Ash McCloud

I try to carry as many weapons as possible. I have three knifes. Boot Knife, Regular knife (In back Pocket),and my Survival knife. I also carry a BEar Grylls Parang Machete. It is a good blade to cut brush and kill snakes. I also carry two pistols. Beretta and a .25 the .25 is for back up. I also always bring a sawed off shotgun. You never know when you will have to kill a couple of wolves or a zombie. If i am going in the woods further than a mile I bring my Ar-15. It will see you through anything. Oh and I always wear my snake skin boots just in case.

Deleted comment due to message. ** I disagree with the poster Stroover** I would suggest the OP start hiding some caches if he does not like what others are doing.

Yes, I was joking in each of my post. But honestly I doubt one nail or a tack or a staple really hurt a tree.

You could also try a staple Gun. Get the long staples though. Also use a knife or hatchet to get rid of the bark before you put the nail in. That way it goes right into the heart of the tree.

Try spikes or long nails. Either of those are sure to keep the reflector for a long time. Hopefully longer than any CO who sets it up being in the game.

I like your idea of locking in the cache ratings at the time of logging in the cache. If I go out searching for a specific cache to fill a hole, and I find it, I would like it not to change after it hits my grid. I have no problem if the CO needs to change it afterwards for some reason that crops up after I have found it. Thanks for the idea, elmh I Agree with this statement. Wonderful Idea. Of course there are always problems which could arise because of that. One example would be what if certain cachers helped out other cachers by making d/t caches that a friend needs than switches them to the corret d/t after. That being said it would still be better to have the lock after you find and risk the people who would do the latter.

Given that at some point, everywhere was once not on a trail, the bigger problem is WHY do you feel the need to bushwhack, and HOW MUCH thought have you given the enterprise. In places where trails exist, but the destination is not sitting right along side one of those trails, one has to do a bit of planning ahead. Where NO trails exist, you really need to think about the situation. Doug 7rxc Why? Because people like going where others haven't. I usually follow the trails but sometimes it is fun to explore an area on the way there. Plus peeing away from the trail is nearly a 100% guarantee not to have someone walk up on you.

Talk to your reviewer. Because of the nature of one outside and one inside, I think they sometimes lest this slide. One reason is probably it brings more awareness for caching.

How do you do that. IT sounds like a neat macro.

Alabama's should be a football. I am a Bama fan, but in all truth. This state worships College football. Which is sad. Ash

Dresden, Germany <----- Home of the author of this thread Oh I know this started in Germany, but I know given time America will find the worst way to over act to something happening.

America<--- Home of the overreaction How many cachers have died in traffic accidents on the way to a cache? If it has happened even once, let us ask the question- What needs to change?

Can we create a challenge for reading this whole thread?

I too would love a free gift of Membership. Too bad I am not a attractive young lady in a tree.

I went for a FTF in January of last year. When it popped up it was late afternoon so I took off work to go grab it. MAde my way to groundzero excited about the prospect of being First. When I got neat the area I noticed best parking was in a cul de sac behind some industrial buildings. Well I went to park and there was a huge truck out there. I thought "dang someone is going to beat me to it if they havent already" I jumped out of the car grabbed my walking stick and took off for the 300 feet to GZ. I was making more noise than I probably have ever made. I was hoping to meet with the other cacher and maybe if we find it together get a joint FTF. When I got within about 50 feet I still have not seen the other cacher. Than I hear someone yelling. "Hey What are you doing" I started looking all over. Finally this guy steps out of nothing wearing complete camo. I think he is holding a rifle. So I became very glad for HUNTERS not shooting first. Of course I tried explaining to him what I was doing at the same time he was yelling at me about what was I doing there. He really did not want to listen to reason. So I decided arguing with a man with a loaded gun might not be best option. I went back to my truck as well as he and headed home. Decided than and there that I will go for FTF's but they will not be a priority. Oh and after telling owner what happened he kindly archived the cache.

