Sol seaker

No, I think they are pretty indescriminate on who they pick on. Pretty much anyone will do.

Micro's are good for people too lazy to carry an ammo can into the woods. Actually they are good to put places that absolutely need caches (great views, historial markers, city art etc.) when there is no place for a regular sized cache. I suppose micros are good if you want to put out evil caches (not that I would go looking for them) But There is a series of evil ammo can hides near my house. Now that is creative and proves it's more than micros that can be evil. So that makes micros good for people with lack of imagination too. I made friends with some cachers in a park over a nano once. They were looking for an hour when I showed up. We didn't know they were cachers so left the GPS in the car. I got out to check it out. Realized what was going on, I said to my buddy, "go get the GPS and we'll give it a try. .. Oh no, don't bother, here it is." Or did I make an enemy?

School has insurance. You need a liability waiver though, most likely for the school. It sounds like you need to find out exactly what the procedures are for starting a club. Having an adult involved is one. Not a hard one. Ask the other teachers. See if any of your friends' parents geocache. Get a complete list of what it takes to start a club. I was in a ski club in school. Tell me about liability!!! See if you can get a print out on how to start a school club. Talk to the office staff and see who is in charge of school clubs. MAKE AN APPOINTMENT to see that person and they cannot tell you they are too busy. They should give you a list of what you need to get this started.

Thanks very much but I do remain logged in all the time. Oh well. Hopefully I'll catch one.

I want to find one too. Unfortunately I don't seem to be getting all the posts. I'm subscribed to this and I get some of them, but not all of them (mostly the ones where people say they have found one). Hope you've got lots left.

As a young family, we do this for fun .... We hadn't realised the whole 'sport' was such a hotbed of political quagmire and we certainly didn't lay our (few) caches in order to disgruntle people or cause anarchy These forums are a hotbed of anarchy. Don't let it get you down. And PLEASE don't take it personal. Just realize that all the people here come from ALL walks of life all over the world. We've certainly got a lot of people here who would never get along in the same room. !! (we've got hard-core right wing, hard-core left wing, hard-core hate both extremes, Hard-core religious, hard-core anti-religious, hard-core hate everybody, you get the picture) So there should be expected some wildly varying opinions and ideas. And besides all of our differences, I think people come here to hash some of this out. Besides, without a real name attached, I think some people get to forgetting that there are people behind these strange little pictuers with the strange names on them. We're all debating topic. Not people. (Or so it is intended) So please don't take any of this personal.

Surely you must be joking? Respect for me, goes not to the cemetaries, but to the people in them visiting their dead relatives. Yes, you're crying about your dead husband, but I really have to grab this cache for a first to find RIGHT NOW. So move aside. What am I doing while you are mourning? Well I'm playing a game of course. Is a cemetary really a place for games??? (I would make an exception for cemetaries over a hundred years old because there isn't a lot of chance of someone being there mourning their dearly recently departed)

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...47-430159d9c101 OK, this one is "know your local Cacher Challenge" I like it because you get to pick which hides you want to find. You just have to find 30 caches by ten different CO's. Well, and find 3 types of caches for each one. I like this idea because you can live anywhere and do the challenge, while only traveling to find the final.

If it suffered water damage you might be able to get it replaced under warranty. I somehow doubt it. It's seven years old!!!! (I got it from my geobuddy who has been caching since the day he got it seven years ago)

So what would a good cheap PDA be that would work well for geocaching. I just distroyed my supposedly waterproof Garmin GPSr in the rain last week, so I want a PDA that it won't be the end of the world if I ruin it too. Something disposable almost. Very cheap off of ebay would be fine. Any ideas?

I've been intending on buying a PDA for paperless caching too, So this is a very pertinent question for me too. I want a PDA, I don't want to have to get an iphone or blackberry that i have to pay monthy internet charges whether I use it or not. I want a cheap PDA. I ruined my Garmin GPSr two weekends ago in the rain. I certainly don't want a repeat with anything expensive for storing caches. What have people used for inexpensive PDA's that take memory that is currently made?

