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This is the craziest! Alright, check it out, you walk up to what seems like a normal light pole, you see these all around right? Well get this, I found a cache UNDER the lamp skirt!! OMG I never expected it. It was only a 1 star difficulty tho! I kid

Wonder if it's the final of a mystery or multi cache

If it's a stupid easy hide, like an LPH, I'll log a DNF after not finding it right away. However if I go up to a 3+ star hide, I more than likely wont log a DNF until I've gone back 2-3+ times, and given a SERIOUS effort to my search.

Title says it all, I bough my first pair of TB tags around when I first started 2 months ago, it took me about a month to decide what to put them on, and now that I have My Travelbug I can't seem to let it go into the wild . I've been logging mileage with her lately, I originally intended on leaving it up in Santa Barbara, CA when I visited my parents, but once I was up there, I couldn't seem to put it in a cache. I guess my options are to suck it up and let it go, or buy another set of tags and throw them on something else, and just keep this one to log mileage. Anyone else have a similar problem/story?

I'm going to keep vouching for the Explorist GC. Load up your coords and go, it's designed for geocaching.

We have a CO like that down here, he has almost 700 caches placed (not a power trail).... The difficulty in maintaining all those has gotta be tough. There are several that legitimately go missing, previous finders are unable to find them, and he refuses to maintain or archive them. Yet a geocaching buddy of mine started going around and NM/NA geocaches of his that were 100% certain missing (previous finders going along and such) And all he got from the CO was an email saying sarcastic drivel like "What are you the geocache police or something?" and basically chewing him out for trying to clean up the area. This CO has a monopoly on some very nice geocaching real estate, like bike paths, local hills and such. And it would be nice to get people up to see these places, and be rewarded with caches that were actually there.

Maybe an idea for future implementation would be the addition of a user rating system for geocaches. After finding a cache, you go on to log the find and there's an option for a 1-5 star rating for fun/experience/quality of the cache. (not all 3 of those obviously). I know that this could potentially bring up a bias, with factors such as personal preference in what we consider "fun" but you guys could figure something out ;D If nothing else, at least have it viewable to the cache owner only, for feedback purposes. (Yes I know that's what the comments are for, but those aren't always the most informative.) No need to flame the idea if you feel it's not needed. It's just a suggestion, and it's on Groundspeak if they ever did decide to use it.

I had one of those "Oh Sh**" moments yesterday. I went and did a hike with 10 caches along the way, one of the caches was located 500 feet south of the trail, and it was very weedy, there was a small trail that I jogged down to get the cache, after finding it, I put the gps back in my camera bag, which goes over my shoulder, and I jogged back to the trail. Upon getting there I realized it had fallen out while I was running. My stomach got that "uggghhhh" feeling. I slowly back tracked my steps, which was very difficult because I didn't take the trail on the way back. Luckily I found it after about 5 minutes of searching on the 1 portion of trail I actually crossed over. *phewww*

Worst I've seen in my area, there is a spot sign in a parking lot, and you have to almost fully unscrew the bottom bolt in order to get a nano that is just above it. (the bolt is preventing you from being able to get the nano out). But that's debatable considering each time you replace the cache, you replace the bolt. I just felt bad doing it, if a LEO saw me doing it, I'd probably get asked a few questions. I've seen my share of property damaged due to cache retrieval tho, some people have no regard for property when they are determined to find a cache.

Depending on the type of hide, and location, you CAN get away with it by looking confident. If you're sitting around looking over your shoulders, that's one way to automatically draw suspicion. Or get your phone out and pretend like you're texting or something while glancing around. Most of the time tho the confidence can get the job done so long as you don't go longer then a few minutes. Just tell yourself that you're not doing anything wrong, and you wont project that demeanor.

Please specify the model, don't just put EVERY Magellan unit into the same category. I can guarantee you weren't using the GC, and if you were, and still getting blue in the face, then user error is at fault.

