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That super clever, devious container you just created has been done 100 times before and your sneaky 4-star hide is really a one and a half to most finders... Magnetic keyhiders can hold a lot of earwigs. Don't take the unopened cache back to the car to sign the log. Earwigs are much happier living in your car than they are in keyhiders. I now know that I can imitate Bo and Luke jumping out of the windows of the General Lee Ammo cans will float away, even when securely hidden under a large stump. Large stumps will float away if the water is deep and fast enough. Bees like to make nests in the same holes that are perfect for hiding bison tubes. I'm not allergic to bee stings. Spiders do get that big. A groundhog hole at the proper angle can swallow the leg of a man with a 30" inseam up to the hip. No matter how large, heavy, or awkward a travel bug is, someone will want to move it along. Large, heavy, awkward travel bugs are less likely to disappear.

Nice original Stump Jumper! What year is it? I see a bike with some collectible value here. I'm guessing early 90's vintage. It was a gift from a friend who has since passed away. I think I got it in 1993? I really haven't done much to it other than minor mods to the shift levers, and replacing worn sprockets and derailleur rollers. Oh yeah, a softer seat too! Looks a lot earlier than that. Mid 80's perhaps. Early Stumpies are desirable among the vintage mountain bike community... Visit the vintage/retro/classic section of these forums sometime. Lots of knowledge there... http://forums.mtbr.com/

Nice original Stump Jumper! What year is it? I see a bike with some collectible value here.

East Coast Choppers One of my all time favorites

CCCooperAgency lives a few miles up the road from me. The actual CCCA business building is right down the street and yes, there is a cache nearby. Snoogans liked (and signed) two of my travel bugs. Does that count?

This one has been out since 2004 and I finally pulled it today. It's a decon box that fits in the end of a hollowed out log. For those interested in doing one of these, hollowed out logs last about 3 1/2 years before they turn to mushy wood pulp.

These are fun and can give you quite a scare while digging through a pine tree thinking you're looking for something else. Wal-Mart had them for a while for about $2.00. There are a few of those hides around here and some of the logs are pretty good.

Yeah, me too... My horrible cache Sadly, my failures are that some cachers actually enjoyed it and at least two other cachers have copied the hide technique.

Last summer I put out a three stage multi with a smashed penny theme. It took me weeks to find locations and get accurate coordinates for the stages, make up some way kool custom containers, buy a bunch of pennies as trade stock, and get everything in place. The cache went live the same day I placed it and a few hours later someone logged a FTF - but they noted that they got to the stage with the pennies and only found the chewed remains of the container lid and pennies were all over the ground. A hungry something with sharp teeth liked the camo duct tape on my Lock N Lock. I'm guessing a raccoon because it managed to get the container open and drag it about 50 feet away from the original location. This stuff happens a lot. My cache is still active but I had to pick up the container and completely rework it to be more critter-proof.

I found one like that around here. It was a hot summer afternoon and I was hopping around all these big rocks and climbing all around fallen trees for about an hour (sweating, getting all dirty, and eaten alive by bugs) when I found a rubber snake. I put it in my pocket because it was nowhere near ground zero. Just as I was ready to give up, I re-read the cache page and saw a DNF log from a previous finder that went like this: "Didn't find the cache. It seems to have changed names since i last updated my Palm (its been a while). I did find a plastic green snake though. I scared my fiance with it" Reading the cache page didn't give any more clues but for some dumb reason I pulled the snake from my pocket and saw the small container in it's mouth. The previous DNF'r must have found the snake and threw it at the fiance who was waiting outside of the boulders, trees, mud and bugs.

None of my Targets carry them anymore either. Giant grocery stores have a huge variety of Lock and Locks but they're pretty pricey if you don't have a Giant Bonuscard.

