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Hi We have realized that there is a 15min event saturday 2th of may. In a town near home in Sweden at 7pm. but... We are in Edinburgh at the time. Does anyone know if there is an WWFM V event near or in Edinburgh that evening? Fia Member of atroxatrox

Even better shouting is: Oh no! The batteries for my Geiger meter just died. How am I going to SURVIVE out here! Aaargh! Aaargh! is optional.

Bring a dog with lots of food in it. Bring a bunch of small plastic bags. Search the cache wile picking up the poo. No one will bother you that way. And if you can't control yourself and scream "Found it!" they will just think you are a very responsible dog owner. Make sure the dog is ugly and repelling or you will have people all over you asking if the could cuddle the dog.

On my Garmin I have a small button which shuts the muggles off for some five minutes, just enough to drag them off to a better spot. Just point the GPSr at them and click.

I can't quite figure out what you're saying there ... are you saying that cache owner's "rules" take precedence over the way anyone else wants to play their game, or anyone's personal way of playing the game takes precedence over any rules instituted by cache owners? I think its a matter of tradeoff here. If the owner made a multi or a puzzle cache then it would not be an issue. Meaning: You can't get to the cache until you solved the tasks put in front of you. The extra stuff needed to log a cache AFTER you've found it is something I would like to see as recommendations for added fun/variety in the sport, nothing mandatory. After all you log a find, not a task completed.

We had a little event attended by some ten people. This was the evening when we in Sweden celebrate the arrival of spring (the last of april). The celebration consists of huge fires and singing. We gathered at a scenic place and watched all the fires. To log as attended we made up rules like the following (We created this cache in swedish only, the waypoint is GCNEKX) Sign the log book with a review of a fire, complete with coordinates. Extra applauses for pictures on www.geocaching.com of the fire with big red car and hose around it. If nothing of this is possible to accomplish, make something up when you sign the log. We had lots of fun. One of the pics was hilarious (brasa_1.jpg) A bucket of trash burning in front of an old Opel and a hose. Fun is the most important thing when it comes to geocaching (and the rest of hte life too for that matter).

Da-a-a-a-d, she's staring at me. D-a-a-a-a-d, he won't share. Are we there yet? We have a son that always seem to trust the disappointing forces in his life. Add this to the above list: I'll never find the next one and even if I did Sarah(his sister) has found it before me. Besides from that we never listen to anything but ourselves when we go for any kind of car ride. If I should be alone in the car one favorite is Tom Waits, Underground in which he clearly states he's into geocaching. "there's a big dark town it's a place I've found there's a world going on UNDERGROUND"

I have campaigned a bit in the area. I know that at least two complete families and one friend of mine is hooked as a result of my doings. One family are geocachers as a result of my sons eager talk in school.

Never try to find a micro hidden in a stonewall of a church late at night. That sort of activities attracts local police enforcement. Been there, done that. What happened when I realised what was going on was that I ran out in the middle of the road and stopped the patrol car before they stopped me. (Attack is best defense) Then I asked them if I could calibrate my GPSr against theirs. De didn't have a GPSr in the car and looked quite embarrased by the fact. So after explaining geocaching to them and giving them the URL we had a big laugh. Sunshine story of a late and rainy night.

Visible yet stealth. Right under your nose laughing at you. That kind of hides always makes me smile (or grin). I know of a cache where a small plastic tube is fitted in a cast iron fence post. It is fully visible and placed so you have it in your face while standing. Just pull it out! Why so hard to find? It has the same structure and color as the fence post and the hole it is hidden in wasn't supposed to be there at all.

Fishing is extremely compatible. So is snowmobiling in winter.

...your kid go with you into a camera shop, sees a film canister and yells: -There it is! There it is! I found it! ... you are about to pick up a film you have developed and the clerk asks you: -Your film was ruined by daylight. What does FTF stand for and why was that written on the film? ... you call any green plastic bag "a good cache wrapper".

It seems as we are quite a happy little gang here in Sweden. People do muggle caches and leave strange things but the worst thing I've ever found in a cache so far is bread with small green furry spots on it. Does anyone know what kind of bread that is? Abusive logs are rarely seen. People tend to be glad we're out there beacause a common thing is muggle comments about the thrill of finding the cache. Very often a start of a new geocacher I think.

I did hide a cache last spetember that I got to reister until somewhere in late october. It never showed up as being "NEW" although it was listed just as every other cache in the listing. So I reckon it is the hiding date that counts.

The cache owner answered that it was up to us to decide what to do with the log/note issue. Guess we'll have to see how it feels when we're there. Been there, done that and about a hundred sites still left. Well, if this was a micro plugged into a lamp post along a county road I would not bother revisiting it once restored. This cache is called Kvarntorpshögen, is a fascinating place and has a fascinating story. The cache is redesigned, all that is left is the waypoint number and the name. On top of that an art exhibit (or should I say sculpture park) is placed (on top of the heap).

If I had to restore a cache that have been trashed I would use old waypoint/original design. If I was to redesign the cache I would archive the old one and make a new one to keep things tidy. THat's me, of course. I'll mail the owner.

If I was to revisit this cache, would it be proper to log it as a find? GCGAZ8 was a regular before it got trashed.

Marcus, my son, stumbled over a box in the woods when we were visiting a scenic view. It was wedged in under a fairly big stone. Marcus said that he could imagine its contents of sandwich, sausages and so on. Luckily it did not turn the rest of us off and we opened it. People from everywhere was here! I ran home and dug up my old Garmin 12 which I BC (Before Caching) only used for testing out props on boats (speed measurements). Hooked. All of us. The whole family.

Honesty works best. Sometimes I have felt that the cache should be protected. My strategy goes like this: What people see is not the same as what the percieve. The GPSr could be some kind of measuring tool. (other than what it already is) Perfect for measuring something coming out of an air vent or so... Poor cell phone reception is a reality in many places in Sweden. I use that as an excuse to walk around acting silly with the GPSr in front of my face and sometimes listen to it with a bothered expression on my face. GameBoy-clone. Use the steer-by-tounge-technique for the final touch.

Here in Sweden we have elks in such numbers (hundred thousands) that we once a year we kill them off. Sweden grinds into a mere halt when people leave for the woods, climb into small towers and awaits to kill an elk. We do this for three days in october. Hitting an elk with the car is one of the most feared accidents while driving at dawn and dusk in Sweden because that is when these animals are active and move around. We often see elk while we are out caching, fishing, hiking. They are harmless if you know that you NEVER should approach them nor end up between a female elk and her kids. That's certain and severe injury.