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Geocache Burnout ?

admin — Thu, 24 May 2012 12:32:13 +0000

How to Stay in the Geocaching Game and Why Some Geocachers Don’t

Geocaching Burnout – What is it?* We asked the geocaching community and hear their responses.* Geocaching has changed a lot over time.* Electronics making it too easy to play?* Is there too much emphasis on the numbers?
Have geocachers become too complacent simply placing park and grab geocaches instead of taking the time to make larger more creative cache hides?
Preventing Burn Out!
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How To Stay In The Geocaching Game and Why Some Geocachers Don’t

Geocaching Burnout – What is it?

Which is an observation we have all noted of the ever increasing numbers of people leaving the geocaching activity.
We have at the time of this show about 1.8 million geocaches placed around the world and yet many appear to be loosing interest – why?

There will always be a percentage of new geocachers who give geocaching a try; do for whatever reason just don’t feel the attraction to our activity and leave. I am talking instead about the long term geocachers or the lifers who have been involved for years. What is causing them to go?

We asked the geocaching community and here are some of their responses:

Louis Caplan (G+) Wrote:

“Some of the “oldies” have spoken of getting out of the game because of all the micros and nanos. Back “in the day” it was a good hike for a real container in the woods. And some people just get burned out. But so far I’m staying in the game and enjoying it.”

@GregMentor (Twitter) - No it just finding time to get out, just last week i took a week of work to go caching got my numbers up and i had a good week

Andy McHugh (G+) Wrote:

“I haven’t been out caching in about two years. It’s just something I can’t justify anymore with gasoline being so expensive and no way to get to many caches without a vehicle. I’ve got a gaggle of hidden caches that I’m debating on closing out or not. I still haven’t made up my mind yet.”

Jerode Habas (G+) Wrote:

“Just taking a break with the new baby. Back out hunting caches soon.”

Geocaching has changed a lot over time.

There were fewer geocaches years back but they were larger, more creative.
There seemed to be more dedicated geocachers. Some geocachers I know personally would travel 50 miles or more to get an FTF (First To Find) where now a days many won’t go after one even a few miles away.
So are we getting complacent and lazy?

Electronics making it too easy to play?

Leo Væversted Jørgensen (G+) Wrote:

“A Danish geocacher closed down all his geocaches, because he got tired of kids calling him that they found one of his cache, and wanted to know what they have won, that is what smartphone geocaching did for/to him.”

Technology has changed in regards to finding geocaches as well. Back in the early 2000′s you had to manually put a geocaches coordinate into a GPSr unit. Now almost everyone has modern GPSr units or smart phones for instant access no matter where they are.

Is there too much emphasis on the numbers?

@Simplyred4x4 (Twitter) -” lots of lousy caches that get placed in lousy locations, with no hint and people tear up the area in search of it. Discouraging “

Cat Bend (G+) Wrote:11:29 PM - Reply

Geocaching has become a numbers game dominated by lousy caches and careless cachers. Caches–half of them micros and smaller–are put out 5, 10 or 50 at a time and often just abandoned. Planning a trip has become an exercise in frustration and taken a lot of the fun out of it. I do a few caches now and then but have found other ways to get outside.

Power trails have become a popular way of increasing your geocaching stats. There are power trails where you can get hundreds if not thousands found within a day or two.
Do geocachers want that geocache every 600 feet because it is fun, easy or something more?
Do powder trails keep you interested in the game?

Have geocachers become too complacent simply placing park and grab geocaches instead of taking the time to make larger more creative cache hides?
There appears to be a huge saturation of micro park and grab style geocaches going out. Is it because geocachers are getting lazy and not wanting to put the effort of hiding larger and more quality hides? Is it possible that if the ever increasing saturation of quick hit geocaches is sapping out the interest of geocaching then should we not then start going back to “old school” thinking and bring the creativity and interest back into the game?Is it time to bring back quality over quantity?

Swing the Pendulum Idea

Things to help prevent burn out:

Change things up.
Try different types of geocaches instead of the same ole same ole.
Geocache with other geocachers – helps save on gas and make for a more competitive geocaching day.
Treat (force) yourself to at least a geocaching afternoon or day every other week or so.
Spend some time making creative geocaches and the hiding them. Some people like hiding geocaches almost as much a finding them.
Suggestions from the Chat Room…

Geocaching the Mississippi

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 07:10:43 +0000

Extreme Geocaching Kayak Adventure

On this episode we are joined by 1/2 of Expedition Mississippi!