They are definately not water tight. If you want to see for yourself, just put a rock in one, and then a piece of kleenex, and sink it in a tub of water overnight. Check the kleenex in the morning. If you need something that size, Nalgene (the makers of large hiking water bottles) also makes small water-tight bottles they sell for things, like shampoo, and the like. They sell these rather inexpensively (around 2 bucks) at REI outdoor recreation store. To be sure it's water-tight AND will stand up long-term useage, use Nalgene. (says on the bottom). Other travel size containers that are sold at the drug store are cheap and will not hold up to outside elements. They'll break-down and crack. Nalgene ones will hold up for a long time.

They're not? I thought we had to get them all.

Caches with a question mark are puzzle caches. Puzzle caches are caches that do not have the correct coordinates written at the top of the cache. in order to get the correct coordinates for a puzzle cache you have to do a puzzle. Something the cache owner has figured out that will give you the correct coordinates. You might want to go find a few more puzzle caches yourself before placing more so you get the idea. You've only found two at this point. It would get you better familiarized with what they are before you place more of them.

I have a backpack for hiking items, but for city caches I carry less. Things I've recently ended up carrying for a few caches that are not on other lists (that I saw): Felt pen - some micros have water proof paper. And recently someone had a log on something other than paper that needed a felt pen. Clippers. It was a cache by a river that was totally overgrown. Tried to get to it once and ended up not being able to get to it. Ended up bloody and scarred and was still blocked. Came back with clippers for the berry vines. Worked. (this is not any nice wooded area, but a beat-up back-lot type of area full of trash and bulldozed areas. My little clipping had no environmental impact) tweezers/ forceps- so many micros, and one fake light bulb, have hard to get out logs. Herbal Armor bug repellant. I won't use the toxic DEET stuff. That stuff stores up in your liver and other organs. This bug stuff works great and will repel the bugs without killing me. Available in fine health food stores everywhere. Took a magnet on a stick to find one cache. Logs said it was way back in the hole past the wasps nest. It was in a small metal box. For in town, I bring a map book. My geopartner has a nice GPS with maps, but we still get messed up sometimes (we don't plan a route too much) so the map book is a help.

The point of this thread is to include a spoiler, not just a link to the cache. this is hysterical!!! Wow, actually a puzzle cache I can do!! You guys are brilliant. Some evil, but brillant. No wonder i don't get so many of these. I haven't a clue.

Well that one is certainly hard to reply to. If I were to consider the topic that might have been, I'd say that some people have talked about putting out caches just for dating. It's a great idea whose time has come. Good topic for any location. If it were indeed the topic of course.

Is that like standing up in an insane asylum and asking if you are crazy? Is that like asking the Eskimo's if it's cold out? I used to think the rabid FTF's were more than nuts. I'm near Seattle, and it's a madhouse at a FTF. I thought the people were canabals, werewolves, zombies, crazy only for the attack. then I decided to check it out myself one day. I found out the truth. It was really a party. I stood around on the street at 11PM with four other geocachers who could not stop talking non-stop about geocaching. A chance to meet other cachers, and a chance to actually talk to someone who understands what the heck you're talking about. Of course. No one here but us crazies.

I might consider saving yourself the trouble, find something better on TV than Three's company, or better yet go geocaching, and just buy an ammo can.

I found one "cache" in the woods. It was stuffed with swag and trinkets. Very easy to find. i signed the log and put it back. Something bothered me about it. It just didn't seem right. I kept looking. Took me a long time, but I unearthed an ammo box maybe 10 feet away (on the other side of some logs). No swag, but said clearly on it, GEOCACHE. I put a note inside the letterbox (that no longer had the stamp) that this was not the geocache. The cache was much harder to find, the letterbox was in the most obvious place. I guess it's OK if you really don't care if you find the cache or not. If you want to just log finding SOMETHING, then what's the difference? But then it seems that some people just log finding the coordinates, so you can log anything you want I suppose. Maybe it's just me being anal that I want to actually find and log the cache.

