Gambrinus & Crew

This is a great idea. Thanks for sharing. I have one on my keychain with advil in it, but this is a really smart idea.

Here here, blazerfan. Regardless of the swag, bobthearch, I would think you'd be delighted to have someone hiding caches in an area so light on them. Maybe you could team up with this new cacher to do some great caches together. With your knowledge, having found many more than them, and their experience, having hidden many more than you, you could do great things. Enjoy the fact that someone is nearby participating with you.

Keep logging your DNF's. I'm amazed that this third party even has an opinion regarding someone else's logs on a cache they don't own, regardless of their type. I find that quite often, the DNF logs are the most interesting to read anyway. Keep up the good work!

Tastes vary. Some like a quick and easy cache-and-dash, and some like something more challening. I have two small children, too, and when I go out with them, we do easier caches -- just check the difficult and terrain ratings before deciding to hunt a particular cache. I love having the option of going out to do some really hard ones by myself, though. I think on the whole, there are far more easy, kid-friendly caches out there than there are hard ones. Just stick with the easier, traditional caches if you don't dig hard ones, or multis.

Public access is the key. RK, your comment here caught my attention because I just recently found a cache that is in a parking lot of an office building complex. It was the first of that kind that I've personally found, although I know there are tons of them in existence, and I wondered about the private property issue. The land is obviously not owned by the city or county, so it is privately owned property by some company. Are you saying that it is not whether a cache is placed on privately owned property, but rather, whether it is placed on property that has public access that determines how it fits into this private property rule? For the record, I feel too conspicuous doing this kind of cache, so I'm not asking because I want to place one -- just curious about the predominant interpretation of the private property rule since these caches seem to me to break it. Thanks.

Hi, I use my email at work, so I'm not sure how I'd tell if it is being treated as Spam. I sure don't get a break from any real spam, so I'm guessing that isn't the problem. I also verified that none of my personal rules are messing with it, too. Also, and this is the strangest thing, I'm still getting notifications on caches I own and caches I'm watching -- just not on my own TB's or on those I watch. To try to test whether it was my email at work, I went to change the email address in my profile to the email address at home. After the change, I got prompted that I needed to Verify my account, which I did. Might this have been causing my problems? Thanks.

Hi, I had three TB's move this past weekend, but found out about it from my sister who watches the bugs. I never got any kind of email notifications on their logs, although I did get a notification on the cache that one of them was in (it had been in it a long time, so I was watching it). Has the way notifications work for TB's changed? Do I need to explicitly watch my own TB's now, or might I have some other problem. I used to get the notifications all the time and I checked the email in my profile and it is correct. Thanks for any help.

As you should have been. After watching it sit in that box for 3 months, though, it is cool that it was along for the excitement. Take Care.

That's bizarre, ShadowAce. I've never found anything of any interest -- good or bad. Hey, did you find this before or after you picked up my TB in AZ (in the Clark Box cache) this past weekend? It'd be interesting to know if my little TB was along for this interesting find...

honeychile's buttons are great. We find them in caches all the time. I'm working with her now to get some custom buttons for a couple of my caches made.

Not at all in the wrong. We have a lot of them around here. Active letterboxers get into the stamping in the log books, but for us, it's just like a log-only micro.

Go for it. I've had the same thought. I used to collect them and have a ton sitting on shelves in the basement collecting dust. I've left them as trade items and as items in the caches I've hidden and they've been taken both ways. I had thought it would be cool to do a night cache with them and call it A Shot In The Dark, but haven't figure out a good location for a night cache around here. Feel free to steal the name if you have a good place for a night cache. :-) As for their fragile nature, I wrap each in a paper towel and then write what's on the glass on the outside of the paper towel with a sharpie (abbreviated if necessary) -- that way if a finder has no interest in Duke University or the New England Patriots (for example), they don't even have to unwrap it.

That really is hilarious! Nice work. I'll bet the bug owner loved it!

Thanks for the script, avroair. This is great!! Now that my Herculian effort is behind me, that means suggestions and my locationless binge are up next.

Hi Marcel, I can do this for you this weekend. I live in NC and am headed up to VA for a quick trip. I emailed you, but figured I'd let you know I was available here, too.

Talk about a creative cache container.... ew.

My deepest apologies....

I've searched, but can't find anything on this -- must not be using the right term. On many cache listing pages, the hider has placed an image of some sort as the cache page background. How is this done? I've uploaded the image, but can't figure out how to designate it as the background. Thanks!

Only 5 so far -- NC, VA, MD, DE, and Quintana Roo (Mexico).

This is interesting reading... Me: - 38 - male - married - 2 kids (boy-5 and girl-8) - 2 dogs - programmer/analyst - boyscout when I was a kid - Love Raiders of the Lost Ark (Matrix, too) - Got my wife into camping a few years ago and heard about geocaching on a camping forum earlier this year - Love gadgets and was able to convince my wife that I should by a GPSr for this - She and the kids really like it, but I think its' really my hobby that I drag them along for

I've had my GPSr and have been caching for about 3 months now and this is something that I've wondered about for a while. My GPSr is a Garmin Legend and I'm wondering why I get such good reception in the car. I have a Toyota Sequoia and when I'm on the road, I usually place the Legend in the console between the seats in the small pocket behind the shifter for changing from 4WD Low to High. I put it there mainly because it is on a slant facing toward the driver's seat and I can see it, but also because it seems to work great there. The thing is, in that position, it is sitting almost under the dash. At best, it has line of site through the side windows and the sunroof when open. From that position, probably a minimum of 75% of the potential view of the sky is blocked out by the truck. But I almost always get 20-24 ft accuracy sitting there. I have more problems with it in heavy tree cover than I do with the metal and plastic of the car in the way. Any ideas on why is this the case? I've wondered if it is able to use all the metal of the truck to help it's antennae, but that seems impossible. Thanks!

That would be great. I looked in my Legend in Setup (and elsewhere) and can't see how to do this. Can you point me in the right direction?

I, too, consider myself more of a noob than a lurker -- only caching for a couple months now. To date, most of my posts have been regarding questions I've had, and I'm lurking mostly to pick up information. There are a lot of funny people here, though, so lately with 60 finds under my belt now, I'm reading more for entertainment than for info. I'm sure at some point, I'll have something to say that I think someone would want to hear, but not so much so far...

Great, thanks for the replies.

Just a couple months into this and I have a question about proper etiquette. I've seen prople stop by a cache they've already found to pick up a bug becuase they're going out of town and such. Is this good form? I'm headed north in a few weeks and considered grabbing a TB when the time comes if one is in a cache close by, but don't want to do it if it is frowned on by others. Thanks.