CamoCachers

and to add a lil thought to that, part of the reason may be the large concentration of very high number finders in our area. i know more 1000+ finders than sub 1000 finders by a very large margin. perhaps theyre all just burnt out on trading...... but thats part of the reason we try to make our caches extra nice. we figure with all those finds, theyve seen plenty of trashy caches and will enjoy a nice cache. and all our finds are hidden by those same high number finders, we see the stuff as sort of "thank you gifts". not only for taking the time to find our cache, but for the caches they have placed themselves. theres no way i could get upset even if one of them took something and left nothing. theyve provided us with plenty of fun times, and upcoming good times. that item that costs a few bucks is the least i can do! and hugh jazz, great job on the parody. it flowed with the original perfectly. stuck in my head now

thats pretty much our take on it. we dont care if theyre trading up. just leave us something in return (a sig item, broken mctoy, something!) and take something that we left. we dont buy anything majorly nice, but its all useful stuff that any cacher could use. flashlights, first aid kits, water bottles, etc. and we fill our caches with them kind of as gifts to those who come out and find our caches. were not worried about getting anything special in return. just a lil token of appreciation for the cache. im not worried about it. it just means we have to restock the caches less frequently. but the stuff we put in it isnt doing any good laying out in a cache. just wondering if others shared our feelings. and no matter how much you like the hunt, coming home with a lil something extra always makes it that much better!

is this possible? have you ever happened on a cache where the items were all too nice to trade for your own trade items? the reason i ask is ... it seems the caches weve put out, for the most part, have very little trading going on. we try to put fairly nice items in our caches. id say 90% of it is brand new and cost $1 or more. i believe that most people arent trading because they simply didnt bring anything along that would be trading up. we dont wanna lower the quality of the swag, but we want people to take something away with them. we always enjoy getting something useful out of a cache, figure others would too. but no one is trading?

Are you saying you know how to fix the problem?? because all i've heard is that the search is busted Read more here. i just thought they disabled the feature for non "premium members" from prevous statements. i was trying to do a search earlier and when it said i didnt have permission, i came in this forum and saw others was having the same problem. i thought it had been disabled. i didnt know that it was actually broken! as far as me knowing how to fix it. no, sorry. all my forum experience is with vbulletin, and even there its only with the running of the forums and such. no experience with the coding

i was one of the above cache loggers and i have to wonder why it matters to you that it was logged as it was. ive seen many caches that were logged the same way and no one made any comments on it. deermark hid the cache and we were with him. would it be any more fair if we went at a later date and found it and signed the log when we know where it was? or should we all never have anything else to do with the cache at all because we were along for the hide that day? we had no hand in hiding it, we were simply with the hider when he hid it. and none of us logged it as FTF, we simply logged it. and we logged it on the day we signed the log. would it make you happier if we changed our dates to coincide with the publishing? would it be more honest that way? it seems some people should mind their own business more. the way the cache was logged has nothing to do with anyone but the hiders and the finders.

im on many much larger national forums than this, im a moderator on a few and an admin on one, and they all allow searches without membership. i think the better idea wouldve been to make a time limit for between searches. say only 1 search allowed every 30 seconds or every minute.

i got them from the army surplus store in brownstown. from indy youd wanna take 65s and take the seymour exit, then follow 50w and its right there on 50 across from jay c in brownstown. id guess itd be about an hour drive coming from indy. thats what it was for me, im right across the ohio river from louisville.

im planning on using small ammo cans for FTF prizes. as far as trading even, it would be mentioned on the cache page its not expected. these items would be available for the taking without trading. the plan is for a 4.5 star terrain rating for at least one of them. youll have to work to get to them. the swag will be an extra something for the find besides the smiley face. gloves and socks are good ideas. a few ice scrapers and back scratchers would be good for the tall can. and umbrellas, too. great ideas guys. keepem coming!

ah, my mistake. Carry on then. You talking this size? yea i got two that sized, and one even bigger also one of the tall ones, its 3ft tall.

unfortunately, garage sale season is over in indiana, theres snow on the ground books are a good idea, ill keep an eye out for some outdoors related ones. hadnt thought about that one before. i shouldve, ive found a few in caches before! i dont wanna use stuffed animals and kiddie stuff in these caches. theyll all be way out of the way for youngins to find. we used them in our 5 gallon bucket cache at a city park and its chocked full and we spent very little. theyre great items to use in sme circumstances. but these will be more adult oriented though.

water bottles, not bottles of water

i treated myself to a christmas present earlier of a few very large ammo cans. i went to pick up a few small ones, and went crazy like a kid in a candy store when i saw the large cans they had. i walked out with $75 in ammo cans so now im dreaming up ideas on how to properly use cans of this size. one thing i cant figure out, is what am i going to fill them up with? so i need suggestions. id like to keep the items fairly cheap ($2 or less), but useful. and ideally they would be of a decent size, so i dont have to buy $50 worth of stuff to fill one. id like to stock them with decent items that an adult would like to find. i plan on placing them a good ways out, so theyll be work to find them. i dont like to disappoint. they should get something for the effort! weve been stocking up on some items lately, so i have a good selection of regular sized flashlights, also some 16oz water bottles, small first aide kits, camoflauge bottle coozies, and some LED light key chains. and well be using small ammo cans for FTF prizes for them what are some other ideas?

no real area, were open to anywhere. just want it to be south of indiana so its a lil warmer, and within a 6 hour or so drive of louisville, ky. which leaves us with pretty much all kentucky and tennessee. and pets need to be allowed on the trails, well be bringing our dog along. if i had to pick an area, id say more to the west of the states, towards the mississippi river. the trip will be totally focused around a day or two full of hiking/caching. so a park with plenty of good caches is enough of a destination for us. nothing else needs to be in the area. in fact itd be better if it was an out of the way place. i didnt mention it in the title but wed also be very interested in state forests. seems they get used less than state parks, and our goal is to kind of get away from people.

