Chokecherry

In the summer when it gets hot and we go caching there's a lot of hydrating going on and shade/rest breaks where we make sure we're doing ok. Couple years ago I was doing some caches on a really hot/humid day which required some exertion and then some at the end which didn't. I recognized at the end when I was starting to not be able to process thoughts well that I was getting hyperthermic so change of clothes hydration and cool area is where I went. Learn and be mindful of hyperthermia symptoms. Otherwise I try to cache in the evenings.

I only find junky junk in easy to access high traffic caches.

As a fence owner I would be highly upset to discover something like that. You didn't pay for the cap or install it. It's not your fence. If it doesn't see the light of day that is still my fence cap and I would prefer people not messing with my property. I could see any land owner upset by people tampering with their property public or private.

Almost always planned. I use the map a lot on here and plan out which caches I want to do on the weekends. Once in a while I will just go with my friend but not that often because everything is spaced out so far here.

You are confusing a privately place fence with a public fence. You need permission either way, but when it has been granted, you should be able to place the cache in a way that is acceptible to the owner of the fence. If the owner of the fence cap says it is alright to glue something under the cap then you can't really call it defacement can you. When I was working with two local communities to get permission to hide caches on the community owned land I had to have extensive discussions with both of them about defacing public property. One went so far as to state that they didn't want caches on fences due to the risk of damage to them from people trying to find caches. They even brought up defacement of those fences to hide caches. Just because a fence is on public property does not mean it is ok to glue stuff in it when the guidelines clearly state defacing public or private property are subject to archival.

Did he own the fence caps that he modified? I would be pretty annoyed to find out someone glued garbage into my fence caps without asking me first and that more over it encouraged people to pull them on and off all the time. And where I am it's not encouraged to screw or nail stuff into trees and I know of a cache that was asked to be moved due to that.

For some reason I'm not sure ending up with THC as the initials of your geocaching name is an accident. I suspect there are probably a few sides to the story why this child is not able to go out alone. Since I am always a skeptic in these situations my only suggestion is show your parents that you can be trusted and actually do that radical thing called conversations with them that don't involve any sort of whining etc. I would bet if you worked on that relationship this geocaching thing will go smoother.

I moved one that wanted to have its picture taken with drinks. And another one that wanted its picture taken with wildflowers. I think about putting more picture taking goals with my travel bugs but find people seem to take pictures so rarely that it's not worth it to make it a goal. The wild flower and drink ones had hardly any pictures on them (I did add to their galleries).

Usually I only cache on the weekends. And typically I will go to an area with a few caches I want to find. Gas prices probably won't impact me much. I don't go on fancy vacations or anything so I save some recreational money there. I don't have a motor home or anything so I save some money there. My job is now closer to home so I'm not driving 60 miles a day to get to and from work and this job pays better too so I have more cushion in my budget for caching.

Did they ever figure out what the object everyone was trying to identify was?

I think there are some cultural differences as discussed in previous threads when it comes to trespassing. What goes on in my rural area can't be generalized to urban and certainly not to European countries.

Personally having had to deal with the trespassing issue both with having people trespass on land I owned and trespassing myself over the years I don't play around with the the minute details about proper signage and numbers etc when confronted with it. If someone comes out and tells I'm on their property I leave. If I cross a sign to get there I don't go "Well sir I see you don't have your full name and contact information so I can call and ask if I can have access to your property to do such and such." I go "I'm sorry" and leave. Since I've worked hard in my area to get permission a couple places to hide caches I don't want to be a bad steward of geocaching so if someone says I'm not where I should be I apologize and leave instead of getting into and endless little spat about rules and regs. It's a lot of small towns here. I don't want to leave people with their only thing to remember geocaching by being that obstinate girl with all the tattoos arguing about rules and regs.

Based on the thread Paticipation alone I could see how someone may put out such a cache.

I usually stand back for a second and look at where the GPS indicates the cache. I then usually give it a quick thought and then I walk right up to it and grab it. No fake phones. No shoe tying. No posing as someone I'm not. If it's not right there I look for it. No shifty looks side to side. Just act like I'm supposed to be right there doing what I'm doing. Reality is people are so absorbed in their own personal lives that they don't give a rip what you're doing because unless you are acting like you shouldn't be there they won't even notice you. Shoot sometimes I make eye contact and throw in a hello. Nothing drives away people faster than someone being social.

And I would love to know that too because as often as I find under rated caches I have found some rated higher that are perfectly suited for my mom to do too. She did a 2.5 terrain the other day which involved a trip down a hill which wasn't steep or rocky or anything and a very short trip (3 steps) through a swampy area. I could see it now being significantly more swampy after some rain but I also mention in my logs if I found the terrain suitable for my mom on higher rated caches.

I appreciate info from finders. Some folks here put a cache out and rate it 1.5 because they took an atv in the woods to hide it. Not the best info when I'm trying to find caches that are safe for my mobility impaired mom to do with me. I count on terrain ratings heavily for safety purposes and any time a finder puts in what they experienced terrain wise that doesn't jive with the rating I use that info.

I've used both and have had much better luck with a dedicated unit than the phone. Occasionally as a group we'll still pull the phone out and typically it's off in its own little world sucking the battery dry. Sometimes it's pointing in entirely the wrong direction here. I prefer to use a dedicated unit when I'm out in the woods or messing around by places with a lot of ore in them (the normal caching locations here) as the dedicated unit seems to handle those issues better in my neck of the woods. I also cache places that are not phone friendly and would rather use a tool that is more equipped to handle damage than the ever so fragile iphone.

How so? USPS boxes are private property of the USPS.

In my area, though I cached it out, I would much rather see a small number of good quality caches that bring somewhere worth seeing than 100's of arbitrary caches. I like the older caches as well because it's fun to see the new people finding them.

Here such caches are listed as other.

So what you really want is a public shaming of someone for what???? An NA log will fix the problem with those caches. There is absolutely no reason to sit there and publicly shame a cache owner because they do not live up to the standards you set.

While this is true, it also doesn't make sense to put a sprinkler head where there is no others. It sticks out and becomes an obvious hiding spot. Yup it does. But seems like a better option to me then setting up a situation where hundreds of dollars of sprinkler equipment will be wrecked and have to be replaced. There have been long past threads about this topic where it has happened. I would not put out a fake sprinkler head where real ones are unless I personally owned the property they were going on and was prepared myself to pay for replacement parts. I would never ever under any circumstance place these where I do not own the property and real sprinkler heads. Not to mention that the finders of said cache are getting set up for some property destruction citations if it's not your own property as well. I get the concept perfectly fine and why it's going to be difficult but I don't see encouraging property destruction to be a way to be a good steward of geocaching.

I think if the cache can't be maintained it's time to either adopt it out or shut it down.

I wouldn't put a fake sprinkler head around where real ones may be to prevent the real ones from getting destroyed in the search process.

One of my friends caches with a dog and she'll take pictures but make sure to not give away the final location of the cache in the process and won't give away the cache container if it's special. An ammo can or a lock and lock she'll take a picture of but away from the hiding spot if it happens. I'll take pictures of containers or ground zero but I usually keep them in my personal collection and don't post them to the cache pages.