chillin209 Posted August 15, 2009 Posted August 15, 2009 My latest geomural from start to finish. Swizzle That is very cool Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 15, 2009 Posted August 15, 2009 I keep think that little girl looks so life like. That's Midnight Princess! I don't want to make a cache out of her. So who's kid is she? She is way too cute to be yours. My wife's of course! Quote
+swizzle Posted August 15, 2009 Posted August 15, 2009 (edited) Thanx Clan Riffster! You should see my artwork on some of my ziplock baggy caches. I actually just placed this one today and I'm waiting for it to get published. Swizzle Edited August 15, 2009 by swizzle Quote
+gof1 Posted August 15, 2009 Posted August 15, 2009 I keep think that little girl looks so life like. That's Midnight Princess! I don't want to make a cache out of her. So who's kid is she? She is way too cute to be yours. My wife's of course! Ah-ha! That explains it. Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 15, 2009 Posted August 15, 2009 My wife's of course! Ah-ha! That explains it. She wouldn't like this. (The Midnight Princess aka The Puff aka Miss Puff aka Cherries aka Cherry Puffies.) I'm proud that she is my daughter and for some reason she's a daddy's girl. Impossible you say!? She doesn't appear to be hellraiser like me. That's probably a good thing. She hid her first cache this week. Quote
+gof1 Posted August 15, 2009 Posted August 15, 2009 My wife's of course! Ah-ha! That explains it. She wouldn't like this. (The Midnight Princess aka The Puff aka Miss Puff aka Cherries aka Cherry Puffies.) I'm proud that she is my daughter and for some reason she's a daddy's girl. Impossible you say!? She doesn't appear to be hellraiser like me. That's probably a good thing. She hid her first cache this week. And only about 200 miles from here. There is a chance that I will get there some day. Quote
+Boots... Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 I wanted to post some pics from some of my event caches from the 4-H Camp Cache Bash, held this past June. Paul Bunyans Ammo Can My Micro Teaser The LPC in the Woods I will try to post some from last years event as well, as soon as I can find them! Boots... Quote
+kirgy9 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 I went to a MEGA event in my town (weston-super-mare, UK) and they had a cache container competition and i was cheeky enough to take some snap shots (they arnt very good pictures, il warn u now!) But here they are: [email=http://learnvb.co.uk/picture_library/09082009094.jpg]http://learnvb.co.uk/picture_library/09082009094.jpg[/email] Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 I went to a MEGA event in my town (weston-super-mare, UK) and they had a cache container competition and i was cheeky enough to take some snap shots (they arnt very good pictures, il warn u now!) But here they are: Try to resize them next time. They are too big for the forums. Quote
+ltlpink Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 WOW I am thunderstruck by some of these. I have not read all the entries but here is one I found-- GC1M70C Sorry-I havent figured out how to post a link and dont have any photos. However the photo is shown with the listing. This is rated a 1/1 as it is sitting on the front porch of a house on a paved street about 2 blocks off a major Highway and you have permission to park in the driveway. How easy can you get. ltlpink Quote
knowschad Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 I went to a MEGA event in my town (weston-super-mare, UK) and they had a cache container competition and i was cheeky enough to take some snap shots (they arnt very good pictures, il warn u now!) But here they are: Try to resize them next time. They are too big for the forums. Next time? No... please delete and resize. They distort the entire page. They're also out of terribly focus and have no comments to put them into context. Thanks for trying to contribute, but please delete and start over. Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Try to resize them next time. They are too big for the forums. Next time? No... please delete and resize. They distort the entire page. They're also out of terribly focus and have no comments to put them into context. Thanks for trying to contribute, but please delete and start over. They took away the edit features. Quote
jholly Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Try to resize them next time. They are too big for the forums. Well, after all they were taken at a MEGA event. Jim Quote
jholly Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 (edited) Try to resize them next time. They are too big for the forums. Next time? No... please delete and resize. They distort the entire page. They're also out of terribly focus and have no comments to put them into context. Thanks for trying to contribute, but please delete and start over. They took away the edit features. Are you sure? I thought I edited one just the other day. The edit only lasts for 24 or 48 hours though. Jim Edit: it is still there. Edited August 17, 2009 by jholly Quote
knowschad Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 (edited) Try to resize them next time. They are too big for the forums. Next time? No... please delete and resize. They distort the entire page. They're also out of terribly focus and have no comments to put them into context. Thanks for trying to contribute, but please delete and start over. They took away the edit features. Only from you apparently. LOL! Really makes me wonder why. [edited to prove that I can edit.] [edited the next day to prove that I can still edit it the next day] Somewhere deep in the archives of this forum, there is a thread/post about an even smaller nano than the one by RykoalaTeam. Maybe someday I'll try to search for it. Edited August 17, 2009 by knowschad Quote
