moose61

It happened twice to me. Once during an event. I was there early, walked around and found a brand new birdhouse with no hole. FTF! Another time I was visiting the US and was looking for a short multi cache without the correct final coördinates. I found a camo box near a tree stump. An animal must have pushed it. It was the box of a puzzle cache.

They are also very usefull for multi cache where the waypoints or QTA locations are already given upfront. You don't need to enter them manualy into the GPS.

Don't you agree to that last bit when you sign up for an account? For me it is, looks like also for you, but I don't know if it counts for everybody. For me everybody is responsable for their own acts. Does not mean everybody takes that responsability...

Looks it is no issue if: - you have permission of the landlord to place the cache - you ensure geocachers have permission to access the land - you add a note to the cache listing the geocacher is responsable for their own actions The first two you should have done anyhow for any hide.

I always carry two flashlights, specially for night caches: - A small Fenix Model L2D-CE which I got a couple of years. Fenix replaced it by model LD20 XP-G R5, which supplies 180 Lumen. It is supplied with a belt case, which makes it convinient to take along. Since it is a small model I also use it in combination with a band as a headlamp. - A larger Fenix TK40 working on 8 AA batteries and supplying 630 Lumen with a very good light profile. Excellent for caching at night. Both flashlights have Cree LEDs. This provides a good colour of light and a good pattern. Both flashlight have aluminum case and an electronic power regulator so you can choose how much light you want. They are small and easy to carry. I consider both flashlights to be better than the Maglights I have seen with fellow cachers. When I had to go out for a flashlight I found some kind of outdoor forum on the Internet where they tested all kinds of flashlights. I did find a lot of information to compare flashlights before choosing one. When you google you will find multiple sites. The Fenix lights are not cheap, quality comes with a price. When you check on the Internet you will find simular flashlights at lower price. Watch out for the kind of LEDs which are used. I had some el cheapo flashlights with 8-12 LEDs, which only supply enough light to look 2 meters down the road, so a wast of money.

2540 caches within 20 miles from Landgraaf, The Netherlands. Not the US, but a place to find a lot of caches.

I pulled this from the FAQ section of geocaching.com: What are the rules in Geocaching? 1. If you take something from the cache, leave something of equal or greater value. 2. Write about your find in the cache logbook. 3. Log your experience at www.geocaching.com. Section "Finding your first geocache": Step 4 – The Actual Find Hurray! You found your first geocache. Congratulations! Now what? 1. Take note of the style and method of this hide. Where did this geocache bring you? Enjoy the location. 2. Sign the logbook with your name, the date, and a few words about your experience. 3. If you trade.... And of course the Geocaching Guidelines: 4.1. Logging of All Physical Geocaches Physical geocaches can be logged online as "Found" once the physical log has been signed. An exception is Challenge Caches, which may only be logged online after the challenge requirements have been met and documented to the cache owner's satisfaction. So to be short: He didn't sign the logbook, so he does not even have a Found. So he cannot have a FTF. End of discussion.

That's correct. I found simular hides. Although the requirement specifies a cache container there are no specification which a cache container must meet. I agree, sometimes from hiding point of view a cache container might not be needed, it is a requirement. So take the easy way and put it in a baggie also. Regards, Moose61

Ik ben het helemaal met Barny eens. Eerst ervaring en ideeën opdan, dan pas gaan plaatsen. Dit komt de kwaliteit alleen maar ten goede en je zult er dan zelf ook meer plezier aan beleven. Overigens kun je wel nog enkele 'moving caches' of hitchhikers zoeken. Er zijn er wel nog op reis. Juist daar er niet meer zo veel zijn is het wel leuk je er een onverwacht vindt. Groetjes, Moose61

Je hebt gelijk. Ik heb echter ook geen oplossing voor dit probleem. Groetjes, Moose61

My wife and kids are also not into geocaching, but give me the oppertunaty to get out geocaching on my own. F.i. during vacations I get a couple of days to get out. Or search for caaches in the morning and join them on the beach in the afternoon. Sometimes they join if its an interesting location to visit, but in general I'm on my own. I'm used to it and don't mind. Everybody is unique and lucky enough don't all have the same interests. I also don't have to join shopping or do needlework with my wife. So, don't see it as something negative but see it as a win-win situation. Greetings, Moose61

I have done a couple of tunnel caches. These are my favorites! Go through a hill (over 100 year old railway tunnel) in Luxembourg: Forgotten Darkness GCVVN9 Get into the river Worm and under the city of Aachen (Germany): Nachtcache: Wurm-Loch (Daylight Reloaded) GC1G4X4 Worst smelling cache - get into the sewer in Luxembourg: Kanalratte (Sewer Rat) GC1GHRE Greetings, Moose61

