SlayerOfBunnies

That toilet paper tube will be perfect for my jumbo blow-dart to neutralize a passing muggle. Thanks a million! In it's place, I'll gladly leave a busted arrow nock.

Perfect! I'll affix that to the end of a stick (perhaps with some ABC gum) and it will make a combination back scratcher / hollow tree probe. Thanks! To trade up, I'll leave a formerly adhesive googly eye with all the sticky stuff worn off.

One could use the expired coupon for an out of town fast food joint for interesting oragami paper. How about a used toothbrush?

Nice zombie thread! In that vein, here are a couple of zombie killin' backpacking blades (if the OP even still cares)... ... but for general outdoor stuff, I can't see beating a Ka-Bar Becker BK-2...

If I search and do not find, I post a DNF. I like things that are simple like that.

I love the expression on her face as she appears to figure out the container. Outstanding!

I guess the luckiest moment in my currently short GC career was the enjoyment I got at a great location the other day. The cache was easy to find and there were swarms of gnats along the way but the weather was absolutely beautiful and the path led me to a point of land jutting way out into a beautiful lake. Sat there for a while (45 minutes or so) watching the boats, reading my Bible, and enjoying the heck out of the evening. It was really very peaceful and nice. One of the coolest things to me about this one is that I hunt in this area all the time. My son and I know it very well and have spent countless happy hours there but as this particular portion of the park is no-hunting it is extremely unlikely that I would ever have visited this spot had it not been for a cache hidden there. Exploring is tons of fun but I typically need a reason to explore an area - geocaching gives me good reasons.

I think you should get extra points for the skill involved with signing a micro sized log with lip gloss.

+1 on that. Also, bagels with PB & J (or honey or whatever) could work. Also, summer sausage - toasted with a stick - yummy! Out of curiosity why does 'cooking over a fire' preclude heating water? Seems like a canteen cup of some sort or a tin can (or fire heated rocks in your water containers, etc.) would make heating water over (or next to) a fire trivial.

Cool thread - thanks for resuscitating it! I've always been a map guy as well. Think the first time I read The Hobbit, I spent nearly as much time fantasizing about that map in the front of the book as I did reading the thing. My cube walls feature some business stuff, one interesting poster and a map of the GSMNP.

Step 8 seems to mention sharing photos which implies first taking photos. Lots of angst in this thread.

I'd be interested to hear that too. Dunno about caching but I used to work for a local power company and met a guy (professional linesman) that had been spectacularly electrocuted. Yikes - made a believer out of me.

Wow... That just screams "Oh! Oh! Over here, Bomb Squad! Pick me! Pick Me!!" How does someone not see that as a problem??????? IMO that's no better/worse than some of the ones in the 'clever containers' thread that look like potential electrical outlets that stick to what appears to be power poles. No offense to anyone but the last thing I want to see some juvenile geocacher doing is probing around an actual dangerous pole on the off chance that some devious cacher might have hidden something there. A cache that looks like a pipe bomb is in an entirely different category than one that resembles an electrical outlet. One may get an electrician needlessly called out, the other, the bomb squad. But aside from that, after you've been caching for a bit longer, come back and let us know just how many "juvenile cachers" you run into that cache without adults. I'd venture to guess it will be few, if any. Lol - no need to be condescending. I admire the creativity - I would never, ever find some of the containers on that other thread - but believe it's reckless to encourage people to poke around other peoples' electrical equipment. I'm sure you're right about the unaccompanied juvenile cachers - that's probably a great point, but then again most of us older (if not juvenile, senile?) cachers would do well to avoid messing with some of this stuff as well.

Prolly the same guy that hid this one... somegeek Yikes. Creative - yes. Clever - yes. Wildly inappropriate and foolishly dangerous - yes.

Wow... That just screams "Oh! Oh! Over here, Bomb Squad! Pick me! Pick Me!!" How does someone not see that as a problem??????? IMO that's no better/worse than some of the ones in the 'clever containers' thread that look like potential electrical outlets that stick to what appears to be power poles. No offense to anyone but the last thing I want to see some juvenile geocacher doing is probing around an actual dangerous pole on the off chance that some devious cacher might have hidden something there.

Not particularly weird but then I've only been doing this for a short while. Anyway from a DNF I logged today: Searched for this one for quite some time. Poked the tip of my walking stick into one of the more likely looking (to me, anyway) hiding spots and had a chipmunk shoot out the other end. I think he was swearing at me but he was moving too fast for me to be sure. Will try again with some different maps.

Logged three more DNFs today. One was *just* taken down for maintenance I think. One was in a spot where I *think* I was going to have to stand in possibly sewage tainted water (so said the warning signs) to find it - no thanks. The other was a micro in a high muggle zone. Such is life. I still feel like a man. p.s. Found three others though.

Lol - nice one.

I'm using this maple sapling that I found and trimmed up with my Becker BK-2 (don't leave home without it)...

Found a neat little SwissTool thing that goes on my keychain.

I try to log all DNFs (and boy, am I starting to collect those!). I'm hunting without a GPS so some DNFs are to be expected.

Another noob with advice here... For caches in the woods, bring or find a stick. I nice walking stick is wonderful but any stick will do particularly if you (like me) would just as soon NOT break those spider webs with your face. Also, hollow trees may make wonderful places to hide a cache. They also make wonderful places to hide big spiders, raccoons, possums, and so on. Best put a stick in there first before your tasty arm.

Why remove those? They aren't dangerous (any more than anything else that be swallowed by a little kid, I guess) and lots of kids (and some adults I can name) think they are kind of cool. That's particularly true if the casing is in some unusual caliber.

I'm an admitted noob but so far I carry mostly the same stuff I'd take on any short hike: Knives (Becker / Swiss Army) Hiking stick Hat Pace counting beads Compass (I have no GPS) Maps / satellite photos and for Geocaching specifically: Pen Flashlight Stuff to trade