Coldgears

TRESPASSER! I hope you don't do that to find a cache... On an unrelated note, why is it when you come from one end of a park it's fine and encouraged but going in the other end is trespassing? I noticed this when there was a cache in a park near me called **** park. It is encouraged to go from the parking lot into the park. I decided to get out of the park on the closest exit... Guess what? That exit had private property signs facing the other direction. I'll never understand the reasoning behind it... You're allowed to come in one way but not another? Either way once I saw them I was already out the park and in the street... So I ignored it and went on my merry way.

Hi, me! I guess it's just me and me with no answer is sight... I wish someone other then me would give me and answer, as me and me are getting bored. A simple yes or no as to if this is possible would satisfy me and me.

ever notice NIH usually have worthless clues NIH hides aren't fun and go on ignore NIH? Please tell me! Oh, and I have had a similar issue. I hid a silver bison, I intentionally made it easy... I put one or two shavings on it to not be completely obvious... Well, another cacher decided not to put one or two little shavings... But instead to put about 5 pounds making it almost impossible to find. In fact I thought it went missing at first.

What an interesting idea...I've never heard of that... An interesting idea sure... But also a banned one.

As this thread has been revived the issue has been fixed. I have moved the cache two feet from the location it was previously... The land is owned by the county I live in. It is called Armstrong Park... And to be honest it has MUCH bigger issues then some round up being used. People that frequently go down there include, violent teenagers, drug dealers, drug addicts... It's a nice little park... The sad part is it's not even on the maps, it's extremely local. You wouldn't even know that it was down there unless you heard from word of mouth. No sign, nothing. Just a drive way into the woods. There is a rock with the spray painted words "armstrong park" but you need to go down into the park to see it. It has a lot of fishing areas! A lot of people fish there. A beautiful view of a HUGE creek. A small playground (a swingset that has been destroyed by teenagers.) Plenty of trash, and a huge sign saying, "There has been property damage, if you have any information leading to the arrest of these peoples please contact the local police" That's referring to the destroyed swingset, the demolished port-o-potty made of wood. The broken fishing areas, (People kick in the wood planks) and more... I thought hiding this cache would raise awareness of this park. There is only one cache left... It is from a user who hid three here. Sadly, two are archived, that one has gone missing. And he hasn't logged on in months. Yeah, so I didn't kill the poison ivy I moved my cache. Oh, and I forgot the mention the "homeless" man that has been living in a tent there for years. He begs for money at the cornerstore, but is non-violent.

My worst case is when I accidentally got poison iyy on my hands... I want to the bathroom in the woods... You know where this is heading right?

As someone who has been a woodsy man his whole life... I find it astonishing people haven't encountered poison ivy until geocaching..

I now realize why it migrated! Someone got so tired of another crappy lamp post he hid it in a more creative spot... Sadly, the CO didn't like the fact another cacher found a better spot less then 10 feet away (coords are the same) and put it back...

Some people do this to help out the next cacher! I've had a few people in my area attach little pieces of strings to the tree that the cache is hidden under... It sucks, but people do it.

No answer???

One mistake that I always made in the beginning is to not expand my search. I would stick strictly to a few feet from the coords! While this works perfectly for most urban caches, many times in the woods this is not so. Most people's GPS aren't to the exact inch! I never noticed this until one time I was looking for a micro... The GPS coords were on top of the street in the parking lot. I looked all over the street... Then I emailed cache owner with a picture of the coords being in the middle of the road,(google maps) and he told me to expand your search and check the fence... It was about 20 feet away... But guess what? It was there... Ever since then I expanded my search and my DNF rate went down... ALOT!

I laughed so hard at that post! I actually named my newest cache after it! I had to take a screen as it hasn't been reviewed!

Yes, but your comparing a regular old hide, with a regular old hide in a tree. This hide has historic value, in fact the geocache it is too close to is about that historic value! The issue here isn't saturation, if a park is already saturated a hide in a tree is a big deal. In the area the OP mentions there isn't saturation, the real issue is.... I'm tired it's 1:38 I had a compelling arguement but just started to fall alsleep halfway durning it. I'll edit tommorrow sometime when I'm not tired to give a good arguement.

I have heard of people using this feature with pocket queries before. I can't figure it out! I want to use it to find night caches, and I want to find ones near bodies of water. I can't figure out how this is done! Can I have some help?

