Luckless
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Something worn while pole dancing....
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Let me see if I get this right. You want to hide a cache in a pipe which has a lid on it. The pipe goes down to an underground bunker.
I'll assume the bunker area is solid so people won't fall through or in anyway get hurt.
You can put a geocaching sign on the underside of the lid so people see it when they raise the lid, but not when it is closed. Be sure your cache is securely attached by something non-breakable to the pipe so it won't disappear down the pipe. Caches such as this do get broken.
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Stay safe guys!
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Aside from the possibility of lyme disease try picking off tics that are climbing up your neck while your driving 45 miles an hour in bumper to bumper traffic after looking for a cache. Think I picked up about ten of those nasty little hitchhikers and I didn't even find the cache.
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Then there was the time I was caching along the river in winter and I heard a loud "crack" beneath my feet and realized I was no longer walking on land.
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This one scared the heck out of me. Don't want to be in the middle of the woods during a blow down. Thank you Jesus I made it out of there.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=8cec90f6-0b6f-46db-a8b2-0e6a1c0f6297
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Kept worrying if I had an intercranial bleed for a few days after this.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=19e5ddb6-9e9a-49b4-a4b9-9a2a1ecd3757
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I usually ignore a cache when I get to ground zero and find that it's a skirtlifter at the entrance to a parking lot that requires stealth since people are constantly coming and going.
I'm also ignoring some climbing caches- this old lady doesn't go up trees.
And I'll ignore puzzle caches with puzzles that I just don't get.
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Okay, you got your rant in about puzzle caches.
My puzzle caches are "in field" caches. You solve the puzzles while running around getting the information you need to solve them. I have a puzzle cache tour of Cooperstown I'm going to do with friends next week where you walk all over Cooperstown touring the city and finding clues.
I have considered making some sitting in front of the computer kind of caches for the winter to give people something to figure out when the ice and snow make caching impossible.
I think you know that whether you get enough exercise or not caching is up to you. So you have a park and grab. So park two miles away and walk to it.
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One look at that gate and I can understand why reviewers might have a problem with accepting the cache placement. Like it or not, it's up to the reviewers to make the call. You can always try to show them that the cache will be accessible certain days listed on the cache page, but once it's been passed up by the reviewers and Groundspeak you'll have to accept the denial.
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Shhhh... I got a stern warning for discussing them in the forums because they're not Groundspeak approved. I'm pleading the fifth.
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I sometimes hike alone. I was in the woods looking for a geocache and enjoying that peaceful "balm for my soul" feeling when I looked around and asked myself, what would you do if you saw a bear a few feet away. That's when I started carrying bear spray. I also carry a cell phone, but many places around here don't have cell phone reception.
I do love that quiet feeling of being in the woods alone. I used to camp with my family as a kid. I was always the first one up and about exploring the area. I'd forgotten about that wonderful feeling of being out in nature that I used to know until I started geocaching which put me in touch with that feeling again. To me the worst geocaches I do are the ones in the busy, bustling city that require stealth to avoid detection by others. Give me a walk in the woods.
I've lived here all my life so I have a pretty good feel for the area. The growing number of larger predators- coyotes and mountain lions- do give me some concern and I never go where I don't feel comfortable just to get a geocache. I also have a Nervous Nell for a mother who will readily call out the National Guard if I'm a few minutes late.
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I tend to write a little something for each cache. My super long logs are usually about my caching trips where everything went wrong.
This spring I went looking for a cache and it was an easy park and grab. I just couldn't bring myself to write the same old same old thanks for the cache. So I wrote this:
WooHoo, XXXX has posted a new geocache, but wait, an impending snow storm is headed this way and it's going to be a big one. Still there's this new geocache out there that I need to find. (Why I don't know, I only know I need to find it.) The heck with the impending storm. They don't call me fearless for nothing.
I put the snow chains on the wheels of my trusty chevy equinox with all wheel drive and whistled for the dogs. "Here Beauregard!" "Here Oliver!" The dogs came running eager to go on a new geocaching adventure after a long winter of cabin fever. I put them in the back of the car and we were off. The snow started to fall as I drove along. It fell harder and harder and I drove on. The wheels slipped and spun on the ice and I drove on. Hail started pelting the windshield and I drove on. Finally everything went white. The snow was coming down so thick I could no longer see the road. Stopping the car I got out and went around to the back where I opened the rear hatch and pulled out the dog sled that I had conveniently stashed in there earlier in the day. I fastened the dogs into their harnesses and hollered "mush". We started down the road with only my GPS to guide us (but not before Waymarking the location of the car). It was slow going for the dogs who sunk down into the snow with each step. The snow laden wind whistled and swirled around us. As I strained to see the road ahead I noticed a group of small children huddled together beside a school bus that had slid off the road into a ditch. I pulled up beside them where I quickly unfastened the dog team from the sled and attached the dog's harnesses to the front of the bus. Then I went around to the back of the bus and began to push. "Mush you dogs!" I yelled. Slowly the bus began to move. I put my back into it and with one great shove got the bus back onto the roadway. "We can't go on," said the bus driver. "We'll have to turn back. Why don't you put your dogs on the bus and I'll drive us all back into town." "No thanks," I replied. "I have a geocache to find." I turned and waved to the children who cheered as we drove off. Only three hundred feet to the cache according to my GPS.
