a no coordinates cache? What do you think?

[+rocksnrivers]

I was wondering what the geocaching community thought of the idea of placing a cache that involved no relevant coordinates. Instead final discovery would involve extensive research, serious detective work and perhaps the use of a compass but no GPS. I'm new to caching so it may be that someone knows already of a simlilar cache that has been placed. If this is the case please post a link to it so that I can look at it and see what others have done. Let me know if this type a cache sounds appealling and just your general thoughts on the subject.

[+briansnat]

Its called a Letterbox.

 

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues" -Abraham Lincoln

[+Sissy-n-CR]

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Originally posted by rocksnrivers:

Let me know if this type a cache sounds appealling and just your general thoughts on the subject.

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I think a lot of people will love this type of cache. Follow Brian's link and do a lot of reading on letterboxing, it has a lot decorum and is both stricter and looser than geocaching. If you follow the letterbox guidelines, you'd be able to list it there as well as they've just made it a whole lot easier to do so.

 

To get your box listed here like what you're talking about you'll need to post some kind of coords. What I did was attack it two ways. List your clues prodominately. Then, so people can hunt it like an offset, use coordinates to different clues--I simply hide the final coordinates somewhere in the environment. Here's mine. I had originally planned to simply hang a tag way out in the woods or from one of the trees in the lake, but ended up putting it in a park.

 

Hope this helps!

 

CR

 

[+Team OUTSID4EVR]

See this cacheas an example.

[+Renegade Knight]

It's been done. Once upon a time I had a cache the coords were about 0.25 miles off or so. But if you read the story and picked up on the hint it told you exactly where to look.

 

The hint was good enough to where you didn't need to even use the 0.25 coordiante to

see the cache location.

 

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