Geocaching "skills"

[dlp8]

My boys and I recently tried to find a cache on the west side of Utah Lake. The logs said, essentially, "the coords are about 30 feet off, so use your geocaching skills, and you should be alright." Well, we didn't find it, making me doubt my geocaching "skills." The area was primarily sagebrush, dotted with powerpoles. Please help me understand and learn the "skills" to which the loggers may have been referring. We tried to think "where would we hide a cache out here," but in a landscape covered with identical sagebrush (and cheatgrass), that was not an easy deduction.

 

Now if that doesn't reveal my "tadpole-ness", I don't know what would! I'm going to have to become a premium member just to avoid further humiliation.

 

Thanks.

Edited June 27, 2008 by dlp8

[+StarBrand]

Find where your GPS says ground zero is and search within 30 to 80 feet from there. Ordinarly you need to be prepared to look anywhere within 30 - 40 feet - just double it for this one.

 

Actually, I would target areas near the powerlines as they sometimes play havoc with GPS signals and that may be the reason for offset coordinates.

[+Moobeat]

Geocaching instinct, as many call it, pretty much boils down to finding piles or wood or rocks or what not that are just out of place or pecuilar. As you get more and more caches under your belt you can usually start to spot out ammo boxes very quickly.