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Of course you could place the cache using aircraft that would be accessible by foot if someone is willing to hike in several days (a week maybe). Up in the cascades, near some mountain lake that would be extremely hard to get to by foot, making an aircraft approach almost mandatory.

Zebra F-402 has been one of my favorite pens for years. Get a 2 pack for 5-6 bucks

Geosense is the art of looking for the single out of place item and allowing your mind to question it's location/position AND allowing your body to actually investigate it. There is a cache near my home that is a large bucket with a large, smooth, round river rock firmly glued to the top. Only the rock sits above ground. It is on a hill of decomposing granite, not a river withing 10 miles. I smiled when I saw it.

I recently placed my first night cache that is getting some really positive logs. The key for me was to work at dusk to place the cache and start the trail. As it got dark I was able to test it out and make sure that it works. The trail to the cache was marked with fire tacks traveling overland. I felt that following an existing trail would be way too obvious. Once it was dark I would mark a tree, look for the next tree to put a tack on, walk up, place the tack, walk back to the previous tree and make sure that I could see the next tack. I did this for every tack to make sure the path could be followed. Use you gps to follow your track so you don't get lost in the woods. Make sure that you can't skip tacks. In other words, look past each tack and be sure that you can't skip markers. Also, I used two tacks at the start and finish the trail so that it would be a bit easier for the finder. The "stealth" fire tacks are AWESOME!!! They are exactly what the company says. Almost impossible to see them during the day but a flashlight at night makes them impossible to miss.

I'm guessing that the green represents geocaches...right... Are there actually caches out in the middle of the Atlantic and Pacific???

By car-boat-plane, I'm assuming you mean that is a single vehicle capable of all three modes of travel. It would also need to go under water.

After years of guiding kayaking, climbing, and backpacking I have amassed a collection of gear that far exceeds the price of my car. This is my armor. I call it my armor. Now that I'm not guiding as much, I love a reason to put several hundred dollars of technical gear on my body.... That makes going caching in bad weather great fun for me.

Really put some effort into making the cache worth while for the finder. There are thousands of nanos attached to guardrails, sign posts, and under benches. Take the time to find a new spot or to flip these ideas on their heads (I love the paint it red and put it on the front of the stop sign). I can guarantee that most searchers look up and down the sign post for a long time. Be clever and original. Just because the nearest cache is more the 600 feet away does not mean you need to place one.

Again, I will build what other have said: I have thought about a container like that but I also had concerns about it's water resistance. IMHO, Painting the container would be a shame. If you have a front yard you could just put the tube on a post and meet local geocachers when they come for the find. Urban camo in plain sight sort of deal. It's also fun to find these clever types of caches. If you do paint it: DO NOT PUT IT IN AN URBAN AREA!!! Your cache will get discovered by some hysterical type and the bomb squad WILL get called. Put it out in the woods.

If you google "Geocache Log Sheets" you find lots of sights with every size and type of log sheet and stash note in color and B&W.

So this is the weird thing that happened to me: When I got a new GPSr, I was 100% aware that Garmin software is only to be used on a single gps unit. I figured that I would need to buy a new copy of CN but I figured I should try and put it on my new GPSr just to see what happens. Well, it didn't like it...telling me that the code was already in use...which I expected. I called Garmin to see if there was anyway around this issue. I legally bought a new GPS and wanted to take the SD card OUT of my old unit and use it in my new one. I wasn't trying to do anything other then use ONE version of CN on ONE GPSr. They said it was a no go. I cached for awhile without CN then needed to reinstall CN maps on my computer several weeks later. My GPS was attached at the time and started communicating with the garmin software...then...started loading the CN maps on my new GPSr. I simply shrugged and let it be. In my mind I'm not violating any EULA...It just started working...one unit...one computer...one version of software.

I have an acer aspire one that I love for caching. I have it dual booting Ubuntu (linux) and Mac OS 10.5. I'd don't have a cell card but I can connect it to my phone for caching without a wi-fi signal. I haven't had a single problem (knock knock).