I know people do it here in Florida, but dadgum with the snakes, they are much braver than I. Around these parts the worse we got is a non-venomous garter snake, of which I have only seen a few... In my life here! I have however seen one in my backyard. We don't have many dangers up here, the weather is fine, no tornadoes or hurricanes. The neighborhood is nice, very low crime rate. We also don't have any dangerous animals, nothing poisonous. The worst we have around here is that we live in the worse possible area in the world for Lyme disease. It is spread by ticks, even a few of my family members have it... And they are rarely if ever in the woods. Sadly, I am at great risk with my caching habits...

I don't trade if I don't have something even! There was a music themed cache in my area, some local band put there CD in there... I was DIEING to listen to it (I love the metal genre, and the fact it was a local band made it better) Sadly, I had nothing of equal value to trade. I'll think about going back though with something to trade... Personally, I'd rather people not stock there caches with things worth monetary value, a $1 "thing" from the dollar store is completely meh to me. What I want is more homemade stuff. Like homemade beaded jewerly, CD from your local band (like mentioned above), homemade bookmarks, Pottery you made. That stuff has true meaning, I can't buy that stuff for $1!

Complete uninstalls don't always work! They still leave traces in your registry. The only way to do a complete uninstall is to manually delete them. BE WARNED: The registry's control everything necessary for the computer to run, make sure you know what you are doing, and exactly where the registry's were installed too. You could always download Glary Utilities http://www.glaryutilities.com/ but there is no guarantee that it will pick up any or all of the registry's...

Really? There is a letterbox hybrid in my area just like that! It has parking coords and the rest in clues from there. I'd rather not give you a link, I have yet to find it and I don't want it to be archived.

It's your decision. You'd make the chances of people stealing your cache lower... BUT, you'd have less people visiting. Plus, it's still possible someone would steal the first or second stage...

I found this today! At first I actually thought I did find a bomb... It was 20 feet from the coords, (He had really bad coords), not to mention that it was listed as a micro, (because the inside is small.) Oh, and the fact for a "micro", away from the coords it weighed a crap ton. It was made out of concrete. I'm ignoring the fact the camo is almost completely gone, in fact, I was so taken back by it I didn't even notice the camo until after I opened it.

If using ctrl-A (select all) with Internet Explorer is important it could also be something hidden in an image. I've seen a couple puzzles where select-all would reveal something hidden in an image in Internet Explorer, but NOT in other browsers. Since I use firefox as my default browser it took me a little longer to crack it. This finally worked. I had figured it might be the case and tried Safari (my default) and Firefox, but neither of those worked. Problem was I couldn't get my IE on my PC to connect to the internet, so I just called my friend and had her do it, and she said it did reveal a path, so I validated the answer and it was correct. So that's a good thing to know for future use Thanks everyone for all of your help! That's the sad part, there probably won't be many future uses. Very few puzzles are alike... You'd have to come asking for help everytime if you can't think outside the box...

Talking about climbing, what about on the top of a baseball diamond? Or some structure? Or should I stick with trees... Otherwise I have thought about doing a theme or such, to spice it up in a different way. By baseball structure, I assume you mean the chain link backstop. I wouldn't do it there. That would most likely cause a lot of damage. They aren't made for Tens or hundreds of 200 pound dudes to climb up them. Not all at the same time at least.

Not many trains here, I'd love that! What I would do to spice up micro's is to make them creative. Anyone can buy a crappy little micro for .30$ online. Making a micro yourself is a different story. The best kind of micro's are ones that everyone who doesn't geocache notices, but only geocaches realize that it is a geocache. For example I noticed a geocache in my area that is attached to a stop sign, it is actually a red reflector, someone driving by the stop sign would assume it was meant to be there. Someone who was looking for the geocache would realize what it was. If you must use a .30$ one then you should find a spot that very few people have used before, meaning don't put it in a lamp post. You could also make it a puzzle! That way half the fun has to do with solving the puzzle and not finding it. A really creative one I've seen in my area is 15 micro's hidden within 35 miles of each other. Each one has a little piece of a coordinate, when you find them all you can go to one of the biggest ammo boxes ever seen. To make it better, the people who hid the micro's were the best micro hiders in the respective areas! Sadly, two of them are archived, meaning that it's impossible for me ever to see the huge ammo box. You could do something like that, except have them all be your hides. Leading to one of your most creative micro's, or assuming there is at least ONE spot to put an ammo box, an ammo box.

It seems like that guy is actually enjoying doing this. I think that he doesn't realize he enjoys finding them, and confuses that joy with his delusional "joy" of destroying them.

Why do platinum plus get special treatment? It's not like giving the ability to search for archived caches to premium members is going to change much. I'd love this feature, I always thought it was due to technical limitations that they do not have such search options implemented. Now I know it is simply because my money isn't good enough for some, "platinum plus members" options.