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BrianSnat, 500 feet???!!!! No wonder I couldn't find it! I'm stunned. Thanks for answering, I appreciate it.

I have a question I can't find an answer for on my own, I'm hoping someone here can help me. I read so many posts where finders speak of being so many feet from a cache, but my GPS doesn't measure by feet. It's a Magellan 315 and it shows mileage I think. The closest it has put me was 0.01, and I didn't find the catch. I have no idea how far that is from the catch. Are your GPS's actually measuring feet? Or are they measuring like mine and you are figuring it out in your head? Because when I signed up for this sport nobody said there would be math. :-)

I'm new at this, and still trying to figure out my GPS, so I plan on decrypting the hints for any future hunts for awhile. My first and only cache was found by the hint alone, and it was a cute hint that we had fun with, "Don't let the feathers tickle your nose." We looked all over and finally found the cache hidden under pampa grass, which was indeed very feathery.

I think it's a great idea. And I like Planet's suggestion of personalizing it. You could use film cannister type containers and put your own sticker on it. If you were in my area I'd trade for it!

I have only found one cache so far, but I'm looking forward to trading. I have a whole drawer full of things to stock my backpack with. Trading will be a fun part of geocaching for me, but when I think about geocaching, I think of it as "Someone hid something from me, and now I have to try and find it" so it doesn't really matter what was hid. Trading will be a fun bonus for me.

I could get addicted to this. And I share your excitement, I'm new at this too. I think about caching all the time. What cache will I attempt next? What kind of caches should I hide? What should I put in my backpack? And on and on and on! We're just getting started, and we have so much to look forward to.!

I don't know if anyone remembers me, but I posted here around last May about my first attempt at caching. My first attempt was a failure because Hubby and I encountered a skunk and had to run away. Hubby wanted to go back and hit it with a stick, but I decided we'd just try again another day. Another day turned out to be eight months later, but it was worth the wait! Hubby was the first to find it and I can't believe how excited I was to hear the words "Found it!" What a rush! Now we are both very excited and motivated to continue our new hobby/sport. I didn't think I'd get Hubby to go again because he said that he didn't tell me this before because he didn't want to scare me...but as he was running from the skunk last time, a wild dog lunged at him from the bushes. I saw nothing because he was really far ahead of me, but I doubt it was a wild dog. It was probably a gopher. But anyway, that was a memorable attempt at our first cache, and yesterday we succeeded in finding the same cache, without any interference by skunks or wild gophers. So what was it like for you when you first started caching? Some of you have finds in the hundreds and I find that amazing and wonderful! So what were you like in the beginning? Any other scaredy cachers like my honey?

Sorry about those chicken pops! And I was bummed because a skunk foiled my first attempt at cache hunting! Hope you all get to go caching this weekend. That's the cutest thing I've heard, "The chicken popped me right here!"

I'm a cat lovin' UFO nut! I wanted to be alien kitten, but there already is an alien puppy on these forums, and I'm kind of old to be called kitten...so purring alien was what I came up with. I like it.

I'm a cat lovin' UFO nut! I wanted to be alien kitten, but there already is an alien puppy on these forums, and I'm kind of old to be called kitten...so purring alien was what I came up with. I like it.

I think your Princess Mononoke keychain would be great to find in a cache. I hope some make their way to Southern California. As for homemade signature items, those would always be my first pick at a cache, but any kind of signature item rates high with me. Mine won't be homemade, I'm not very crafty.

I think your Princess Mononoke keychain would be great to find in a cache. I hope some make their way to Southern California. As for homemade signature items, those would always be my first pick at a cache, but any kind of signature item rates high with me. Mine won't be homemade, I'm not very crafty.

It would be wrong to place a "Chandra cache". Just flat out wrong. It's only sensationalizing what happened to her, not memoralizing. If she was a geocacher I could see a cache being placed in her memory, but only in time, and not where she was found. Ikobi, thank you for asking our opinion before doing it, judging by the poll results, it really was a good idea to see what everyone thought first.

I think I'm going to have buttons made up with different pictures of my four cats. Each button will have the picture and the name of my cat, and then my geocaching name...purring alien, and the word geocache, or geocaching or something. At least I think that's what I'll do. Until I get them made I plan to put something cat related or UFO related in the caches. I'll be doing a book exchange cache this weekend and I'll be putting in one of Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who...books. For other caches I have real silver alien or cat rings. I'm ready...now I just need to find a cache!

I am going for the cache again this weekend and will log found or not on the cache page then. I don't feel comfortable logging anything else as I didn't really get the chance to search before Stinky scared us off. I'll mention then that a skunk lives in the area. I e-mailed the cache owner, and he was very helpful and friendly, very on top of his caches and the surrounding area. Also this cache is still there, because someone else logged a find the same day I was there. I think I just worry about being a newbie and littering up someones cache page with no finds, because what if a bunch of newbies all did that and some good caches went unsearched for because other cachers saw all the not founds and thought it was missing or something? I want to do this right, I want to be a good cacher. Even though I have only cached for about 10 minutes, I had a blast. And the skunk...well, he didn't spray me or bite me so even that was exciting. I already love geocaching, I definitely want to get it right. Thanks again, I'll let you all know what happens, will I find the cache? Will Stinky show up? Will my husband put down the stick?

Hi Everyone, I've been reading these forums for months now and I really like what I see. I bought a GPS and have decided to join you all and hang around a bit if that's okay. I went on my first hunt this past weekend and I didn't find the cache. We (my husband and I) ran into a skunk. Walked around a big bush and there he was! Not 8 feet from us! We ran away. I wanted to go back and continue searching but my husband wouldn't come with me. He just stood by the car waving a big stick and yelling "I'll hit it with this!" My question is this: Are "not found" logs on someones cache page not cool? I don't plan on leaving one for this particular cache because I'm going back, I'm sure the skunk is gone by now, and I plan on searching until I find it. So I'd like to know how cache placers feel about those "not found" logs on their cache page.