springbok200

I'm nearly at 200 caches and I have the bug for good now. I have one annoying problem like many others probably but I have not seen it mentioned on here yet. (If I missed it my apologies) I'm a bit limited with caches on my own or with my daughter. I don't go off in to woods when it's just us 'just in case' So I pick my areas very carefully so they are safe etc. I have to then either drag my husband out to do Woodland ones or drag fellow friends out! I know they have 'mobs' and 'meets' but is there anything else that would allow people to cache safely that are in the same position? I would be interested in your thoughts or similar situations.

Good question! It depends who I am with. If I am with my husband (quite unusual as he hates anything that involves walking!) and my daughter who is 2 an normally in a hiking toddler carrier. My husband shouts directions so my daughter doesn't get poked by any offending branches and hanging spikey things! as I normally forget the height difference. It it's me and a friend of mine we are very aware of hanging brambles and nettles and normally I pace off ahead and flatten them or lift up dangly things! I'm also the one who is aware of any dodgy looking people loitering about especially in the woods. If I with 3 or more people who are all caching ANYTHING GOES! As long as we find the cache first! Not that I am competitive of anything!

Actually I have been asked what I was doing with a friend of mine, it has just come back to me! A tricky local cache we were both struggling with and there was no one around apart from a tractor ploughing a field in the distance. It look us ages because there were loads of brambles near GZ. Out the corner of my eye the tractor was coming up the field like he had finished and I thought he would head down the lane and away to the farm but he just got closer and closer and my friend was getting worried as to what we were going to say. I still thought he was going to pass right on by but he didn't he drove up to us ( a very nice YOUNG farmer I might add!!!!) We smiled sweetly as he jumped out of the cab and he said very politely "What are you doing?" I attempted to be as charming as possible and came clean and said Geocaching. He looked a bit puzzled and we continued to explain how it works and which site to visit. He then said we were on private land. Which we both found confusing as it was to the entrance of a public church? but we smiled sweetly and said we would report this and high tailed it home! Now I'm married but my friend isn't and on the way back all I did was kid my friend up that he would have made suitable boyfriend material! I'm not sure she agreed though!

Although this entry is slightly off at a tangent! I went on a first to find mission that was down a lane and quite quiet. I had my little girl in a baby carrier and was merrily walking down the lane and an elderly couple appeared from the bushes! I said "Are you doing what I think your doing?" They paused thought for a bit and said, "What do you think we were doing?" I grinned and said Geocaching! They looked most relieved and said yes! We had a good chat and parted company. I like it when I meet fellow geocachers as it means you can put a face to a name. Noone has asked me yet but I would be honest and tell them straight, as I'm not a good lier!

Had my first cache published last week and it is going down well so far. The next one is also a little different but I have an old disused bird nest that I thought would work well. I was chatting over dinner and my husband said you can't do that! I would agree if it was one in use or I was encouraging people to interfere with any nest that would be wrong but if I were to put it somewhere very high and concealed that would be ok. I would be interested to hear from you guys as to what you think?

When you are within feet of GZ, the expectation! Especially if you are with a fellow geocacher and you want to get to it first. Not that I am competitive or anything I like logging them too, then seeing my stats change. Perhaps that is a little sad.

No, that's for the "You know you're spending too much time in the Geocaching Forums when..." thread. I wish I had thought of that!

When your at GZ and you have spotted it but can't get because:- There are just too many muggles about to risk it and your on a time limit.

Or when you pull up the covers on light poles "just to see"! lol That made me smile I have done that too!

That's lovely! Plus it got you in to it too!

Oh well sorry I wasn't very original, Coldgear. I will try try and do better next time.

Yes she is great cover, with muggles in ear shot, "Where did it go, under here!" used that method a few times! I look at plastic lunch boxes in a whole new light too! Never have any lids that match though.