I see you work in scouts. If you have some great ideas for hides one of the places you could look for is cemeteries in the area. While you don't want to hide directly in cemetery you can hide in woods or near it. We have a cacher in our area who has along with his scouts hidden over 100 caches in cemeteries around the county. THey are all done in a great way and I think his scouts do it as a project together. AS a cacher I love going for his caches because it always takes you to these grounds that are usually rarely visited and have some cool history at each one. Most of his caches are not difficult but they are always well thought out. FOr all of those saying you did not wait long enough. That is sort of a non point in this forum since this is not what you are asking. I would agree with those who said let them ride a little longer. If you still have a spot you want to move one than after the three months, slowly archive the caches one by one as you set a new cache up in the area. The thing I would like to tell you specifically is thanks for thinking out your caches and looking for ways to make them better and to be a better owner. Ash

If you're finding challenges to be lame that's only because those that created the challenges you have found, create lame challenges. There is nothing inherent about challenges that prevents someone from creating a challenge that is *not* lame. There are a lot of really lame geocaches as well but apparently they're tolerated as long as finding them will increase ones find count. IMHO, the biggest problem with challenges is that a lot of people think of them as a type of geocache and expect that the process for creating and completing them should be like hiding and finding a geocache. They're not geocaches, thus insisting on an expectation that they should *be* like geocaches is just asking for disappointment. No my friend you are incorrect. I think some of the challenges out there are very creative and very neat. I just think the process of challenges is lame. I enjoy every virtual I have seen. I like the fact I am required to send correct info to owner or have my log deleted. Earth caches are the same way I have to read material look at the evidence at location and answer questions to prove I was there as well as that I understood what I saw. I could go complete every challenge in the world right now and nothing could happen unless the runners of the site were willing to delete all of those on my account. Which since they don't matter and don't count on stats, it would seem to be a pointless fight. Especially since I have found virtuals from our state which have been archived but had members from a certain European country logging them as finds. Those peoples counts were not deleted. For what you are stating those to me should be virtuals with Owners who have been there and appreciate the beauty or history or even earth geography of these locations. So when people say I was there and are able to say what they saw to the owner, both parties will understand the importance of that Virtual being there. Plus a virtual will get way more people going to a location than a challenge will. (Before I get attacked on this point, It is an opinion not a fact)

Of the cachers who have posted on this thread. Four have completed challenges. Cx1, sexyboo, Clan meister, and myself. Only Clan has more than ten (24) and The other three of us have 5, 3, and 1. So I would propose people not doing challenges as an example of people thinking they are lame. I myself have five and think they are terribly lame.

Of course if you do this, most people will not even look at it since a majority of people think challenges are lame. I happen to be in the group that feels Geocache Challenges are lame, but I would certainly be interested in knowing where you derived the FACT that the MAJORITY agree. I figured that someone would catch that. I will say I have no stats that back that up. But Most of the cachers I have talked to think they are lame. I also say if they are so popular how come so many cachers don't have more than a couple of challenges logged. THey have been out awhile now and when I click on a cacher it usually shows no more than 4 challenges being logged.

Of course if you do this, most people will not even look at it since a majority of people think challenges are lame.

I got mine from two movies. Ash is from Evil Dead series. I like the hero (BRUCE CAMPBELL) and I like how he is a little goofy yet gets the job done McCloud is from Highlander. Although he spells it Macleod I love the first movie. "In the end there can be only one"

2012 1. Get to 4000 caches 2. Get to 100 Mystery caches 3. Get to 35 earth caches 4. Find one webcam 5. Complete D/T Grid Need 11 6. Plant 20 caches

It seems some people are worried about getting shocked or someone in their family getting shocked. I too am worried. There is a problem though. First I loved the electrical box caches but I am now afraid to touch them. I started thinking about it. So I came up with a solution. What does the world have way to much of? Answer "KITTENS". People don't get their cats neutered or spayed and we end up with way to many kittens. So kittens are naturally curious and since they are numerous also quite disposable. So Caged Kittens work 9 out of 10 times. All you need is go collect some kittens. I suggest the crazy woman in town who has over 100 or go to the rednecks who don't have the money for neutering but have enough money for food for that many cats. What to do. 1st Take out some catnip or cat treat throw them on the boxes. 2nd Take kitten out of crate and throw over near the electrical stuff 3rd wait 3 minutes minimum to see what happens 4th nothing happens put kitten back in box and find cache Here is a pic of my crate I carry with me.

Here are six helpful hints 1. container the best container is a Altoids can. Everyone loves to open an altoids can. 2. three letters -LPC- (Lamp post caches) never go wrong 3. Location - nothing is more fun than a huge parking lot with tons of muggles to avoid 4. Thorn bushes were put here by God for the cacher to help each of us truly enjoy the great game. 5. If you have to put one in the forest make sure it is no bigger than a bison tube. Than rate the difficulty no higher than 2. 6. If you are near a Kato's make sure you put a cache in front and call it OJ's Bud. No one gets tired of that line.

I agree delete the log. We have a cache in our area called toybox. It is filled with toys. The log is inside one of the toys. it took me and my wife 15 mins of looking before we finally found the log. For sure they don't deserve FTF.