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I think its a neat idea, I think it is a cool way to re-use containers, (unless they were bought strictly for this event) and a neat way to bring the weirdos out of the woodwork for a weirdo convention I would love to attend in full alien costume, and a sign that read.... However, if its just a bunch of bought cache containers, with purchased swag for the sake of drawing attention to an otherwise desolate stretch of highway, I consider it littering, and the traffic it will cause will destroy the beauty of the serenity. ahhh who am i kidding, all those cachers will most certainly be performing cito along that route, and not just out for the numbers, and those geocoins made by the thousands, good for nothing other than a souvenir of a bizarre numbers run in the middle of nowhere, is definitely supporting some third world country someplace. and the business listed as being a good spot to break for lunch will surely get a large revenue boost from a game that is otherwise free of any and all advertising ever! one thing is for certain though, there will be a lot more people with finds counts over the four digit mark, in a very short span of time. sure hope my g3 network is out there somewhere, or i could be out of luck!

couldnt find a cache in a bush near a bunch of florida palm trees, the ones with the giant thorns on them, stood up giving up after quite some time looking, and a dead palm tree branch thorn decided it wanted to meet my skull for dinner. it hurt, and i didnt know what happened, and about fainted trying to walk back to the car, my friend who was with me, called me all sorts of fun names, you know the kind when you act like a "woman" about stuff like that, just pulled out the thorn out of my head today nearly a week later, it had been lodged in there since then. I thought it was a stubborn scab, i didnt know your head could bruise, talk about sore.... no wonder my forum posts have been lacking lately.

im in orlando, will be heading around florida soon looking, hiding some in orlando, going to try to make them mostly large, since there are too many micros. its really hot during the day, like sometimes unberable, feels like i have a water tap on my head minues after stepping outside. lots of water needed. but at least it doesnt snow! also although you can walk around in sandles 98% of the time in florida, they are not reccomended for trail hikes, since there are tons of venomous animals, insects, and poisionous and prickly plants about here

So then instead of using stealth because it only makes you look even more suspicious, especially on micro or nano caches placed without (what you find out later) permission, you should just walk up and look around without stealth. And if a muggle happens to see you, and "disturb" the cache after you leave because you wernt stealthy enough, its more so on the owner for placing a cache in such a way they geocachers had to look suspicious to retrieve it. I say its better to have a lame cache like this muggled than to have to deal with angry store or property owners, because you were looking super suspicious being "stealthy". I am NOT saying I will personally go around and muggle caches i think are lame, or are placed in such a way as to "initiate" the new geocachers with the interference of cops or store or property owners. If i find it i will sign the log, get the smiley, and put it back as i found it. but i am no longer going to worry about muggles seeing me, i figure if the cache owner wants me to act sneaky and or get caught at some cheesy lame location such as wally world looking for a stupid micro, i will not worry about it being muggled after i have found it, and replaced it. granted I understand there is a rush about being stealthy, and thinking everyone is looking at you while you look like a loony looking for a cache of this nature, but i also think it is silly to place a cache someplace where there is high muggle concentration, and think it will last very long. If it does, it does. If you get told off by the store owners, or property managers i think the cache should be archived until things are worked out. There is no sense in getting innocent geocachers in trouble because a hider thought it would be funny to put a cache someplace without asking where it would make people look suspicious looking for it.

came across an air horn one today when i grabbed it it was surprisingly heavy, i thought man this one must have some good stuff in it, turns out it was an air horn rig of some sort, an ammo can, not much room for anything else in that can except the noise maker, i liked it, thought it was classic, ide love to encounter more boobytraped caches, just i think they are a bad idea in urban settings, out in the woods sure anything is game, but near buildings and in city parks, very bad idea.

unless the hider placed a earth magnetic nano on the inside of a power box within eyesight of workers who are in the building most of the time, im going to avoid those type of hides from now on, no amount of being stealthy or confident can save you from people who think you are messing with their building power. or nanos right in front of the entrence of a 24 hour place of business. way to go hiders, its super easy to walk by with something the size of a pencil eraser thats highly magnetic, and let it stick onto anything metal you come close to, then find your coordinantes with your smartphone when you get home. Then listing your cache as "other" size wise with little to no description as to what or where it could be. just something snarky like "have fun avoiding muggles, be stealthy" like some n00b geocaching initiation process or some garbage like that. Thanks for that. Especially thanks for not getting permission to hide such a thing at such a store. You're doing us all a huge favor when someone who works there comes out and yells at us for snooping around their facility like an idiot with our head in their bushes, or our hands in their utility boxes, because thats where your bad coordinantes tell us it is supposed to be and there is no other feasible hiding spot except the unlocked, half open electrical box, im not bitter, honestly, i just hope it amuses you, and from now on i will no longer look for any hides you place, and i will make sure not only to tell all my caching friends your hides are no good, and give geocaching a bad rap with civilians, but ill log it on your cache pages as well. thats really all i can do, but i feel better already. true muggles as in customers, park goers, and people driving by, do not pay any attention to you looking like a foll shoulders deep in some bushes, they just think you are sick and tasting lunch twice or something, but muggles as in cops, and store workers / managers / property owners etc etc etc do care, especially if the cache you are looking for was not given permission by such people to be there. ESPECIALLY like i said above, if the said cache is such that just honestly looking innocently for it where its supposed to be makes you look suspicious.

