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Was thinking more along the lines of protection from proscution or paying the local bomb squad for blowing up my cache.

Makes me wonder if I need to get written permission to place a cache.

I have hunted for caches for over an hour some times. I know what it is like ot have a family of little ones who are waiting on you to finish up your hunting. I really want more caches that designed with little kids in mind. Perhaps that's too easy, but I know my 7, 5, and 4 year olds would enjoy them. My wife allways nags me about waypointing the car, and she is aboslutely right. So don't give up and get back in the game.

some cheap ones can be had off of ebay for $50 - $70 Geez not like you need to get a second job.

Where else can I use a multimillion dollar goverment system and pretend that I am Indiana Jones.

We cache with our three kids 7, 5, and 4. They do pretty good and just got their own caching backpack to carry. The biggest thing is how quickly the 4yr old get's tired out. In every caching picture I have the 4 year old has her face scrunched up and pouty. Of course there was the day that she found her dolphin sunglasses in a cache, she has worn them ever since. Any way you cut it, it's an adventure.

I just got permission to place my first geocache in a local park, planning has begun, so watch for flying plastic to show up soon! Now where did I put that ammo can....

My advice would be to buy an entry level GPS, that way if the game is not for you, your not out much. Of course with some of the prices of GPSr's on Ebay, you might not be out anything anyway. With me, and my OLD eagle mapguide pro, I am ready to trade up but can't afford to...yet.

In conversatiuon about one cache, a friend of mine said "well it must be in that log." I just simply said, you might want to look elsewhere. This kind of sport seems to be a largely "on your honor," kind of game.

Wow it's true, I did not believe it. Very intresting read, at least they signed the log.

I use a pocket pc with GPX Sonar, and GSAK to do my paperless chaching. IMHO spend the $30 become a member to grab the GPX files. they make caching very easy and flexable. Can't go caching with out my pocket pc and GPS. gpx sonar GSAK

Thanks for all the info, the cache's owner contacted me via email and the cache is going to be archived or moved. I would agree that placing caches in metal pipes is a bad idea. A lot of the clear containers that I have seen appear to be at least damp, but not soaked, ammo boxes seem to do the best job. I was thinking about using a ammo box for my first cache, but now I am thinking that a clear container will do just as well. Not sure what more the geocaching folks can do to allay fears over caching. I hope that no one would do anything malicious and place something in a cache to deliberately harm others.

During our hunt today in a state park in Pocomoke, MD at this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...dd-475d66db6f04 A park officer stopped us to ask if we needed help, when we mentioned that we were geocaching, he said that we couldn't place a cache here, we said that we were hunting not placing. Apparently caches are not allowed in the park. He went on to recount a story where a muggle found a geocache and thought it was a BOMB. The officer went on to describe the bomb squad and apparently the resources used to find out the cache was not a bomb. Anyone know anything about this or a similar incident? It just seems a bit far fetched, afterall all of the geocaches that I have found have labels all over them screaming "geocache."

It seems that this older GPS does not store anything but 9 or so characters about the waypoint. There does not seem to be a way to easily maipulate the name the gps uses with out major editing. After messing with the GPS or about an hour. I found a function that uses a large letters and sorts the GPS name alphabetically. Any way finding this little link will make geocaching with this old GPS tolerable. Thanks for the replies.

Having just uploaded over 100 waypoints for Caches into my Eagle mapguide pro, the thought struck me, there has to be a better way to do this. When easy gps uploads the waypoints to the GPS it sends the waypoint name ie GCKCJD. Well that is about as usefull when flipping throuh over a hundred caches as a screen door on a submarine. Is there any way that easy gps will upload the real name of the cache without having to manualy edit each cache? My thought being that it is easier to look for the name of the cache rather than trying to match a bunch of letters. Thanks all!

I had allways thouight that I would never use the phone for web browsing, thought it was silly. But this site could make it very worthwhile.

Bingo! Thanks my friend, I am now up and running. Too bad it's pooring outside, otherwise I would be chaching!

Anyone have anyideas on how to convert loc or gsak files to .low files for import into my eagle map guide pro. it was given to me for Geocaching, but darn if i can make the thing work. Anyone know if GSAK will talk to this old gps? Thanks in advance.

If the drawing is not over, put me in the hat. When Done I'll run a drawing an give it away to someone else.

One of our favorite shows is the amazing race. My wife and I want to be on that show and race around the world. But since we have three kids, and are kind of tied down, it does not appear as if it is in our immediate future. So Amazing race geocache version. Line up about three to five caches in one day and race from one to the next in kind of a timed trial. Anyone doing this kind of Caching?

Wow, thanks for all the replies. Well I guess that just about anything goes. I hope to start on this grand adventure sometime in July. My wife has gone from ho hum about the idea, to almost excited about geocaching.

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I'm new to GEOCaching, heck I don't even have a GPS yet, I was doing some hunting on EBAY about geocaching and found some very strange ways to hide your cache. False rocks, false electric boxes, and reflectors with a micro cache attached. How common are these methods for hiding a Cache? I would imagine that it increases the diffculty in finding.