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I understand your sentiment but lame caches are fairly rare around here. We do not have saturation problems either. There are a few guard rail caches but these are relatively rare. I'm hoping that the way we have done this one will highlight how not to hide a cache and hoping that finders will be intelligent enough to recognise it for what it is - a little bit of fun, although perhaps at the expense of our US cousins. :D You say that now... When LPCs were first coming around out here, I bet many would have awarded them a Favorite Point...just because they were new, "unique", and caused most to scratch their head while they rested their hand on the hide location. Next thing you know, everyone thought it was a good idea, and an easy and fun way to hide a cache. Then along came more and more of them in every single parking lot, along greenways...and on and on. Most still think, after finding their first, "Wow, that's a simple, plain-sight location I hadn't thought of before! I should hide a few of these so I can help others have the same feeling as I when I first lifted that lamp's skirt!" We love to share ideas that appear, at first, to be a good idea. Next thing you know you've given your community a smallpox blanket, and the unmaintained urban drivel that is a LPC become a large percentage of any cache hidden in an urban setting. Bo-ring...and quite honestly not usually placed with proper permission from anyone. I suppose if you frame it as a joke at the expense of we "Yankees", it might not become an epidemic cache spread. Frame it as a totally boring, lame, overdone cache--that generally also doesn't have permission, and you might keep others from joining in the madness. Meaning, I'd be sure to be VERY explicit that you have obtained permission for the hide (and that you have actually received said permission), and that it really is a "no redeeming value" cache. Edit to add: I think that one of my favorite hints I gave for a LPC (that I've since adopted out) was "If this hide location were a lady, it would likely be offended..." A bit off-color, but still gave some good laughs in the logs and in person. It's unlikely there will be a rash of these because, as pointed out in a previous post, LPCs here don't have skirts. Not even this one, its actually under the base.

Submitted last night, published this morning. http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5JFF5_americas-favorite-cache GC5JFF5

I understand your sentiment but lame caches are fairly rare around here. We do not have saturation problems either. There are a few guard rail caches but these are relatively rare. I'm hoping that the way we have done this one will highlight how not to hide a cache and hoping that finders will be intelligent enough to recognise it for what it is - a little bit of fun, although perhaps at the expense of our US cousins. :D

Cache is almost ready to go. Will post GC code when it goes live. Can someone suggest a suitable wallpaper?

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Sounds to me likely there's a wise head on those young shoulders. Good on ya too crazypig88 for posting logs that are worth reading rather than just "yay" or TFTC.

Ditto to that. We have quite a few of them among our caches. From what I've read about the lock'n'locks they would be on par. Still have the same problems if they're not closed properly or end up with a bit of baggie caught in the seal. Systema with a Y not I. The manufacturers spell it with an I here... It is also spelled with an 'I' in Australia too. They are OK in regular environments. They, don't hold up too well in the tropics. The seals fail fairly quickly. However most containers fail when the average temp is 30C all year & the monsoon brings months of rain & 95% humidity. It is too. Doh. Beat me 'bout the head with a 2 x 4 and call me stupid.

Ditto to that. We have quite a few of them among our caches. From what I've read about the lock'n'locks they would be on par. Still have the same problems if they're not closed properly or end up with a bit of baggie caught in the seal. Systema with a Y not I.

OK its sorted now. I used the list of states and managed to get all in 3 PQs. Thanks again.

Thanks for the replies. I'm not familiar with Project GC but I don't mind doing the multiple PQs, I can follow that. I'll try it out.

No need for coordinates at GZ, just look for the glitter from the last finder.

I've recently started using field notes with my Etrex 20 but find it fairly slow going, with such a small screen, to write my usual lengthy log. What I usually do now is just record a few details as a field note to help me remember the cache when I get home and do the complete log online.

In March we will be visiting Mexico. We know our itenerary but we don't know what routes we will be travelling along and/or if there will be an opportunity to grab a cache. So, how can I do a PQ (or 2) to cover all of Mexico? We use GSAK and Garmin Etrex 20s.

Quicker if you just stamp the tree, light pole, stump...........

Going on to ebay to buy some more nanos.

I've seen it on some of ours. Noobs with phones and free ap almost every time. I think I've used 'yay' once or twice myself but always with a qualification log explaining why. Usually on a FTF or a particularly difficult find. Its a bit of fun I 'spose. Easier to type than 'Yeeha".

Not sure why mod moved this topic here as the DOFE award is a worldwide institution in British Commonwealth countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India et al. There are many Canadians on GC forum who could possibly contribute but wouldn't see it here.

That's a change. The food outside the cache and not in it!

We like to give favourite points as encouragement, particularly for players placing their first few caches and have made some effort to make them just a little bit different from the run of the mill. And, there can be all sorts of reasons why a FP can be given, the above horse example for instance is a good one. I once gave a favourite point to a cache which was a crappy magnetic mint tin under a seat at a bus stop with a damp log. Why? The CO had placed it right opposite a house in which our family lived 60 years ago. I took a few minutes to sit there and ponder all the great times we had there as kids and contemplated what had changed in the street and what had not. Yes, it was the location but not in the usual sense in geocaching.

Not strictly so (my bold). We have a series of bison tubes (Bison Trail)and they are attracting favourite points, not only for the series but hides as well. We believe they were earned and not a result of any 'popularity contest'.

And dolphins know that.

The OPs question is "Best Places to geocache in the World!" This statement can be taken (and was possibly intended) as a question, but, it is possibly a question without a definitive answer unless one has cached all around the world. Or it could be taken, at a stretch, Best Places to geocache in the world other than your own country. A more realistic statement/question would be "Best places to geocache in the World that you have found". And the responses so far seem to have been along this line.

Well, there you go!!! New Zealand meets that criteria (in my humbly biased opinion!!! ) Definately a beautiful country worth visiting anyway, and as a bonus some great caches. Snoogans has got the right idea! Annie My only regret is not knowing about geocaching until after I moved back from New Zealand. It's easily the best place I've been on Earth, so I'd imagine I'd love caching there. New Zealand gets my vote too. Recently cruised around both islands for the second time caching each time ashore and find amazing places and scenery. The street art in Dunedin is awesome.

If I spied a washing machine in the woods, I might clean up around it. But I'd likely try to make it into a Geocache. There's this one. Our first find - as muggles. http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC2FF6K_laundromat-on-skelly

Can recommend Etrex 20. Been using ours for about a year and a half. Can hold thousands of cache waypoints using pocket queries, takes maps and micro SD card. In your case, re battery life, how does 25 hours sound for 2 AAs? They are also at the budget end of prices at about or under $200.