bootsycat

Scrapcat - thank you so much for that link! When I've got a spare couple of hours that is definitely my homework before I tackle my next puzzle cache!

Step 1. Visit the Cache Listing Visit the cache listing for the cache in which you placed the Travel Bug. If you already logged your find, don't panic! You can still post another log note. Step 2. Visit the "log a cache" Page As you normally log a find, click on the link to log the cache. You will need to log in first. Step 3. Select the Travel Bug to drop off After entering the text for your find, scroll down to see a list of Travel Bug Trackables in your inventory. Using the dropdown menu, select either "dropped off" to leave a Travel Bug in the cache, or "visited" to record a visit while still retaining possession of the Travel Bug. Once you are ready, click the button to submit your log. From the "Find Trackables" pages of the website. HTH.

Tree cover etc will make it skippy too. I think *they* bug the GPS's to make them muck about at around 25ft... just to make us work harder!

The best tip I ever read was that once you get within 20 feet, PUT THE GPS IN YOUR POCKET AND USE YOUR EYES!! (Capitals are there to remind myself - constantly - that the cache is not going to appear on the screen of the GPS...) I watched my dad walking backwards and forwards the other day, watching the screen - while I poked about under trees. It seemed really obvious to me who was going to find it (and I did) - but I know I'm guilty of that most of the time. If it gets you to 5ft, great, but that doesn't necessarily mean you are exactly 5ft from the cache due to mathematical and sciencey reasons I'll let someone else explain. The GPS will get you close. Then it's your turn. Have fun!

Look on some of the geocaching supplies websites. They'll give you an idea of what you might be looking for as a nano. I can't think many people go to the effort of making their own nano containers, so getting an idea of what bought ones might look like could help, so you have a mental picture of what you might be searching for. They are TINY. But the joy when you find one..... ahhhhhh, you get to feel quite smug for a bit!

Excellent! Thanks people. Knew I'd get a straightforward answer from you lot. Off to double check my intended spots...

Hi - I have a chicken-and-egg dilemma, and before you suggest it, I have read the FAQs and knowledge books and searched on here but I give up, so I'm hoping you guys can help. I've been caching gently for a few months and want to set my own now near where I live. As far as I understand, the cache should contain the GC code in or on it somewhere. But I won't get that till I submit the listing, and before I do that, I have to have hidden the cache... so do I hide it, submit it for review, and then rush back with the code, risking that it will be published and found before I've been able to do that? (And if that is answered somewhere on here, then you have permission to be scathing!). Many thanks.

I often cache with my children in a pushchair. I can park it right by the suspected location, then bend down and appear to be talking to one of them. Gets me down low, with cover. Probably not worth getting some just for caching though

Averaging (finding the "mean") means adding all the scores and dividing by the number of scores you had. Say you take 8 readings and get the following as the last 3 digits: 102, 104, 102, 105, 103, 103, 106, 105 you add them up and divide by 8 (because you have 8 readings). These readings add up to 830, which you'd divide by 8 and get 103.75 which you would round up to 104 (because it's closer to 104 than it is to 103). HTH bootsycat

Definitely hand wipes or sanitiser of some kind - even though they aren't "buried" you might still need to scrabble in some leaves etc, and my parents once had to wait for a rat to vacate the spot where one was hidden... it was probably covered in rat pee. (Maybe disposable gloves for really urban ones?)

Thanks to all for your replies - I'm not going to attempt to understand the round/tilt differences, but "about 6ft" is good enough for me!

I am new to geocaching and have a garmin etrex h. Can anyone tell me how far on the ground the last of the digits on the reading would be - eg what would be the difference in feet or metres between N 51° 31.214 and N 51° 31.213? Many thanks