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This isn't the exact design I went with, but I'm coating it with sealant and paint, and the actual container is inside (small bison tube).

Yeah, I guess I should be more specific. It's the Mississippi river, and where I'm placing it there is a pretty long incline from the street down to the river. I'm planning on hiding it closer to the top of the gorge. We don't get a lot of rainfall that dramatically causes river levels to rise, it's more often runoff from the snow that causes high levels.

Shocker there. I find the more creative and public a cache is, the more likely it'll be muggled. I'm thinking of hiding this down by my local river, a few hundred feet off the trail and setting it to premium only. Then maybe it'll last 6 months before I need to remake it...

This is a good point. Another option is to make this a premium-only cache with the field puzzle attribute and providing more detail in the cache description. It's already a pain to make these caches, I'd prefer to have folks who care enough to take their time and care with it.

This is usually easy, but I'm in a bit of a grey area here. I'm planning on printing something like this and hiding it as a cache. Should it be a puzzle cache? There's no exterior knowledge that needs to be known nor a challenge requirement. Should it be a traditional? Maybe put a warning in the cache description? Something else?

I mark my caches premium if they're either made from something that would take a while to build/replace or is in a location that makes it more difficult for newbies to get at. The point is to discourage would-be vandalizers from coming along to mess with it. I realize that just marking it as premium only doesn't completely remove that risk, but I've noticed that premium caches in my (pretty urban) area tend to go missing far less.

I am thinking of hiding a cache which has a puzzle built into a cache, but I am not sure what type of cache it should be.

Since you have the Groundspeak app, you can hide the cache, and then walk to it from different directions, then average the coords at the cache.

Really good advice on geocaching like this:

A rubber stamp works, i know Groundspeak used to sell them...

I usually wait about 5-6 DNF logs before checking them, and immediately when needs maintence. As for 1 DNF, I think disabling it was silly.

To look for users, caches, and trackables

It would probbaly a place of pop. 50,000. although a lot of cities would qalifyOkay, so here in suburbia there are two adjacent municipalities. The population of PA is more than 50k. The population of adjacent MP is less than 50k. The neighborhoods in these two municipalities are essentially identical. The reason for the population difference is because PA has more incorporated land than MP. But according to your suggestion, different rules/guidelines would apply to geocaches placed in PA than to geocaches placed in MP. This makes absolutely no sense to me. Furthermore, there are pockets of unincorporated county land scattered among the incorporated municipalities. One side of the street is part of a city (population 50k+). The other side of the street is unincorporated county land. Again, the neighborhoods are essentially identical, and most people wouldn't know which was which. But according to your suggestion, different rules/guidelines would apply to geocaches placed on one side of the street than to geocaches placed on the other side of the street. This makes absolutely no sense to me either. So I'll repeat myself: I think there's enough confusion over the guidelines as it is without having the saturation distance vary depending on the location. And the whole point of the saturation guideline is "to encourage you to seek out new places to hide caches rather than putting them in areas where caches already exist, and to limit the number of caches hidden in a particular area". If they just reduce the distance to allow more caches once areas get saturated, then how does that encourage anyone to seek out new places for caches, or limit the number of caches in a particular area? That was an example. It woul be higher

Well actually, here in Rhode Island, we have special dispensation due to our small size. Our cache saturation distance is 400'. Just kidding. Even we have 528'. "Everything's smaller in Rhode Island... Everything." Of course it is.

Geocaching blogs. people can talk about their geocaching expereinces online

As you all know, geocaching has site. Put your suggestions here for the site and once I get at least 30 requests, I'll forward it to Groundspeak

Try hiding some small caches around the area and pretend they are geocaches.

I was wandering about one night, replacing reflectors, when I came in contact with a large bull. We've met before, and I've always been able to avoid conflict by simply stepping out of his direction of travel. This night, that didn't work. When he parted the palmettos, he made aggressive postures, (head shakes, foot stomps, blowing, etc), so I stepped sideways, out of his way. He turned to face me, and continued to posture. I moved again, and he turned again, as if to say, "I don't care that you're on top of the food chain. These are my woods!". Prudence kicked in and I left him to his domain. Whooda thunk I could be scared of a cow? It might have been that the bull thought that you wantend a female cow, and he wanted a fight with you.

I guess that it would be more like mmmmonomnmonolnolmkmo if cows can do that.

With cattle I guess it is a question of watching them carefully as you approach the area they are in. If they seem unsettled and treat you as a threat, it may well be time to choose another route. On the other hand if they seem relaxed then it is probably ok to proceed. Or just banning a cache that cows might want to eat grass. I'm thinking of innocent people being killed by mad cows.

It would probbaly a place of pop. 50,000. although a lot of cities would qalify

Last night I had a dream were me and my parents were out in the countryside. It was wonderful, except there was a mad cow on the loose. When I woke up, i thought about the safety of Geocachers. Overall, before going out to find a cache, you should check the news for the area, to make sure there aren't any mad cows on the loose or something like that

Geocaching has the same rules in the world. some cities there are some rules that make hiding a cache more difficult. For instance the 0.10 mile apart thing is hard to do in the city becuase there is a cache here and here and here and here so we say that it is 0.05 miles apart so that it might be here. Feel free to post other complaints here about city geocaching and if I get a lot of complaints I'll send them to Groundspeak.

Geocaching has the same rules in the world. some cities there are some rules that make hiding a cache more difficult. For instance the 0.10 mile apart thing is hard to do in the city becuase there is a cache here and here and here and here so we say that it is 0.05 miles apart so that it might be here. Feel free to post other complaints here about city geocaching and if I get a lot of complaints I'll send them to Groundspeak.

How tragic