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It is a city park, and the reviewer here told me that i need permission.

If you are so worried about these travel routes being worn into the forest floor, i hope that you also plan on killing off all of the deer in the area as well, because they are an animal of routine and will leave trails all over the woods.

I did read those rules, and i used my judgement on how far away to place my cache from the other one. My judgement was off, so i moved it. Never in a million year did i think that you would have to get a permit to place a cache in the woods, i assumed that getting permission from the property owner applied to private land owners and not public parks. Please let me off with a warning officer! I also assumed that it would be gracious of me to place a cache early on as a token to the other existing members in my area rather than just feeding off of there hides and not providing any in return. From what i have seen so far, people will really enjoy my cache. This is a geocache, and in no way is it similar to a pet, lol.

i understand most of the rules but i guess the biggest rule that bothered me is that the cache has to be within 25 feet of a paved trail in this park. Seems you would get more muggles discovering what they may think of as a bomb. Let us get off the beaten trail and have a little fun, and i understand that it's the parks rule and not geocaching.com's rule. I'm also not knocking any of you or the hobby in any way.

Yeah i guess i need to venture out further from my core area. What concerns me is that after placing my cache today, i used the difficulty rating calculator and it rated mine at a 4 out of five terrain rating. Mine is just a 1/4 mile quick hike across a little creek and over some small hills, there is no trail but it is very simple to get to. If i rated it, i would give it a 2 out of 5. I think that a 1-10 rating would help define things a little better.

I just started caching over the weekend and am attempting to place my first cache but i keep running into all these dadgum rules. First i placed my cache in a park a good walk from another existing cache, only to find out that it's too close to the other. So i go get it today and move it way back into the woods along a creek. Then the reviewer says that i need to submit a permit number from the park, so i go to the provided link to fill out the questions and i am amazed at the list of rules. For instance the cache has to be with 25 feet of a paved trail and no ammo boxes are allowed. So looks like i'll be footing it back out tomorrow through the snow to move it yet again. I thought that this hobby would be way cooler than it is. I am kind of a thrill junky and was hoping to go on these big hikes and kayaking across lakes. But it seems that all the caches around here are within 50 feet of the parking lot. Is there another geocache website for thrill seekers? I want the kind of caches that are in a cave 50 feet up a cliff side.

I have made a ton of those in the past. I make bracelets and wrist slings for hunting bows. I just placed my first ever cache yesterday and left a really cool bracelet as a FTF prize. You can get that 550 paracord at your local army surplus for very cheap. The knot is called a cobra stitch in case anyone cares. You can look that up on youtube and find a ton of instructional videos.

I was walking while trying to read the thing, then i would stop for a 20-30 seconds and try to make sense of it all. Went back out today and it led me all over the place yet again. The terrain was hilly, and i am near a lake.

It was going crazy when i was 1/4 mile away from the cache. I did try to follow the pointer and that's what messed me up the most. Do most of you carry a compass as well?

I did not. This is all very new to me and i am still figuring these things out. If it were the signal strength, is there anything that can be done to fix the problem, and is this common?

This is my first GPS unit, i just got it for Christmas. Yesterday was my second time ever geo caching, and this device went wild on me. Every few seconds it would tell me to go in a complete opposite direction. I tried standing still for minutes at a time, i tried turning it off and on again, nothing seemed to help. It was a cloudy and cold day, and the ground was covered in a blanket of snow. Do you thing that the overcast caused interference with satelites? Please help!