White, everything was white. If there was a geocache here it was buried under several feet of snow. I reached into my geocaching bag and pulled out my handy dandy flame thrower that I keep as standard geocaching equipment in my bag. This will make short work of that snow. Flames lept from the flame thrower melting the snow and igniting a few of the nearby shrubs. After the fire burned out I looked over the charred remains of the area and there it was. "Eureka!" I grabbed the cache and signed the log.
TFTC
and that's exactly the way it happened. Well sort of.
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I'm planning on using a small glass jar pimentos came in. It has thicker glass and more importantly it is just the right size for what I'm planning to do with it.
I've found some glass test tube like containers in use.
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I put out a cache in Cooperstown NY and was surpised when the first to find was a group of people from Germany.
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I combine caching and bird watching so anywhere along a migratorial flyway or sanctuary would be great. Cape May (NJ) would be ideal.
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If the law says the person who placed the cache was tresspassing in order to hide it then they were tresspassing.
If the law says a person who looked for the cache tresspassed in order to do that then they were tresspassing.
If you can sue them for that under the law, and you are inclined to do that, then they will get sued.
Cachers, you are ultimately responsible for what you do while caching. Be aware. If it seems like you're on private property, don't go there.
I will always try to get permission before hiding a cache and and if the hide seems questionable I'll note on the cache webpage that permission was given to be there. I also make regular checks on the cache to be sure the area is not being abused. I've removed caches that caused rock walls to have stones removed or caused trees to have branches broken, etc. by cachers who were looking for them.
Things for cachers to bear in mind is that your coordinates might be off. If that's the case you could be looking in an area that is off limits.
If looking for a cache means dismantling property you may want to skip it. I am strongly in favor of always marking a cache container (discreetly of course) so that a cacher will know it is a cache container and not worry about opening the wrong thing that might cause problems. Many cache hiders around here will include on their cache page where not to look, such as a the rock wall, that might cause problems.
I have no problem telling people living in the area where I'm caching what I'm doing. (Of course I don't tell kids because they'll tell their buddies and the cache will disappear.) If I notice a local resident looking at me with distrust I'll go over and tell them to expect to see people caching then ask if they feel the cache poses a problem for them. Most people just want to know. So would I if I were them.
The original poster said it appeared that someone had cut the wires to his lights. This does not seem like something cachers would do. I can think of no instance why they would. They might remove a few rocks from a stone wall, but cut wires- no. Because the original poster lives in a remote area he didn't think he'd be bothered by vandals. Around here vandals are apt to cause trouble to people in remote areas because there are no witnesses.
Please don't judge a group of people by what you read in the forums. Forums always contain discussions that get overheated.
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I think the favorite points were designed (sort of) to encourage people to make fun caches to get points. (it's all about the numbers)
(I wonder if people should have a total listing of their favorite points just like they do their cache finds.- might encourage maintenance- who knows)
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Around here once someone found it they'd be apt to all share the information with others.
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Took a quick look to make sure these weren't placed April 1st.
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I try to make all my caches have the same aim--to be fun.
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Here in New York the state parks have their own geocaching rules that you have to follow besides those from Groundspeak. I had placed a previous cache in a state park and didn't have to pay a fee so when I went to place another in another state park I was surprised when I was told it would cost me $10. The reviewer (NYadmin) saw my post complaining about the discrepancy and he called the park department to tell them there was no fee to place geocaches in state parks. It's all good now. Geocaching was completely new to the park staff and they got it mixed up.
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Seems to me that it might give you a bit of an edge if you had something like a disclaimer on your page should someone decide to sue. At least more than if you didn't.
Putting a disclaimer on the page is an admission that there is some sort of dangerous condition.
How do you figure that?
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Seems to me that it might give you a bit of an edge if you had something like a disclaimer on your page should someone decide to sue. At least more than if you didn't.
(As an aside I believe if we had universal health care we'd see a reduction in lawsuits for property injury, at least the medical aspects of them.)
Save the Earth
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I met someone who is now a good friend at a geocaching event and we started caching together. Saves us both money and fuel carpooling in this manner and is more fun than doing it individually.