norsehawk

Caches are allowed to be dangerous, as long as they are marked as so. I wonder what the OP would think about GCTA5E or any of the other caches in that series. However, caches are not allowed to be placed illegally, and if one is found to be on an illegal spot, it should be archived, but only after the placer has been attempted to be contacted to discuss the cache.

Been careful out there, the worst that I've done was encounter thorns while wearing shorts, that didn't work out very well.

Easy solution, don't be the first to find

I love to hunt micros, they are usually well hidden (extra difficulty) and are closer to urban areas which in this time of the year in florida is hot as heck. I save the larger caches for the rare cool day, and other parts of the year when you don't sweat buckets.

Mabye not a nano... a micro tho... I am evil, I like micros, I like tricky micros, I like challenging micros, I like unique micros, once you have seen an ammo can, you have seen the basis of all ammo cans. Before it was stolen, I had a matchstick container in the mouth of a plastic alligator, hid it near water where real gators are known to live (its florida, its water, there are gators) The first few finds were great to read, the comments from other geocachers who had found it before it was stolen at the most recent geoevent I attended were great. I have other unique caches in the works along the same lines. I found a small toy animal as swag in a cache, that small toy animal will soon be a cache, once I repaint it to look more normal and blend in a bit. An ammo can wouldn't work in that situation, nor the gator one. I plan to remake the gatorcache and hide it somewhere much farther out of the way so it doesn't get stolen again It ain't gonna be an ammo can (tho I have one of those ready to hide too) That said, yes, micros can be quite lame, if no real thought is put into them, if its a well thought out one that was made to be challenging, I love em. My favorite cache i have found was a mystery cache where the final was a micro.

I don't as of yet have a sig item, but once I visit japan later this year, I may start leaving 1 yen coins (value around a penny) in caches in america, of course, I might have to try and find a bunch of state quarters and use those when I'm over there.

A few months back, I went to a cache that was about a half mile hike from where I parked, thru an area that had recently been burned, found the closest cache to the parking spot easily, went to the second spot, really out of the way, find the contents of the cache strewn about the ground, log book insect repellant, a few mctoys, ect, gather up the stuff, bag it, sign the log book, and hand deliver the remaining contents to the hider. the find stood since I did find the log book, but someone decided to steal the ammo can. (cache was reinstated a month back or so)

Only 4 hides so far, so not a whole lot of variety for me so far, but... 2 bison tubes 1 small round container with a twist on cap. 1 super micro container similar in usage to a bison. I have an ammo box, 3 lock-n-locks, tons of bisons, the dreaded 35mm film cans 100 for $4 on ebay what could I do? I am also working on making some really interesting cache containers based on critters (my plastic alligator with a matchstick container in its mouth got stolen) On some of the film canisters I'm seriously thinking of using a sharpie to write DRR on them in commeration for the Dallas Record Run, even tho I am in florida.

I do so hate bushes. I do like the more challenging caches sometimes, when I'm in the mood for them, and my geosense is working properly. I love going hiking sometimes too, just this time of year, its not very fun since its so hot! I don't really like caches in busy places as I don't like having to look every which direction to make sure a muggle doesn't see me grab or replace the cache.

2 units so far. Magellan eXplorist 210 My first gps, still have it, and I use it when I do multi caches since I love the coordinate entering method. Garmin 60CS My 2nd GPSr, Got it because I saw another cacher using one and it was so neat looking, I love the standard usb cable for connecting to the computer, color screen, good sorting options, ect. my primary gps. And of course, since I am a gadget geek, I ended up getting a Palm T|X for paperless caching and other geekly duties.

