ShaunEM

Get a phone because you want a phone. Being able to use it as a GPS is a plus. You will cry less when you damage your etrex.. trust me. Shaun

Now that there is a SUPER answer. Probably about one of the best ways to have geocaching banned somewhere altogether. If the parks dept. are seeing it as a cache grab then perhaps caches should be banned there anyhow. Shaun

I have had no problems buying them in walmart in Canada. Usually I can get a pack for under 20 bucks.. this is a BOX of containers. Shaun

You can ask that people not rip it out of the ice in winter, or you can disable it every winter. We get flooding here in the spring and whole areas are temp. disabled during that time. I had someone send me an email, this past winter, saying they found my cache but it was frozen in place. They offered to send picks. I told them it was OK. In fact I would have given them bonus points if I could.. don't break-a my cache-a! Shaun

I ask the people what they want to do.. They can take off and come back after I am gone, or turn their back while I put it back if it's that tricky of a find. It's actually 50/50 on what people choose to do. Shaun

another good one is: http://www.orientaltrading.com Shaun

Ohh man, that one has a GPS in it! Sweet.. I surely have some bottle caps and/or rocks and/or sticks I could trade for that!!!!!1!! Shaun

I think if you were able to maintain it every 6 months, you would be maintaining it better than a LOT of the caches I have seen. Send your friend out.. to do maintenance. Look I made your plan for you! Shaun

You know what is OK to do with your TB? Whatever you want to do with it. I dip them in caches and people log it as found. It kind of gives me a log of my vehicle travels... if I find many caches in the same park I will dip it in the first one. I might take offense if someone took it traveling as that would mean they stole my car, or ripped of my decal. Shaun

Some people have a serious hate on for McDonalds toys.. I think if you have them on hand, they are about the best thing for kids to find. Broken or not my kids get a kick out of them. My son's take home from caching the other day: Two plastic horses (small), and a plastic butterfly. We left several McToys and erasers behind in each. Remember kids are supposed to trade up! Also try not to let them dump everything out on the ground, it's like a natural instinct for them and makes a big mess! Also teach them to give you the logbook FIRST! Shaun

Since no one else is going to say it... I will put fourth the possibility that this cache was denied because it required listening to Podcasts from an external source that Groundspeak could not control. That podcast might contain information and tips regarding "other" geocaching sites and alternate outdoor activities *as well* as containing vulgar langauge and possible adult content. I agree with CanadianRockies, this does need to be clarified, clearly, for a case such as this. Otherwise, you need to consider the whole internet as possibly "family unfriendly". I mean as soon as I hit google to try and solve a puzzle.. I am in uncharted waters! Scary indeed... Shaun

If you want to filter on attributes (i.e. TB there) you may want to consider a GSAK filter or just setup a pocket query specific to your use. If you only load that list of caches onto your GPS, you have a bullet proof filter. I think you will find many caches that list TB contain none! You may also want to back up your etrex files (the whole GPS folder) onto your HD somewhere. It sure saved my bacon once or twice. The etrex seems pretty reliable these days, but a restore to factory settings and files is such a process! Shaun

I live in Canada and I can say that the bomb squad here would LOVE the opportunity to blow up a stuffed pony. If you REALLY like to blow stuff up, join the bomb squad.. they get the best toys and nothing you are doing is illegal... BOOM! Shaun

I log visits on trackables I find. I tend to try to leave them in caches they will not go missing from. If I find 3 or 4 caches close to one another I don't always log every one. I do try to log a visit for every run I go on.. so the owner does not figure their trackable has been forgotten. If someone complained how I was logging their trackable, I would for sure drop it into the next cache like a hot potato. Moving their TB around is doing another cacher a favor.. I frequently look through my TBs logs to look at cache pages for caches I will most likely never get to visit myself. You can thank geocaching.com for blank visited logs though. I wish you could leave notes on a trackable page while logging a found it on a cache page (dropdown). Shaun

I put all cache PQ and maps on the external card. I figure if a PQ or map is giving my grief I can always take out the card. Hard to do that with internal memory. Shaun

How about this.. get the owner to mail you the physical container with log book.. you sign it FTF!.. and mail it back. Then they can put it out at it's final location. Shaun

Your brain and your GPS are not on a shared toggle. It is possible to have brain on + GPS on. You can always pull over and confirm where it is telling you to go. I frequently disregard it if it is telling me to from a major to more minor road. Sometimes I was right.. sometimes I just didn't see what it was planning. No big, it re-routes on a fly. But.. usually I am using my GPS to get somewhere I don't know how to get to... so really I am "lost" every time I use it. Shaun

You know what really gets my son down? When we go find a small to find out its actually a film canister, bison, or a pill case. Now THAT is depressing for a 5 year old. Shaun

And using the posters suggestion above I found the following: http://www.Waymarking.com/wm/search.aspx?f=1&lat=33.811483&lon=-117.9271&t=6&gid=3 I may have to get a few more of those POI and add them to my GPS! Shaun

I have found this one: https://sites.google.com/site/rcmaps2/disneyland%26disneycaliforniaadventuredeta19 But it isn't really that up to date. We are going there next month and I am using this plus a few more POI I have entered myself retrieving coordinates from Google maps. If you find a better source, let me know! Shaun

I frequently charge off to my left only to notice my error and turn around and go right. I do this regardless of north up or direction up. Shaun

Another alternative is to place it in a very obvious location (i.e. the ONLY tree in a field) or at a specific bench you can see on a map. State that you had problems with accuracy and take the next few finders coordinate readings to update your cache location. Not ideal, but I have seen it work. You just really have to explain well where the cache is using your notes/hints. Shaun

How about an empty barrel at the top of a large hill. You have to stuff yourself inside and roll yourself down in order to log it as found. You also have to roll the barrel back up the hill to reset it. This could also tie in to a virtual.. say at the top of a large waterfall or cliff. Coyote Cache? Gravity Cache? It could use the Hospital icon currently used for the "needs maintenance" property. Shaun

You can claim the spot, work with the reviewer and find out if it will be approved prior to going any further. The other alternative is to claim the spot, and wait for the other cache to be archived. That does happen often. Good luck, Shaun

The rule I use is.. Would I look liked a pedophile stalking the school children if I was looking for a cache in this spot or 20 minutes while recess was going on? Shaun