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Thanks! Dry Falls is a really neat place. I've been there twice. There are several nice waterfalls in western North Carolina. Right down the road from Dry Falls is Bridal Veil Falls, which is a lot like Hanging Rock. Both are right besides the highway, and you can drive behind both of them. Bridal Veil Falls YES ! That area is awesome. Down the street from both those falls is cullasaja falls(mispelled) which is HUGE. There are literally hundereds of waterfalls around that area. I have seen people rappel down the middle of Glen falls, which is nearby. My first find was at a cache called Devils Courthouse which is close by and is breathtaking. I noticed that someone placed a cache on the trail to that by a tiny waterfall now. DANG ! WHY am I in New Jersey now?

Its only weird finding human "remains" without any toiletpaper near it!

As I said in another thread, this looks like the year people decide to just do whatever they want to. He is printing and adding the Travel Bug page THAT THE OWNERS CREATED. Why does he need permission from them? Dont you think the owners would want this?How is this changing the bug?

I had recently made mention that a cacher that created a travel bug hotel a few miles up the road from our travel bug hotel and though he had previously found our cache, he returned and removed all of the travel bugs without trade and then relocated all of the travel bugs to his own travel bug hotel up the street. The tenor in that thread seemed to be that taking travel bugs without trade (of any kind) is perfectly acceptable. There were cachers bragging about taking three or four travel bugs without trade and leaving an empty cache container in the woods for the next finder. The tenor in this thread, less than a week later, seems to suggest that it is tacky by a landslide. Thats because forum users are preprogrammed to disagree with whoever starts a thread.

A sharpie? You have to be kidding. I found a cache the other day with one and it was a mess. An ordinary pen works well with Rite in the Rain paper(or a pencil). I found a cache with Rite in the Rain paper that had been there 3 years with more than a hundred logs and the logbook was in great shape. A cacher I know who just recently passed 1000 finds had signed it as his 40th find - and it looked like it had been written yesterday.

I was at this cache: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...fa-ef1f874df905 Bambi's Bramble in Bordentown, and I found out what "Bambi" was. I was staring at the GPS and almost walked into a deerskin(with the head still attached) wrapped around a pole It had been there since the cache was placed,(about a year and a half) but there was still bugs crawling out of the eyeholes. I had no idea it was there, until I was staring at it about 18 inches away. I guess I should read the logs more often before I go out caching.

Its not that hard to find - but I used a decoy duck - the kind used for hunting as the 2nd part of a 3 part multi. I found it on a hike along the Delaware river where it had floated to. It was made of plastic and still floated well, but the coloring was faded. So I used outdoor craft paint on it, attached a thick wire to the bottom and tethered it to a tree, and hung a metal pill bottle around it's neck with the coords to the 3rd location. So far everyone has loved it, but Ive gotten a few complaints about the terrain, since I had to hide it in a remote area to keep it away from muggles. It sits in the middle of a small stream and gently moves with the current. Its in a area maintained by a local bird watching group, so I figured it was appropriate. Sorry no pics.

My thoughts :Are you using tupperware containers? They are very waterproof, but not forever. After multiple uses the lids warp and dont close right. Try LOCK N LOCKS. Either they are closed, or they are open - no in between. As to people moving caches, that usually doesnt happen. Sometimes they "migrate". Example: a magnetic key container is not replaced in the exact spot, and then the next person doesnt replace it exactly either. After several visits it seems to be trying to crawl away. Just keep an eye on it. If you are in a rural location maybe this happens the same way.

I posted a reply to a topic that had not had any replies in 3 years mostly just to see if it would work. Yes its extemely ironic - geocaching has EXPLODED in popularity since that time. When I started caching in '01-'02 in Northeast Georgia doing ONE cache was a good days trip - an hours drive(at least) and a hour or two of hiking was involved. Now when I hit the search option for caches for that same area all of the original caches that were on my first page are now spread over 12 or more pages. Geocaching is very popular (compared to then) I live in south jersey now and its easy to do 10 - 15 caches a day(until youve got most of the nearby area) LONG LIVE GEOCACHING !!! If someone feels the need to close this thread now - it may be a good idea, as too many people may be confused if they just skim the posts quickly.

