VegasCacheHounds
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i kind of want to place a brick cache. there is a wall near my apartment with a single red brick missing and i want to fill in the hole with a brick. too much? what would you rate this cache?
I think a fake brick sounds awesome, my question would be the area. Is this spot in a place that someone could hunt for the cache without being bothered? Is it on the apartment complex grounds (in other words, Private Property), and if so, could you get permission to have it there?
I love tricky cammo'ed caches, as long as they are in a place that I can spend the time to find them without being hassled or feel like I'm going to have the cops called on me.
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I just take one reading as I throw the film can out the car window.
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We've covered pocket caches and multi logging events. So what does everyone think of "retirement cards"??
Well, I have no idea what you are talking about, but they way that everyone loves to debate things in here, I'll sit back and watch.
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Oh, and just in case anyone starts asking what this all has to do with caching, I was on my way up to a cache in that last pic
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Allow me to clarify about the event in question here. I attended it. I spent the entire day searching for well hidden caches (temporary caches and some not temporary) that the event planner took great care in hiding and thinking through. We were out on a very cold morning, having fun meeting other cachers. When I got home, I logged every single one of the 21 caches I found. I used my GPS, I spent a lot of time trying to find some of them and even had my husband climbing high onto a branch over a river to get one. Are these not legitimate?
Criminal - why do you or anybody else care how many caches I find? This hobby/sport whatever you want to call it is for MY fun. If there was some ultimate end million dollar prize for the most caches found, then maybe it would matter, but there isn't. People have fun in different ways and if you had spent an entire day and put countless miles on your feet looking for caches you would not log them??
Nobody was hurt by logging these finds, it was a good day of family fun, socializing with new friends. What is wrong with that? Please explain.
edited for spelling error
Are they listed on this site? If not, than no, they are not legitimate. Yes, they may be caches, but not ones listed here, so why log the find here. I've found a couple of caches over on Terracaching, should I log them as finds here, since they were caches and I did use my GPS? No.
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I'm a big fan of my Black Diamond Bod (as said in an earlier post, not the Alpine Bod). Works great, affordable, and comfortable, even for extended periods. Its what I'm wearing in these pics:
Going to REI and trying on various ones is a very good idea.
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Wow... You are the last person that I thought would accentuate the negative about this project.
Do the math. If less than half of these caches get hidden, no geocacher in the world would be able to go much beyond 3 degrees of separation from this project.
Do the math.
If less than half of these caches get hidden, and only 50% of those are hidden just because someone's got a container they can throw out in the middle of a junk yard (meaning that 50% are hidden in cool locations), then that's 3,028 caches that are great, but 3,028 caches that should never have been placed in the first place.
I'm sorry, but putting out ready made caches for people to just throw them willy-nilly and higglety-pigglety is just asking for people to put out caches in not-so-thought-out locations. When someone has to go out and get a container, procure a log book and possibly fill with trading contents, they have a vested interest in making the cache as good as possible. If there's no vested interest, then nothing can be hurt (except geocaching's reputation) by just throwing out a cache without concern about how it will "better" our sport.
So now, 3,028 newbies will go out and place another cache in a not-so-thought-out location.
Thanks, but no thanks.
I agree with what you're saying for large numbers seed caches, but I think in a situation like the OP is proposing it might work a bit better.
The 'vested interest' theory is interesting, I can see how that could be, but not always the case. I had a fully stocked, ready to go cache given to me, and I still haven't placed it, as I want to do something beyond what I normally do as a way to show thanks to the cacher that gave it to me.
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Hmmm, there are a lot of empty coffee containers like that here at work, I never thought to use them as cache containers because A: I didn't think they'd hold up for very long and B: the smell.
Let me know how those work out for you Snoog.
um, Vegas, I'll let you in on a secret.
They don't last very long.
the smell can be taken care of by bleaching them. Unless you work for Procter & God, and can get them before they have been used. But that doesn't change the fact that as cache containers (at least those I have seen here in OH), they do not hold up well.
In the Houston area there are quite a few that lasted a couple years, because that's how long I have been giving them away at events. I have no data on how they will survive snow, but direct sunlight and wet weather seems to cause little or no damage to them. They are very water resistant even over a long period of time out in the elements.... A bleach wash is always good to keep the critters away.....
Honestly though, no cache should last forever. It will be interesting to see how long the seed pods last and how many of the seeds actually get placed. I'm expecting 50% attrition (or more) on the seed containers....
