mikericcobono

come on guys! giant clams? bearded clams? ex-wives? im only a kid!!! lets not ruin young minds...

ooo looks like this bad boy broke the 1000 views mark. sexxxy

screw the clue! like bp said if your not up to the challenge of going to that level cache dont go. and then whats the point of a clue if the actual rating is based on that - just make it the description! i think if a clue is given then it should be only for a cache that is very hard to get to. i mean whats the point of a giveaway clue on a cache thats less than 5 min from your car? ludicrous

sounds to me like caching just isnt the thing for you. try your local playground - oh wait hypodermic needles - try chucky cheeses to get what you want! nothing but fun! oh then again things can get lost in that ball crawl never to be found... guess im out of suggestions

and you cant forget ebay

are you kidding? that was one great adventure. i wish i could have alot more like it! (although i would never had said this at the time...)

Now those seem like real caches! They're the varieties im talking about. Ill be out as soon as possible to find some of them. People like the Artful Dodger just have to keep it up and ill stop complaining in no time. And hopefully the other hide-hundreds-of-caches-in-trees people will get some inspiration to hide little better and more creatively. Thanks to everyone for helping me out!

Mopar, i have to agree with you on the harder terrain and easier find thing. the real outdoorsman would be the person to reach the spot, not nescessarily the one who would comb the leaves for a microcache. but still when we are in an urbanized area the only way to get a hard cache is the shear difficulty in its hiding. lets take that ammo can and put it 50 ft up in a tree or down inside that old sewer pipe - just not in big old hollow tree trunks! theyres not much fun in geocaching when every single cache is indentical!!! and sorry etoast im not at all an authority on bike trips if thats what you mean by "input" though i wish i could help. caching is the only reason im making such trips now, and the longest being under 20 miles. I enjoy going riding down a ski slope more than pedaling endlessly down a road. [This message was edited by Mike Riccobono on February 13, 2003 at 02:56 PM.]

Thanks for some of the caches and dont worry - im not totaly stranded with a bike. But like i said im aware there are tough caches like this but they are too few and far apart. Someone cant just take a simple flat park and hide a cache really good in it? Take my only cache for exmaple. The land is just about 100% flat, only a small patch of woods, devoloped, totaly accesable area, yet many have trouble. Harrold for example - hes been there several times (before it was a multicache to boot) and he still cant find it! even with help! cant more people take a non-mountainous-rocky-100-miles-away-place and hide a good cache in it? the new cacher or the wimp already has enough caches to go to.

I'm pretty new to geocaching but i have a major problem with it. There are way too many 1/1's or the like. Even with flat terrain or in developed areas harder hiding places can be found. Sure a few easy ones are good but the real sport in geocaching is finding a really hard cache. And i bet mopar wil come flying at me with his bad boy swamp caches and such, which are good, but thats only a tiny minority! Can someone recommend to me some good tough caches in northern NJ or can we start hiding a little better?

www.majorsurplusandsurvival.com has 4 for 12.95 last time i checked. They're 10"x7"x3.5". They also have lots of different sizes as well as other cache hiding goods such as mortar tubes.

i decided in order to compete with you guys i needed an icon... i guess it represents me the youth of this group plus im such a cool dude jon ill go but id hardly consider mt kisco or any mts in the region a challenge... if i can get a ride to one of those marsh caches id love to go - in my speedo! who needs waiders or boots the fun is popping the eight inch leaches on your legs. whenever i get to my house in the catskills ill place a real cache. no 15 minuite walks in the swamp. you guys do know im only busting your chops right? i didnt mean to offend any of my elders... [This message was edited by Mike Riccobono on January 22, 2003 at 06:49 PM.]

Ok you guys funs over. any of your addresses and your dead. i may be small but im wriley. ill beat any of you to a cache on my bike. well maybe not but it will be dadgum close. i could probably outlast, outperform, and outwit any of you old farts. and thats a threat. go ahead and chellange me unless your afraid of geting beat by a wittle wimpy kid. ok im just kidding guys (only bc i dont want you guys crying all night about any of this).