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Mosaic55

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  1. Do you have any used tyvek envelopes laying around? Like the ones Fedex supplies for shipping? Just find a clear area and cut out a piece, write on it with a Sharpie and allow to dry. It should hold up to casual wetness pretty well. Maybe even put it in a small ziplock if you believe in the belt and suspenders approach to caching (and life).
  2. It's a Trap Possibly my favorite cache of those I've found, too bad it was archived. It took 2 trips for me to find a bright yellow cache hanging in plain sight. Only 3 DNFs total, and one of those was at night. 102 finds. The outer container was a fake insect trap. Wish I'd taken a picture.
  3. Yes, I think most high-school age (14 to 18) would be fully capable of maintaining a cache on their own. I'm sure there are plenty of junior-high/pre-teens that could manage as well. Younger, maybe they need a parent's assistance and guidance, but I don't see any need for a hard cut-off age. Bad caches get archived soon enough and neither age nor number of finds guarantees a good, well maintained cache.
  4. Yep, I use my camera as a visible "excuse" for lingering in a spot too long. However, if it's a really busy spot, I won't stay for more than 5 minutes before I give up and (maybe) come back another day.
  5. What ever happened to bicycles and feet as modes of transportation?
  6. A geocaching camera should be cheap and thin. At least, thin enough to fit in a jacket pocket easily. And cheap enough that if it gets lost, soaked or destroyed I wouldn't be horribly upset to need to replace it. In principle, I prefer rechargeable AA batteries over proprietary Lithium types, but the lithium-ion types can be made into thiner and lighter cameras. So for my caching camera I went with in Li-ion battery type. I lucked into a fantastic Polaroid for $70 from a deal-of-the-day site. Not super tiny like some of the more expensive brands, but thin enough. I carry it around with me all the time. It takes great pictures and it's easier to use than my older, more expensive, bulkier Canon.
  7. Since your non-micro hide got stolen in less than 24 hours (http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=250817), I'd say that validates the micro hider's choice of cache size.
  8. Yes, twice now and I don't have that many finds either. The last one was in the winter and I feel bad because it may have been my footprints in the snow that lead someone to the cache.
  9. Now that's a great idea! I think I will track down something like that to use as a FTF "prize"
  10. You'll probably get more help if you start your own thread instead of adding to this one. And also please tell us what type GPS you have (brand and model )
  11. I'd say the majority of those I've found were obviously caches once I saw them. But they were hidden inside something or stuck under something with a magnet so they were hard to see. Even dangling on a piece of wire inside a fence post. Some were camo'd and hung in an evergreen like a Christmas tree ornament.
  12. It seems you need a facebook login to see the pictures. I don't want to sign up there so I guess I'm out of luck.
  13. I kind of like having the cache contents be a surprise when I get there. But since you're encrypting the contents list, it wouldn't bother me.
  14. The finder is the one who stated he didn't have enough time to write more than just a "v". Had he found the time to write one cut and paste note to add to the logs, he could have avoided a lot of trouble. This is not a one off CO who deleted what they suspected to be a bogus log. By the finder's own admission, 50+ cache owners emailed him to find out what was up. That tells me that there was a failure to communicate. It is my opinion that the failure was on the finder's part. Because 50+ cache owners emailed him to ask him to explain, he decided to quit. I'm not sure how that translates into people thinking they are better than someone else. Because there's NO WAY that 50+ Cachers decided to do that on their own, this was some sort of ganging up or rumormill that bombarded the player with loads of accusatory email. You can't possibly beleive that even half of those were actually polite? If I got 50 emails from different players accusing me of logging bogus finds and also all the deletion notices that also came, I'd be the one complaining to GS. Sounds like group harrassment to me. Where'd the 50 number come from? What I read in the first post was "i recieved dozens of emails from people" OK, dozens is still a lot, but it's not 50. And it could be multiple emails from one person.
  15. I don't think I'd let the logs stand as written, but I would email him/her back and invite him to re-log if he adds a simple explanation such as "Found last year with my brother _____, now logging on my own account "
  16. You sound like a perfect example of why a find quota before allowing one to hide is a bad idea.
  17. I just want to say Thank You for posting here instead of simply pitching the cache.
  18. I did a keyword search on "bookcrossing" and found 36 caches, none anywhere near me. I'd enjoy finding a book in a cache, although most caches I find aren't large enough to hold even a paperback, so I don't carry books to trade.
