J6

J6 - Which at times is just me and at other times is the entire family! We're new again to minnesota and have settled in the Belle Plaine area... We have two caches in the planning stages here that we hope will be unique and fun! viva la minnesota!

Very cool! You are much better than I would be with a spray can...

Live and learn. I thank you for posting so I could learn about decoys at all! I had no clue and now I will have some inkling... Perhaps he didn't take your container because it is YOUR container and, in gratitude for your good intentions, he wanted to make sure you got it back! Great post. Thanks for taking the comments so well.

When you wonder how much earlier you need to get up to get to that one cache before work...

and to be preemptive of my own questions and in theme with the bison tube question: This site has images of nano caches. See them on the page and it might make seeing them in the field easier! NANO CACHE Hope it helps

Thanks for the replies. I hope to try this in the field tomorrow.

Hey smart people I invite you to flex your gray muscles now! I've scoured the forums and my manual and found no directions for this. Recently, I ran into a cache that required me to set a bearing and a distance to find the next stage of the multi-cache. I got lucky and did it without the GPS because I had no clue how and didn't want to give up. Does anyone know how to plug in a bearing and a distance for the Garmin eTrex Vista? I would very much appreciate the help because I already know of a similar necessary skill for another local cache.

As my limited experience grows I am seeing these tips as quite on the money. I'm in the Detroit area for recreation right now and doing my first urban/micro caches ever. As I grow more comfortable with them I find myself guessing at their location while I walk up. I'm even beginning to remember the name of the hider so as to check their 'tricks'. Things I definitely plan to add to my arsenal: Gloves (a discrete but protective pair), a golf pencil for discrete logging, an item to drop so as to give a reason for stooping (something visible to others around and yet small enough to pocket after the decoy), a dentist's mirror or similarly small reflective device, a minimag flashlight. Thanks for the help all...I can only hope these things help others.

Good lands I can't wait for that day! I'm reading the log posts of the 'veterans' ahead of me and each of them are about how easy it was or how they saw it as they drove up or thanks for the boost to the numbers. Meanwhile I'm spending 30 minutes NOT finding it and NOT finding the next one and NOT finding...well you see where I'm going. Also, what's a bison tube? Secret cache knowledge? Do I have to wait till I find one? Thanks already and thanks in advance!

I went out this morning and attempted to find 3 micros very close to my location. Unfortunately I was unable to come up with 2 of the three after frustrating and long searches in what I am sure was the correct area. That kind of result lead me to want to get some new info...as I'm still new to geocaching at all much less urban caching. Do any of the veterans have some advice for new micro-cache hunters? Any photos or basic rules of thumb to pass on? Anything at all would be helpful! Here are the two caches I missed out on this morning: Nautical Mile - Beach Clip and Nautical Mile - North End