rusty_tlc

Sounds like a great idea. As far as how many finds, well I can tell you I really enjoy the logs from the caches I have that only get one or two finds a year. There is usually a great story, and when someone spends a lot of effort to find a cache they tend to write more about it.

I took my sister and her family caching a year or so ago. The kids were hooked before the parents. This weekend we (me & the Mrs along with my sis and her family) took an out of town relative caching for the first time. The Dad loved playing with the GPS, the kids were hooked as soon as we found the cache, Mom was a good sport. I'm pretty sure the Dad will buy a GPS before they finish their grand tour of the western US and they will have a fair number of finds behind them by the time vacation is over.

I usually take time to throw a coat of paint on my ammo cans just because there isn't all that much green around here. With a few colors I can match most of the natural rock around here, and add a few sage brush highlights. I like clever hides, be it camo or hidden in plain sight. It can make a cache in a ho hum location worth while.

Oh sure let everybody in on it! Next thing you know everybody will be a premium member and hanging out in OT.

A few I have used.

Ditto's that.

click the button in the upper right hand side of the post you want to quote. I was thinking about the pre-printed labels available places like this

This link will walk you through your first find. This link has a whole lot of information, read it all. Then click on the links and read all of that. If you do this you will be better informaed than most of the people in these forums. Then you can answer Newbie questions.

A ready to go cache might sell. Pre-labeled (fill in the coords and name) Several camo schemes to chose from Filled with swag Geo note, log book and pencil/pen/sharpener. What would the sale price be? I currently spend about $15 for the described cache.

If the owner has abandoned it, why not just archive it. If the area is so great I'm sure someone else will fill the void eventually. Good idea, then the locals can log the replacement as a new find.

I've had to take another look at my ignore list.

try posting to the Nevada Geocaching Association web site.

I use this method. Never had a problem. Of course I hide stuff way to heck and gone out in the sticks most of the time.

My Legand always had a problem in the truck. No problems since I got my Meridian.

I agree! Lead by example. I'm trying that one, the jury is still out on how well it will work.

An oinion bag works, for soda of course. So why not tube to your cache?

Around here the kayak shops also have rentals. I found some huge truck tubes at the surplus store for $25 each. Now if the weather stays warm........

I'd rather find a micro than a free container with a pad of post-its (probably stolen from work) and some freebie stuff in it. If you can't pop for a $.39 cent spiral note pad you need to find another hobby. The log is the cache, one thing generaly agreed on by all, make it durable enough to last. Those free note pads wind up as a pile of loose paper in the cache. Since most Micro are just the log it's less confusing. Location, location, location. Whatever the cache type put it someplace interesting.

Check out Nevada Geocaching 48 states left to go.

Reviewers and moderators do a thankless job. So by definition we can't thank them. Just joking. The new cache reviewer in Nevada, RoadRunner, is doing a steller job. I submitted a cache at 8:21 last night and it was approved by 8:26.

95 through Nevada is dotted with 1 liter pop bottles 1/2 to 3/4 full of "tea". As to how, the motormans helper has been around for years. Not nearly as uncomfortable as a catheter. I always thought truckers just drilled a hole in the floor board for the small tube to exit.

Any other states have an official geocaching day? Proclamation

Ok, I gota know how you hollowed it out. Sorry I haven't checked back here in a while. I used a very large Forstner bit, I forget exactlly what size. One my Dad used for clock making anyway. I spent three nights boring the log out since I could only work for fifteen minute stretchs with a thirty minute cool down time on the drill press motor in between. If I did it again I would drill the first couple of inches with a forstner bit to make a seal surface for the plumbing test plug then bore a bunch of holes with a speed bore or augar bit followed by the forstner bit to make the interior. I have checked the cache during different seasons and find the test plug dosen't seal very well in dry weather when the wood shrinks. But in dry weather who cares? In wet climes getting the test plug out after a dry spell (ie sealed when dry) followed by rain might be a problem.

Whoopieee I finally got a picture to post here. For the first time in 20 years I got stuck! And it was on a geocaching trip. As you can see when I get stuck, I get stuck. We had crossed a few place like this during the day with no problems. What I didn't know was that somebody had cut some pretty deep ruts through this patch with a very high clearance rig. The ruts filled back in with soupy mud. Mid way through the mud patch I slid off the high spots into the ruts. In the picture my truck is sitting completely on the frame, the wheels are suspended in liquid dirt.

You all back off, Jim Bob is in NGA territory Now Jim 'Ol pal, how soon you plan on heading north? We have a bumper crop of caches coming on up here this year.