NO !!! Its ALIVE

I have a slow dial-up (28800 usually) and I have absolutely no problem with having music or graphics load.

The yellow jeeps were used in last year's contest. This year they are using white ones which are larger. Both have separate icons which are different only by color when viewed on the cache list page. On the individual cache page in the upper right hand corner the white ones will have names and the yellow ones will have numbers. Check the logs before you go, I drove out of my way recently to try to grab a white jeep out of a cache - but it was already taken - it is now 3 days later and the icon is still showing that the jeep is there - and it isnt.

When I see the frog, I have trouble remembering or associating the name "signal" to it. Rather I have a tendency, for some strange reason, to associate an awesome song by Creedence Clearwater Revival to it. It starts off with "Jeremiah was a bullfrog..........

Just what I was looking for ! Thanks Briansnat.

If there were no hiders there would be no geocaching going on. But to require or expect a hide from someone(even with 1000 finds)is a bad idea. It would not be creative if it was forced. But on the other hand most people with 1000 finds could probably put together some really good hides with some gentle prodding. There is a web page that lists geocachers according to the amount of finds that they have. Perhaps if someone put together a page which listed cachers by the amount of HIDES and ranked cachers by that amount - there would be some good hiding of caches inspired. The amount of finds someone has does not impress me that much - the amount of hides, DOES. I have 13 hides right now, but I'm aiming for 50. Anything more than that would probably not be worth the maintenance. On the other hand, really good hides in really good spots would require little maintenance. So lets see, 100? 200? :laughs evil laugh: Just noticed JimmyReno you have EXACTLY the same # of finds that I do, but HALF of the amount of hides - lets get moving buddy !

Is that legal? Seems like it would be impersonating a construction worker or something. Is there a law against impersonating construction workers? Is that legal? Seems like it would be impersonating a construction worker or something. Is there a law against impersonating construction workers? LMAO If there was a law against impersonating a construction worker then many construction workers would get into trouble !

I had never heard of it before. Then one day, I was hiking in the woods and I heard a voice exclaim "MUGGLE!!!!" Next thing I knew, I was in a headlock and hogtied by 5 or more people. They carried me off to a secret cave lit only with aromatherapy candles and with a giant image of Jeremy on the wall. There was several GPSr's around a giant ammobox altar, where I was "initiated" over the course of several days. WHY?? Isn't that how all of you guys got in ????

That is so cool !! Now I HAVE to read that book!

Its good to be familiar with a compass. Wal-mart has them cheap ($3) I have hid one cache with alternate directions for compass users, figuring that it would be a good way to introduce someone to geocaching who doesnt have a GPS and is curious as to what it is about. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...97-2fd7b91a25b8

Drink lots of carbonated beverages and eat a lot of beans, and when the time comes you'll know what to do...

Thats a nice waterfall, it reminds me of one in WesternNC called Dry falls that you could walk behind. If that person said that the cache wasnt that interesting, that would be a signal to me that they werent there, or were trying to log it based on a visit some time ago. Also, using an old postcard image also makes the page a little more interesting - anyone can upload their own photo, but using a old postcard image makes you see it as it was presented long ago.

Usually new cachers will follow the GPS till it reads 0 feet away and expect it to be in that exact spot. Keep in mind the accuracy part - 30 feet off is normal. If your GPS is 30 feet off, and the hiders was 30 feet off when they hid it, then it may be in a spot 60 feet from "ground zero". This is not the norm though, but watch your GPS accuracy - try to get it to 12 feet, and then look for it when it says it is 30 feet away. Avoid micros (tiny, log only containers) - for the time being.

"Geek" is a term from the 80s, "dork" arrived in the 70s, and "nerd" was popular in the 50s - early 60s. "Spaz" is from the 80s, but it never truly achieved its place in the lexicon that it deserves. The GPS part is "geeky", but true geeks dont go hiking or outdoors much. So concentrate on the outdoors aspect when describing it to muggles to avoid the geek-nerd-dork image.

Just make 3 stages - with the 3rd stage pointing back to stage 1. For some people it WILL be 51 stages...................