7rxc Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Are you sure? I thought I edited one just the other day. The edit only lasts for 24 or 48 hours though. Edit: it is still there. Once the edit option evaporates, one only has to put resized images on the host location and keep the same image file names... the Forums just keep the same links, but to different sized pictures. Takes a little bit of recording of names though... do it all the time in the avatar creation thread. But it does NOT edit the forum message itself. Doug 7rxc Quote
knowschad Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 My latest geomural from start to finish. Swizzle VERY nice, Swizzle! You could be selling those in tourist stands! That particular scene is a bit reminiscent of our own Split Rock Lighthouse Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Only from you apparently. LOL! Really makes me wonder why. [edited to prove that I can edit.] Edit that tomorrow. Quote
+RykoalaTeam Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Hello everybody, I've looked over this thread and love the caches! There's some great ideas in here. I thought I'd share what around here is the smallest cache yet seen. One cacher with over 1500 caches said that for him this redefined what a cache could be. The cache is a small capacitor taken from a broken piece of electronics. I used a razor blade to cut off the label, exposing the aluminum shell. Then I cut it down with the razor, rolling it back and forth under a straight blade. That exposed the insides which I then removed. Lastly, I super glued a shard of a hard drive magnet to it. You can see that the log is extremely small and is exposed. That's usually not a problem, as you can put this well out of the weather. I put one of these on a ghost bike (a white painted bike as a memorial to a downed cyclist) and painted it white. It took 4 days of intense searching to be found! The next one will be not as easy ;-) I hope this concept will inspire some seriously evil hides outside of the Reno NV area ;-) Quote
+mfamilee Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Hello everybody, I've looked over this thread and love the caches! There's some great ideas in here. I thought I'd share what around here is the smallest cache yet seen. One cacher with over 1500 caches said that for him this redefined what a cache could be. The cache is a small capacitor taken from a broken piece of electronics. I used a razor blade to cut off the label, exposing the aluminum shell. Then I cut it down with the razor, rolling it back and forth under a straight blade. That exposed the insides which I then removed. Lastly, I super glued a shard of a hard drive magnet to it. You can see that the log is extremely small and is exposed. That's usually not a problem, as you can put this well out of the weather. I put one of these on a ghost bike (a white painted bike as a memorial to a downed cyclist) and painted it white. It took 4 days of intense searching to be found! The next one will be not as easy ;-) I hope this concept will inspire some seriously evil hides outside of the Reno NV area ;-) You should hide it in the woods. Quote
knowschad Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 (edited) Hello everybody, I've looked over this thread and love the caches! There's some great ideas in here. I thought I'd share what around here is the smallest cache yet seen. One cacher with over 1500 caches said that for him this redefined what a cache could be. The cache is a small capacitor taken from a broken piece of electronics. I used a razor blade to cut off the label, exposing the aluminum shell. Then I cut it down with the razor, rolling it back and forth under a straight blade. That exposed the insides which I then removed. Lastly, I super glued a shard of a hard drive magnet to it. You can see that the log is extremely small and is exposed. That's usually not a problem, as you can put this well out of the weather. I put one of these on a ghost bike (a white painted bike as a memorial to a downed cyclist) and painted it white. It took 4 days of intense searching to be found! The next one will be not as easy ;-) I hope this concept will inspire some seriously evil hides outside of the Reno NV area ;-) That may well be the smallest cache that contains a log, but GC705E claims to be the smallest ever (although it would not be allowed today) Edited August 17, 2009 by knowschad Quote
+Bmxer11 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 YOU HAVE GOT TO CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO. BEST CACHE EVER MADE> http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...c7-767bdd612f6f Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 (edited) YOU HAVE GOT TO CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO. BEST CACHE EVER MADE> http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...c7-767bdd612f6f Or What do you ride? I have an '87 Mongoose Decade in aqua. It is the bike I always wanted as a boy but never could have. I don't think I like those tiny ones above. I don't like nanos either. I like well thought out containers that are made to fit their environment. Anyone can go stick a nano on something. Aren't nanos magnetic? I couldn't get the last one I found to stick to anything. Edited August 18, 2009 by Knight2000 Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 YOU HAVE GOT TO CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO. BEST CACHE EVER MADE> http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...c7-767bdd612f6f That one is really creative. I hate the idea of the electrical box though. I would mark it with the GC number instead. I have an electrical box mounted on a sign at a historical society. It is painted to match the sign and has the GC number on the front. It just has maps inside it. Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 This has inspired me to post another idea. I made this two years ago but it has been sitting in my caching stuff. Now my daughter wants to place it. This is another idea for a mystery. You can get these and program them to your liking. (This one is from a Thing Fling mystery box so it cannot be programmed. I am going to leave it in a cache. Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 This was in the library cache thread also. I still love the idea. Hidden inside the library. Quote
