Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking

I went through my found caches and came up with many ammo cans and regular sized caches that lacked a wow factor of some sort. Either because they were in trashy areas, or placed "just because they could" or lacked an entertainment or fun factor. It seems that the percentage of excellent to so-so to lame caches with regulars is about the same as it is with micros. At least in my area. I wouldnt mention it at all, except that this thread is giving the impression that all ammo cans are great no matter what, when I know that isnt true for me. Still, I appreciate even lame caches micro or ammo can.

Wintertime and it was 70 outside today. Y'all can gloat when its summer and we are in extreme weather.

Cold? Hard to say. In Arizona low desert it doesnt get that cold. Maybe hovering around freezing. For my blood thats a chill of - 10 lol. Hot? I have a feeling I will be able to claim a 120 this summer as part of the cache a day challenge. I know I tried for a FTF after having a root canal in 113 temperature one day. Im sure we have cached in 115 too.

Hmm Ive seen locally a Cache a Day challenge (one cache per every calendar day no matter which year) Delorme challenge, County challenge, Alphanumeric challenge (caches start with A-Z and 0-9), benchmark challenge, percent of caches within various mountain parks and caches by prolific cachers challenges, a DNF challenge. Im considering setting up a challenge for finding a cache within every 1 mile grid of my city. Im also considering a puzzle challenge.

Tried to report the post, but the report a post feature keeps giving me a fatal error message. Mods: This link is highly offensive to almost all folks on this thread. Please review for appropriateness of content. Be forewarned, its pretty sick.

What was the purpose of that link, to shock and upset the folks here who like rabbits? Un-cool. Makes me glad I didnt click on the link.

It has happened to us. It has happened in commercial areas too in which not only was permission given to place the cache but the name of the person who gave permission was posted on the cache page. Still a tyrannical security guard yelled at us. (We are always polite and say yes sir and leave in those encounters, with a quick email to the cache owner letting them know what happened.) Some folks are just cranky by nature I think. In our years of caching, with over 1400 finds, we have had only a small number of bad encounters. No more than perhaps 5 or so. You will have far more pleasant encounters with strangers, fellow cachers and law enforcement/security people than you will ever have negative ones. Dont let one experience get to you.

Lol I use that converter when I solve a puzzle and need to map it out, to see from an aerial photo if its one I can do. Easier to use the website than to plug it into the gps.

I use this page when I need to convert coordinates. http://www.csgnetwork.com/gpscoordconv.html

No, I get his point. He thinks all caches need a wow factor. But wow is subjective. What is wow for him isnt wow for others. Ive seen many caches placed in my area, in rural areas, needing a hike or 4WD to get to them, placed solely because "it needed a cache" according to the cache owner. Nothing scenic, it was just a place that they wanted to leave one at. How is that different than a parking lot micro? There is no wow factor. Some folks enjoy parking lot micros and some do not. Some folks enjoy caches you have to work hard to find, some do not. Some folks like unimaginative regular sized caches placed in a boring location yet outside the city, and some do not. We can all enjoy geocaching in our own ways. What I have trouble understanding is why folks who dont like parking lot micros are against anyone else enjoying those caches. They seem to want things their way, no matter how it affects others.

Oh yea, when its 115 outside, and its been that way for a month, and over 100 for a couple of months, and if you stay inside staring at the walls or watching garbage on tv just one more second you will die of boredom ..... its great to get out and find some easy park and grabs. If only to get you outside and doing something ... anything ... else.

The"if you don't like them then don't hunt them" argument is old and it doesn't answer the question of why place pointless caches. I know I don't have to hunt them. I practice that already. Answer the question of why pointless caches have to darken my PQ in the first place. Others enjoy them. Why should they be forced to give up caches they enjoy because you do not want them around?

No he didnt. The man who killed Santa Claus

The definition of adventure is subjective.

It was nice of you to rescue that bunny. Chances are it would not have survived the night. A few days at best. Petfinder.com is a place Ive been looking at while trying to find a rescued chihuahua. On there, various rescue groups are able to post listings of available pets. You can type in your zip code and rabbit to see if there are rabbit rescue groups in your area. They might be able to help you find a home for the bunny. No way to know why they abandoned the animal, but in my area, there are many abandoned pets thanks to foreclosures. Sometimes they are left in the yards, sometimes locked in the homes, other times left in cages in the parks. One grizzly story this year was about 3 dogs left in a cage outside of the county animal control. Two of the dogs ate the third one while waiting for the pound to open. Breaks my heart to see this aspect of the economic downturn.

I cant wait to go caching with Mike on his next day off. Im excited to go look for micros. I like hunting micros. I look for them because I like them, not because they are all over the place. I like hunting regulars too. I do not choose which cache to look for based on size.

I would gladly give up every parking lot micro that I enjoy if I could only regain my ability to walk that 1/4 mile down a trail again.

Try posting on the listserv on azgeocaching.com. Its been too long since Ive been in Tucson so I cant help sorry.

If you are hiking, bring a warm coat with you. Temps can drop below freezing at night. Many hikers get lost in the mountains, or take a tumble and end up spending the night in the mountains, even the city mountains. Read up on africanized bees. They have different behavior than most bees and you should know what to do and what not to do with them here. It doesnt happen often, but a couple of folks die from them each year, and not because of an allergy. Contact the locals at this forum if you want to get some ideas for good local caches or even possibly someone to hike with.

Not always. We dont cache for numbers, but sometimes a nice easy parking lot find is fun.

There are a lot of things we consider in deciding to look for a cache. I guess the prime consideration is location. There are some areas of my metro area I WILL NOT GO TO. Like downtown Phoenix. Like downtown Tempe. Like known pickle parks. There are also certain cachers whose caches I will not look for. I wont name names, but there is one who played a mind game on some of us on one of his caches. It wasnt funny. It was outright nasty. I will not look for his stuff again. Of course I look at the terrain of a cache. I cant climb those mountain trails, although Mike can. I try to filter out caches that I think will provide entertainment, in the hide or in the location.

After pigging out eating at a local buffet (soooo good) we made the obligatory family phone calls, then headed out for an afternoon of caching. Got 11 today. Mike is now napping. All in all a good day. Temperature was in the 50s, sunny and dry in Arizona.

There is a "ghost town" in my area. A large abandoned foreclosed development that is merely graveled streets and broken sidewalks, with a pond feature that they started. Its a great area within the city for cache hides. Of the 8 caches in there, only 1 is a regular cache. One is a nano, one small, the rest micros. Virtually no one goes there, except for some ornithologists who are surveying the birds, and some folks who walk their dogs there. Given that the area was ideal for regular caches, Ive been wondering why folks placed smaller caches (except for 2 that were cleverly placed). The regular placed there didnt cost much to place. Whatever the reason, I enjoyed all the caches there. Its a cool area. Quite apocalyptic.

Thats great lol.

Have they? Maybe I don't visit here often enough, but I've rarely seen anybody express that sentiment. I visit here far less than you do. As moderator you are here daily. Perhaps you have seen a trend away from that, but I have not. Whenever I start to hang out at these forums, I see the vocal micro haters. I remember many times folks stating they wish micros were banned. Im just not smart enough to effectively use the search engine. I was only able to find a couple of posts in recent threads that I had read. Was the poster writing with sarcasm? Hard for me to know. The reference is clearly meant to be micros in the context of the thread. In this topic, the post about micros being the scourge of the earth was just a bit hostile, and is what prompted my post.