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If this content is hosted on a specific website, you could also take the specific URL for the page, run it through a URL shortener (such as tinyurl) and place a laminated card in the cache(attached, to be sure). As many cachers seem to carry a camera, if not a smart phone, with them then those interested enough to check out the info could snap a pic and look it up at home when they were done for the day. Unless of course you mean this info for something like coords for the next stage of a puzzle, then my idea would just be silly.

Good hiking/walking shoes, sturdy work or gardening gloves for bushwacking, spare batteries for GPS, and a good hat. Idunno how bad hair-critters are in Holland, but here in Illinois(US) the ticks are downright terrible. And always always always bring a pen, just in case one has come up missing in the cache

Have you physically been to the cache that it is supposedly located in? If not then odds are it has been picked up and added to someone's personal collection.

The Kindle, much like the Nook Color, runs on the Android OS. There are several geocaching apps for Android. These can be loaded through the market, or (if the fire doesnt have access to the full market(Nook did not)) you can try to download the .apk from google and load it manually. This means google-ing the name of the app followed by .apk, finding the file on google, and dropping it into a folder on the kindle. Then unplug the kindle, locate the .apk file in the folder, and execute it to run the installer. This may not work without jailbreaking/nootering, but that is an entirely different beast for a completely different forum However, the kindle fire will have a browser where you can navigate to GC.com and load up cache pages in different tabs. Then you can take these pre-loaded pages with you and plug the coordinates into your GPSr to get you to GZ. Not perfect, but paperless all the same. I havent tried using my Nook for this yet. I'll give it a go when I get home and post back with the results. I MAY have gotten off-topic, and for this I apologize.

Few Hundred... in a Day? Beastly... I just became aware today of caches along kayak routes... and it sounds amazing to me. Back on topic, I enjoy bushwhacking and long scenic hikes with my fiance(Morgans20). The longer it gets me out of the house, the more I like the cache(s). If it takes me an hour or two to get to/find/return from a cache, then I feel like it was worthwhile. If I have to crawl, climb, jump, etc then it adds to the challenge and the experience. (long into short: if I have to get dirty, frustrated, and exhausted I'm happy ) Also, any cache that is clever in the use of names or hints that seem unrelated, but hit you like a ton of bricks when you figure it out.

I've seen rocks in a couple of caches. I always catch myself about to get frustrated, then realizing how much I played with rocks as a kid and how I thought some were cool. I try to give benefit of the doubt and assume its just a kid who found a 'neat' rock and decided to put it in a cache because they figured someone else would think its 'neat' too. On a sidenote, what are the thoughts on sea shells in caches?

Good luck with your new business. As a marketing professional, let me give you a bit of advice: Any business, including yours, needs to have a unique selling proposition. There are a lot of people selling geocache containers on ebay already. In order to be successful, you need to do something to make yours stand out. That "something" might be a more creative container type, or some extra included with the purchase, or... I don't know, I'm really not that creative myself. (If I did know,I'd be selling caches on ebay!) But the point is, if I just typed "geocache" into the search box on eBay and I'm looking at the 926 current auctions, what's going to make me pick YOURS? If you can't answer that question, you probably aren't going to sell a lot of caches. If you can find a way to make your listings stand out, and offer a real value to your customers, then you'll make money. Excellent point, and kudos to you good sir for being liberal with the free advice. If I might add to it and make a suggestion: Several people have already said that part of what they enjoy most about hiding caches is being able to decorate and camoflage the cache themselves. Instead of offering to personalize the caches for them, make it a sort of build-your-own kit. Allow them to choose different options which will come with the container, but not already applied to it. This way, it saves YOU on labor, which could lower the prices for the customer, making this deal more enticing. This would be best accomplished with your own website where you can customize the HTML and add in forms for option selection. That, or modify the order via email on the ebay auction. Along with the cache kit customisation, perhaps offer the custom logs/labels for the cache and send the template to the customer so they can have replacements on the fly without having to re-order, re-create, or redesign. Also opens the doors for the customer to tweak their creation as they see fit.

Im fairly new myself but from what I've seen, signing the log book and logging it on the website are the minumum for what people are expected do. I suppose if you are just in it for the thrill of the hunt and don't worry about noting what you've found then just logging on and finding them would work. However, if there are trade items/trinkets inside a cache, make sure to trade equal or trade up(something of higher value). Unless of ocurse it is a Travel bug, Geocoin, or other Trackable. Then feel free to pick that up and make sure to log that you did on the main website. Some/many trackables have a goal. It is frowned upon to take one of these if you arent helping with that goal. Or at least to take it long enough to slow down/stop the goal before placing it in another cache. I personally love the whole trinket exchange deal with Caching. Even if I dont see something in the cache I want, I'll reach in my swag-bag and leave a little something. But again, this is optional. Taking without leaving is kind of a no-no, though. also, WELCOME and happy hunting!

Get started with day, or evening, caching while its still light out and let it pass into night caching. This way you get the geo-sense gears all greased and warmed up and you are already in the mindset of where to look, even if there's a light deficiency. Not to mention the confidence boost of finding some before things get harder at night.

If I might offer my $0.02, I used to be violently allergic to PI. Just brushing against it would cause my whole body to break out, eyes swollen shut type of cases. And every time I mentioned having PI, my grandmother would get me a bar of "Fels-Naptha' soap. It is old as dirt, and just as expensive, but it will dry out/kill any rash you've got. Any country store should carry it(we have Rural King and Tractor Supply Co here in IL, not sure about the rest of the country). 1 bath with this would normally take care of the problem, 2 if I let it get bad. Thankfully as I've aged my allergy seems to have lessened and now I scarcely break out at all. And its always a good idea if you're going out in a wooded area to stop by the nearest nature center. They'll have pamphlets with all the plants to be aware of for the area.

I, too, just started Geocaching(First find last night) and I took my fiance(another first-timer) with me. This let the experience remain a challenge while we both got encouragement for a tricky find. I found myself thinking "OK, I'm 7 years old again. Where am I hiding something small and full of treasure?" Suddenly it was like I had a bee-line to the cache. The second one for the night had us wandering around a parking lot for a "Super easy grab-and-go" which took nearly 20 minutes for us to find, even using the compass on my android app. We had to use the hint and the picture and were still stumped until sheer luck revealed the hide. Turns out this part of the lightpost wasnt bolted down and lo-and-behold: the cache was underneath. So my advice from one newbie to another: 1: Get someone else on your level if you cant find a guru. It becomes much more of an adventure and you stop worrying about 'What if I dont find it.' 2: Think like a child. Also makes it more fun, and suddenly hiding spots are obvious if you take the mental role of the hider. 3: Think outside the box. Try moving something that you might not think moves, look behind something that might appear flush with a wall. Dont't give up. Once you get that first find, you get bitten and its all downhil from there. You can do it.