me and my gf are planning an impromptu vacation of sorts for this weekend. she found out she has the weekend off for the first time in about 6 months, so we wanna do something. she mentioned going caching somewhere, score! i wanna find a state park/forest in ky or tn to cache in. wed prefer a fairly cache populated area, where we can do a fair amount of regular sized caches in a day or two. we hate having to drive around not nowing where we are searching for an obscure cache. our weekend would be a lot more fun if we could do a days worth of caches within the boundaries of one park. any reccomendations are appreciated. if you could, include a zip code or coords so i could get a local map and directions and such. thanks

i did this one yesterday with a group 8 other cachers. definately my favorite find so far. although it was a lil rough to get there, i was expecting it to be much worse with the 5 rating. i honestly wish it wouldve been harder, i was geared up for a lot more than we were handed. it was also my first time meeting any local cachers. i met a lot nice people yesterday, although i did feel kinda young hanging out with them. and i think i made some of them feel old when i said i was born the year one of them graduated i bet you can guess which one i am in deermarks group picture of us all at the vault it was a great day and i cant wait to do it again.

thats how it works for me and my girlfriend. i started caching, and after i did a few, she started coming along. we had seperate names, and each logged caches seperately online and in the cache logs. my girlfriend doesnt spend near the time on line i do. and she didnt enjoy logging the caches online. everything she couldve said in a log, i had already said in mine. seeing her finds rack up as a number did nothing for her. she does it just to get out and do something with me. she slowly got very backed up on logging her finds. and finally decided she wasnt going to log them online she was so backed up. i decided to change my caching account to a name we would both go by. she does 99% of the caches i do anyways. i can only think of 6 that i have done when she wasnt along. its easier for everyone. we sign one name, i make the log, and its less bandwidth we take up on the site.

wed like to add a custom background to our cache pages. just have a few questions about it. first, what is the size the background pattern needs to be? does it need to be the size of the page? or will in automaticly be resized to fit? secondly, does it need to be hosted online? do i just put the addy of the hosted pattern in the designated location on the "update listing" page? TIA

we went caching yesterday. most of them we did we had tried for before and lots were in high muggle areas. we figured wed go out when nobody else was out. and it worked, we saw very few people near cache sites yesterday for the most part. and we got 23 finds! a new record for ourselves. and after a day of caching, we came home to our thanksgiving dinner. all in all an awesome day.

we recently visited a cache that was listed as having a geocoin. upon finding the cache, we found the geocoin was gone. someone wrote in the cache logbook that they took it, and the entry in the logbook made it sound as if they thought it was a trade item. but they didnt log their find of the cache on line. its been 2 months since they signed they took the coin. im guessing it was someone who doesnt log their finds online and honestly thought it was just a cool trading item. if your coin was in this circumstance. would you like to receive a note about it on the coin page?

i was just curious how people feel about this. recently ive come across quite a few caches that had a tb listed as being in it, but upon finding, the tb is missing. in the situations ive had this happen. ill check the logs in the cache and at home. if no one has mentioned taking it in either, and its been a while since the last find. ill mention on the tb page in a note that its no longer in that cache. and also leave a note on the cache page so others dont expect to get it. would most people appreciate this info about their bugs?

our plan was to try for the inside of a large hollow tree. or a huge mess of downed trees. definately not gonna bury it

were about to place a cache to celebrate our 200th find. we wanna do something different. we have lots of 5 gallon buckets and we think it would be awesome to hide a cache that big. weve placed a few so far but use ammo cans/decon containers. using a new container, we have 2 concerns first is the watertightness of the containers. the ones we have used to have laundry detergent in them. the lids seem to make a very tight seal. theyre fairly hard to pry off with bear hands. does anyone have actual experience with these? do they leak? second, and the bigger concern. especially with the post thats going on elsewhere in this forum discussing discarded meth lab materials. which mentions buckets and coolers as main things to look out for. as long as we have the container clearly marked as a geocache, does anyone see a problem with using a 5 gallon bucket?

awesome, thanks for the help. i never noticed that

i picked up a travelbug a couple weeks ago whos goal was to move up the knobstone trail (a 50 some odd mile trail that runs through southern indiana) the travel bug was not in a KT cache, but one about 3 miles from the trailhead. yesterday i made a 5 mile hike from the trailhead to place the bug in the furthest cache along the trail, up to the next access point. my original plan was to log it into and out of the KT trailhead cache, before i log it into the cache i left it at. that way the bug picks up the mileage i actually took it, instead of straightline between its original cache and its current cache. which would be a couple miles less. problem is, i didnt write down the tracking number for the bug. so i could drop it in the trailhead cache, but i cant retrieve it to log that its in its current cache. or i could just drop it in its current cache, but it would log less mileage that i actually took it. can i use the reference number to log a tb out of a cache? or am i stuck logging it into the cache i dropped it into only and cheating the bug out of a few miles?

i found my hiking stick while doing a cache back in april. im not sure what kind of wood it is. its soft, i can leave a fingernail mark in it and its very strong, but beyond that i dunno. it was naturally cured in nature. i left it in the garage a few weeks and trimmed the bark off with a utility knife, it wasnt coming off any other way. well, when i was done, i really liked the texture it left on the stick, so i didnt sand it. i also decided to try my hand at carving. and what better than a wood spirit? i dont think it looks too bad for a beginner. anyways, its sat in the garage since. and its about time im gonna get out and do some hiking and want to take it along. is it ok to leave it just bare as i have it? i really dont want a shiny finish, i like it looking very natural. and does anyone know what kid of wood this is?