PastorCacher

I think a great cache experience is made by the description of the cache itself. Since the GPS is good to within 15 feet or so, I like caches whose description gives some subtle hints about how to find it within those last 15 feet. I encourage cache planters to include in the description some cryptic sort of remark that the cacher could read and then "see" the cache location. People should only have to go to the encrypted hint(s) as a very last resort. I am happy with the terrain and difficulty listing as a way to sort caches. "When I got to the tomb, it was empty."

Great logos.... what drawing programs are people using to create them? "When I got to the tomb, it was empty."

No doubt this has been discussed before, but as I was reading another post "Virtbusting" I wondered whether it would be fun to allow some sort of piggyback or 500 rummy style cache. You would use an existing cache as the first stage of a multi that ended in finding your cache (traditional or virtual) People could string these caches together like a thread, allowing folks to create the longer and longer threads of piggybacked caches. Regions could vie to see who could create the longest string of rummied caches done by different people. So all you prolific posters and sage, seasoned cachers, what say you?

I still do not understand all the animosity to virtuals. Tis as much fun for me to find them as it is to find traditional caches. I don't even care if they are closeby to a traditional cache, cause then I can find more on my wanderings. The world has a lot of surface area and we've only hidden some 40,000 or so caches!

Well, when geocaching has drained me of all my spare cash for gas, swag, and cache containers. At least I will already know and have been to all the best places for a homeless person to camp out at. PastorCacher "By the time I got to the cache, it was empty."

I agree with limiting caches that cannot be maintained. I see no logical reason to prefer hard caches to interesting virtual ones since the fun is in the search and discovery. And I will be a total heretic here and suggest that vacationers might notice things that local residents have long taken for granted and made part of their wall paper, thus creating even more interesting virtual caches. For me the fun is in the search and discovery, I'm happy with as many sorts of caches as imagination can stimulate. PastorCacher

I think all the different sorts of caches provide different strokes for different folks. I do not think any one is better than another, tho I have my preferences too. Virtuals also allow travellers (like me) to enter caches where traditional caches could not be maintained. It's a big world. There are lots of fun things to mark virtually as well as with the varieties of traditional caches. So why not proliferate the opportunities for fun and discovery. I am looking forward to doing more benchmarking. Even finding survey markers seems fun to me. PastorCacher

I have the Garmin GPS III+ Does me just fine cept under cover, which it tells you it will balk at. No technology will be perfect, you just have to pick the plusses and minuses that mean the most to you. I have gotten within the error range of my receiver for every cache I've gone after. I paid $250 for my unit. I can't comment on other units, but mine servers me quite nicely.

To get back to the original thread. Become a premium member and get the downloads for your GPS based on your L&L. As you travel, change the L&L and order up new downloads for you GPS and PDA. That way you can travel and have all the closest caches right at your fingertips. *s*

If you are in the London area, be sure to visit the British Museum. There are two rooms that feature swag! One "The Museum of the Mind" is all about how souvenirs (swag) affect memory. There is some neat stuff there. A second... the London 1735 exhibit has swag collected by pilgrims and swag left with foundlings. Great exhibits, well worth the time for geocachers.

Dear fellow San Diegan... Add Bodie CA and the Bristlecone forest to your trip, if you have not been there before. Oldest tree on earth is in the Bristlecone forest!

I love the coins, but could not find the name of a minter in the thread. Could one of y'all give me some company names?

I was in a ravine, next to a small urban park in San Diego. Had to crawl through a fence to get to the ravine. Suddenly I heard a helicopter over head and a loudspeaker and figured one of the families in the park called the police. They were actually searching for a home invader in the area, but man was I paranoid till i found the cache and skedaddled.

Thanks for the input. I am sorry it has been debated to "death" but glad to learn from the community's wisdom. I was not looking to suggest anything rude or anything else, just asking for feed back. My thanks to those who did it constructively. PastorCacher.

Well I am surely glad logscaler did not flame! I indicated that the last person in the list would take the container and recycle it for a future cache. Several others quoted rules at me, which is fine, cept I was suggesting we chew over those rules. As for the coments about parks, etc.... those are thoughtful and helpful. In my corner of the world, I have not heard of that being an issue. I have crawled through plenty of parks. I still think a "degradavle recyclable" vacation cache would be fun. But discussing it is, of course. the first step, eh? PastorCacher

Dear Folks, I understand the prohibition against leaving caches while on vacation (even tho I totally forgot it when I got to a place and found some great sites.) So I am wondering if a "Vacation Cache" might be created, that would be terminal, that is, it would be expected to die after 8 or 10 visits. I might contain a bit of swag for the finder and then a pre-stamped post card log for the last person to drop into the mail. After that the last finder could re-cycle the container for one of their caches. Just a thought. I am having tons of fun finding caches in the UK and maybe france, but would love to be hiding some too. Mike Russell

Dear UK Cachers, I am over from the US and have been trying to snag caches as I have wandered from tour site to tour site. What a great "back-door" to a country geo-caching is! I am in London now for several weeks and am looking forward to locating some more. If any of y'all get to San Diego, CA< I hope you remember to bring your GPS. Tons of fun places to go that tour leaders will never take you! PastorCacher