+bittsen Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 I hope this concept will inspire some seriously evil hides outside of the Reno NV area ;-) Being completely honest. I hope I never run across one of these hides. I don't see them as evil. I see them as a worthless PItA. ANYONE can hide something so tiny it looks like a piece of junk. It's not clever. JMO Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Being completely honest. I hope I never run across one of these hides. I don't see them as evil. I see them as a worthless PItA. ANYONE can hide something so tiny it looks like a piece of junk. It's not clever. JMO I agree. In my mind it isn't about being tiny. It is about being a little interesting and different. I don't want the finder to be mad that they wasted their time looking for my cache. This thread inspired me. Thank you for all of the great ideas. Quote
+RykoalaTeam Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Being completely honest. I hope I never run across one of these hides. I don't see them as evil. I see them as a worthless PItA. ANYONE can hide something so tiny it looks like a piece of junk. It's not clever. JMO I can understand your point. The idea of these itty bitty caches isn't necessarily the cache itself. Its knowing that the cache is RIGHT THERE but because it is so small it looks like a bit of dirt that got painted along with the objects its attached to. With things like this, its all about placement. The original was on a bike and hidden on the derailer in a gap. It was in very obvious plain sight, and still took a long time to find. I could easily see these being done as an LPC style cache. Pointless and uncreative. As with many caches, its not the container, its the placement and the camo. Quote
+bittsen Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Being completely honest. I hope I never run across one of these hides. I don't see them as evil. I see them as a worthless PItA. ANYONE can hide something so tiny it looks like a piece of junk. It's not clever. JMO I agree. In my mind it isn't about being tiny. It is about being a little interesting and different. I don't want the finder to be mad that they wasted their time looking for my cache. This thread inspired me. Thank you for all of the great ideas. See? Now you are talking. A simple note on the cache page that you accidently lost your phone while placing the cache. Ask that anyone who finds it contact you. I like clever. I don't like evil. It's too easy to be evil. Heck, just place coords for a cache that doesn't exist. Or get a silicon chip maker make you a cache thats only microns across. Clever hides are.....clever.... Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 See? Now you are talking. A simple note on the cache page that you accidently lost your phone while placing the cache. Ask that anyone who finds it contact you. I like clever. I don't like evil. It's too easy to be evil. Heck, just place coords for a cache that doesn't exist. Or get a silicon chip maker make you a cache thats only microns across. Clever hides are.....clever.... I always say that I try to make our caches memorable. Not memorable in a bad way though! How many times have your grabbed a LPC or a pill bottle in a bush? Can you remember each location? Now... can you remember each cache that you had to lower it down with a rope? Much more likely. You get my idea. I'm not like you though. I do like evil hides! I wish there were more near me that I could search for. Quote
+bittsen Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 See? Now you are talking. A simple note on the cache page that you accidently lost your phone while placing the cache. Ask that anyone who finds it contact you. I like clever. I don't like evil. It's too easy to be evil. Heck, just place coords for a cache that doesn't exist. Or get a silicon chip maker make you a cache thats only microns across. Clever hides are.....clever.... I always say that I try to make our caches memorable. Not memorable in a bad way though! How many times have your grabbed a LPC or a pill bottle in a bush? Can you remember each location? Now... can you remember each cache that you had to lower it down with a rope? Much more likely. You get my idea. I'm not like you though. I do like evil hides! I wish there were more near me that I could search for. It depends on the type of evil. A speck cache is not my thang. I have found some caches that I would have considered "evil" but I prefer the word devious. Evil implies the cache owner intends to inflict pain (whether emotional, mental or physical) and since I'm not a masochist, I would prefer to not look for those. Devious though, sure. Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 (edited) See? Now you are talking. A simple note on the cache page that you accidently lost your phone while placing the cache. Ask that anyone who finds it contact you. What if someone takes the phone and then contacts me trying to give it back? I can see this happening. Edited August 17, 2009 by Knight2000 Quote