Several reasons for why I started and continue geocaching: 1. The challenge of trying to figure out where the hider put the container 2. I love playing with gadgets! 3. If I wasn't geocaching, I would just be sitting playing games on the internet. 4. I get to see things that I would never have discovered otherwise 5. Its fun! 6. I have yet to meet another geocacher that I didn't like, and thats amazing 7. Would you rather go to a gym, look at walls, lift weights/walk on treadmills, or go out in nature, get some fresh air, hike a few miles, and get a better workout? 8. Its a good excuse for exercise

I just got to try the creamslushes at sonic a few days ago, sadly there are no sonics within 10 miles of my house. But, the first thing I do when I get home after a day of geocaching is a nice cool shower. wash off the grime, then relax and unwind.

For me, I like going after micros sometimes, other times, I want to go after ammo cans, its all good for me... I just filter by container size, or difficulty... Do 2 pocket queries. First one, small (or medium sized) or larger, any difficulty second one micro sized, 1.5 terrain, 1.5 difficulty That should take care of the majority of the parking lot caches. This time of year when its HOT out, I tend to look for the micros since if I go hiking, I need to carry a lot of water with me, and by the end of the hike I will be very stinky and tired (I'm not a tiny geocacher) (example, today its a little overcast, and its 91 out right now)

Often times in the newbie forums, one of the most common suggestions is that if you are having trouble while starting out, finding an experienced cacher to go out caching with will help you figure out good ways of searching for the caches. While, yes, some people are freaks out there, there are also a lot of good people, what I would suggest, (unless thier mail is just really really freaky) suggest going on a geocaravan if you can get some other local cachers interested in a mini event. When I started out caching, I was doing ok finding some, getting stumped on others, I contacted a local caching team who's name I had seen on many of the caches near my house, as well as many of thier own hides as well. I e-mailed them, got into the little circle, that next weekend we went around the area, found about 20 caches, I learned of several 'evil' hides that they led me to and made me find (nudging me in the right direction when needed) And I even helped with an integral part of a FTF that had been stumping some of the experienced cachers before us. All in all, I made some great friends to cache with occassionally, as well as learned some very interesting hiding techniques. Definately tho. meet up somewhere public just in case they are whackjobs, an easy way is having them meet your little group at a local rest. for breakfast.

If you feel ready to hide a cache go for it! I didn't personally feel ready until I had over 50 hides, at that point I had seen many good caches, a few bad caches so I had a general idea of how to hide a cache that would both be interesting and challenging.

I can't say that I am sure I would go after a 17 stage multi, sure if its a long hike thats fine, but all that walking for one single cache? a bit on the extreme side. one concern I have about the series that yoiu mentioned, that you put 17 stages on a trail, effectively closing most, if not all of that area off from other people who would like place caches there. You posted that you put a few single caches there to basically keep everyone else from putting any caches there if they looked on google earth.

Depends on the time of the year in Florida. Like right now for example, sure you can go for the nice long hike, from ybe completely drenched in sweat within a half hour of setting out, having sweat constantly running into your eyes and get a nasty sunburn (on your eyelids(true story happened saturday)) Or you can drive to the little tiny park and find the bison tube in the tree and stand in the shade, before hopping back in your nice air conditioned car. I definately plan on doing urban/small park caches for the summer (may to november typically), and the hiking ones in the cooler months I love the ammo cans, I also love a well done micro that is a challenge to locate, or has an interesting container.

Only going by what the owner of this website http://www.floridageocaching.com/ says, the cache that is located 'near thier home' that they archived is in st pete, as are most of thier hides. ^direct quote from the mr. magneto section of thier page

Hi Mr Magneto! (or a Mr Magneto look alike) The original creator of those little evil things apparently lives near there, i've found 2 as geocaches so far, both were sneaky hides.

It was sadly stolen less than 2 weeks after going up, but I had a matchstick container in its mouth, and it was near water in florida. I will probably make another one like that, but if I do, it will be in a much more remote area.

