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Also, Hukilaulau, what an impressive list of souvenirs you have!! I really enjoyed looking at your gallery as well. I hope to have some awesome experiences to add to mine after our 30+ hour trip!

Thank you! I didn't think about Mt. Charleston being cooler. That might actually be one for us to do with the kids as well as the ones in the city-limits, I'm definitely putting all of these caches in my offline list. Hukilaulau, I responded to your email. Thanks so much for your help! I've been eyeballin' a few but I noticed that none outside of city limits have been found since May, most certainly because of the harsh heat...but I'd kill to get some of these views! http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GC42EB http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCDF30 http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCGAV4

Thanks, and my apologies. I got a bit lost and wasn't sure if there were different location-specific threads.

I'll be visiting Vegas (road-tripping there from Ohio) in a couple weeks to visit my family. Both sides of my family live there, including my parents, whom I haven't seen in 15+ years. I will only be there for 12 days, and will be spending all of my time with family, however, we have planned to spend one day, kid-free, to be tourists and explore. I've been to Vegas many times, but my fiance hasn't left the East side of the U.S and has never seen a real mountain, the desert or anything like it at all. I've researched some caches hidden in nearby Mountains (we'll be staying on E. Tropicana Ave)and would LOVE to hike up to a few. They all look so amazing, but we'll only have time for a few at most, if they're close enough together. Any suggestions? Keep in mind that I'm a photographer as well and would find as much value in the scenery and surroundings as I would the cache itself. I don't really want to do Mt. Charleston because I've been there a few times and want something brand-new to discover. Plus...I hear there's a raging fire going on there now. =( I realize this is a long shot, but any help would be incredibly appreciated. ps, we do plan to visit Death Valley and some caches there as well, so you can exclude that from any suggestions. =)

I've always tried to leave something super awesome. Or something tiny, like a guitar pick or pin that could be useful and have value because of it's story. In the caches I've hidden and the caches I've traded with I've left funny things like Enrique Iglesias' biography and double cd lol. We tend to accumulate a lot of interesting, but generally useless junk, so I figure I could pass it along to someone else after the novelty wears off. Recently I hid a macabre themed geocache (called the necronomicache) and made the lid to look like that of the Necronomicon in the movie Evil Dead. I filled it with horror-themed items like prosthetic wounds, fake bones and skulls, a vial of fake blood, stickers, horror novels for kids and adults, a copy of the dvd Santa Claus vs. The Martians. I always leave better swag than what I take, and usually more, if only for the kids who find it. If I can't stop at the dollar tree or thrift store to find interesting things, I've always got left-overs from craft projects, junk that my children have accumulated etc. I am still a noob as well, but I don't think my desire to leave sweet swag will deteriorate over time.

I AM new...started a few months ago, but I don't have the time or ability to cache as often as I'd like to...which is kinda all the time. So far, I dislike the lack of creativity the locals have used...exactly how many caches will one hide in the hole of a tree in a cemetery? Also, people putting trash in the cache. (I thought it was cache in trash OUT har har). I bring my children with me and they absolutely LOVE it, and naturally, their favorite part is finding something interesting and finding something strange and awesome to leave behind...so far we've ran across a lot of trash...literally...one cache had a combo in it. A combo...you know, the pizza kind? 'Cept the filling had been sucked out of it. That same one also had a fortune cookie, and a crumpled up shopping list. :/ In others we found ticket stubs from the movie theater, more crumpled papers, food wrappers, dirty, muddy sticks or pieces of plastic that were obviously found nearby on the ground. Why not just sign the log and not leave anything? Leaving trash is rude and it sucks to see the disappointment on my childrens face when they want to leave something they've put a lot of thought into and there's only trash in return. I'm making it a point to only put neat or interesting things in caches, even if what I take out is a candy wrapper covered in ants, and am encouraging my local cachers to do the same.

haha...airhorns and pinecones haha... I think I'd def. submit to what ever the other party seems like they want to do, if it's not too late by the time I notice the other cacher, I'll play muggle and walk on and come back later, unless I'm in a particularly social mood.