Lucky46

We had a young lady from Japan visit us this summer and she helped me find my 100th cache. The cache was BluCruz's Cache of Caches in Northern California and the owner requested no one leave any trading items in the cache, as the cache container was huge and full of caches they had produced themselves, complete with logs and pencils. They requested you take a cache and hide it only. My Japanese friend was appreciative of the philosophy of that cache and made an origami on the spot to leave as a gift to the owner. We recieved an email from the owner saying they were heading right over to the cache to retrieve their prize. Good feelings all around.

Here, here Trucker. You hit on it for mel.

So, what's wrong with putting a mag on a flatbed railroad car? Doesn't that just make it more interesting?

When searching a hide out I don't let my Gps settle in. I just walk up to the coords and start looking. When I hide one I use the same strategy. I found two caches the owners mentioned letting their GPSrs settle in for 20 minutes or so and found their coords off on one 75 feet and the other 120 feet. Both have changed their listing coords to match the loggers coords. Don't know if there is a real answer to this but have to agree with the posters that think it is just a waste of time to worry about it too much. My 76CSX gets me close enough to the ones I'm looking for and finders close enough to my hides to find them.

I find myself quite surprised at how many caches I'm hearing about that have obviously been abandoned and forgotten from this thread. I too found a container with the name of the owner and the cache written on the lid. It was strewn with other garbage in the bottom of a ditch. I looked at my printout of the cache and saw that someone had logged it as muggled a month earlier and someone else logged it as same a few days before I came looking and it was still listed as okay. I emailed the owner with the news and haven't heard anything yet. I guess some people move and their caches don't. Although, that one wasn't an AUDOAGCITWBAGWPAOANOMORAOTG because I was there actually trying to find it.

I have to admit, AUDOAGCITWBAGWPAOANOMORAOTG has a definite catchiness to it. I had to repeat it several times before I was able to master the proper pronunciation!

Actually, my first cache was a muggled cache. It was a regular sized cache and in the log, the last logger mentioned she had found it while walking her dog and took it home. That night she went through it and got it figured out and returned it the next day. Would like to think that it was interesting enough to maybe get her started.

Hey now, the term geosense makes "sense" to me. Or, to expand, maybe "ExtraGeosensoryPerception". Or EGP. Thanks for all the responses. After my "EGP" find at the lake I find myself looking a little closer wherever I am.

Congragulations! And there was much rejoicing! Happy caching!

I have been caching for about 4 months now and I must be developing an eye for good geochaching hide sites. A few weeks ago I was walking my dog along a lake and as I was looking around at the scenery I found myself thinking of all the good hiding places around me. A few minutes later I noticed a funny lower branch in a tree and sure enough, it was fake and had a small micro attached with a log. (Which I logged into) and later logged online. Anybody else stumble on one? Is there a term for this kind of caching, other than blind luck?

As Briansnat said, I don't trade much but kind of get a thrill from seeing what might be in there. Trade-up, Shmade-up, there's no reason what-so-ever for there being beer bottle tops, can pull tops and beer bottle labels in caches. I've found plenty of these. Don't even want to put my hand in there. Total disrespect for the sport and other cachers. Burn all their GPS circuitry, let God sort it out.

I don't go after them. You know, if yer in an area where that's all you got left to go for, it's a sad state of affairs. I live in a mountainous area and have hundreds within 20 miles and would rather not raise eyebrows. Fine for you girls or guys with kids with you. But for a lecherous lookin old guy like me. No thanks. Don't want my GPS confiscated for no reason.

I still can't believe that little ingrate married Michael Jackson. Thank ya very much.

There is an LPC in my area at a gas station. Drove by once and I know where it is but can't bring myself to lift the skirt right in front of a pumper. I don't know, just not macho enough I guess. 4 out of the 7 I found today were micros. No prob. They were all fairly private locations. Some micros though, for me, bring to mind the word "lazy". But to each their own. My total finds aren't going to suffer too much if I don't pick up that gas station micro. I aslo won't go around playground equipment, but that's another thread.

