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I have just started making hides. Taping and painting are both fun. I agree that paint often fails, especially on plastic. It's only a matter of time til I tape and paint the same container just for the heck of it. Disappointed to read about camo tape turning blue since I just bought a bunch. However, I do expect to revisit my hides and not just let them sit without 'tuning'.

I started in the geocaching game. Did a few waymarks, and it gradually dawned that the virtuals are still alive and well. I will still geocache, but waymarks are now part of my game. Bonus; one might occasionally give me some help on a tough multi or a virtual for which I did not collect all the answers. We all play a different game and mine just got more fun.

I can't resist sticking my oar in this pond!! I have seen outlaw caches like several described here. Some of us who find them enjoy the cache anyway and just let it go. A few were purposely altered objects or property, obviously not the CO's property. My NA threshold does not include stuff that isn't hurting anybody. The tree will soon enough absorb that screw or nail. In an endangered plant, I'd sure post the NA. If someone wants to push a vial in the ground, I'll hunt it, but I'd never place one(not many, anyway. I really liked one like that). That Coke bottle was trash to me, but the CO and lots of finders thought it was a cute container. Met an angry property owner once. That one got archived right soon. OOPS! departed from the topic!

Great thread with lots of on-topic good advice. I stumbled onto a backup navigator by accident. I usually go bushwhacking the wrong way to a cache location. When done I tell the cute house pet dog with me to "go back". He has learned that as a command. To my surprise the little furball goes back exactly the way we came in, retracing every wrong turn. Any dog is apparently a tracker. Take a dog with you. In case you run out of batteries and lose your map and compass and if you can't recognize trees.

Fail!! He/she is casting a shadow.

Glad to see this one's been handled. At best these are not comfy. I've been to several 'private parks' with CO's stated 'permission' and I've never been chased away, but I still don't like it. I am a caching junkie and so will attempt some 'not right' situations I feel sort of reasonable about. Saw one with the permitting manager actually named on the cache page, still was uncomfortable on the search. They have their reasons for posting and we are always invading. I'll search them, but would not miss them if they never happened. There are lots of 'comfy' caches to pick from.

I sort of did this with the grandkids. Cammoed eggs and hid them, no coord or GPS, but it was a blast. With a little imagination, I bet youcan have some fun.

Unfortunate that your PN-40s died so soon. I can't imagine how! I started with the PN-20 and got greedy, bought a PN-60. They have both been dropped and dunked with no ill effects. You will love the PN-60 if you liked DeLorme. It is better on battery life and the SE has massive storage.

Yes! The numbers don't really mean much, there are so many ways to play. Just go out and have fun. Some days fun for me was a number, other days it was finding just one good one.

The footrot, insanity and briar scratches are just badges of honor. I fit both old school and number groups. I am a caching junkie, I'll go for whatever strikes the mood. You need a hike or a bushwhack now and then. I envy the kayakers and climbers. It's a treat to log a multi or puzzle that hasn't been seen in a year!

In the NorthWet that would be a 12 foot high blackberry thicket. Really? Just north of you across the border it would be a micro in the woods. And I guess we'd be wearing head-to-toe rain gear. I thought everyone wore a yellow nor'wester all the time. You mean a sou'wester? It's obviously misnamed!!

In the NorthWet that would be a 12 foot high blackberry thicket. Really? Just north of you across the border it would be a micro in the woods. And I guess we'd be wearing head-to-toe rain gear. I thought everyone wore a yellow nor'wester all the time.

In the NorthWet that would be a 12 foot high blackberry thicket.

Not in my area but go to GC32KXF in map view and zoom out.

Aw fergit it!

Yeah, they aren't real nice. I just did my first downloads and cache hunt since the change. I was still able to get what I wanted. If I cared about navigation, my GPS maps were fine. Mountain out of molehill you guys!!

Are we talking about this as what the owner is really willing to allow, or everyone else? I have a 4/5 cache that people who solved it take others with them, then there are those who want me to give them the answers so they can find it themselves. Where do I draw my line to keep it a 4/5? Assuming that I'm simply trying to stump cachers. A 4/5 is supposed to be hard. I would not be offended if you did not want to give me a nudge. I AM offended when the CO doesn't even answer the e-mail. I was puzzled by a local d4 puzzle for over a year. The CO gave some good-natured, teasing help, but I still had to figure it out. It was still rewarding as I felt I had solved something. D4 means I may NOT be able to solve it and that should be OK.

These work great. Someone on the OR coast uses them. They were un-chewed, so had probably been well cleaned. The contents were nice and dry. IMO they are micro.

I am mixed up on this subject. Earthcaches are too much like school. I do them when they are the only one close by even though I enjoy the enlightenment. There are some history based multis nearby. I do them as they get convenient. After all that --- good idea.

The thread gives me a chuckle. I don't like to ask for help, but I asked a CO I know if two of their hides were still there. They gave me the EXACT location and I still can't find them. Others log "easy find". Some of us are so braindead from lurking the forums that we can't find the front door!!

I guess that makes me numbers, but not good at it!!

We are all free to play the game as we see fit. For myself, I try to work 'em myself, but have worked some collectively. It's a lot like team caching, isn't it? Working the brains together on the puzzle or in the field can both still be fun. Let's not think about PAF!!

Don't worry. GC aint big enough for a 'big box' to be interested. 5 or 6 million members claimed is not near enough. Compared to the management and operational costs there is not near enough profit potential. How many FB or Twit? We are getting mainstream recognition, as the posted vids show. And geocaching gets first billing in the Depoe Bay, OR tourist brochure!! That is having some effect, more awareness, more plundering, etc. As others have posted, it aint everybody's cup of tea. Lots of my friends would never cache.

Oh yeah!! I betcha a pound of bacon that there would soon be a 'bring back' topic!! There are a bunch of people hiding them. They must like it?? (Don't bother researching it. Yes, I have hunted some, but I'll never hide an LPC.)

Not this thread again!! I have to teach my children about outlets before they get big enough to remove the little safety plugs themselves. And I have to show them about all manner of fun and dangers associated with hiking and camping and caching and driving. It would be sad for caching if we couldn't use ammo cans(warning stencils), pipes, electric stuff, lock-n-locks(broke a fingernail once opening one).