BillsBayou

Allow me to be the first one in the thread to say "At least they didn't blow it up." -Thank you

Sock Puppet 1: Sock Puppet 2: Who watches the watchers? Does it really take a puppet to catch a puppet? The responses to this thread only give me more questions than before. Maybe they just all need to pull that fist out.

Unfortunately, different areas may be treated differently. I'd stay away from heavy brush areas in the take-off/landing paths of runways for a half mile (at least). If there is a commercial complex or two between the cache site and the airport, you're less likely to run into John Law. I guess a "Line of sight" rule would guide you. If you can see the airport buildings directly from your cache site, it's too close. Then again, the "Men With Guns" rule works as well. If "Men With Guns" show up, you're too close.

Ok, take a look at this guy: Captain Clorox Which one of our "Bored" Mods is behind this Masked Mennace for Puppet Perpetrators?

I like the keyhider in the stairwell. That idea has legs. The dimensions of the stairwell would be well within the positional error of most GPSr's. You could get the coords from the roof. Just make the altitude a mystery. I like it! Ok, my idea that I wish someone here would Markwell: "Blue Moon Cache" It's a cache with a camera inside. To claim the cache, your cache buddy must take a picture of you mooning the camera.

Make it a multi. Stage One is a 50lb rock with a key chained to it. Stage Two is one rock climb away, but it needs the key.

Some hardware stores will have an o-ring cabinet. You may get away with buying only the one that fits.

Yeah, until someone calls the bomb squad to blow it up. "...repeated visits to the area by suspicious looking people with GPS receivers..."

Leave it in your pants pocket and run it through the wash (not dryer ). Try teflon, o-ring, nothing; see what happens.

Do you mean Teflon tape? That'll get ruined with the first person to open the container. If it isn't waterproof, maybe a little o-ring? Or put it in a dry location. What is it, by the way? What's it cost?

I have a Palm Lifedrive. I got one of those overly expensive aluminum cases for it. It's holding up nicely. I have to agree with Webscouter. I carry enough equipment into the field. Palm, phone, GPS, camera... The only thing I've ever lost while Geocaching was my phone. It wasn't like I could call my wife and have her call the phone so I could hear it. However, I did have the GPS on the entire time, so I backtracked my trails and found the phone! I carry my PDA with me everywhere. That's why I always know where it is. I think a second PDA would only get lost in all my clutter. As for synchronizing two Palms on one PC, my wife and I do that quite easily. We have different user names and the synchros never seem to step on each other.

How about "Logging your own cache would be like Logging your sister after the prom."

I think we should adopt the phrase "going caching" for couplings. My wife and I were going caching the whole night long. I caught my teenaged daughter and her boyfriend caching in the back seat of his van. Well, you know how it goes. We left the Prom early to go caching and now her Dad says he'll shoot me if I don't marry her. ( I just thought I should get this post up since wimseyguy's post is guaranteed to get this thread closed )

Step it up a bit. Make this stage one of a multi.

I THINK THAT'S THE VERY ESSENCE OF HER COMPLAINT. "Honey? What's that humming noise?" "A Bison Tube." "Bison Tubes hum?" "This one does. I decided to 'go caching' without you.

Get a bison tube. Hide it. Bacon and eggs for the FTF.

Maybe the cost of a new GPSr could be deducted as a "Medical Expense". All we need now is someone with a medical degree to sell us one....

Wear something suspicious and stand in your selected location for an hour at 8am, noon, and 5pm, on a work day, the whole while staring at your GPS muttering to yourself. If you're harassed or arrested, you'll have your answer. If you already think you'd be harrassed or arrested, it's too close. If you say to yourself "I DARE them to arrest me. I'll sue them for civil rights violations if they do." You're too close. If we see you on the local news with a SWAT team bearing down on you, let us know in advance so we can TIVO the event and post it here.

Until I killed it, my Palm IIIxi was a great PDA for paperless Geocaching. Mobipocket worked great on it. Before going out into the field, be sure to check out the caches on-line. Sometimes there's more there than is listed on your PDA. (lesson learned and re-learned the hard way)

You've nailed their acccent!

I'm working on my next puzzle cache. It's ambitious. So much so that I've lost track of what it's costing me to set it up. Concrete: $5 3/4" plywood: $15 Hardware: $8 Set of Technical Drawing Pens: $80 Ammo Can: $4 Router Attachment for my Dremel: $20 Router bits: $18 Flourescent Pink Spray Paint $5 Sculpey Modeling Clay: $10 Translucent Sculpey: $4 Embossing Powder: $3 And now I'm thinking about getting a real router for about $120 I cannot put a price on the 100+ hours I've spent carving, drawing, scouting. (edit to add some forgotten items) Concrete tint: $5 Rebar: $4 This is getting out of hand. Granted I'm going to have some nice tools and drawing pens when I'm done, but I wouldn't have spent all this if it wasn't for this damnable cache idea.

Everytime I'm in the Army Surplus store I see those and think to myself "No. No. No. No. No." May as well make a bundle of flares and tape them to the top of an ammo box and place them on the supports of some river spanning train bridge. Be sure to write upon the box "This is a Geocache. Contact Jeremy at geocaching.com for more information." Trust me, the authorities won't bother it. Its all innocent fun. We'll make it a 5/5 hydro cache. Just before I do my Prison Cache I mentioned earlier.

I don't see The Principality of Sealand on either list. Poor poor Sealand. Someone needs to hide a cache there.

As a fan and creator of puzzle caches, I say go for it. One series of puzzle caches had a validation engine written in Macromedia Flash. I downloaded the validation engine, decompiled it, found the coordinates. I didn't go to the site because it's 1800 miles away. I contacted the owner to let her know that I could solve her puzzles by hacking the validation engine. She seemed okay with it. She said that if that's the way I wanted to solve her puzzles, more power to me. I have to agree. Everything associated with the puzzle becomes part of the puzzle. Don't feel constrained by the puzzle itself.

Best I could do with my Earthcache page: By Your Bayou Earthcache (GCPW9W)