess, and was swept away by the current. Fortunately, it dumped me out by an HEB, so I grabbed some marinated beef while waiting for my wife to pick me up. Don't recommend anybody taking a left after leaving the main shaft of light when you get down to the floor level of the sewer. That clown dude freaked me out.
The guy couldn't find the cache but wrote a funny (or scary, ha!) online log.
Ahh Texas... HEB is great...
That log sounds like something my friend would write, except he would take it a step further by adding more nonsense.
I applaud that cacher! I would want that kind of log on one of my caches.
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41 minutes ago, fbingha said:
I greatly prefer to hear about your bushwacking, sun hat, and mud slipping. That tells me about your experience in regards to the cache.
I don't care to see 5 lines devoted to your grand vacation, where you went, where you are going, who is with you. This tells me nothing about the cache and it gets worse when those same 5 lines are pasted to every cache.
I guess you have a point there.
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53 minutes ago, on4bam said:
Looks you do it here too
I always have a general text about the day (early start, weather, bike or hike) and then another part for each cache. For multi's I often add some comment (no spoilers!) about each WP or at least the most memorable WPs and the cache. I also add info on TBs retrieved/dropped/discovered and any encounters, if any, along the way.
Just yesterday, walking a series (trads, letterbox, multis, mystery) a couple of hunters saw our GPS and told us that we didn't have to look for "that box in the woods" because they took it... of course I mentioned that in my log and send more info in a mail to the CO. That's what logs are for, right?
Whoops... I actually typed one of them, and I think I clicked submit twice or something. LOL
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1 hour ago, J Grouchy said:
I don't mind (actually I prefer) long logs...but only when it relates to that particular cache, or is, at the very least, unique to that cache page. It's when someone copy/pastes the same long log to every cache they visit that I have an issue. Those often involve lots of smilies and are often completely uninteresting anyway.
Agreed. I usually copy and paste my log and then add a paragraph of two about the specific cache.
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Agreed. I usually copy and paste a log and then write another long paragraph about the specific cache.
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9 minutes ago, on4bam said:
What happened to "describe your experience? I know, these days it's about "getting" as many as possible with as little effort as possible so logs with TFTC or even just "." or an emoticon is considered enough effort to "describe the experience".
When CO's put a lot of work into nice caches I feel it's disrespectful to just write "TFTC". The better the cache the longer the log is still true in most if not all cases.
I agree! But it IS somewhat annoying when a cacher adds a bunch of personal stuff from 10 years ago they want to mention, only to find out that they copy and pasted that log on every cache they found that day.
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When a local cacher forgot their pen when trying to find my cache the other day, they took a photo of the container that completely spoiled it. However, they didn't put it on their online log, they sent it to me via Geocaching Messages. I find that a great idea because no one will see it other than me, so the secret is safe!
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22 minutes ago, Kayaker29 said:
I don't understand why so many logs are so long and full of unrelated personal information. Does anyone really care about how many bug bites you got that day, how many squirrels your dogs chased or any other mindless junk? Keep your comments short and related to the cache. It makes in a lot more interesting and pertinent to the hobby.
It depends on the situation. I would post something interesting, like how the cops stopped us or I am visiting from a foreign country. but I wouldn't post something like: I went on a hike, we bushwhacked for 10 minutes and 20 seconds, I had my sun hat on. We were with my cousin's friend's neighbor and his pet chinchilla, so we had to take some extra precautions. I slipped on the mud twice, and my left knee was coated with it... Blah Blah Blah.
I guess it's just personal preference though. Some just type: TFTC, but others may add another 20 lines of text.
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LOL! same exact idea before I even visited this thread. I guess most cachers think alike!