Morningofthesun

My family and I have found almost 200 geocaches, and are starting to venture towards some of the puzzle ones that come up as a blue question marks on the map. A lot of them have ridiculous decoding and encrypting that needs to be solved. Does anyone have any advice on how to start figuring these out? They can't all be common sense. Especially since the hometown one I'm trying to decode only has four letters throughout the whole message. G,C,T and A. I'm baffled...any words of wisdom?

Hey Fellow Cachers A newbie here - with (Proudly) 81 finds under her belt Okay, so I'm finally getting enough confidence to hide my own. I got everything we need to place it - and tried to do so this weekend, and we hit a BIG bump! Accuracy? I just don't understand what we did wrong or if it was out of our hands. You mark an area, and then put it as your waypoint and you should be able to get relitively close to where you marked, right? But we also noticed, our accuracy on our gps was 14ft. How in the world do you hide a cache with 14 feet accuracy and expect other people to find it? My husband and I spent OVER 2 hours trying to hide a cache. Yet, when we marked our car, it brought us back to it just fine. So what do I need to consider? Telephone lines, tree canopy's, what else? I just can't hide it in an open space. My fear is hiding this cache and nobody being able to find it. I've read and researched, and they all say to mark it quite a bit of times to make sure your coordinates are correct before emailing the form off. I am so confused and I don't want it to put a damper on our excitment of placing our first cache. So what do I do about accuracy and the 14 feet issue? Would anyone have kind words for me Thank you in advance! Dawn

We are fairly new at it as well, as we also have a 9 year old and a 6 year old. I feel like there is so much to learn about geocaching, and reading the clues on each page, and really reading through pages that describe Multi's - that my 9 year old just wouldn't understand it all. Therefore we always log in as a family and I oversee the account. They take turns with the GPS - I think it's incredible that at such a young age, they can understand reading one. That's excellent in itself. As well, they love trading trinkets. But as far as the computer - that's something IMO that Mommy or Daddy need to stick to. Good Luck!