I have a 2 year old little girl who comes out with us all the time when we go on geocaching missions. The other day I released my toddler from her pram as we approached GZ and the first thing she did was squat down and look under the bench! The good friend I was with laughed and said you have got her well trained! I would be interested to know others experiences.

I couldn't get on to the GC site either (in UK) Kept saying the server was busy. I think all 6 million geocachers were trying to log on at the same time but it continuned all day. I couldn't update my GPS it was extremely annoying. I waited till about 10pm and after several attempts logged two caches but that was a struggle. Sort this out please

I hope it was something like that. I had my daughter with me too when I found it and she was in the pram. If sand had come out I wouldn't have been so concerned. Let's hope it was. We may never know. ;p

Did a cache yesterday. Great hiding spot. Coords spot on. Went to take the log out of the container and noticed loads of White power. Was a bit weary as I tried to sign the log. Someone had put a water balloon filled with 'whatever' powder that had burst. I'm fairly new to geocaching, but replaced cache put maintenance note up. The owner hadn't acknowledge it so sent a message to a reviewer who has disabled it. I was hoping it was talc, but it did make me wonder. I tried to empty it's contents in the bushes. Makes you think why someone would think that was funny, especially if a child had got to it first.

Sharpie pen, gps, phone, tweezers, baby wipes, swag, trackables. My husband got me a rucksack today which has been named the official geocaching backpack! The one thing I would like to put in of late is a pair of waders and thick gloves with the amount of nettles I have to keep walking through to find GZ.

I am seriously thinking of replicating the Geocacher Official Greeting! The creative possibilities are endless!!!!!

Took my husband and little girl on our biggest caching day ever today. We were about 4 or 5 caches in and walked through a beautiful wood. I usually have the GPS but my husband decided he wanted to use it so wasn't as familiar at reading the clues etc. We'd walked to the boundry of the wood to find that the cache was on a bridle way and all that was separating us from it was a fence with one row of barber wire at the top! Holding on to my little girl I said I wasn't going risk getting over it so we should find another way around. By this point my husband was determined he was going to get this one and found a suitable spot at which he could get across. Now, for the funny part, the height of the barbed wire was only higher than his crotch by 1", but that one inch made its presence known. He got off the wire only seconds after getting onto and started madly hoping about, then went on to get the cache. We went on to do another 5 caches but did buy some Savlon on the way home! The information provided for this cache clearly said to approach from the other side so it was no ones fault but our own! And dont worry there are no pictures!

I was fooled once by a person standing next go a cache looking at their garmin60csx. It turned out she was just a lost hiker. It is easier when someone is holding a log book or walking round in circles while holding their gpsr, particularly when wearing a Groundspeak hat. Or when someone is holding a gpsr and talking into it like it is a telephone. I did drive by a cache last week I had already done to see a guy in a suit with the film canister in one hand and the log in the other! I rekon he was out on a lunch cache and dash!

Made our first event this year and looking forward to the next. Putting faces to the names was a lot of fun. A good time was had by all.

Is there any special clothing that we should wear whilst this greeting is performed?!

I almost feel like we need a youTube channel just for this- not that I acutally know of any youTube videos of the greeting. For a serious answer I have yet to run into anyone in the field that was caching. If I did I would probably just wait for them to make the find and then try and make the find.

I decided to attempt a First to Find today! The listing was published last night and after lunch I headed down to a quiet lane with fields either side and very little else. After checking no one had logged the find I thought I had a chance. To my amazement there was a young chap with his young baby strapped to his chest walking down the middle of the road holding his phone aloft. I thought oh it's a fellow cacher and asked him if he was and he denied it! I then spotted another older couple coming out of some bushes with a rather nice GPS! I said, "are you doing what I think you are doing? smiling, they replied, "what do you think we are doing? I said Geocaching. They said yes. We had a really lovely chat, exchanged user names I congratulated them on the FTF (their 1st) and went our separate ways. Do you admit what you are doing to a fellow cacher or not? If someone asked me I would tell them I was a Geocacher and then speed up my searching!