Rowdy Bunch

My gosh, I had no idea that peeing while caching was such a common experience. I guess it makes sense when you consider that you may be out in the woods with no potty for an hour or more. I will admit the junior Rowdies have baptised many a cache location, but so far not on any actual cache (thank goodness). If someone pees on a cache on purpose, that's just plain gross and inexcusable!!! Yuck!

This must be new. I didn't know there was a published policy. I called Parks and Rec several months ago and got verbal permission from an employee there who said I could places caches in the city's parks. He didn't tell me any restrictions at that time. A lot of this policy is just common sense, but I hope no Carrollton hiders get in trouble because an existing cache generates a complaint. This sounds like a lot of red tape to me. Most people will never even know a cache is in a city park. Also, virtual caches may be good for the historical site but are hard to get approved by geocaching.com. I wonder if these reported problems such as burying, etc., have been in Carrollton parks or are just anecdotes about caching in general.

Hey, thanks for the tips. After some googling I stumbled upon a geocaching.com feature I didn't know existed. I don't know how to navigate to it, but if you call up geocaching.com/map, you can see a map of the entire world. You click onto the place you want to cache, and you can narrow it down to the area and see the names of all the caches there! It's easier and better than looking up caches by ZIP code!

Thanks, guys. I did look up the ZIP codes and couldn't find any close to where we're going. How did you google the coordinates? I couldn't find any web site that would find it out for me. I will try putting in the coordinates and see what pops up.

I am going to Gun Barrel City, TX, on Memorial Day weekend and would like to go caching, but I can't find any caches in that area. Does anyone know of any caches around there, or do you know the coordinates so I can call up a cache list? Thanks!

That cemetery cache is one I maintain. It is a nice cache, and it was a really nice article too! I hope you and your mother enjoy geocaching.