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I found one hanging in a tree that was disguised as a bag of dog crap. I know you're all thinking "How the did he realize it wasn't a bag of dog crap?" After about 20 minutes of searching, I asked myself "why the hell was someone walking a dog here and why did they feel the need to pick up after their dog when it's a few feet in the woods with no foot path" and that's when I inspected the poo. Sure enough, as I looked through the see through blue bag, I noticed a rubber band. The other side had a micro attached to it. Was awesome.. used some kind of gel for the fake poo.

It could definitely spark interest and help get people into geocaching. Like The Incredibles have said, just ask permission from the CO.

This was slightly after a bit of rain so I went to check out how the container held up with the rain. The rain caused it to be a bit more buried than it does now, but this is the gist of it.

This sounds like a cache I would like to find. I do believe I have a picture of it on my phone. I'll post it in a few minutes if I can find it.

I've built one that was a Tim Horton's coffee cup. I put cocking into the cup and cut the bottom out of it. I attached a plumbing pipe onto it's bottom which is held in by the cocking, and then attached a cover to the pipe. A film container is in the pipe and protected by weather, and the pipe is hidden in a way in which it's "buried". There was a hole there, I covered part of it with a rock and put dirt over the rock, so now it just looks like a coffee cup someone disposed of.

I've had cachers jerk me about because my coords were three feet off. The reason they were three feet off, is because the cache was in a tree with long branches. In order to get to the cache, you had to get closer to the body of the tree. When you're in there, the GPS actually says 0ft but they were looking at it from outside the tree. So to answer your question, it doesn't matter if it's 3 feet off, people will still moan.

Whenever I see a cacher's name that's not one of the regulars (small community here), I go out and check the log. Especially if it's the only one they've found. None of my logs get wet though.. so I don't know.

I'd like that if they would show up on the map. Wonder why they took that away..

While I do use a magellan, I've had problems in the past with vehicle GPS systems completely breaking internally and unable to be used. They're a good name, a well known name, but I have had bad experiences so I'd read more reviews on magellan ones before buying, personally.

You weren't attacked. You gave false information and people corrected you, and you came back by calling them stupid and crazy.

Why bother? Because multiple people on here have stated that they use both their phone and their GPS. I use my phone more than I use my GPS. That doesn't mean it's more accurate when I go into the woods. I've only been playing a month longer than you have, so what makes your "newbie opinion" better than mine? I paid $125 for my waterproof shock resistant hand held GPS, it's been dropped into rivers and retrieved and used many times since then. You're being extremely arrogant, and you're calling other people down for absolutely no reason other than "My opinion is better so shut up". It's one thing to give your preference. It's another to start calling other users uneducated because of their preference.

> Calling people crazy > Implying people are uneducated > Still relays incorrect and biased information I also enjoy the fact that you tip toed around everyone's posts that made any logical point and basically took the childish route of "I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG".

It also depends on your service provider and how many towers are near you.

It's a cool idea. I really like it. I can see why it's not allowed though.

My $125 GPS is water proof, and I've proven that by accidentally dropping it into a river. A rocky river. It still works perfectly even though it was washed down the river hitting rocks along the way. I didn't have to buy a $100 case to do with the $200 phone and $50 phone bill every month (since we're talking prices) and the battery life lasts for days rather than one day after buying another battery. The signal is consistent no matter where you go with my GPS whether it be on a busy street or if it's in the woods in the middle of nowhere. You're not going to get that with any phone. Out of the 166 caches found, how many of them were in the woods? And I'm not talking along a treeline, I mean actually in the woods. You're not going to have an easy time finding it with a cell phone. I'm sorry, but they just aren't accurate. I use my iPhone consistently, but I'm not going to lie to people and tell them it works absolutely everywhere. If you're caching in the woods, you need a GPS. As your phone signal goes down, your accuracy follows. That's nothing but common sense. And I'll bite and answer your question even though it's painfully obvious. Why do companies sell cases for their rugged GPS? Because people will buy them whether they're useful or not. The exact same reason any item can come with accessories. And lastly, as the OP has stated, they would prefer not to use their phone for geocaching. Which is a great idea if you plan on looking for geocaches other than film canisters magnetized to a guard rail.

