captnemo

I start with "Please read the description" as that will appear on the front page of the App. Doesn't mean any attention will be paid to it.

Check out You Tube especially West Virginia Tim, lots of good ideas. I have found that on my Gadget caches the idea for the gadget comes first and then the bird house is built around it. I list mine as traditional with a field puzzle icon and add "Gadget Cache" to the cache name. Also be prepared for more maintenance then a regular cache. Just noticed your home state of Michigan. I had a cache in So. California that got mugged several times so I gave it to a cacher in Oregon. No more muggles but did have problems with the weather and had to be archived. So make sure you built it for where it's going and in a secure location.

I had grabbed a TB that wanted to go to a state I would not likely go to. A friend was headed there so I asked him to drop it there which he did. He also signed the log with my name. I never logged the cache because I didn't find it and even thou my name is in the log and I wouldn't feel right. So to answer your question, while it may not be cheating I wouldn't do it .

Very hot here, it hit 120F here. over 110 for the whole month of July. This has pretty much stopped me and very few fines on my caches. Put out a new Gadget cache on 6/3 and FTF wasn't until 6/9. So far only 3 finds and its right off route 66.

Found one with a small realistic rubber snake in the hole with the cache. Jumped back then carefully looked back in before sticking my hand in to get the cache. Yes it was in an area with rattlesnalkes.

I know how your pain. One of my gadget caches that took 100+ hrs to build was published 6/4, found 6/5 am muggled 6/5pm. replaced 7/15, muggled 7/20 removed .

How about "The Write PLACE"

Found a cache with a rubber snake on it once, watched it for quite a bit before realizing it was rubber. I did find a real rattler on top of one of my caches, moved the snake then moved the cache.

First one may have been on another site. Second one had "Geocaching.com" written on it.

It's happened twice to me. First time was on a off road trip, way out in the middle of no where, when one of the group said isn't this one of those geocaches you find, It was a container marked geocache no GC#. Signed the log noted the cordinates but could not find it on the web site. Finally contacted GC headquarters who confirmed it was not a cache. The 2nd time I was placing a cache and stumbled across a container that had geocacing written on it along with a geocacher name, in poor shape. Contacted GC again and there was no cacher by that name or cache at that location. 2 finds no smilely.

OK, I gave up and closed out the browser and got "download in process" So I clicked stop. Went to GSAK to close things down but decided to try it once more and it worked.

Thanks that worked sort of. It downloaded but won't drag into gsak?

"In some states the property line actually runs down the center of the paved road. My uncle owned a home in NH that was like that. There was a 40 foot easement for a 24' road but the property was owned by the home owners." The North side of my property ends in the middle of a paved, 55MPH road. I own to the middle of the road but the county has an easement for the road. This of course means that if you park on the South side of the road you are on private property. I don't care if you do as I have two caches on my property.

How about in the listing, include something like "If you wish to validate a FTF, take a picture of the log with your signature and the blanks pages and forward to the Cache owner". I don't think this would be ALR.

Welcome back I've always enjoyed your posts.

Most likely they didn't follow the rules. Just haven't been called on it yet.

Never did any of those but within the last year we were following the GPS to a Wedding when we came to a locked gate about 1 1/2 miles from the place. Having never been in the area before we would have had to back track a bunch when a UPS driver opened the gate for us so we got to the church on time. Interesting the GPS took us back via another route to the motel.

I feel your pain. I had a Multi/Gadget cache in a park that was vandalized 3 times in the first month and a half. It too was a locked box that you had to visit locations in the park for both the coordinates and the lock code, it had 3 finds and 3 Fav points. I am a close friend with the park caretaker and he checked on it everyday but still the vandals still got it.

Found an unopened can of Beer once. Removed it, didn't drink it.

I would go with a repilica spider as it is easier to replace WHEN it disappears.

Pick a point in the physical center of town. Pick a second point that would be on the longest distance cache from the first and note the distance from the first point. Create a PQ from the first point for the distance to the second for the number of caches (40) or more. Exclude any caches you want to ie: those you own. Run the PQ

Thank you, been wanting to change on the Adventure Lab app. Just did it and it worked.

My least favorite is "Distance to Finds <1 mi. 0 (0%)" There aren't any to find that I don't own.

My bird houses are attached to a board that is attached to the top of a pole or to a fence. This allows the cache to be removed for maintenace without affecting the pole or fence.

After logging a cache with the words "ammo cache" in the log I got an email from the CO asking me to edit my log and remove those words as they had several ammo cans stolen. Of course I did.