Go to your profile page (click on your user name in the upper right corner) scroll down about 1/2 way and you should see "Set Up Notifications" on the right side.

You gotta set up text notification. I know I don't sit there waiting for emails to hit my in box just hoping it might be from GC. There have been times were I have gotten a text and dropped everything that I'm doing to get FTF. From text to signing the log..10 min.

I've used ball valves for PVC caches in the past. They usually have a red handle for opening the valve. For smaller caches an extraction tool is required to get the log but on larger pipes you can get your hand in and pull everything out. Quality valves are pressure tested to 140psi...they should be good enough for rain. Granted...A 4" ball valve is over $100

Go to goodwill (or any other thrift store) and you can take you pick of all shapes and sizes of great containers. This has the added benefit of finding some very unique items. From heavy ceramic coffee containers, large thermoses, pill holders, even ammo cans...I have found most of my containers this way.

Hey! Would it work to put a cache on a NOAA Weather buoy several miles off the coast in the middle of the pacific? That would be serious 5/5!

This cache is for Republican, Female Cachers who are active in the Methodist community and work for Microsoft ONLY!!! All other logs will be deleted. A puzzle cache...solve the puzzle and email me the answer to get the final coordinates (under a bridge, next to a police station). The final container is a modified beer can containing a pack of rolling papers, 5 sticks of gum, lighter, small pocket knife, and just a small amount of crack. Once you find the cache you have to sign the log. To get credit for the find you need to go into the police station and get your picture taken with an officer in uniform. You need to be holding the cache container and your GPS in the photo. Upload this photo to the cache page when you log your visit. Note: I didn't have my GPS when I placed this cache. The coords. might be off seeing as I gave it my best guess.

I like the idea of an evil nano that defies convention. Like a guardrail cache that is magnetic but diabolically drilled into the wood support and kept in place by a screw inside the hole. The hint on the cache page said "Magnetic" and I spend 15-20 minutes searching EVERY inch of that rail for 30 feet before considering the 4 star rating. I'd post a link to the page but I think I just gave the whole mystery away.

Hmmm, Chicago is south of Seattle. Might not work for me. I grew up in seattle and it yes it works in the northwest. Again, all you need to rememeber (from seattle) is that your declination needs to be set east...your thumb pointing in that direction will help you rememeber.

I've never used EasyGPS but there should be a button or menu item called "Send to GPS" or "To GPS" or something like that. Make sure that you have the drivers loaded on your computer and the Prefs set for your brand of GPSr. but you are off to the right start by loading your PQ into a geocache/waypoint manager.

A quick trick that I learned long ago and is amazing in it's simplicity. This applies mostly to compass navigation but could be used to set declination on your GPSr. To remember which way to set your declination, point to true north with your index finger (or north star...no need to be exact here). With your finger pointing, extend your thumb to Chicago. Obviously, you are using your left hand in the west and your right hand to the east. Your thumb is pointing in the direction of magnetic north (as is your compass arrow) and you can easily set your declination in the correct direction. Check your map or other source for how many degrees to correct. This works anywhere in the continental United States. You could use other landmarks or major cities for other regions on the planet.

The most notable Power Trail around p-town is the Peavine/Iron King Trail. A Rails to Trails spot on the east side of Watson Lake. To do it all in one day you need to bring a bike. (From Memory) Somewhere around 50+ caches along 10 miles of trail. Some really good hides with great views of the area. Flat graded trail (old rail grade). You will finds a cache every 200m +/-.

There are lots of spots around Prescott AZ for easy camping in the the National Forest. In fact, there are several spots within 5 miles of my house for great camping spots in the NF. Prescott seems to have a high concentration of caches with some great "power trails" for boosting your smilies.

I was wondering how many Travel Bugs and/or Geocoins people have had in their possession at one time. On a recent cache run I picked up 4 TB's and 1 geocoin. Is this to many to pick up at one time? I only picked up the ones I thought I could help and left a few that had goals beyond my travel plans. EDIT: Sorry...drop that "e" off of the " Hade" in the topic name. I can't edit the name any other way.