+Rainbow Spirit Posted August 17, 2009 Posted August 17, 2009 Knight2000, your link, this one, took me to a music video. Which I had trouble deleting. Quote
+homeseller Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 I,too, had trouble deleting the video. Quote
+seldon Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) Same here with the music video - not nice to put a link like that here. Edited August 18, 2009 by seldon Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) I fixed it. Edited August 18, 2009 by Knight2000 Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) n/a Edited August 18, 2009 by Knight2000 Quote
+bflentje Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 I hope this concept will inspire some seriously evil hides outside of the Reno NV area ;-) Being completely honest. I hope I never run across one of these hides. I don't see them as evil. I see them as a worthless PItA. ANYONE can hide something so tiny it looks like a piece of junk. It's not clever. JMO Don't you have someplace to be? Quote
+bittsen Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Being completely honest. I hope I never run across one of these hides. I don't see them as evil. I see them as a worthless PItA. ANYONE can hide something so tiny it looks like a piece of junk. It's not clever. JMO Don't you have someplace to be? I don't think so. Did I miss an appointment or something? Quote
GOF and Bacall Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Can we please keep this thread on topic. I'd be happy to participate in debate of the values of certain cache types in another thread but would hate to see this one locked because it got dragged hopelessly off topic. Thank You. Quote
+bflentje Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Being completely honest. I hope I never run across one of these hides. I don't see them as evil. I see them as a worthless PItA. ANYONE can hide something so tiny it looks like a piece of junk. It's not clever. JMO Don't you have someplace to be? I don't think so. Did I miss an appointment or something? Sweet, check out this new cache container.. it's the one right there in the middle, to the left a bit. I planted this cache next to a sidewalk outside a church, following a wedding. Good luck with it. Quote
+bittsen Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Sweet, check out this new cache container.. it's the one right there in the middle, to the left a bit. I planted this cache next to a sidewalk outside a church, following a wedding. Good luck with it. I'm headed right out to get that one! Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Sweet, check out this new cache container.. it's the one right there in the middle, to the left a bit. I planted this cache next to a sidewalk outside a church, following a wedding. Good luck with it. Yeah. I still don't see it. Quote
+swizzle Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Sweet, check out this new cache container.. it's the one right there in the middle, to the left a bit. I planted this cache next to a sidewalk outside a church, following a wedding. Good luck with it. Do we need to bring our own pen? I did something similar only I hollowed out a piece of couscous. Sorry I couldn't resist. Swizzle Quote
+Knight2000 Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Already mentioned but thanks for this cache idea! They do pop apart easily with something rigid. I use Tyvek for all my logs in caches like this. They can get soaked and it won't matter. Quote
+slukster Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 This is another idea for a mystery. You can get these and program them to your liking. (This one is from a Thing Fling mystery box so it cannot be programmed. I am going to leave it in a cache. I have one of these in my geo rubbermaid container waiting to be used for a cache I have not developed yet. It has just enough digits to enter a waypoint. Quote
greenworldfeather Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Here is one I really liked. It is from an cache we found two years ago which is now archived. -- snip -- What, no one else mentioned the burued part of the cache?? Welcome to geocaching. Bend it anyway you like. Lots of caches bend the rules. Also it is possible that a pointy object was not used to place this cache. I am doing something similar. 1. I dug a hole to place a large stump in, and my rev, wouldn't allow it. Said it needed to be above all if not most of the way. Ex: Putting just enough of a hole to make it hard to remove. Picture a golf ball tee with somethinbg the size of a superball to tghe size of a golf ball on it. That is the basic picture. 2. He said if it was on my or another geocachers' property and they okayed it, it might be oaky as long as they didn't have a problem with you messing up the yard a bit during prep. and hiding it and as long as you cleaned up afterwards. I am hollowing it out, although I have to let it dry out a little bit more I found out. Quote
+RykoalaTeam Posted August 18, 2009 Posted August 18, 2009 Wow, I am astounded at the negativity in this forum regarding my cache idea. I come out of the wood work once in a while. Look at my post count, look at my join date. You think I wanted to share my idea so that it could be badmouthed? If you don't like it, fine, but there's no need to mock it or speak so negatively about it. Around here people loved it and I was hoping to share the fun. How about we keep the ideas coming and leave the negativity at the login screen? I think that would be a lot better. Quote
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