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l2embrandt

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  1. i just wanted to chime in and say, for one, i'm sorry about the loss of your cache. but, even more so, i want to admire your handiwork! very inspiring to a rookie like myself. i also want to share my opinion that many wanderers who may not be well off, could very well happen upon a cache and take it along with them as one of the best finds. i know some of the cachesi've found thus far could be very amusing to either a nongeocacher or a straight-up homeless person (not trying to be offensive...) i suggest many people go to places way off the beaten trail- i've seen it, but i've also done it since i was a young teenager. i'm sure this incident was not malicious in nature. again, very well done cache! it is amazing the wonderful ideas and individuality i've seen in geocachers! top notch.
  2. another topic which must come around often, eh? swag and junk... good to know, and i trust there are many many people who better the caches as they hide or find them... we will do our part, but i suspect there will always be occassional disappointment in swag. best to keep ourselves interested in the hunt and the time we spend together with loved ones. there's just no way we can control how others do things, but a kind reminder (maybe a note) to others and consistent fair or up-trading.
  3. even as a new geocacher, i wouldn't find it incredulous if there were a requirement, but 100 is steep. that would probably take a year for us to accomplish, even as we spend 8-10 hours on the hunt. i can sense that it's a topic that will be around again and again. i encourage experienced cachers to avoid harping. we all have to start somewhere. for the most part, we enjoy the time we get to spend together, and i hope it doesn't come to just the numbers or entitlement... of course, we will continue enjoying geocaching in our own unique way, hoping to bring something new and interesting to our community
  4. WOW! this thread is veeeeery educational! dibs to all for creativity
  5. my geocaching partner and i are new to the game, but i have already sincerely vowed to leave something of interest or use. we got on a kick recently of buying cheap, but totally useful, snap-glow sticks and leaving one or two in standard size caches. we have found books, which was probably one of my favorite-almost-died-in-woods caches, though nothing else was truly interesting. i was going to post practically the same topic today, so i'm glad someone has beat me to it... good swag vs. bad swag? i suppose it would fall under a category of a personal token, useful, trackable, or genuinely interesting... in a way, i want to raise the bar (not by price) for good cache swag in my area. we are starting to do small pieces of artwork for a cache we want to hide, and the ideas just keep coming. sometimes the worn out crayon at the bottom of the ammo can is all you have to sign the log with... i can appreciate that. i enjoy the community aspect of geocaching as well, so we have left nice personal notes, lists of our favorite bands, and hope to expand to even more artistic/expressive/cultural tid-bits (staying away from ANY agendas or political topics, etc.) we are amateur hippies like that ... seeing geocaching as an opportunity to spread little kindesses.
  6. Pour the hot sauce on the wounded toy figurine to make its injuries more realistic, and let the battle to stop Evil Dr Porkchop continue! How about a transit day pass from three months ago? the transit pass can alternate as a stretcher for said wounded toy when the injuries get the best of it. a sheet of stickers, with out stickers.... only the shapes of where they were on the sticky sheet?
  7. still being a newbie, i prefer standard (gotta love the ammo cans) size and larger caches. we tried to find a micro once and dnf twice. for now, we stick with our skill set.
  8. eh thanks to the both of you! it's going to be a fantastic cache for south carolina! can't wait to get our first tb in the mail... seems better to follow our inspirations, and insanity alike (hard to tell the two apart...)
  9. ...1...2....3 check check mic.... 1...2...3
  10. had to jump in on this one... i'm new, have only found 12 (two night caches only hours ago), but we are excitedly getting ready to hide our first cache. we discussed amongst ourselves if we (schongauer, my partner) are ready... i think we are more than prepared to tactfully and responsibly hide a cache to the difficulty that we can match in finding them. we are both artists who find immense inspiration in geocaching, and it would be difficult for us to throw out ideas until 100 finds. thankfully, schongauer was a boyscout, with keen senses and the know how with coordinates, and we are already putting in our creativity for the cache we are yet to place... but i am worried we will be found unworthy of this privilege in the geocaching community. i understand where the point is made, but i'd suggest newcomers are guided to hide as they are able to find, at the same skill level. hiding can be as educational, i expect, for us rookies. i actually thought we might regulate our caches such as for every x number of caches found (say 15 or 20) we would find reward in the hiding of a cache. this has been our personal take on the matter, and i hope that can say something to our understanding of geocaching and the community of geocachers as a whole.
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