CerealBoxQueen

I agree about people leaving just junk. I myself only leave a sticker if i've left something else with it and it's very rare, but I see pieces of paper, candy bars, tiny erasers in large caches, pennies (that the cache owner didn't ask them to leave) and quarters...I had someone trade a quarter for a very nice bracelet I got for a good deal that would have cost a pretty penny in a store. (It didn't bother me too much as it went to a good home:) I think if you can't leave something you yourself would take, you shouldn't take anything. I'm very sorry your cache got muggled, respect is something more people need to learn.

At one of the caches in the open space I ran into a few cows. One was standing right near where the cache was supposed to go back to and didn't especially want to move or stop glaring at me. After a few minutes of "good cow, nice cow" he wandered away and I was able to replace the cache.

I love to trade. But yes the signature items are the most fun. I love the BBI buttons I find. Usually I keep most of it in a small box and after awhile re-swag some of it. My own swag I try to pick up nice things, we have a thrift boutique in my area, so I buy beautiful pins, key rings, necklaces, rings and bracelets that are pretty high end...but I get them for like 50 cents. That really saddens me looking at the past things said in this thread, most of the fun in geocaching for me is seeing what the "treasure" is inside. It's like gift giving at christmastime, you're leaving a gift for someone else and they're leaving a gift for you. Secret Santa stuff.

I don't disagree with MOC, I think if you've worked hard on a cache thats hard to find, certainly making it MOC is your choice, however don't forget about us little people out there. As someone said earlier many of us are on budget's, go to school, or live off money the state/social security gives us. 150 bucks (which is what I payed for my GPS) is a lot...and some of us probably got or gave one as a gift. Sure have your MOC's, but don't forget about placing "everyone" caches for the rest of us, who merely love the game. I don't think anyone deserves to see MOC's for free just I disagree with the people who demand everyone pay. If everyone had to pay...I doubt very much the sport would have grown as big as it has...I mean who pays 30 bucks for something your arent addicted to yet

I'm not a person who would probably do well in group caches, I almost feel as though if I havent found it, it's not really mine (this doesnt seem to apply to how I feel about others doing it, go figure...so I suppose I just need to find it first)...that and I tend to get impatient ...true failings of mine i'm sure. I think my best is 6...on a canal trail, but the Bay Area is a pretty dense cache area. But I better get used to having partners with as many people i'm getting hooked onto geocaching...muahahaha that and Disney Pin Trading...i'm so evil.

Lol...not logging a find online? That would have never occurred to me. I started looking at the website, bought the GPS and book and went from there. *Child of the computer age here But I do agree that newbie's sometimes need help. Being still a newbie in some people's eyes, I do however see things that other's do...leaving candy bars in caches (which I removed when I got there), taking without leaving, leaving quarters for good swag, but they're newbies, we all had to learn. I don't think anyone should be down on anyone just because of numbers.

6, lol today. 3 hours walking. Before that I think it was like 4 or 3. Usually I do like 2 on a run.

I have never gone to an event. As to why, there's never been one close enough to me for me to think about attending. But as to this discussion I am also on the fence. On one hand I would be pretty dissappointed if as a sort of "newbie" (though since i've been geocaching for 8 months I don't really like that term applied to me) I were not allowed to go to the first event close enough to me that I could attend. But as to the 1k requirements I think that is actually more of a better idea. I am nowhere near 1k and that would be explination enough of me not attending if everyone who was attending had a huge amount under their belt. The requirement would also tell me that the hides would be hard and just not for me yet. But 10 or 100. That just seems silly. I could have 100, if I had the weels and gas money to take me to all those geocaches

My personal best to date was 3 in one day, plus I don't drive so I relay on public transportation. I can see maybe doing 7 if they were in the same area.

Liberty For All (GCRJ76) Its the coolest i've seen. Without someone saying something in the comments I would have never ever found it.

I seem to mainly being doing small, close to town caches and here's what I added to my pack. Wet ones Tissues (to wipe off the wet one's wetness) Ziploc baggies 2-3 rubber bands A nice bag to keep my trades items in Water bottle A notebook A pen (which I always keep one in my bag it's saved me many a time) I think thats only the essentionals.

I also think the bead idea would be cool. When I was in a summer camp one year we had different beads for different thing's we had done...kinda like patches but without the sewing. I don't really like the coins as you can't display them, and I don't have or would ever use a hiking staff. So I would really be into someone setting up a bead/necklace system that was wellknown and mainstream accepted.

That's really icky and straight not healthy. If you could prove that he knowingly set excrement in a public place where it might have been found by children, you could probably sue. (They are tightening the doggy-doo doo laws nowindays) But I in part agree that is sad that people are so crazy about being the FTF. But I also disagree with the park rules statement as I myself have trespassed upon park grounds more than one time in my life in unrelated-to-geocaching matters and feel it's not as big a deal as a lot of people believe, depending on how close people live to the park. But I believe the guy you spoke of was out of bounds and way in the wrong and I think someone should have spoken to him about his behavior. ~~Cereal Box Queen