Hmm wouldn't know about Magellan's support as I've never had to use it. I have the Magellan GC, and it's flippin' amazing. The interface is built specifically for geocaching, and is fully integrated with the website here. In addition, it can hold 10,000 geocaches at once using multiple GPX files, instead of 1000-2000 that similar units use (granted they have the ability to load GPX files on the fly sometimes, but in reality I'd rather just load up everything within 30+ miles and not worry about ). There are people that will say it ONLY meant for geocaching and for the price it should do more, Umm I can't think of one thing I'd need a hiking GPS to do that this one doesn't. I can log my tracks, and map out routes if I so desire with ease. If I had ONE complaint about this unit, it would be the thumb joystick, it's short, and when your thumb gets sweaty, it's almost impossible to use the joystick to navigate around the screens. And that you can't update the basemap or load Topographic maps.(yet?) Here's a pretty good review showing comparison and screenshots http://www.maritime-geocaching.com/forums/...hp/archives/237

I'm finding too many caches too fast, I wouldn't be able to maintain a stock of signature items It would be pretty cool tho to be in a 'not-so-saturated' area and be able to develop one.

Both my parents are geocachers now, and my 2 aunts. From my bragging about geocaching lol.

One night we were searching for a (come to find out it wasn't there after all) cache in front of a gated community, the cache was supposed to be on the com box out front. Several people pulled up and asked if we needed help. The first one tho we all looked at eachother (4 of us) and my wife speaks up saying "We're looking for my wedding ring!" and we used that for anyone else that asked lol. They all said good luck and went on their way. After 30 minutes of searching tho we found nothing, the owner went out the next day and confirmed it was missing. When I'm by myself tho, if security types, or officials pull up and start looking at me specifically, I approach them and ask if they're watching me, then i explain what I was doing.

http://www.zazzle.com/geocachers_get_lots_...561887818802531 Geocachers get lots of tail...(insert picture of fox tail ridden socks)

Lol I think I'm the only person who mentioned I had one in my bag ;D

Cool, i wonder what you trade up or equivalent for Revolutionary War relics... I don't think that Burger King kids meal Team Edward wallet will suffice.

Ues the "Write note" option.

I enjoy seeing where they've traveled, and if possible helping them along with their goal.

Seeing as we only have 1 gps, and it's with me 100% of the time, we have 1 account If family members have their own gps's and break off to do their own caching during some days then it'd be best I would think it best to have their own accounts. But, if you guys have 1 gps, and caches don't get found unless that 1 person comes along, i'd just consolidate the logs into 1 account. I do find it annoying when 2-4 people go out in a group, and all of them log a DNF on a cache tho, especially when they were power (number) caching and don't spend much time on a cache. It's deceiving like the poster above said.

On long bike ride caching circuits I bring: -Lots and lots of water -Swag -Baggies -Replacement Logs (Small, micro, nano) -replacement cache (you never know) -Towel -Snacks -Lots of batteries -Cellphone which doubles as my camera -Pen -Sharpie marker -Printed out satellite map(s) of the area I'm doing with cache overlay -Geocoins/Travelbugs -An LED headlamp -Athletic tape, which doubles as ToTT creation tape, or "please stop bleeding" tape. -A glue/adhesive. -Big knife I'd like to add -Bug Spray -First Aid Kit -Machete It would also be nice to carry around some thick coveralls for spur of the moment forest/weed adventures.

I used to work for a utility company as a Meter Reader many years back. Walking 5-10 miles a day house to house. There wasn't a day that went by I didn't walk into a spider web in the 6 months I was there. One of the most uncomfortable feelings in the world for some reason.... Especially when they get behind my ears *cringe*

Today I went for a guard rail cache that was behind a Big Lots.... I didn't find the cache but I'm sure glad the CO brought me there, it was inspiring. All that broken down cardboard, and abandoned shopping carts

yeah i wasn't too thrilled, when I opened a cache and there was nothing but a bunch of star of David stickers... my daughter thought they were cool "Oooo starssss"... Whatever to each his own I suppose.