Don't take these guys comments too hard. They are trying to make suggestions. Don't take it personal. They do it to everyone. Take the good out of it and ignore the rest. These forums can also be pretty hilarious at times. (man I hope I spelled that right) For me, I get pretty pissed off if it's a micro in a sensitive area. Micros are for the city. Caches in the woods need something like, "you don't have to leave the trail to get this one" I've seen micros in the woods, (or haven't seen them is more like it) and at historical sites where they shouldn't be. These areas are subject to trashing and I have seen too much of that: the evidence of it, and actually seen people distroying a park looking for a cache. My partner was with a group that laid bare every blade and branch in an entire area, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. On the other hand, I've seen some very clever stuff that's really tough in areas that aren't subject to trashing. I didn't even mind the proverbial needle in a haystack when I came across one that said, "in a stump" and drove up to an ENTIRE FIELD of stumps. HUNDREDS. It was an area that was long ago trashed by loggers so couldn't be trashed any worse. One was "hidden in plain sight" in an area that was just back of houses wooded area. Nothing to see here. Nothing to worry about trashing. No problem with that one. Kind of a crummy area anyway. In the woods I vastly prefer people who use large containers and leave clues. Just for the sake of the area, and for the sake of the future of geocaching. Clues are good because GPSr's are always off under tree cover. If there's no clue, places get trashed. Geocaches already aren't allowed in the state park's in my state and many other parks because of the damage people do while finding the caches. We don't want geocaching to be outlawed. And it could be. Play our cards right, and we'll be able to keep playing for a long time.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...08-f1bd2e57d483 Ok, here's another series of themed caches that's interesting. Here's the blurb from one in this series: The coords will take you to a portal into the BOWELS OF THE EARTH. Yep, you'll have to go in if you want the cache. Finding it shouldn't be too hard after that, unless of course you're BLINDED WITH PANIC! Bring a pencil. Naturally, the container is TOO SMALL TO HOLD ONE! The difficulty of this cache is 5 stars only if you are claustrophobic. Otherwise it's a 2. Other caches in the Fear This: Phobia series 1. Fear This: Arachnophobia 2. Fear This: Acrophobia 3. Fear This: Myrmecophobia 4. Fear This: Coulrophobia 5. Fear This: Kenophobia 6. Fear This: Cynophobia

Reading back on your original post, it does ask for themed caches, rather than series. The one's I have written on are themed in a series. I like those themes better. The other themed caches I've done are things like, Girls stuff cache, Boys stuff cache (same park), foreign coins (my favorite), heart stuff, Green stuff, Red white and blue stuff, Caches as a memorial to someone (these are my least favorite. This is a game. I play to escape all that heavy stuff in life for a while). Oh, one Costume Cache that was really fun. You put on the costumes in the cache and take pictures with the camera in the cache. That one was great. CD exchange, DVD exchange, book exchange, etc. These themed caches are my least favorite. I find them annoying. I gathered stuff to some of them, and didnt' get to them or didn't find them, and now I've still got this odd stuff knocking around. I much prefer the series of caches that are themed, verus the individual caches that are themed.

My favorite series is not quite a series, or is it? Back to, what is the definition of a series. Those last examples I gave were pretty clear cut. This one is not as much. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...95-bfa542ea64cb This is kind of a series of paddle caches one team has put all over our area. They're not really related, except for their all paddle caches by this team. (normally I think of a series as something that has a final bonus cache if you get all in the series, but these don't have that.) paddle caches are my favorite, although I haven't had the chance to get many. Usually they're an all day, or half day excursion. Be a waste of time to do them otherwise. More fun to do with others, and I haven't been able to convince my geo-partner in getting many. Bring a lunch, enjoy the float. Watch the bald eagles fish for their young. These are the best caches on the planet!!!

OK, here's a good one that's been done in our state twice that I know of. Very cool idea. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...4f-5a673865143a It's a science project for a second grader. It is a map of the solar system built to scale. THe link is to the earth cache on one of the two "solar systems". (the other is in Granite Falls WA) There is one cache for each planet that is at the correct distance from "the sun" that they have chosen. Bonus cache if you get all of them. This is a great series. Fun and informative. "Sam's Solar System is a combination geocaching and second grade science fair project. It's a model of the solar system built to a scale of 1/71,504,324. While that seems like a big number, it means that an astronomical unit (the average distance between the sun and Earth) is 1.3 miles in the model."