They are Geocaching noobs seeking advice from HeadHardHat and our fans!

They’ll be kayaking the Mississippi for 2 months and are looking for a new hobby. We think we can help!

Matt and Daniel, 1/2 of Expedition Mississippi, join us with their Geocaching questions!
Expedition Mississippi Kickstarter Project End Saturday, May 12th!
Prize Question: In American History Books; Who were the first noted people to explore along the Mississippi River?
HeadHardHat and fans answer questions and give advice to these Geocaching Noobs!
Expedition Mississippi has set up their Geocaching.com username ExpeditionMississip
They need 5 backers at the $35 Geocaching level! Choose their Mississippi Cache!
Follow their trip with MyCampMate
Visit the Expedition Mississippi blog.
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White River Cache suggestion from Nighthawk700 The Wall of Name Form the Past
Nighthawk700’s Kayaking Cache Bealls Island, in the Potomac River, between MD and VA

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PathTags !

admin — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 06:35:29 +0000

Designing Your Own Pathtags!

What is a Pathtag? Trade-able, collectible geocache swag.
There’s a difference between a Pathtag and a Geocoin.
Price comparison: Pathtag vs. Geocoin.
A beginners guide to making your own Pathtags!
Design your own Pathtag!
Design with Mac
Have someone else design it for you!
[I’ve designed my Pathtag….now what? Pathtags.com
What to do with your Pathtags once you get them.
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Question #1
What is the name of a very popular and world wide used geocaching tool to check coordinates for geocaching puzzle caches. It’s completely free, and it’s very easy to use!

Answer #1
GeoChecker – http://www.geochecker.com/
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Designing Your Own Pathtag:

What is a Pathtag?
Trade-able, collectible geocache swag.

What is the difference between a Pathtag and a Geocoin?
- Path tag is the size of a quarter, has a hole in it and is considered swag in the Geocaching World
- Geocoins if found in a geocache belongs to someone else. Is much larger than a pathtag and moves from one geocache to the next.
- Tracking is a bit different for each item.

How much do Pathtags cost compaired to Geocoins?
Pathtags are aboue $1.00 to $2.00 each to make.
Geocoins can cost $8.00 and up to make – usually in large bulk.

I want to make my own Pathtags, how do I do this?
- Pathtags.com for starters.

Design my own.
- PC – Paint.net – Free with a lot of graphic options
- PC – Tag Editor – on the design page.
- Mac -

Have somebody design it for me.
- http://www.pathtags.com/design.php

After I have my design – now what?
- Go to Pathtags.com
- Submit Your Design
- Tell how many you want
- Pays your money
- Wait for the order to come to you

How long do I have to wait to get my pathtags?
- Usually around four weeks – why so long?
- They have to make the pathtag casts after all the graphic design cleanup
- The pathtags have to be made at this point
- It all takes a bit of time to accomplish

What if I want to order more?
- Pathtags.com does have a reorder policy off of existing casts. You cannot modify them for reorders.
- Casts are only good for a few years and then they are destroyed.

What do you do with your Pathtags once you get them?
Personal Swag
Trade Items at Events
First To Find gifts
Collect Them!

Painting Caches

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:19:19 +0000

Spring is here and that means many geocachers look to those three little words that mean so much…. Let’s Paint Geocaches!

Plastics: light sanding to help keep paint adhesion.Hand Painted LockNLock Box Tutorial
Metals: Sanding to remove rust, cleaning to remove oils, primer to help main paints to adhere.
Colors: What is so important to know what colors to choose?
Textures: Giving that extra perception to blend in even more to look at.
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Geocaching Question:

What does the acronym BYOP mean?

Answer:
Bring Your Own Pen/Pencil

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Okay I still have spring fever when it comes to geocaching which means giving tips on how to make your own geocaches. In particular. Ways of painting and taping geocaches so they blend into the environment. Sometimes it means matching colors with the environment. Using forms of camouflage like tapes and textured paints to get the job done. Tonight’s episode will show geocachers how to make better LockNLock boxes, ammo boxes and more.

Things to show:
4 minute video on painting and cami taping a LockNLock box
2 minute video on painting ammo boxes
Several photos showing painting techniques.