Used to see tons of them when deer hunting. On the deer or rather baling off them. Trapsed around in lots of Ivy in the Feather River Canyon in N. Calif. middle of March and ended up pulling about a dozen off my mini long haired Doxy, but the missus and I were clean. The vet said around here the ticks don't carry any dangerous diseases. Yeah, right! They sure look dangerous.

Agree with Thrak. I've had my 76CSx for a couple of months now and love the feel of cradling it with one hand and thumbing the buttons. Have a 2 Gig for all the North America maps and a 1 Gig for the Topo West maps. Really cool and accurate. Autorouting has made a fool out of me more than once in areas I was familiar with. Amazing. A couple of times it has asked me to take a bike path or something similar, but when I continue another way, it automatically recalculates my route and I'm on my way. Lots 'O' cool features. May look a little bigger than the 60, but fits in my pocket handily. Good battery life too. Still looking forward to getting a Ram mount. It's got a good beat, but it's hard to dance to. I give it a 95.

I'm getting ready to place a few caches myself. I tentatively have to agree with Muddy Chris and the OP. When I place them, it is for others pleasure. Otherwise, why do it? For my own pleasure? I have lots of other hides I can go and find for my own pleasure. I also understand Rockin Roddy's view in that anyone can read the latest postings and get there faster if the "race is on". Personally, (and I fervantly believe that it ALL is a personal consideration, and should continue to be that) I plan on only visiting my cacnes if I get a maintanance request or lots of DNFs or bugs in it with no visits for a few weeks. Only my 2cs worth. My glee will be reading the posting of others that have enjoyed my cleverness. Now.... let's gitter done!

I LOVE my 76! My only gripe is the weenie speaker for proximity alarms. Fits in all my pockets and feels good in my hand. AAANd VEErrrry accurate. If they put a bigger screen on it I'll get another one I guess.

I can see how a newbie, ( I am proudly one myself) can be intimidated by this forum. So many experienced and saged posters. Everything is a little out there because of our lack of knowledge, and I imagine you (experienced and saged posters) that read the forum religiously get a little tired of the same old "dumb) questions and let it all hang out. I have started to get a little immune to it finally and a little more knowledgeable. All I can say is STICK AROUND and learn something. You may have to be slightly indulgent to these learned folks but for us "Gentler types" it can be worth the wait.

Welcome, and don't worry about the DNFs. I have about a half dozen to go back for yet. I think I'm up to 21 or 22 finds so far. Loving it. I still have trouble with some micros, but am heading for the south Bay tomorrow and seeking some around Stanford U. Got a travel bug to get rid of. Hope you enjoy it as much as my navigator and I. Good luck and keep it up.

Just to answer VeryLost... It was the kind of drift I would have to turn around for even if Ed McMayon was waiting up there for me

1/1?? Sometimes I can.

What does it for me is the fact that I have lived in this area for 37 years and in the last month or so I have geocached in some spots very close by that I didn't even know existed. I didn't mind the rock crawling yesterday. I actually like that sort of thing. I was disappointed to not be able to reach the goal, Micro or not. It's is amazing to me to have been able to reach a lot of them this time of year. I just tried to get a little too high on the mountain. Being a bit of a beginner, a few of the micros have been a little frustrating for me to find. I'm sure as time goes by I'll get the eye for it. I'm probably a little partial to regular caches. I don't give a hoot about the swag, except if I see something I think will catch the eye of one of my grandkids, I do some trading. Actually, on the last one yesterday I found something that caught my eye. I know a lot of folks cache with their kids, and I think when I get ready to hide some I will try to make it as interesting as possible for the young ones. I think they like the swag.

Yeah, Thanks Keystone,... Even I didn't know about that. Nobody will pull that one over my eyes again!! Seriously, as Strbrnd said.... Kewl!!

I generally don't have anything against micros! (Excuse me, I have some really goooooood blues going in the background). You have to understand, I have only been doing this for a month or so, so does that make me a journiman? Anyway, Unicycle got it right about the one I did find. (Regular cache, and a really nice one at that! With a die for view, so I guess the whole day was worth it. For suuuuuuuure!!!!!!!!) I was just curious about who would go to the limit for a key holder or whatever?