Jim & Pam

I'm done and out of the travel bug business. I was sending them out with my nephews, as we live 2500 miles away from each other, and only see each other once a year. I would always take them geocaching, and we'd release a bug. of the 6 we released, 4 are missing, 1 (with a directive to go to OKC in 1 year before the election) has moved under 300 miles in 2 years, and the last one we released is still alive, but it's only been 2 months. The boys are frustrated, between travelbugs vanishing or spending months on end in some lazy person's backpack, and finding caches filled with rubber bands and bandaids, they didn't even want to go caching this year. My dog and my car are the only trackables with a good record.

I have. I haven't even bothered to release the last one. The ones I released were for my young nephews to be able to monitor as they moved. They were given a goal, which was always ignored, and so far, they go around and about for a little while, and then are never seen again. The nephews are bored with it.

Is there any way when doing a cache search that they can be filtered out by criteria other than traditional vs earthcache vs multi? Especially if I am caching with my young nephews, I'd like to remove options by certain criteria, and then see what remained on a map to plan a route. Specifically, I'd like to remove micros (no schwag, the kiddies get miffed), those that are very difficult or in very difficult terrain, and those that haven't been found in over 2 years. The little ones just get frustrated, and I don't want to make this not fun for them. I don't see any way of culling caches by those kinds of criteria, but then, I don't play with queries etc. and am not good at that. thanks

Our favorite is a local one has only been found by a few, which is such a shame. Probably in part because it was only our 2nd or 3rd find, and our first FTF, but we still love it, and wish we could find others as clever. It is a multi and true puzzle in the mountains of southeastern Idaho. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=92777974-aa8c-4866-9c8a-6e92b71449eb T-Canyon Road #7 - Cruel and unusual punishment. GC1Y3EW It is listed as a flashlight cache, and is meant to be done in the dark. each of the caches is a puzzle, located by colored reflectors on the trees at each coordinate. You need to have with you: 1. A good FLASHLIGHT, 2. A buddy to share the expierence, 3. A game cube (die/dice), 4. A copy of the periodic table, 5. A copy of the numeric values associated with the greek alphabet, 6. The number of pi to the 25th decimal. 7. A knowledge of Roman Numerals 8. Something to write with and on. 9. A calculator 10. Your favorite lucky charm. when you do the puzzle, you collect letters, which as you sit and organize them spell "look up" where you will find you are right underneath a gallon jug hanging from a tree branch. Loaded with great swag for kids. It's far enough into national forest to camp by, but close enough to a forest service road that you can easily hike there with kids.

I generally ignore things that are in caches, as long as they aren't gross or dangerous. However, things that I generally remove: Unwrapped gum. Soaked-through tampons. Batteries sitting and rusting in the bottom of a damp container. Sexually related materials in caches that would likely be found with kids. the rest of the junk just gets ignored. We usually put something cool in, just to present and upgrade from the rubberbands and bandaids that seem to fill caches nowadays.

Hi, we're fairly new to this, and we are heading out on a road trip over the weekend. I see that I should be able to get a readout of caches along a route (we purchased a membership in part for this attribute), and I was trying to figure out how to do that. we have an old garmin etrex gps unit, and so I have to enter coordinates by hand, and thought this might be a good option. thanks for your help!