  19. Micro resentment 95% of the time, placed in lame locations because it's easy to hide them anywhere 95% of the time, not creative 95% of the time, cheap - placed because the CO doesn't want to spend any money hiding a cache too small to leave a trackable 60% of the time, placed where a larger cache would fit put in a nice location where a larger cache would fit, preventing a larger cache from being placed within a .1 mile radius of that micro. nanos get listed as unknown because COs either don't want their nano filtered out or don't read the guidelines that say a nano is a micro some COs list micros as smalls so they don't get filtered out negative attention - most of the bomb squad calls are for micros hidden on public property - parking lots, parking garages, near stores the proliferation of micros has turned the hobby into a numbers game micrologs are showing up in regular size caches because COs are getting lazy and cheap not fun for children - no swag not fun for adults who like to leave something and maybe take something not fun for adults and children who just like to paw through the contents even if they probably won't trade have to filter out all micros...miss out on the 5% of good, creative, unique micros. You know, if you changed you statements from "micro" to "lamp post skirt", I'd agree almost all of your points. (I wouldn't blame the bomb scare thing on micros, rather on inappropriate locations, regardless of size.) 2/3rds of the caches I've found were micros, and really, the only ones I didn't like were lamp post skirt hides in parking lots. Lots of micros are creative, at least more creative than a piece of tupperware hidden in a pile of sticks. But mundane hides are OK too, as long as the destination is someplace interesting or enjoyable. Like the lamp post skirt in the middle of a nice park, I thought that was cool. I also liked a lamp post hide that wasn't under the skirt. I guess it doesn't take a lot to keep me entertained The one cache I've hidden so far is a micro because I wanted to bring people to a place that is handicapped accessible and I wanted the actual hiding spot to be accessible as well, and there's no place along the path for a small. It's not because the micro was cheaper. I've got 4 filled small containers sitting here that I'm looking for hiding spots for. Buying some small items in bulk on ebay kept the swag cost low. If I had a larger container I would not have spent more on swag, but may have gotten some bulkier stuff. BTW, some other cheap swap ideas: Home depot has 10 packs of LED flashlights for $10. DealExtreme has keychain LED flashlights under $5 for 10. Walmart had 5 packs of hotwheels type cars for around $5, also playing cards for about $1.
  20. I think so. You'll need a PDA or GPS that can store the extra information to get the most out of the PocketQuery feature. It's only $10 to try it for 3 months.
  21. I watch one near work and a couple near my house. I do occasionally look at my profile page and read recent logs on my finds, but it would be too much to get emails on all of them.
  22. Mini pencil. I was always forgetting to bring a pencil until I got a half-size mechanical pencil. Now I can keep it in my pocket all the time, so I actually have it when I need it. Gardening or work gloves for handling wet or muddy stuff. Rain poncho.
  23. The cables are available on ebay. There are two types, one with a serial connection, get that if you have a computer with a serial port. If your PC only has a USB port, there's also Garmin to USB cable that comes with a USB/serial driver. (I have no fist hand knowledge of how difficult it is to get the USB driver to work).
  24. If there's a hint posted, decode it and read it. Sometimes the name of the cache is a hint too. When I'm stuck I also read through the previous logs looking for subtle clues. If the log entries indicate other people are having trouble as well, maybe it's not really a good cache to start off with regardless of the difficulty rating. You could also email the cache hider and request a clue.
  25. I painted some of them. I used Rustoleum for Plastic spray paint. ( I tried Krylon Fusion and had trouble with it crazing when applying the second coat. I see someone on that magic board said the same thing). With the Rustoleum, I used a first coat of the green plastic paint and a second layer of Rustoleum brown camoflage paint. I left a couple of the containers outside in the weather and they went through a couple of thunderstorms without leaking, the paper inside stayed dry. Liberal application of hot glue worked well to seal cap on the cut end of the bottle. I just don't know how the hot glue will hold up in temperature extremes. I used "high temperature" mini glue sticks.
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