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Its about the hunt for me but there has to be a point to it. I managed to put a few hours together Saturday and planned on doing 6-8 geocaches. Ended up doing ten. Although fun running around the city, it was oddly unsatisfying to walk 500 feet from the car and find a rusty tin with a smudged piece of paper in it attached to the only ferrous metal within 100 feet, or a film canister wrapped with duct tape buried under leaves. I appreciate the placement, and am truly thankful to the hider, but it was missing something. I had to end the day with a traditional box and quarter mile walk to make it feel like I went geocaching. Rather than poking around in leaves and mud for 30 minutes, it would have alot more enjoyable to log as DNF and then come back search another hour to discover a fake drain pipe. If the math puzzle takes me somplace interesting - vista, artwork, architecture, history - then I see that as part of the hunt. If the math is posed cleverly - rhyme or riddle - then that is good to. If it's simple enough , I let the kids do it. Math for the sake of math, just like a cache just for the sake of a cache, isn't fun. Let's just go for a walk in the woods at the end of the road.

Maybe they did take it and realized their mistake, returned it later. Two of my caches went missing within a week of each other. I have a good idea of what happened to one of the them but the other didn't make any sense. C'est la vie. I replaced them both since folks liked them. Then six months later on a maintenence visit I see an apology in the log. Something along the lines of "Sorry I took the previous cache. Now that I know how the game is played I'll return it." I got a call from the facility the next day saying that somebody turned in the cache. Turns out the fellow thought he was supposed to take the cache. It took him a little while after realizing his mistake to get up the nerve to return it. G.

I think the reaction is pretty much standard for any activity that is unique, or exercises your brain. If Will wrote an article saying chess club or forensics league was cool or tried to start an orienteering club he would get the same sort of reaction. It's not even just at school age level. There are plenty of uncouth adults that rib me about my hobbies. I don't bother to reciprocate pointing out their watcher lifestyle. Get up an do something for badger sake. Rock On Will! G.

Yea I drive a car. Nissan Sentra here. And I'll drive it until it won't go no more. I love not having monthly payments more than any car out there. Well except maybe my old Subaru GL wagon, which I drove until it wouldn't go no more. 262,00 miles. Had to give it up since I couldn't find anybody trustworthy to keep it running. So I'll say no payments are better than any new car out there. A friend has the Vue and loves it. G.

Congrats! Its a pretty special feeling isn't it. Of the ones I have tried to FTF, I have done it. The last one one suprised me that I got there first. It is a blast when it comes together.

When they get together, can talk more about caches they've found and ideas they've had than about their families, work, ... real life.

My first cache I submitted it first. Much to my suprise it was approved within a couple hours. I was expecting at least a full day, maybe more. Unfortunately the park is closed sunset to sunrise. So I was up with the sun the next day running down the trail, hoping the fresh boot prints I saw in the dew did not belong to a geocacher.

I know of a few studies that have used gps to note nest locations of specific species. Of bird species that is. Has been going on for 4-5 years. Yes back when the units were expensive and not very accurate.

Outstanding. This will be real handy. I'll get soem color copies lay them out at my orienteering meets. I usually have an information table with a cache next to it but can't always be there to explain it. My efforts at printed material have been pretty lacking.

Badgered

Wondering how this project is going Carleen?

The only flames I have are ones to light the candles. I read the "I expect" but I didn't take it to mean "hands off". I took it as they had some advance warning of the cache. G.

That "badgerbadgerbadgerbadger" would get out of my head.

The above list but also rather than how geocaching contributed to a break-up, how aobut a couple geocachers who got together? Use them as the thread in the story to wrap CITO, cachers with over 1000 finds, NPS/FWS mess, etc. It has grown alot in 2 years.

Made it up to Webelos then dropped out. Didn't have much parental involvement at the time. Made it pretty difficult. I was always doing scout type stuff though with or without them. A few years ago I became a Girl scout for a couple summers - volunteered as The Nature Guy at a resident camp. Biggest Girl is grew up in the Boy Scouts since her mom was a leader forever(eventually awarded Silver Fawn). Even went to Philmont. Biggest Girl is now Girls Scout troop leader, assistant troop leader, service unit manager. Bigger and Big Girls have been in the system since Daisies. G.

Yes that is why I want the word leap in the cache. I will have it activated on Leap Day (I will put a request for that in the Note to Approver box when I submit it 3-4 days before). I will not be placing it one a rock face, rather on top of a detached boulder that is easiest to get to by scrambling the nearby cliff (easy, easy climbing, more like scrambling) and then take a short 3 foot leap from one to the other. The jump would only be about 15feet above the deck. That's a great idea. If that distance were lines on the ground, nobody would even pause stepping across it. Put it 15 feet up and you'd see running jumps. Call it what you want. The hidden meaning enhances it imho. It sounds cooler (and less of a hint) than the hackneyed "Leap of Faith". I have tossed my girls across deep narrow creeks they couldn't jump across on their own, 3-4 feet, with varying success. I'm sure if somebody was watching at the time I'd be in jail. The first couple times they would reach back to me, which threw them off balance for the landing. Splash! The next couple times I ran through a practice toss in the grass without the gap. They got the idea then. G.

I just tried some recycle number 6 plastic (polystyrene) from a clear bakery goods "clamshell style" container. Saw the #6 on the container while reaching for a chocolate chip cookie. It didn't take but a minute for the container to be empty. I cut a 1.5x2.5 inch rectangle. Marked it up with some Sharpies. Popped in a 350 degree F. oven for 5 minutes. It shrunk an even 50% length and width. Looks like a great choice for small projects done freehand. G

Must add my congratulations to an awesome travel bug collector, wonderful cacher, and exemplary mouth piece for geocaching. Way to go Centris! G.

This cache uses PGP encryption. Finder has to read a bit of history and download the app. to decrypt the message using the hider's public key. Took a bit of time using dial-up but was fun if you're into encryption.

As you are south and west, I figured comparing caches and finders would be too much work, although I would be there is a conection there by a few degrees. I just looked for a TB touched by the TB queen - Centris. So you found Centris 100 (aka CBug) for your 100th bug find. I have traded TBs with Centris a couple times. G.

Considered a lefty here. Only one in the family. Lefthandedness occupies my writing, fine carving, painting, eating - fork in left/knife in right, sanding.... I do lots of things right handed (gps entry, swinging sports, throw boomerangs and balls, sawing, rough carving, 10 key...) And a few things with no preference (throwing a frisbee, mousing - left at work/right at home, drinking, cracking an egg one handed...) G.

I am not a mall lover in any way but in our top ten caches was one in the Mall of America. We had alot of fun collecting the clues. It had a decent level of challenge. It did not require pinpointing a spot indoors with the gps however. As for muggle infested location, an inconvernient but good time to search would be during a weekday morning. Many malls open well before the stores as a convenience to the employees and "mall-walkers". Won't work if it is inside a store but you may find yourself pretty much alone.

How about putting the coords to a traditional on the paper? A finder can go sign and trade at the traditional if they want.

Back to the original question at the start of the thread, the hider is always responsible for seeking permission. Public or private land is irrelevant. If the land isn't yours, it is ours (public) or theirs (private). The entire paragraph from the FAQ - "If you place it on private land, please ask permission before putting it there! If you place the cache on public lands you need to contact the managing agency to find out about their rules. " G.