Northernpenguin has covered most of it. One pro for the SmartPhone is missing. In general you can put usefull geocaching supporting tools onto the SmartPhone, which can help you solve questions which pop up in the field, e.g. calculations and encrypting. Regards, Moose61

There are many different kind of caches, just do the ones you like and skip the rest. Don't forget, you might like taking hikes into the woods, others like urban caches. I just see it as a greater variation in caches. Also I encourage you to place caches you like, so you share your favorite kind of caches with others. Regards, Moose61

GSAK will do the trick as wel. Load GPX file with our founds in GSAK and set a filter: My Found Count / Greater than or equal to / 2 This will list the caches with multiple entries. BTW, It's about time to go to an event. See you at the GeoFarm in May? The program looks great! Greetings, Moose61

I use GSAK with macro GarminCsvPoiExport to generate POI files of 17.000+ caches on my 60CSx, including hints and child WP's. Once generated, I load the POIs onto the GPS using POI Loader (free available at Garmin). Since the caches are loaded as POI and not as WP the amound of points is not limited to 1000, but can be many more. Greetings!

Check out the office of Santa: HS-Advent 2009-Das Büro des Weihnachtsmannes (NC)(GC20TF2). Not only very large (a garden shed), but beautifull made with windows, lights in the trees and office, X-Mas music, presents and of course Santa himself in the office.

I have seen this kind of caches before. To get approval you must meet the guidelines of GC. In short for this cache: - Put the box in a fixed location - List it as an unknown cache type since it requires special activities before going into the field - Coordinates and key (of code) you can add to a Travel Bug. In the listing of the cache you tell which travel bug they need to chase. Make sure you put the restriction on your TB that it should stay within a certain distance of the cache. Using a code might cause the code to be transferred between cachers. Using a key would prevent it, but make sure you keep a spare key yourself!

Ik kwam er eentje tegen op E-Bay. http://cgi.ebay.de/Gluckmunze-Koersvast-Ge...Cnzen_Medaillen Lijkt me geen geocoin.

A mailbox next to the front door in Almere, The Netherlands: GC1AR68 Also I am considering putting a safe with electronic lock in my front yard...

Here's an other one: Fantasy in Stone (GCT28H), hidden early 2006. You still can make the FTF!

I love nightcaches as wel, but go often alone out into the woods at night. This gives you a special thrill. I my area (close to Aachen, Germany) there are plenty of nightcaches. Quite some are made during an annual Halloween Event (GC1X1DY) in Porselen (very well attended, 10+ nightcaches each year, last year even a Mega Event), but also plenty of others nearby. Some have themes, like the goatriders, a group of thieves in the 18th century. I made a nightcache "L25: Ut Galgebeumke" (GC16G3W) which brings you to the tree where the thieves were hang when they catched them. The best I ever did was "MPGO: A Hard Day's Night" (GC12J26), a very challanging night cache (D/T 3.5/4) located in a former coal mining area. Another good one is "Wurm-Loch" (GC1G4X4) where you get under the city of Aachen. If you ever get in the area, just contact me! Greetings from the Netherlands from Moose61

If you have a car navigation system you might be able to switch it to ignore the roads and use the very small arrow to get close to the cache. I once found with the navigation when I did not have my GPS with me. You might even be able to load the caches as POI on the navigation system.

I once organized a kind of a multicache for some friends which were unfamiliar with geocaching and GPS devices. I rented some GPS devices (of course iPhones will do as wel) and created entered muliple WP's (50) predefined in the devices. They started with WP1, needed to answer a question and the number they received was the number of the next WP/question. This way they do not need to understand entering new WP's. Since there are so many WP's in the device they still didn't know where they were going to. This method worked out fine.

First, these questions you should post on the forum of GSAK. Second, You don't need to do anything but wait. When you look on the forum of GSAK you can follow the status. A quote of lignumaqua added to the GSAK forum on May 05: Just to explain precisely what the problem is. At the moment Groundspeak is including the '10 year event' cache type information in the 'My Finds' PQ but *not* in the GPX files you download directly from cache pages. So, stats programs that just work off the 'My Finds' PQ are OK but, because FSG and GSAK are more flexible and will accept the data from any source, we have a problem. Groundspeak has said they will look at correcting this discrepancy and, if they do, life is relatively easy. However, if they don't, then we cannot rely on GPX files to contain correct cache type data identifying these events and will have to use some other criteria, perhaps even requiring the user to manually mark them in some way. (Perhaps by placing 'FindStats10YearEvent' somewhere in the user notes) This is clearly less than ideal so I want to wait a week to see if Groundspeak fixes the situation before going to that last resort. However, one way or the other, I've undertaken to support these special events in FSG. Which basically means you only need to replace your macro in GSAK once it is updated. For the meanwhile I changed the cache type of these entries to "Event" in my database of Found caches so they will show up in the statistics.