I have a good idea how you felt the first time going out and coming up empty, My first hunt ended with 1 find, one where I needed a hint, and one DNF. I went after caches that were in an area I used to go to alot when I was much younger so I knew the area pretty well. all 3 were micro caches. The first stop was a pair of old rusty foot bridges over a small river. there was something, magnetic hidden on one of the bridges (at least thats what the clue indicated) there was pretty heavy tree cover, and the coordinates put you in the water right between both bridges. I had the great luck to actually walk up on a pair of experienced geocachers trying to find the same thing. We all got frustrated after a good 45 minutes of looking everywhere and getting covered in rust and walked to the next closest cache down a trail. This one I knew the area fairly well, coords led to a metal staircase. we were all searching everywhere, looking at the stairs from every angle with not a bit of luck, we were re-reading the clues, I gave my little knowledge of the local area and sat down at the base of the stairs to rethink my idea of getting into this whole silly game. Well, the experienced cachers took my knowledge of the local area, and used it to find the cache, as they were coming down, I asked em if they were giving up, they said nope, we found it, I asked for a clue, got one, and within 5 minutes had the blasted little thing in my grimy hands. Signed the log, put it back where I found it, Walking back down the trail to the bridges, we gave another half hearted look for it, still no dice. The experienced cachers decided to go off on thier merry way and I sat on a bench and looked at my gps, found another cache that was nearby, thinking it was just across the road, turned out to be a good ways farther than I thought, found an entire new park area that the city had built, the coordinates were spot on, and I had my 2nd find, both of the day and my career. It was a much easier micro cache. It took close to a month of me going out and finding those dagum micros before I hit a cache that was an ammo can, I was looking for a micro among the branches of the tree, on the ground, everywhere I could think of, with not a bit of luck, then I spotted something that was much bigger, I examine it closer and its an ammo can, I had read about those things online, but had never seen one before. I figure out how to open the thing, start digging thru whats inside, and sign the log, took some little silly jacks out of the cache, put a deck of cards that I had in my bag (didn't really want the jacks, but hey it was my first chance to trade something ever!) I definately prefer going after a good range of caches, even micros, but I prefer them to be hidden fairly well, in an at least challenging way for the micro to be a satisfying hunt, (tho some days my geosense seems to be completely off and I can't find anything, then its 1/1 micros for a while til my brain recovers)

I will admit, I was tired yesterday, and I remember rethinking this topic after reading the first few posts of it, but for the life of me, I can't remember posting anything negative about pocket caches. Looking thru my posting history comes up with a post on May 8th saying I didn't see a big deal about it since there was a signed log. I was the one that Jersey Girl deleted the find of her PC from the celebrate your refund event back on apr 15. Since I was rethinking this matter in my head, and had attended and signed a few PC's at the Team Cache Divers 3-4-1 Celebration that was on the 27th but had not gotten around to logging my finds yet for the day, I decided to not do 'finds' on them. I have also deleted the log of the other pocket cache that I had found on Apr 15. To me its not that big of a deal. I don't remember making a post in this or any other thread regarding pocket caches, if I have, the post was axed by a moderator with no message coming to me. If there was a post, Jersey Girl, I am sorry for offending you, if there wasn't a post, you sure are getting good at reading minds! *editville* Reading thru my entire posting history (28 posts, thats a quick read) the only time where I mentioned pocketcaches that I saw at all was in this post: Again, sorry for anything I may have done to make you upset Jersey Girl (and bruno)

It might even be an incentive for them to go out and make sure that stage 2 is still there as well. which isn't a bad thing at all.

Personally, I think DNF's should not be deleted, unless the person who was looking uses a time machine and goes back in time to show himself where it was hidden on the day of the dnf... until then...

Couple possibilities, when you archived the cache, did you go and pick up what was left of the cache? If it was still out there, they may have found the old cache and signed it, found the gc number and entered it in. As others have said, it may be half a team finally getting thier own account and backlogging. It could also be someone who artifically want to bump up thier score. It could be people at GW claiming finds to up thier finds that weekend. You really need to find out whats going on, and if its legit, I say let it stand, if not, hit em with a brick