hahaha oops, turns out the cito section has loads of topics about this subject, who knew?

while caching have you come across anything way out of place? it seems to me shrubs are fishing nets on land for some very random stuff. Stuff im not sure how in the world it ever got there. Found some interesting homeless peoples stashes, dirty clothes, and typical fast food rubbish, but the other day looking for a cache in front of a newspaper publication plant, i found a sweet awesome condition toy pirate ship, talking the size of three footballs together, so i used it as a ftf prize on my last cache, i loaded it with pearls, and left it guarding the treasure. what kind of random stuff have you found in the shrubs while caching?

hahaha thats the best line ever...

or just go to them with a skateboard rather than a car to save gas but still get the smiley, and take the elevator to the top and skateboard down looking for it,

well.... thats true, but there are only 12 pages of threads, so either this forum is very new, or people post too much on old threads, the problem with bumping some old threads is in some forums it alerts people who have requested email alerts when topics they are watching get posted in, it can be very annoying when a n00b posts in an old topic, plus most topics get way off topic after a few posts anyway, thats the nature of the beast of internet forums, so why not just start a new topic in the subject matter...

true, i used this site for a hot minute to place my first and second cache, and it was pretty darn close.... http://www.getlatlon.com/ but now i use a gps. unfortunately its still on my phone, so ill have to find some other method for those in the woods finds and hides

you could see it via google satellite maps, but unless you gave some sort of hint like its up on the building, not inside, it would be rather difficult.

there was a topic a while back about geocaching causing divorce, but im curious if geocaching has either found you a new significant other, or if by incorporating geocaching into your life and your spouses life, you two have bonded even more so, with an activity you can now both enjoy. has it brought you closer to your kids?

does anyone else have a cache in on or around a dumpster that encourages the cachers to dumpster dive?

got "busted" by wally worlds security today looking for a cache placed in what i thought was a bumper or something right in front of the door, herers the cache.... GC1W308 got busted the other day by a worker of the building looking for one of the hardest to find cache hiders in the area, his caches are really hard to find, if they even exist at all. heres that one... GC1W1V5

found a micro that was placed in a taxidermied box turtle shell, with a jelly turtle inside, it was super realistic looking in its hiding spot.

where on earth did this occur? does it happen a lot where you live?

just curious am i the only one who finds most catches from satellite mode on google maps and looking at the terrain on the map vs the terrain im physically standing on? it helps to find caches sometimes much quicker than a jumping around compass or radar

ah, there was just a topic i posted in a few days ago that my post apparently brought out a lot of the local people in my area to tell me about some local catches i was just curious if they were somehow notified or something that someone from their hometown was posting in the forums, btw, i guess now this topic should be in the geocatching.com website forum, but i dont know how to move it. sorry mods for being a pain.

I think i found this one today, at ucf near the psychology building, you sure you replaced it? nearly the same contents and everything. A badly leaking lighter, a beer bottle cap, a pants rivet style button, and a log that had turned into mud. there were several NM logs on the cache page, so i didnt bother making a new one, left a plastic horse, figured it would hold up a bit, and removed the lighter beer bottle cap, and button in exchange, cleaned out the mud in the container, and cleaned out some of the debris that was preventing the cache from being hidden as im sure it was supposed to be in its man made hole. got the smiley. wow.. you now have an agenda. what do you mean?

well this geocoin is attached to a doll, and there was another one in a cache today attached to a toy turtle, i suppose the travel slug is cheaper than a bug or something?

Scrolling what though? i know there are designated forums for each "district" of the world, but i was just curious if this forum is quietly dispersed by the mods of Groundspeak to each of those districts, or is it one big jumbled mess?

picked up a travel slug today, just curious what the difference is between this and a travel bug.

cause i cant find it, and it seems there are a lot of forum goers from my home town area. or is there a way to search for people by city and state?