Lost without Spanish Moss

[bunnylady]

I'm a relatively new cacher in Florida, and already I've noticed a trend. Nearly every cache is concealed in some way by Spanish Moss. A cache on the ground is almost always covered with a clump of the stuff. Hanging micros are draped with it. If I'm in the right vicinity and can't locate the cache, I start poking at the larger moss-bunches. It's like, the perfect cache-camoflage. It's lightweight, it doesn't get soggy when it's wet, and (at least down here....) it's everywhere!!!

 

Just curious....if you're not from the Southeastern US, what do you use?

[+Cpt.Blackbeard]

Around here it's mainly leaves, sticks or rocks

[nonaeroterraqueous]

Ivy. Great long chains of fake ivy. Around here the ivy grenade is a gold standard.

[+Googling Hrpty Hrrs]

Pine straw. Lots of pine straw.

[+halffast]

Nothing.We just walk into the forest and sit the container down and walk away.

[+Retcon]

When I was in Texas recently, I was amazed at how the hiders were able to find appropriate places to place caches, considering the total lack of old hollowed out logs lying around. In NEOhio, the hollow logs are the first things you check.

[+Rebel]

If you see a cache hidden "Georgia Style" that means under a pile of pine straw.

 

In mid to south Georgia there is plenty of Spanish moss. You've given me an evil idea . . .

[+StarBrand]

Out here on the prairie, we use fallen leaves and sticks when trees are around (rare) or big clumps of last year's matted down prairie grass. Actually as dry as it has been for the last 5 years it is probably 6 year old matted grass. Sometimes a large sagebrush works too.

[+Cedar Grove Seekers]

In Canada we just place it under a pile of snow.

[+The Jester]

Gee, from all the threads, I thought everybody stuck them under lamp skirts!

[+Moore9KSUcats]

URP (Unnatural Pile of Rocks) That is pretty typical everywhere. Around the cliffs here, we may use what is sometimes termed NRP (Natural Pile of Rocks). In this case, look for a small opening under one of the car to house sized boulders. It might be hidden there, in conjunction with an URP. If all else fails, start checking the smaller rocks. It may be the cache container itself!

[+T&DJay]

Rocks. This part of PA has lots and lots of rocks. Hollow logs and downed branches are good too.

[+Miragee]

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While traveling, I found caches in Blanding, Utah and discovered that "Blanding Style" was a buried five-gallon white bucket . . .

[+jasond]

Leaves, sticks, logs, in existing holes, carcasses of FTFs if the STFs get on the scene quick enough. The usual.

[top con]

like the first indiana reply....sticks. if you are unsure...look for the pile of sticks that looks like a washboard. Found It!!

[+Juicepig]

In Canada we just place it under a pile of snow.

 

Awww, beat me to it

[+The Laughing Gnomes]

I once saw a cache that was hidden under what was termed "bark-o-flage" in the middle of what seemed like a 12 acre area of poison ivy

[+briansnat]

I live in northern NJ. When the last glacier covered North America it ended right about where I live. It very conveniently brought all kinds of rocks and boulders with it as it moved southward and when it retreated it was nice enough to leave most of them right here in NJ.

 

So we use rocks, boulders and crevices.

 

It's pretty easy to hide a cache when you have spots like this:

 

 

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Edited March 29, 2007 by briansnat

[+Dgwphotos]

Pacific Northwest hide: stump.

[+flarose516]

I'm from NW Florida and a common cache spot here is in palmettos. I've also noticed a few lately in the roots of trees pulled up by recent hurricanes.

[+DeRock & The Psychic Cacher]

Most common in Michigan- UPS = Unnatural Pile of Sticks

 

Imagine walking up and finding a "ready to light fire" right in the middle of the most unlikely spot in the woods. You have found the cache!

 

Deane

AKA: DeRock & the Psychic Cacher - Grattan MI

[+BBWolf+3Pigs]

Under rocks:

 

 

and more rocks

 

[+team moxiepup]

In addition to the sticks, rocks, stumps, logs, and leaves already mentioned, we also use slabs of bark. Here in Maine, we have plenty of pines, and when they die, they conveniently slough off nice big bark slabs. They typically stay in place and behave themselves better than sticks, which like to show their independence by rolling around and acting shifty.

 

This old timer is still holding on to his bark, hopefully for many years to come!

[vtmtnman]

Up here in New England,rocks,stones and boulders!I live in slate country,and we've got endless mountains of waste slate here-

 

 

Here's where I got the image from if you want to check it out more-

 

http://www.slatevalleymuseum.org/

 

The big piles can be dangerous to be on.I can't say how many times I've been standing on the river fishing and heard big rumbles of sliding slate.There are smaller and safer piles to hide in and trust me we make use of em'.They can be down right nasty for hiding caches,cause there's so many nooks and pockets in the pile.

[+ZSandmann]

Alabama Hide Style: Kudzu

 

I win!

[+"we two want to play too"]

Gee, from all the threads, I thought everybody stuck them under lamp skirts!

 

[+Kealia]

Redwood bark. Lots of it.