General Discussion

Spring is here and that means many geocachers look too those three little words that mean so much…. Let’s Paint Geocaches!!!

That’s right, tonight we are going to discuss several different basic techniques to make an ordinary looking geocache into an extraordinary example of environmental hide and seek goodness.

Topic Points:

Understanding why you are making your geocache blend into the environment. Why?

Geocaches are made of different types of materials and each material requires different prep work.

Knowing the difficulty before you begin.
A difficulty of one or two you do not have to put too much into the camouflage. Just keep it enough for muggles not to notice.
A difficulty of three and up requires research of the area, a crafty camouflage design to make the geocache blend in as much as possible.

Plastics – light sanding to help keep paint adhesion.

Metals – sanding to remove rust, cleaning to remove oils, primer to help main paints to adhere.

Colors – What is so important to know what colors to choose?
Blending in with like colors:
Greens and Browns – wooded
Greys and Blacks – urban
Colors of You – what works for your environment? What would be the best color to stand out in the open?

Textures – Giving that extra perception to blend in even more to look at.
Colors are great but if you really want something to blend in it needs to have similar textures.
Wood, Stone, Grass, Sand are all different forms of textures that you can add to geocaches via paints, tapes, clothes, etc.

Just Ducky

admin — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:43:27 +0000

Geocaching World: Creative Geocache Containers

Harness Creativity for Geocache Fun

Geocaching creativity comes in many shapes, sizes and hiding styles – all made to entertain and delight the geocaching experience.

Shapes -

- The sky is the limit when it comes to the creativity of geocachers. Geocaches are constantly being created with items of all shapes.

- Finding yourself looking at the container instead of what is in the container to see if it would make a good geocache.

- Are there good and bad shapes for geocaches?

Sizes -

- From the teenie tiny to the absolute humongous, there seems to be no real limit to how big or small a geocache can be.

- Smallest geocache that contains a notebook. I refer to as the mini-nano. It is the clear container with cap that sometimes comes inside bison tubes when you buy them.

- Largest geocache I have seen are big enough to walk into. The largest I have actually found was a huge tough stuff locker which was camouflaged and placed in a wooded area.

- Are there actually bad sizes when it comes to geocaches?

- I would say if the geocache does not fit the area or environment of which it was placed then yes. Otherwise whatever size that works and still maintains the hiding ability of the geocache works the best.

- Why are nanos or bison tubes so hard to find sometimes? – “Geocachers perspective”.

Hiding Styles

- There seems to be no limit to the kinds of creative geocaching hiding styles out there. Once one is placed and then found the process of how the geocache has been hidden becomes open knowledge. If it is creative it will be duplicated by someone else. Just the nature of the beast when it comes to geocaching.

- Hiding styles tend to be geographically based. In other worlds people tend to hide things very similarly to other geocachers in a particular area. It is usually not until a geocacher goes somewhere out of their normal area do they see other techniques.

- Hiding styles always seem to reinvent themselves. One person comes up with an idea and other geocachers take the idea and conform them to what works for them making even more creative hides.

Container Components-

What makes up different types of interesting and creative geocaches?

- Waterproof is key

- Geocaches made to not only withstand the elements but to fulfill the requirements of the hide itself.

- Materials used may take some time to get it right. Testing you idea first is key to knowing how well your geocache is going to do and how long it will last.

Decorating To Hide – Camouflage

- What does it take to hide a geocache well with camouflage?

- Hiding a geocache in something (host)

- Making it as transparent as possible to the environment the geocache is placed

- Using materials that give the best possible aspect of blending the geocache in.

- Paints – textured and color

- Materials – Cloth, Netting

- Natural Coverings – Bark, Dirt, Sand, Leaves and Sticks, etc

- Man-made Outer Coverings – Cement, Resin, Plastic, Wood

Decorating To Delight – The Wow Factor -

- Hiding In Plain Site – Making your geocache very obvious to a geocacher that it is indeed a geocache

- Fairy Doors

- Ceramic Items

- Geocaching Symbol or markings on geocache

- Unusual items attached to the geocache

- Putting the geocache host inside a particular item (Rubber spider)

Geocachers are some of the most creative people on the planet. You have to be when seeing all the different and amazing ways geocaches are hidden. New ideas and techniques are being invented every day and that is one of the many reasons why geocaching stays so exciting to play.