In September of 2004, one of my hides was washed away when the park where it was located flooded. (judging from the debris on a nearby fence, the water was about 8 feet deep.) A few weeks ago I was contacted by a cacher that found an ammo can nearby while searching for a different hide I had placed in the park. I told him it may be my old cache so he saved it for me. The can still looks good after being through at least two more floods after the one that originally washed it away. I was surprised to see how well everything held up. Pix and logs here: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LU...1e-32ca59178a5c

A bicycle is a great weapon for combating tough urban hides. Throw a bike in the car, park in the closest spot, and ride the bike to the cache. I've noticed that nobody pays attention to a guy circling around a cache site on a bike. Parking the bike near GZ and pretending to be taking care of a mechanical issue with your steed gives you all the time you could possibly need to search while being in plain view. Cheap or junky looking bikes work best for this.

The ends of guardrails seem to be popular hiding spots for caches. I have found many Altoids tins and keyhiders attached with magnets inside of the hollow "V" sections of these. Small Rubbermaid containers and short water bottles fit in here too. I put out a hide in a guardrail where the container is a widemouth water bottle. (It's translucent so the bomb squad won't have to come find it too.) It's been well received so far - plus, it holds trade goodies, geocoins, and small travel bugs.

Just wondering what people's thoughts on this are. If you have an old cache out there and want to try something new at that location, would it be better to change the cache and writeup or to make it a new hide?

Bicycle definitely wouldn't fit in a 5-gallon bucket (or a 20-gallon one, either), but it does travel from cache to cache... It has a chain with a lock; cachers leave the bike chained up somewhere in the vicinity of the cache and leave the key to the lock inside the cache. (They ride the bike away after retrieving it.) Looks like a fun and creative TB to me. I love this bug and want to do one of my own someday. I have plenty of old bicycles around...

I have a couple out that are holding up quite well... Oh yeah - they work great for food storage too.

I like these ideas Give them a catagory, an attribute or two, and maybe a difficulty rating like I mentioned above.

I'd have to reread the logs but both of them have been left behind at actual geocaches and retrieved at a later time. Just as there are sick folks like me that make huge travel bugs, there are also those who create caches large enough to support them (Although they are far and few.) and cachers crazy enough to haul them to a remote cache and drop them off. I know Iggy Prop (TB18TH6) is in Sledgehammer right now. From what I can tell, this cache is an old Nissan Pathfinder located on a cachers property. Mary Proppins (TBGTB2) has been in a few, one of which appeared to be a large plastic shed. Both of these have been lugged up to Catz Eye (GCTJA6) thanks to LPYankeefan and Flyingmoose. The cache isn't big enough to fit them but they were hidden nearby. I have logged these two in and out of a few local caches to get a starting point for the mileage but they weren't left behind. Cindy the Cinderblock and Chain Chomp (one of my favorites) are two large bugs that have traveled extensively and have passed through caches in the wild. Some of the logs and pictures for these two are great! Just as some cachers enjoy challenging hides there are others that like bugs that will be challenging to move/hide/complete their goals. Maybe we should come up with a rating system for how easy/difficult a bug will be to move or get closer to completing it's mission?

Oh my.... I think the propeller comment was aimed at me... I guess I have quite a few bad ones. I have not one but two propellers, a picture of my boss, and a charm with a picture of my spouse. They seem to be doing well and cachers have had a blast with the two propeller blades. They're large but have traded hands many times, been stuffed into caches, been to plenty of events, and one even made it back home after going cross country and back. They're also interactive. People have signed and put stickers on them, took plenty of pictures of them, and even added small items to one. I made two "traditional" travel bugs and they have since vanished. People seem to like the "silly" ones and keep them moving. My little Johnny Lightning SSR is probably part of someone's die-cast collection now.

Bad Dogg! One of the best Mr. Magneto hides I ever found...

East Coast Choppers One of my favorites....

Ammo cans, geocoins, bison tubes, waterproof match containers, compact LED flashlight or headlight, Gift certificate to outdoors or camping store, etc...

I do... I'm just a little behind with logging all my finds.