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No I don't, but I occasionally have friends come to Malaysia from the U.S.A. so if you want to have one hand-carried over (and then sent to you via post from within Malaysia), send me an email. It might take a while to get to you, depending on when my next "courier" comes over. But it would work eventually.

Some earthcaches involve fees: park entrance, parking, guide, equipment, etc. What is a reasonable amount to ask someone to fork over in order to find your Earthcache? I recently was working on registering an Earthcache and was asked about the required guide fee (of about $20). The impression I was given was that Earthcaches should be free and accessible to all, regardless of budget. But I know of an Earthcache that requires an expenditure of over $150! So anyway, just curious. Is there really a ceiling? Or just a "keep it free if possible" policy? I couldn't find anything in black and white about it so I thought I'd ask. Thanks!

Welcome BernGPS! Feel free to add me on Geocaching. I will be back in KK at the end of February and hope to start hiding some caches there. Am currently in the USA where I am enjoying the abundance of caches! I arrived here at the end of November with a total of 15 caches found, and that total is now almost at 60 found. So I'm getting a much better idea of how to hide them as well. So maybe I'll see you around there!

I think there are still a few of us out here on this forum!

So you have! Yay I'm so happy! Thanks! I did try to hide a cache once, but it got muggled. I left the container with a log book, no goodies inside, just to test the location - glad I did! So in my limited free time I will try again sometime.

I'm interested in this if it's still available!

Greetings all, just thought I'd check in here. Expat living in Kota Kinabalu, where there are very few caches! I've found a few in KL and in Germany, and hope to hide one or two. Good to see you all out there!

Thanks! Will get back to you when I get caught up with life...would appreciate a look from your perspective.

Thanks a bunch! I got good feedback from Narcissa and have a little more work to do on it. When I've done that I'll send it your way for a second look. Appreciate it!

Thanks Narcissa! Sending...

Hi all, While I await approval from the relevant authorities, I wonder if there might be someone who could take a look at the text for my first Earthcache and let me know if it's a decent write-up, with appropriate logging requirements, etc.? Thanks in advance!

Thanks much for your helpful reply! I just may give that a shot. The place where I'd hide the first cache is a place I go to frequently, so I could get a couple/few readings each time, see how it averages out. We'll see!

First off, I appreciate everyone's feedback, and in my response here I hope I don't sound overly defensive. But it sounds like I won't be hiding a cache after all. Kinda frustrating because geocaching is NOT a thing here [in Malaysia]. Cachers are very few and very far between. The state in which I live has a handful of caches - certainly not more than a dozen, and that includes at least 3 earthcaches. In my immediate area (driving less than an hour) there are 3 listed on Geocaching, and two of those are missing the cache. I was hoping to contribute to the community by planting some in the area. As to the comment (quoted) above, I guarantee you there are NO local events in my area, and perhaps not even in Malaysia. Local geocachers? Nope. The guy who planted a couple/few caches in my area doesn't even live here - he lives overseas. Do I really need a "real" GPS? Is it possible that the satellite signals here just aren't great? The Nokia 5800 got 3.5 stars on Geocaching from over 600 reviews, so it can't be crap, right? I can't really justify the purchase of a dedicated GPS device just to find a handful of caches. As for maintaining caches I place, I have no problem with that. Appreciate your comments regarding the accuracy (or not) of Google Maps. Point taken. Okay, all for now. Thanks again.

Hi, thanks for your reply, I appreciate it! Yes, I have read the guidelines (more than once) - but I figured that accuracy of the coordinates would be more important than "technical purity" using the GPS for the final reading. Obviously, in a perfect world we'd have perfect plotting! So would you suggest, then, that I just get the best coordinates I can from my GPS, and just edit the entry later as necessary?

Hey all, pretty new cacher here. That is, I'm pretty new and a cacher. Not pretty and a new cacher. Trust me on this one. Quick question. I have over here a combination of perhaps poor satellite reception and perhaps a not-so-hot GPS unit (in my Nokia 5800). I can usually find a cache if the hints are good, but sometimes my accuracy is not better than 150ft or so. If I'm at 2-digit accuracy I get really excited. So I'm looking to hide a cache, and I read that when you're hiding one you should take an average of 7-10 readings, walking away and coming back for each one. But wouldn't I perhaps get a more accurate set of coordinates by simply plotting them on Google Maps (zoomed all the way in) through a site like iTouchMap.com? I'm sure there are purists out there who think that's cheating, but then again, some people go geocaching with nothing but the printed out pages (with hints decrypted), right? I just want to avoid having to go back and edit the coordinates because I couldn't provide good ones from the start. Anyway, would appreciate your opinions on this! Thanks...