Spring Cleaning

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:10:38 +0000

Spring Cleaning: Time for Geocaching Maintenance

One of the greatest family activities in RVing and Camping is the sport of Geocaching. Host Andy “HeadHardHat” Smith works with Courtney Wallin to educate Novice and Expert Geocachers alike. This week’s topic involves maintaining geocaches that you have hidden, and helping keep cache sites in good repair.

What is involved with Geocache Maintenance?

Geocache Maintenance is a necessary part of Geocaching when you are a geocache owner.
In many cases geocaches need to be checked, repaired if necessary and restocked. It is up to the individual geocahe owners on how much they choose to participate with geocache maintenance.

What do you mean by how much they choose to participate?

Some geocachers do a fire and forget type of geocache hide. In other words they do the hide and feel it is the geocaching community’s responsibility for maintaining or restocking a geocache. Others feel that if they are going to put out a geocache that restocking a geocache is a maintenance issue that is dealt with regularly.

How often should a geocache be maintained?

A geocache as often as necessary. On average once a year may be all that is needed. On the other hand for some geocaches that are visited more often it may be needed more.

What is meant by geocaches need to be checked?

Geocaches go through a lot of wear and tear. Many factors can include:
The environment it is in.
How much the geocache is found (opened and closed)
The materials that the geocache is made of
External factors, weather, fires, animals, being muggled

It is wise to check the condition of the geocache on a regular basis?

Do geocaches need to get repaired?
All the time, a geocache can be damaged due to all the factors we just discussed and to help keep the contents inside safe and dry it will be necessary to repair a geocache when damaged and sometimes replace the container entirely.

Things inside a geocache that may need replacing:

Log Book – periodically get filled up depending on how many people find it, get moist and unusable.
Pens – Go empty, clog, freeze
Baggies – Lose seals over time and usage
Swag items – Depending on what can get mildew, wet, etc.

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Signature Swag Items

What are signature swag items?

Signature swag items are uniquely made (either personalized or hand made) to identify a specific geocacher.

The Fraygirls – Signature owl and other bird stuffed animals
Hand Painted Bottle Caps
Wooden Nickles
Art items like Troll Faces – made of baked ceramics
Golf balls
Buttons
Pathtags

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First Aid Kit Restock

It is always important to have your automobile and geocache first aid kit looked at on a regular basis.
Items can loose their potency when out in the hot/cold/damp
Band-aides of varying sizes are always good to check and replenish
Salves and ointments may need replacing
Bandages and tape are used frequently and may need replacing.

The idea is to keep your first aid kit as prepared as possible for any time of the year. It is always good to keep them up to date and stocked.

CITO: Cache In, Trash Out

axmc — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:21:14 +0000

The 10th Annual Cache In Trash Out Weekend is scheduled for April 21st and 22nd, 2012.

Geocachers around the world celebrate International Cache In Trash Out weekend annually by hosting and participating in CITO Events in their local area.

· What is CITO: Cache In Trash out. Cache In Trash Out is an ongoing environmental initiative supported by the worldwide geocaching community.

· Who does Cito and Why?

· Cache In Trash Out Weekend will be Saturday, April 21st and Sunday 22nd

CITO EVENTS:

Events might be focused on:

· Litter clean-up

· Removal of invasive species

· Revegetation efforts

· Building trails

· Did we mention that we also have a bit of fun while we’re at it?

· Plan on bringing tools – gloves, bags, grabber, walking stick, pickup truck or removal service – sometimes provided

· Why do state and county parks ask so many geocachers to have CITO events in their park? Many parks hold picnics for people who help them during the year – loads of fun.

· The world is our game board and we like to keep it clean. Picking up trash back and forth from a geocache is routine for many.

· Show your kids so they can pass it on.

· What to watch out for when geocaching.. Poke it with a stick

· Host your own CITO event. I attended a very nice one a year or two back hosted by a 14 year old boy and his mother – we all had a great time.

Geocaching Question:

Which continent is the only one without a geocache?

Geocaching Answer:

Trick question! All continents—including Antarctica have caches placed on them. There are caches in 100 countries and on all seven continents!

Geocaching and Scouting Cubs

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:26:49 +0000

Geocaching Merit Badge for Boy Scouts

Courtney is Caching with the Cubs, and is joined by a Cub Scout Troop in the studio. Andy ‘HeadHardHat’ Smith explains the new Scouting Merit Badge program.

