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For my two cents, ammo cans are the way to go. I have one cache that is 11 years old that is on top of a mountain at almost 11,000 feet. It has been exposed to 160 mph winds, 20 to 30 degrees below temperatures, rain and snow (mostly snow). It still is dry inside and looks like it could go another 10 years.
My experience is that MUGGLES dump the cache contents and steal the ammo cans. So I opt for less obvious CONTAINERS and go for the camouflage in plain sight cache. I mean whats better than a cache that can be seen miles away, that goes unbothered by muggles for years? Is 4' tall, bright yellow and can be seen from the freeway, on a hilltop as you zoom by? That experienced geocachers can't find even though they are LEANING against it? I have had THOSE caches. Or another that is simply laid by the side of the road, can be reached from your car seat, and also not bothered by non-players? (This one was last seen being used by the Firefighters as a wheel chock, when they left, they took it. I guess they need a wheel chock more than we needed that cache.)
Nope I will stick with Unusual but common objects as caches.
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I AM in favor of archiving THOUSANDS of caches, ones that haven't been found in a year or more for example. Lets make that AUTOMATIC so these locations can become usable once again. I have whole sections where someone has placed a micro on every phone pole for miles down a road. That monopolizes a LOT of territory. I see that no-one has searched and found them for long periods and wonder why they are not archived.
Usually these are all micros, which means there are no swag containing caches in the area.
Micros should ONLY be permitted in areas which a traditional cache can not be placed, and allowances should be made which allow traditional caches, even if near a Micro. Frankly having NOTHING BUT micros saturating my area has resulted in my NOT searching, as indicated by my 40 finds in 11 years. I have several Traditional caches ready for deployment, but itshard to find an unoccupied area suitable, and that is made MORE difficult by micros on every telephone pole.
I am a FAMILY cacher and the kids want to find a CACHE, not a note.
I can't tell you how many times we stopped searching because we had climbed to a mountain top and couldn't find the MICRO. Its ridiculous.
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The other issue I'm seeing is the spray paint chipping off.
Camo Duct Tape.
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Tink says: "Every time you hide a film can, a fairy dies."
I hate Micros, and there are MILLIONS of them, even in places where a Traditional Cache COULD be. Geocaching gets awful boring when every search is just another Micro.
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Cinder Blocks, custom fitted with 3" and /or 4" sewer pipe.
OR just the sewer Pipe.
And in ABSOLUTE plain sight.
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I sent out 12 TBs 9 years ago, only one is still active. Between plundering, "TB Pirates" who "Kidnapped" several and offered to sell them back to me, and people who just "collected" them and never placed them.... They go missing quickly.
I sent in a suggestion to Geocaching, and they say they do not keep records of which are active...They just provide the bandwidth.
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I have a TB that has been active for over 9 years. and its a HUGE one.
Is there a way to list longest running active (found in the last 6 months) TBs?
And could there be a search effort to find and log them?
These long running TBs are the superstars of the TB world.
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What do they want to arrest him for?
Don;t know, but that is what the Officer on the TV news was saying.
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Update: The Cache is ulled. As I Got C4 reported the Police examined the contents. I was contacted to remove the cache because it was found to contain A ROUND OF AMMUNITION.I will now have to disable the ca
che which had been there nearly 3 years.What idiot puts ammunition in a geocache?
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The cache that was blown up, was it the one next to the school? Bad idea as cache placements go.
Yes, however around here you are never more than two blocks from a school.
All the schools are placed on a grid pattern up and down Eucalyptus ave and east and west on Etiwanda/Miller street.
Lots of schools.
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The above cache is my placement. It is an 2x3x8 inch tin box with a magnet, attached to a metal angle iron power tower.
The issue is that it is magnetically attached, paint matches the Tower, and the cacher who got jacked up uses the "handle" "I got C4."
First I got C4 is not a good user name, it could get you shot or otherwise inconvenienced.
If he had geocaching literature handy the PD would have believed him sooner.
Perhaps I should pull the cache, now that the PD is looking at it, if it is still there that is.
San ernardino County sheriff is "looking" for the Geocacher last week who placed a tube object in a tree, near a school. They blew that geocache up They want to arrest him.
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Location: California, United States
iHaveC4 found Tower of Power TB stop (Traditional Cache) at 10/22/2010
Log Date: 10/22/2010
So where do I start. Passed a police car on the way to this cache..didn’t think much of it until I found the cache and I was sitting in my car signing the log when I looked in my rear view mirror. Great!! sure enough...police car parks right behind me and tells me to stay in the car. Of course...now comes the long winded geocache explanation..but he wasn't buying it. Second police car pulls up and now they have me on the hood of the police car examining the contents of the cache container...COPS episode?? And yes.. they did ask if I had C4. haha. In the end... they found geocaching quite interesting and I may have recruited 2 new members to the geocaching community. SL but they didn't. TFTC!! and the experience.
Visit this log entry at the below address:
Visit Tower of Power TB stop
Just the other day a geocache was blown up by the bomb squad, because it "appeared" to be a pipe bomb.
Our Local Police are actively looking for cache placers to question them.
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http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...3e-e36f438c9845
Is a cache I replaced for the originator, and I have been maintaining it since 2003.
I was recently archived, although the cache is still in place and being visited.
Can I get a cache revived under my own account (Team Geocan)?
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http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...3e-e36f438c9845
Is a cache I replaced for the originator, and I have been maintaining it since 2003.
I was recently archived, although the cache is still in place and being visited.
Can I get a cache revived under my own account (Team Geocan)?
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I knew your post about dunking it in a bucket was facetious, but the part that sounded weird was that they would walk up to a cache, put their TB in the container and then pull it right back out? Is there really any significance to physically placing the TB in the cache container only to remove it a few seconds later? Is it just a physical manifestation of a symbolic gesture?
It's like touching second in baseball, you SHOULD.
Personal honesty thing I guess.
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I knew your post about dunking it in a bucket was facetious, but the part that sounded weird was that they would walk up to a cache, put their TB in the container and then pull it right back out? Is there really any significance to physically placing the TB in the cache container only to remove it a few seconds later? Is it just a physical manifestation of a symbolic gesture?
It's like touching second in baseball, you SHOULD.
Personal honesty thing I guess.
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http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...0f-a7a8e391f934
Less than three hours from placement, the cache was gone...
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So many people out there that don't know a stump from a rootstock.
Is there ANYONE besides edscott that knows what a rootstock is (without googling it)?
Yea, but then my dad is a nurseryman....and has been for 60 years...some of it rubbed off, and my mom made me go wash up...
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So why do I carry extra log books with me?? Oh Yeah, just for this situation... and because I am used to finding logs all messed up.I drop a new log in, when the old one gets full.... Gotta keep it fun, right?
Team Geocan
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Gee all my chutes have always had rip cords...
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Because I keep leaving these things laying around....
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A wooden crate in the bushes with about 200 Porn VHS tapes in it, stolen from a Video store nearby....OOPs wrong cache. The store didn't want them back... So I gave them to a friend who was into that stuff.
che which had been there nearly 3 years.
Is there a benchmark map on Geocaching.com?
in Benchmarking
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I located a Benchmark, and want to post the photo, but how do I locate it in Geocaching.com? The closest I can get is a general zip code. I didn't have my GPS with me at the time, so I need to do it by intersection. The coords are: N 34° 08.167 W 117° 18.833