Like Markwell, I have a couple micros from a breeder cache that I never quite found the right spot for.....
Well then, I might have to 'release one into the wild' here in the Dallas area and see how it does. It seems like here water works its way into any container short of an ammo can, but if these stay dry in Houston they should work here too.
If I was still back in Nevada I wouldn't have to worry much about the rain, but I'd only give one of these containers a few months tops in that harsh dryness and sun
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Brother, that's a LOT of coffee. You must have bionic kidneys.
Hmmm, there are a lot of empty coffee containers like that here at work, I never thought to use them as cache containers because A: I didn't think they'd hold up for very long and B: the smell.
Let me know how those work out for you Snoog.
BTW, evil. Plain evil. I love it
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When I first saw the title I thought this thread was going to be about insanely tiny micros, implants and alien abduction theories, but I see now its not.
Sorry, carry on.
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Who cares? Dragging your kids into an urban park after dark is consent for them to see all kinds of stuff. Don't do it. As far as consenting adults go? If it bothers you - watch your GPS instead. Most people do anyway...
Sheesh, just go find the cache and mind your own business...
The activity takes place at all hours of the day and night. I was chased down and assaulted right at mid-day, near the cache I was logging in a well-kept suburban park. Watching the GPS and minding my own business was a BIG mistake. I've since learned to become more aware of my surroundings, and less trusting that people will leave me alone. I also carry pepper spray.
Was it watching the GPS that led you into trouble, or were they attracted to the hamsters you were planning to leave in the cache?
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I don't like hiking caches. I think they should be moved to a different website, because I don't see what hiking has to do with caching.
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There's no documented way to insert into the Locations list on iQue Mx devices, or that functionality would be there. Unfortunately, unlike the 3000 series running Palm OS, it's not tied to the Pocket PC's Contacts application.
Well come on, get on it!
Kidding, kidding. So far, with the exception of that one missing feature, I'm quite pleased with Cachemate on PPC.
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I have not used Cachemate on a PPC, but on a Palm (iQue 3600), on the waypoint list page there is a button on the lower left that say "Ex". You click on this the export all the cache coordinates to the address book. This requires the iQue plug-in to be installed. Make sure you have that installed.
Thanks for the reply. There isn't an Ex button on the PPC version, and I did get an email back from Brian at Cachemate explaingint that they haven't gotten that feature worked out yet for the PPC. Oh well, in time hopefully they will.
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Can anyone tell me how I can view all the caches in Cachemate on the main map? I've found how to get an individual cache to show up, but it would be a pain to do this for 500 caches.
Thanks in advance.
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Oh wow, if I'm ever going to be even remotely in the area, I'll go after that cache! I'll even bring all my own gear and ropes!
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I planned on placing a cache on a bike path that runs near the restaurant that my wife manages. When the restaurant owners found out they were excited and wanted to contribute gift certificates to put in the cache. Is this acceptable? Something doesn't feel right about it.
Well, often I've heard if something doesn't feel right, its for a reason, but with this situation I don't see a problem. Some might, but they're just whiners
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The first time I found a cache like that, it wasn't in a Wal-Mart parking lot, but in a park. It was cool, never knew those skirts lifted up.
Of course, now it is the first place I check if a cache is in a parking lot. Sometimes its not there, but often enough.....
Anyways, if any of y'all are in the Plano Texas area you can check out my Just Another Wal-Mart Micro
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I was all excited about the PSP before they came out, but once I saw how big they are I lost interest.
Add the GPS feature and I might reconsider. but likely not.
Of course, any functioning GPSr would be better than what I've got now
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That Mind Your Master cache is cool, too bad I'm not in that area, as I managed to solve the puzzle in the first batch of ten tries you get per day
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After my Etrex Legend bit the dust, I used GE to find a couple of caches, and it worked quite nicely. Now these were easy caches, but comparing where GE places caches versus where I know they are, such as with caches I placed or have found, it is quite accurate in my area, as long as the coords are entered manually or using a pocket query.
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Well, I've only been caching in three countries, but I'm sure that all three are 'official' countries
Oh, the three countries ar the US, England and Mexico.
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...Maybe there's even a way to play "Warmer and Colder" with the notes.
That would be a nice variation of the decoy game.
Yeah, but that would take a sick individual to do something like that
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Don't let any of these people fool you, its all about one thing, and one thing only.....the numbers.
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If it was well done and/or at interesting spots, I'd do it.