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Change it to a micro...Perhaps the fake dog turd with a film can underneath.

I have a camouflaged bison tube hanging in our tree. My wife hasn't found it yet...

I know that this area is loaded with shopping centers, small parks, and playgrounds. There are also a lot of hiders around who seem to enjoy placing micros. Some of which are quite evil...

Film can with camo tape hanging from a tree in the woods = Lame hide. Film can in the mouth of big scary rubber animal = Funny and enjoyable find. I found one of these recently. The rubber animal was pretty large but it was the same color as the surroundings and very tough to spot. It made me jump at first and then I saw what it was. Some of the logs for this cache were good too.

Attend an event cache!

I saw this one at an event cache recently. Too bad the owner doesn't have a picture of it on the web page. Funny TB

I had 7 in one day. One of our premier local cachers put out a series of theme caches and I had off work on the day after most of them showed up. They were just little plastic micros but the locations were great and some of the hiding methods were brilliant.

Hurricane Ivan flooded a park and washed away the second stage of a multi I had hidden in a stump. Even the stump dissapeared! I replaced it with this cache: New cache It's a little more fun than the first one so I guess it was for the better.

A well thought out micro can be a lot of fun to hunt and there are some very creative (and evil) containers out there. I have spent the better part of a day making a micro container that would work in a specific location. These are often rewarding to find and will give you ideas for your own hides. There are cachers in this area that don't like the traditional micros but still enjoy one that has some thought put into it. Keyhiders under payphones and film cans stuck to light poles in mall parking lots are fine if you want to add to your numbers. These get plenty of visits and usually aren't too challenging. Sometimes a hider wants to draw cachers to a cool location but there's no possible way to put a traditional cache in the area. A micro will still draw many of them in.

I had an idea for a multi where I had originally planned to use stainless (no rust) screws to fasten a big container to a tree, but after some thought I came up with an idea to fasten the container with bicycle brake cables wrapped around the tree. They went through one side of the container, around the tree and back through to the other side of the container. I used pinch bolts to secure them and allow for tension adjustment. The cables come with black plastic housing so no metal even touches the tree. With the cables pulled up tight, the container doesn't move and it can easily be removed later with no damage to the tree.

It was July 4th, 2004. I was stuck at work with nothing to do. I was browsing the Hotwheels messageboards, and in the off topic section a member was showing off his new travel bug that he wanted to visit die-cast shows. Another member posted a link to geocaching.com. I checked out the site and found out there were caches close to here. This sounded interesting so a coworker and myself went out at lunchtime and found one at a local park. It was a keyhider under a fence. We found it using the clue provided. A week later I bought a GPSr and have been having fun ever since....

I got some from eBay. There's a fellow on there who is regularly listing the .50 cal cans in lots of six. With shipping, the lot I bought came to about $6.00/can.

Maybe it was one of these... Ammo can with blinky light Pretty cool idea but I hope whoever is buying these things is putting them out in the middle of nowhere. This one just screams "Blow me up!"

How about some of these hazards: Shoe sucking mud Bugs Biting Bugs Snakes

I've found quite a few in cemeteries. One thing they had in common was they were all hidden just outside of the cemetery plots. Look for a spot where they throw the old flower pots and old wreaths. That's usually a "fair game" location.

As much as I enjoy finding a camouflaged ammo can in the woods, I think I like finding a very well-done urban micro that someone put in some time and effort better. You know the ones. Custom made containers that look like they belong there. There are a few around here that are real forehead slappers.

I found that riding a bicycle to an urban park hide works pretty well. If a lone adult male drives up to a park, gets out of his car and starts snooping around, it attracts some attention. If a cyclist rides into a park, stops, sits on a bench, walks around like he's stretching, adjusts shoes, or checks for some new mysterious mechanical problem on the bike, it's not as obvious. This all takes time and gives you more chances to check hiding spots. A tired-looking fat guy with a bike doesn't draw too many stares. It's easy for me to throw a bike in the truck, unload it someplace, and ride a few blocks to get to an urban hide. It works pretty well with hides in shopping centers too. I have five urban hides near my house. They all were placed using a bike. (One is an evil little micro. It took several visits to find a hiding spot and two more to get it into position.)

So far, this one has to be my favorite. It's a two stage multi and the first part was a simple but brilliant hide. A lot of cachers had a tough time with it. Too bad the second part got muggled twice and is now just a micro. Under the Boardwalk This one was fun too. It required doing some homework though. The hiders put a lot of effort into setting it up. Llama Corner: Revisited This one has a very original idea for a first stage. Quite a few folks had a hard time locating it. Fly Away Into The Sunset I don't have too many caches of my own out there, but this one has been well received so far. My second hide

Everything the above cachers mentioned. Fishing line or thin thread will lead you to a micro from time to time too. Some micro containers can be the size of a vitamin tablet. While looking for these nasty little things, say to yourself, "If I were to hide something at these coordinates, where would I put it? What container would I use?" This as turned up a number of dastardly little hides for me and gave me some ideas for my own future caches. I really enjoy a creative micro hide, especially when some thought has gone into it.

If I would have done that, this fun thread would have never come to be...

Oh my... what have I started here? FYI - I was originally thinking of placing this container in an area where other "containers" of the same type are already staked in place. One more would never be noticed unless you look very close. Mine is just different enough that an observant cacher could figure it out but a muggle wouldn't notice it. I was just fishing for opinions in case I were to hide this "container" someplace else. It appears that some cachers view a poke hole in the ground as land destruction while others feel it doesn't hurt anything. I'm not giving out any hints as to what the container is but I will say it would be much more at home in an urban/suburban environment than in the middle of a state forest.

I found a very interesting container to use for a cache hide but it may need to have a small stake driven into the ground to stabilize it. Does this violate the "No pointy objects may be used to hide a cache" rule? Once in place, cachers will not have any need to come in contact with the stake to retreive the cache.

I gave in and bought one for my Garmin from eBay. They're pretty reasonable there if you look long enough. I've destroyed enough headlights to know that a strong mount is a must. Seeing an $18.00 headlight go crashing to the street is one thing...Losing a $300 GPS is another. I was carrying my GPS in a cell phone case that attached to the bars with velcro straps. It held the signal in the case but you had to pull it out to read it.

Small first aid kits, water bottles, baby wipes, keychains, rain ponchos, wet naps, batteries, eyeglass repair kits, and other little things like this are usually in the impulse aisles of chain stores and don't cost much. Watch the Sunday papers for small items on sale. Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars are always popular with kids and can be had for as little as 49 cents each when on sale. Ebay is a great resource for small items in large lots. (Just watch the shipping charges.) Promotional items from trade shows are always popular but are getting harder to come by. Don't knock the dollar stores just yet. They get some interesting items from time to time. I paid just $1.00 for some Lego sets that sell in stores for $5-$7.

Hmmmmm...This wouldnt take much to do. Just one of those battery operated noisy things they sell around Halloween, a limit switch of some type attached to the lid of an ammo can and some slight wiring modifications. In a well sealed ammo can, good batteries will last a long time in some of these devices. If you really want to get creative, get one of those outdoor patio speaker rocks and wire that into the device. The sound will come from behind the unsuspecting cacher instead of from the box. I might have to do one of these. Is there any way I could make it a nighttime only cache?