Jojogirl

1405 for me (Leiden, the Netherlands) and I would have never guessed that this number would be this high.

95 out of 234 are archived and I've been caching since early 2005.

Average distance: 372 km Over 55% of my finds is within 20 km from home, but finding caches while on holiday helped increasing the average, since I have also 20% of finds with a distance >500 km.

My map looks a bit different from most of the maps here. I live in the Netherlands and we have a lot of multis and mysteries around here.

Odd that this was approved and published by the local reviewer.

I decided to pass on the puzzles when I saw a few of them. Those caches are very common (and popular) here but the diversity in difficulty here is enormous, while all San Diego puzzle caches I've seen seem way to complex for me. Just trads and multi's then. As to the area, I will mostly be in the centre of the town. Since we probably won't rent a car I'm dependent on my own 2 feet and public transport. So I think the best spots for me are all the large parks (Balboa Park, Mission Bay, Tecolote Canyon and maybe Mission Trails) or am I really missing out on what San Diego has to offer then?

Thanks, those suggestions and the bookmark list really helped me out My days in San Diego will be very cache-heavy I think

Since I whill be joining my husband on a business trip to San Diego in June, I am looking for tips on which caches in San Diego are most wonderful. I did some research myself but wasn't able to find any helpful bookmark lists so far and the number of caches in San Diego is so huge that I am now lost in searching. Does anyone here have some great tips for me?

I would list it as small, because the extra space is there and this means it can hold travelbugs or small items, contrary to a real micro, which has space for a logroll only.

Yep, that happened to me too. It was a multi meant to be done by bike with 10 points/questions posted on the cache page. These led to a minicache with handouts of the rest of the cache (another 10 points/questions). Didn't find the minicache and E-mailed the owners. They mailed the handout to me so I have finished the end cache some time later.

Only 6 days since my only cache has been found for the last time. And the longest time between 2 founds has been 7 weeks. So I have no complaints so far

67 finds and only 1 hide for me. The area I live in is pretty cache-crowded allready, so most nice spots are taken. And I do not want to place lamppost micro's.

Sure, but the growth rate of hidden caches is definitely decreasing over here (sort of saturation, nudge, nudge). Detailed figures separated for caches found/placed: http://geocaching.rockus.org/caches_rates.html You can see the same thing in the Netherlands, the number of active cachers still increases, but the number of placed caches seems to stabilize. (http://www.geocaching.nl/temporary/imagefnp.png?1136484515) Our country is just not big enough

If i take a look at the cache map (http://www.geocaching.nl/maps/seek.php?props=?id=?action=overnl) for the Netherlands and Belgium I see more multi and mystery caches than regular ones. Guess we are the ones responsible for the yellowish haze right to the UK. I think that the reason for this is that there is not too much real wild nature left here, which means that we need to resort to long multi's or complicated puzzle caches to get to a high difficulty rating. A regular cache usually does not offer much of a challenge here.

I usually log a DNF when I am reasonably sure that I have been in the right spot and did not find the cache despite a really good search. I do not see it as a "Loser" sign but as a signal to the next cacher and the owner "watch out, tricky, there might be something wrong" The reason I do this is because a DNF gives a signal. If a cache has a lot of DNF's but is still there the difficulty rating maybe needs adjusting. It a cache has had only DNF's for a while, the owner might need to check whether the cache is still in its original place. And if I am the only one that got a DNF it s a signal for me to go back and try harder.

I would put them in already existing caches. As you said yourself, you are not sure you will get the caches approved and if they are too far to go back you won't be able to maintain them properly anyway.

A co-worker bought a GPS for hiking and saw the geocaching.com link in the manual. He started caching and every monday coffeebreaks were filled with heroic cache-stories. Within a few months two other co-workers and myself got a GPSr too and are now all hooked. I genuinely feel sorry for the rest of our co-workers somtimes, having to put up with all the geocaching talk

It is not normal. It could be a number of things: a replacement for a TB that went missing in action a TB by someone who thought the original ones are boring and used his original TB number on a home-made tag a TB-like tag from another tracking-item site I would try the number on the travelbug site to see whether is it a TB. If not, then check the cachepage of the cache you got this item from to see if it has the item on it. If that is not the case, the owner has been smart enough too make his own traveling items but dumb enought not to attach instructions.

Welcome to your new addiction I must say though, to hide caches it helps to have found a lot of caches. It makes your ideas better and helps to avoid obvious flaws in your own cache-design.

Working, playing softball, doing the softball club's finances or sleeping.

Welcome to your biggest addiction then

Medium, but thats not too hard since I live in Holland and we have no real wilderness here.

26, female, university level education, working in a laboratory hobbies: geocaching, softball, fitness, puzzles I have no clue as to whether I fit the "geocacher profile"