ar_kayaker

We had to outwait a bull last weekend before putting on the river where a cache was located. The cache itself wasn't near the bull's field, but about the only reasonable way to get to the cache was to float that section of river. AR_kayaker

I've used CDR's as trade items. Most of what I've left behind were USGS TOPO quads digitized as TIFF files (Available free on the web, no copyright issues, just too large to download for anyone without broadband.) I'd do it with other software too, so long as it was something I think a cacher would enjoy (caching/hiking videos, caching related freeware, etc.) If the cacher that found it was too paranoid to take and use the disk they could always trade for something else. AR_kayaker

The 25 mile guideline is just that...a guideline. If you regularly find caches further away than taht, your reviewer should allow you to place them further away than that. The distance guideline is just so that a cache is in an area you travel to often enough to maintain it. I have two caches just past the 50 mile mark. AR_kayaker

If I find a cache that an owner has ignored "needs maintenance" logs on for a long period of time or has other problem issues, I e-mail the local reviewer about it rather than post a SBA. Yes there are some that deserve and SBA, and get them, but often the issue is one that can still be corrected if you can get the right attention paid to it. I just sent an e-mail to our reviewer yesterday about a puzzle cache that was mis-published as a multi cache. Certainly no need to archive it, but it certainly needs to be corrected to keep people from showing up at the posted coordinates looking for a cache. AR_kayaker

I found one almost exactly like this. It was in a public city park, but there wasn't any parking in the park. The only parking was at some tennis courts that were posted as private property. Since roadside parking is legal in that city I simply parked along side the road down the block from the park and walked the extra 1/4 mile. AR_kayaker

I like hiking staffs rather than sticks. The little thin poles, even when they are good and strong, don't feel strong. With a 2" thick, 6' long staff you can feel the heft. Going uphill you grasp it lower, going up you grip it higher along the staff. Then there is the added bonus that if you run into a bear that doesn't take the hint when you stop and leave it alone you have a weapon to fend it off. AR_kayaker

You should not alter a TB without owner permission. If you find a bug with questionable material attached to it or on the bug's page, report it to GC.com for direction. Personally I think you're just trolling. I figure it's trolling since a review of the trackables they have logged doesn't reveal anywhere they logged the fact that they fixed (defaced!) a religious oriented TB. But then again ReadyOrNot complains about promoting agendas and yet their profile has a nice big religious oriented quote in the place of a picture so they might just be mentaly myopic about "the one true religion." For my part I have a "religious" TB out there....it is a crystal (wiccian?!?...on no!) with a goal of visiting sacred places. Any sacred places, of any religion. AR_kayaker

I have to agree with this. If there is only safe one route in, it should be described in some general way in the cache description, even if only to mention where the parking area is and the fact that there is a way in without crossing the road. I have a cache where you have to cross a river from the parking area. High bluffs and private property block any other access. I clearly state this, along with the best methods of river crossing, in the cache description. AR_kayaker

Now that's devious....I like it.

Not to throw a big wrench in the works here but it seems that hardly anybody paid any attention to the rules. Over all the pics posted to this thread so far only two seems to have "discovery" in the picture in some way, other than the title of the picture which doesn't count. One has the word from a plaque (I like that one) and the other has a picture of the shuttle. Several of the others are nice pictures, but come on...."I Discovered it in my mailbox"? Going through the 1455 pics on the contest page I've even found several that outright violate the rules (No editing of any kind, cropping, re-touching, etc) and I'm only on page 20! I expect Jeep or Groudspeak disqualify those outright, though appearantly they still posted them to the contest gallery. AR_kayaker

I try to e-mail people that move one of my TB's thanking them for dropping it into a new cache, but on the caches I only e-mail if they logged some sort of issue on the cache or some other comment that really called for a response.

What an awesome TB. I've never even seen a Cthulhu toy before.

I've been considering one inside a pelican case and attached 4-5 feet down the chain of a marker bouy with a carabiner clip. The main reason I haven't done it so far is that I'm not sure how much interest there would be in a cache you had to swim out to. Sure my GPSr is waterproof and many current models are, but most of them don't float. It'd seriously suck to lose a $300 GPSr because it sank while you were retrieving a cache.

So far only GCXXX 1, 5, 7, 8, & C have been published.....

The only "logs" I've deleted from my caches is where someone leaves a "found it" log and then right after writes a note because they forgot to drop a bug when they wrote the "found it." I'll delete the note to prevent needless clutter. I've been guilty of doing the same thing myslef when logging caches, but I delete my own note as soon as I finish posting it. I did encrypt one persons log temporarily because it gave away too much about the cache, but after I asked them to they edited out the spoilers and I decrypted the log. AR_kayaker

I have one I haven't activated yet that will be attached to a National Parks Passport (those little books you can buy at many National Parks) It's goal is to get stamped at as many NP's as possible. Since you can't geocache in NP's, I thought it'd be a useful way to "invade" the parks with geocaching anyway. I plan to put a link on the TB page to the Waymarking page that lists the coordinates of the stamping stations. AR_kayaker

We have one cache where people just park on the road and take off cross-country.. it is a short jaunt, but there is a very steep hill at the end you have to traverse. Well if they try that with this one they will have an 80' bluff to climb down (and back up) after they cross 1/4 mile of posted property. As hard as I made it to get to, the route in described on the cache page really is the easiest way.

I agree that sometimes it's nice to have my TB's "discovered", just so that I know they are still there, but I'd rather see them moving of course. I had one TB that got discovered 5 times in a cache before someone finally decided to grab it. I have no idea why. AR_kayaker

The number has been assigned, but the cache isn't published yet. Maybe the reviewer for their area is behind because GCXXYA (which would come after GCXXXX) was published on the 25th and has already been found several times. The same goes for GCXXXC. I've found one or two others with numbers that are close that have been published as late as the 27th, but so far nothing on GCXXXX....

This is the time of year that our local chain stores (Wally's, Target', K-farts) put all the outdoors stuff on clearance. Last year I picked up liquid filled compasses for $1 each, mini-first aid kits $.25 each, and other assorted hiking stuff for next to nothing because they were making room for Christmas stuff. Check the clearance rack and you can probably stock up on nice swag for cheap. AR_kayaker

I've just had one published that if you try to get the the cache without reading the cache page for access directions you won't be able to get to it. All the obvious ways of getting there require passing through clearly marked private property with big "no tresspassing" signs.

Cunning might be a more accurate word. Now if he was selling a ring that had an inscription inside reading "One ring to rule them all...."

I've seen several caches listed as traditionals where you had to find the coordinates in another cache first, or even partial coordinates in each of several different caches. I actually have one in the planning stage where you have to find a particular TB before you can find the cache....

I have a couple of micros that I put out early on that I think could have been done better. One of them was put out mostly because there was a big empty space on the caching map and I wanted to fill the void. Since then someone placed a multi cache about 1/2 mile away. I've thought about archiving them, but both of them get found on a regular basis. Granted most of the logs are "found it-TFTC." but they almost seem to popular to archive. AR_kayaker

The only two times it's acceptable to call it a find without signing the log is if: 1. The log is unsignable (logbook missing, soaked) 2. There is something on the cache page that states you have to do "xyz" to log the find. AR_kayaker