dreamarcher

If you have multiple kids you should know the best way to avoid fights is to punish all of them equally regardless of who starts it. Works great.

Dakota 20 but I'm starting to think I should have got an iPhone. I see a couple minor advantages of having a dedicated GPS since I did some caching side-by-side with my buddy with his iPhone but overall I think the iPhone would probably be better.

I got a 10-10-10 souvenir and a torn calf muscle all at the same time. 4 weeks recovery. Go me!

What you did sounds fine to me, but I'm a noob too. Although I don't see much difference between an expert and noob in this activity.

Log book police? Besides the fact that if the cache sucks I'm not inclined to sign or log it, nano caches are a lot of trouble for me. I have a ll kinds of physical problems (going to the doc today at 2:30 in fact). Some make it difficult to roll up the paper that small. Nano caches where they're not necessary are annoying. If you're really sure somebody is faking logs because they're making logs all over the state on the same day or 100 in a day or the wrong coords or they failed to describe the area correctly then delete them, but to delete for the sole reason of not signing is a little anal. Just my $0.02

This is California, the land of the fence and lawsuit. No agency is going to grant you permission if you ask. It's just not going to happen. Just do it and don't bother making a story if you get caught. It's just going to be up to the cops' random personalities. You might as well say you're a squid looking for some red pepper.

I found 2 today. 1st was just thrown on the ground and the hidey hole not put back together. 2nd was not as bad but the hidey rocks were not placed back on top. The 2nd could have been a noob mistake but the 1st one was just someone being a prick.

A couple times I've been stuck with $5 bill that didn't look or feel real because of some damage. I guess something like it being in bleach or weak acid by accident. One had turned bright blue on one side only. Store and gas station refused to accept them so I took them to my bank. Turned out they were real and just damaged so they exchanged them for me.

Well if the point is to be long, and hard then don't worry about losing people that get bored fast. Add some puzzle that would require checking out a library book and looking on page X, paragraph, Y, word Z.

Dream of the Archer is a song of Heart's 1977 Little Queen album. I changed it from being a dream about an archer, if one is to take even that literally, to being a person, Dream Archer.

Thanks. Great info. It seems like the #1 consensus is to set people's expectations appropriately. I'll definitely do that, and try to make it interesting. Initially I'll probably do a 2-part that can be done by walking in a 1-2 hours. Definitely no more than 2 hours.

A multi area/part cache. Meaning when you get to the location there is some instruction or clue that leads you to a new location. I'd think only 2-3 parts limit or someone might get irritated. I've already done one myself but the 2nd part was in the same area. Got to the location, answered simple questions based on the area, this lead to decrypting the coords for the next location. In this case it was only about 100 feet away. I'm thinking of setting one up that might be a few miles away and take an hour or 2. If that works out then something more complex that might take all day. The intend is for a small challenge and adventure, but not something so difficult there is a chance to fail. Optional an interesting quest story as well. 1 part at each location. Do people like this kind of thing, or is it mostly get to a location, find the cahce in 5 minutes, move on to the next cache and see how many can be racked up in a day? Of course this would be indicated in the intitial description so anybody that wasn't interested could just skip it.

There are rules? I thought this was for fun and giggles.

There are rules? I usually kick them in the balls (girl-parts if applicable), grab the cache and run while yelling "I'M A SQUID!". Seriously, it just seems like any other human interaction with strangers. Social Skills 101 if you can't figure it out, or don't already know.

When you connect via USB there is one file associated with each cache, but the file name is not helpful to figure out which it is. I do it manually too. I haven't tried yet but there's some GPS software here. I'll be checking these when I get home tonight. GPS Software

Brilliant!

I've had mine only a week too so I can't tell you too much. I've loaded 1 map. There's a text file where you can have a custom start message. Almost completely useless. I made mine say, "THIS DEVICE WILL SELF DESTRUCT IN 5 SECONDS". Are there any specific questions you have?