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What would be your opinion if that Park N Grab had been inside a puzzle box, attached to a fake mousetrap, inside a Billy the Singing Bass fish, in a fishing lure hanging from a tree by a stream or suspended in a tree-less clearing over your head? I suspect that you may be seeking out the wrong caches. Micros are fine if they're out of the ordinary. Don't search for 1/1 micros and you won't be dissapointed by 1/1 micros. The cache you described has a great appeal for those folks who are number driven They also appeal to folks, like me, who just like finding ANY cache. They are obviously not your cup of tea and that's fine. Looks like there's about 50 caches within a 10 mile radius of your location. I'm sure some of them are caches you'd like. You do have another option. I find that when I hide the types of caches that I enjoy finding, that caches that I like, start appearing that were hidden by others too. Go hide a few.

Here's another idea for you, sign up to be an adult volunteer with a local Boy Scout Troop. You'll learn everything you need to now about trekking - and have the opportunity to do the things you're talking about. The Boy Scouts can always use more volunteers.

Good idea - a customized hiking stick. Now who could make one for you??? Out of, let's say...diamond willow? Mine wants me to bid on this one as a Christmas present for me. I like it! nice

I have a differant take on this. Perhaps this young Padawan has hit a string of average caches. Perhaps, this Padawan needs to encounter a cache of significance. You, my very young apprentice, are caching in the wrong part of the world. Come over to my neck of the woods, I'd doubt you'd make this same statement!

Good idea - a customized hiking stick. Now who could make one for you??? Out of, let's say...diamond willow?

I had a micro cache that was hidden on it's own much larger decoy. Only one finder before it dissapeared. Here's the cache

And on it's way to Minnesota, it can stop off at the Illinois/Wisconsin state line area.

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Due to a shoulder injury, I'm trying to pick up some additional income from my hobby. I carve GeoWalking sticks, GeoShillaleighs, and GeoCanes. What makes them so special? The wood, your GeoName and/or GeoLogo carved into the shaft, and the care that goes into each piece. My Webpage

NICE! How does the insulation hold up from the banging around in the rocks? How often do you have to touch up the paint?

Here's a really good example of my take on this as a cache hider: There are two newbies in my area who live near parks. Both have mentioned several times over the past year, how they'd like to place a cache in the parks near their homes. I've offered to help both as this would be a first time placement for both. I have held off placing caches in those parks out of respect for these newbies. Neither park has a cache to this day - it's been over a year. How long should I wait? If someone has a specific spot, I won't take it. If someone wants me to archive a cache of mine to make room for theirs, all they need do is ask. But otherwise why should I stop geocaching the way I like to geocache?

If you propose to limit cachers from hiding too many caches (in your opinion), are you also proposing that ALL area cachers hide a minumum number of caches? That only seems fair.

I've made numerous staffs that unscrew so they can be transported (similar to a pool cue stick)

A 3" Craftsman 3 blade pocket knife has served me faithfully over the past 12 years of Scouting. It has handled everything I've ever needed it for. It's loosened screws, dug log books out of nano containers, cut the cheese (literally), dug out splinters, cleaned the mud off my boots, cut leather, opened cans, and carved many, many, many walking sticks!

Sorry I didn't see this thread until now. I might be able to make you a staff by your departure date My staffs Send me an email

Our local cacher, Posen, has done one already called "Cachew". Can you top that? Challenge ACCEPTED !!!!!!!

I had one at my American Hemerocallis Society National Display Garden Here

Make it a night cache, suspended just below the surface (in a no-boat area of course)

My Geofriends will be terrified to know that I've actually been planning a similar cache. No power line though - that's just dangerous.

One of my newest creations. See them all at My Webpage

That's because a good hiking stick will be able to bushwack as well, or it isn't worth having. First thing I do with a new stick is wack it on the ground to make sure it doesn't break. No sense spending a lot of time carving if it's just going to break later. As for damage to the environment, I was at a State Park yesterday. After seeing the environmental damage that hundreds of hunters and their dogs have done to the brushy areas (paths, broken branches, BUSHWACKING to the extreme), I don't know that I'd worry a whole lot about some lone geocacher wacking down one dead burr plant. Of course the enviro-proper thing to do while bushwacking is to move that offensie Burr plant gently out of your way with your walking stick.

It just so happens that what may just be the perfect hiking stick can be found right here

I make Hiking Staffs. I'm rather partial to a sturdy Diamond Willow staff myself.

My first submission, from an upcoming "Spinning a Yarn" series cache. Some caches are meant to stick out.

I did propose such as merit badge. I wrote a sample MB book and guidelines and sent it to National. The feedback that I recieved is that several people have been working on this Merit Badge for a while. National is not moving forward with adding or deleting any Merit Badges this year. This is what they told me. Glad to see the GeoScouting.com website was mentioned here. Great site, you should all be a part of.