Maybe if you write the cache code (GC____) onto the log, and the description say something about logs, they'd allow it?

One could argue that you're simply trying out paperless caching to a new extreme, but I think it'd be best to let this one die. It's a cool idea, but wont catch if they already decided it's not allowed.

Tupper(ware) Nano Tracker Cache "CAMO'D MICRO HANGING IN A TREE"

Battery life being the worst of the problems. Caching for an hour will leave you with half your battery gone if you're lucky. I have to drive around with mine plugged in. Also, most handhelds use maps that are better than google maps. Here's a review for the Explorist i spoke about. The guy doesn't know much about geocaching, and while it was $200 back in 2010, I paid $125 for it and have seen it cheaper since then. It's not spectacular, but for a newbie, it'll work just fine and allow you to get the hang of things. Edit: The guy in the video uses a premium cache only in the demonstration and claims that you need to be a premium member to use the GPS. Not true. He probably should have done research before reviewing.

The person talking about the cell phone apps is half right. While it is accurate and works fine, I highly doubt you're going to do all your caching in an urban setting. Take a couple steps into the woods, and your 5m accuracy will change to 10m accuracy. A few more steps and you're at 20m accuracy. The trees block your signal slightly, and it'll just frustrate you. I use my iPhone for urban caching, and it's awesome. I'd never use it again in the woods, however. You also wont be able to place geocaches with the use of a cell phone because it's just not accurate enough. For non urban caching and placing caches, I use a Magellan Explorist GC edition. It isn't anything amazing. It takes some fiddling around to get used to it, but it gets the job done. Like most GPS systems now, you plug it into your computer, choose which one you're using on the geocaching website, and it'll download a driver so that you can just download geocaches onto the device and nothave to enter the coordinates individually. Really useful feature that most handheld gps systems have. Sometimes the Magellan GC isn't quite as accurate as I'd like, but I've come to expect that type of thing while caching. It's a pretty cheap device (I paid $125) and it's good for beginners. Waterproof as well, which I know saved me a couple times. I'm not saying go with what I tell you, I just wanted to give a cheap and slightly reliable one that's on the market. The app works, but it's not enough.

I was just using the ET highway as an example. It wouldn't be about the numbers unless I went there specifically to get the numbers. If I'm there to see the desert, or even to see all the places I've read about along that Desert since I was 16 and I decide to spend the whole day collecting caches along a power trail as well, it's not necessarily about the numbers. I'd even go as far to say that it'd be something that would force the parties I'm with to actually communicate for more than a couple hours, as we all know people my age (23) have trouble doing these days because they're glued to their cell phones and making sure twitter knows what they ate.

Whether it's every two miles or every 528 feet, it's still a journey and a personal goal I could achieve. Also, I'd assume the vehicle I'm driving would have windows. I'm not above standing there for longer than 90 seconds looking at the scenery as well. People travel all over the world just to look at things. I don't see why it would be any different here. Thousands of non geocachers travel that highway yearly.

So hold on. If five people want to get together, spend time together, and make it a goal to get a certain amount of geocaches on a power trail in one day and share each other's company, that's cheating? I haven't done it, and if I were to travel to a place like the ET Highway where there is this huge open desert.. I would definitely take part in it. I'm from a small Island off of Nova Scotia, Canada. I've not seen a desert before. One main point of geocaching is to take a geocacher somewhere they may not find otherwise, which is what I've come to love about geocaching. It takes me to places I'd never know about. I'll attach a picture showing a place I found just two days ago that's about 15 minutes away from my home, yet I only discovered it the other day because of a guard rail cache just about 100 meters away from it. Back to what I was saying, though. Driving along a highway in a desert collecting containers with a personal goal and good company sounds like a great time to me. If that's what cheating is in this game, then I will gladly cheat. It's not about the numbers. It's about the journey this power trail would take me on and the sights I would then see because of it. I love clever hides, but what I love more is a hide that will take me to places I've never seen whether it be a micro or a massive box.

I hate seeing stamps and stickers that take up 3-6 spaces on a log sheet, but oh well. I stick to pens. Always have them in my car and in my pocket and in my bag just in case. Easier that way.

My first hundred or so were found without a GPS. It's quite fun, but I prefer a GPS now. Saves a lot of time.