J the Goat

I was thinking along the same lines. Anytime the W word is mentioned here in beautiful Northern California, it means something a little different.... I like the idea, but I too am not sure how well it'll work out. Can't hurt to try though.

And bring something very heavy to do battle with. Never go into an FTF melee unarmed, that's just foolish...

Bittsen, I've been doing more caching at night as I recently started working graves. Lunch breaks at 1 am and getting off shift at 0600 make for some muggle free urban hunting. Urban hunting at night isn't too bad if you have a good flashlight and can be quiet. Night caching in the woods is a little different experience. I'm not afraid of muggles as much as I am those nocturnal hunters, like bobcats or bears. Ya, we have those here too. Haven't done many forest caches at night, but I'll get there.

Bittsen, I've been doing more caching at night as I recently started working graves. Lunch breaks at 1 am and getting off shift at 0600 make for some muggle free urban hunting. I off during most of the week though, so I also head out with my little ones frequently as well. I've met a few cachers at or near GZ, always a pleasant experiance. We're a friendly bunch, mostly...

We're going to Disneyland in September. I plan on doing a little bit of caching on the drive down (we live about 10 hours north) but what I'm looking forward to are the virtuals in the park and the surrounding caches once we're actually there.

yeah I once found a fake sprinkler as a cache that was in between two other real sprinklers so it "blended" in. Imagine that every cacher who tried to find it had a 33% of finding the cache and a 66% chance of screwing with a real sprinkler head. I'm afraid I'm going to have to take the off-topic ball and run with it here. In 6.5 years and 2,000 finds of Geocaching, I've never encountered a sprinkler head cache, or even heard of one's existance any where near my home coordinates (in Western New York). I suspect this must be a warmer and/or drier climate phenomena. Is this Ebay listing what you people are talking about? Yup, that's one type. All the ones i've seen are similar.

I'm gonna jump in this pool for a bit. First off, I don't think that anyone here has anything but positive things to say about your volunteering your valuable (I mean that, all our time is valuable) time to an establishment such as a drive in theatre. That being said, here comes that part that you're going to get defensive about. You just asked a buch of people who don't care about your feelings if that dress makes you look fat. The people here in the forums, at least in my very limited experience, are very willing to help when people have questions. They don't even seem to get lippy when the same question is asked 354 times by 177 people. When a question is answered and advice is given however, and you choose to argue with what they're saying, that's when it goes from advice and answers to off topic arguments. All they're pointing out is that any cache with the intent of drawing customers into a business for the purpose of getting business for the business, it's commercial. Ultimately your reviewer will approve or deny the listing. I don't see the purpose of your defensive nature. If you don't want a question answered or an opinion voiced, stay off the public forums on the internet. Bittsen, I love the idea about placing a cache near a drive in. I have a drive in about 45 minutes from here, and hadn't even thought about putting one there. Might have to work on that...

Nice! Thanks!

It sounds like he may mean the stash notes. Maybe...

Starbrand, does that work for the colorado 300 as well?

Not sure if this counts, but how about GCRFNN?

I'd definitely hit up the survey. I like the idea, sounds like fun.

While maybe not inappropriate, blackberry bush hides just grind my gears. There's one here that placed in the blackberry bushes not 15 feet from the Juvenile Hall rec yard. (placed by a friend of mine, he knows my gripes) Not only do the bushes make for unpleasant hunting, but when it's play time you see tons of muggles in the orange jumpsuits getting their incarceration on.

Sent you a message, count me in if you need one or two placed in beautiful Northern California.

I think that assessment is a bit harsh. Possibly true in a few exceptional cases, but I think that most of us have less of a problem with a geocache being blown up as with geocachers being blamed for it. The blame issue is a whole different story. Yes, these incidents are going to happen. It is surprising how few of them there are considering the number of hides. How many of these incidents have ended with the authorities actually charging a cacher with a crime or for the cost of the response? Funny you should ask. Check out GC185AN. If you read the logs, the CO tells what happened after his cache got blowed up. He didn't end up having to pay anything, but was sent to collections for the cost of the bomb squad.

Blackberry bush caches. They're right up there with PO caches. For a cache to be justified in a large, thorny mass, there's got to be some spectacular views from near there, or blackberries that are made of gold growing on those bushes. "You should bring gloves." Really? YOU should find a more creative place for your hide. There's my $0.02. First post by the way. Hope nobody minds.