The new Merit Badge program, announced in 2010, is an excellent guide to learning Geocaching for ANY person, regardless of age or gender. The knowledge, safety and fun factors are essential skills that need to be developed to safely explore the fun family hobby.

Geocaching is especially well matched to RVing families, since it can be adapted to a wide range of ages and skill levels, and make a fun and family safe vacation exploring the outdoors. RVNN.TV features geocaching on the regular show Geocache Radar, which features a cache and attractions at various locations all over North America.

Scout Requirements
1. Do the following:

a. Explain to your counselor the most likely hazards you may encounter while participating in geocaching activities and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, and respond to these hazards.

b. Discuss first aid and prevention for the types of injuries or illnesses that could occur while participating in geocaching activities, including cuts, scrapes, snakebite, insect stings, tick bites, exposure to poisonous plants, heat and cold reactions (sunburn, heatstroke, heat exhaustion,hypothermia), and dehydration.

c. Discuss how to properly plan an activity that uses GPS, including using the buddy system, sharing your plan with others, and considering the weather, route, and proper attire.

Q1: What are the things in space that make GPS units work down here on Earth?

A1: Satellites

2. Discuss the following with your counselor:
a. Why you should never bury a cache.

b. How to use proper geocaching etiquette when hiding or seeking a cache, and how to properly hide, post, maintain, and dismantle a geocache.

c. The principles of Leave No Trace as they apply to geocaching.

Q2: What are the containers you find called when you go geocaching?

A2: Geocaches

3. Explain the following terms used in geocaching: waypoint, log, cache, accuracy, difficulty and terrain ratings, attributes, trackable. Choose five additional terms to explain to your counselor.

4. Explain how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works. Then, using Scouting’s Teaching EDGE, demonstrate the use of a GPS unit to your counselor. Include marking and editing a waypoint, changing field functions, and changing the coordinate system in the unit.

5. Do the following:
a. Show you know how to use a map and compass and explain why this is important for geocaching.

b. Explain the similarities and differences between GPS navigation and standard map reading skills and describe the benefits of each.

c. Explain the UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) system and how it differs from the latitude/longitude system used for public geocaches.d. Show how to plot a UTM waypoint on a map. Compare the accuracy to that found with a GPS unit.6. Describe the four steps to finding your first cache to your counselor. Then mark and edit a waypoint.7. With your parent’s permission*, go to www.Geocaching.com. Type in your zip code to locate public geocaches in your area. Share the posted information about three of those geocaches with your counselor. Then, pick one of the three and find the cache.To fulfill this requirement, you will need to set up a free user account with www.Geocaching.com. Ask your parent for permission and help before you do so.

Chat Room Q1: What year did the Boy Scout Geocaching Merit Badge officially start?

Chat Room A1: 2010

8. Do ONE of the following:

a. If a Cache to Eagle® series exists in your council, visit at least three of the 12 locations in the series. Describe the projects that each cache you visit highlights, and explain how the Cache to Eagle® program helps share our Scouting service with the public.

b. Create a Scouting-related Travel Bug® that promotes one of the values of Scouting. “Release” your Travel Bug into a public geocache and, with your parent’s permission, monitor its progress at www.geocaching.com for 30 days. Keep a log, and share this with your counselor at the end of the 30-day period.

c. Set up and hide a public geocache, following the guidelines in the Geocaching merit badge pamphlet. Before doing so, share with your counselor a six-month maintenance plan for the geocache where you are personally responsible for the first three months. After setting up the geocache, with your parent’s permission, follow the logs online for 30 days and share them with your counselor.

d. Explain what Cache In Trash Out (CITO) means, and describe how you have practiced CITO at public geocaches or at a CITO event. Then, either create CITO containers to leave at public caches, or host a CITO event for your unit or for the public.9. Plan a geohunt for a youth group such as your troop or a neighboring pack, at school, or your place of worship. Choose a theme, set up a course with at least four waypoints, teach the players how to use a GPS unit, and play the game. Tell your counselor about your experience, and share the materials you used and developed for this event.

Extreme Geocaching

axmc — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:15:02 +0000

Andy ‘HeadHardHat’ and the chat room crew discuss techniques for scoring difficult finds in extreme locations and conditions.

Equipment you might need for Extreme Geocaching:

Looking High

Rope ladder
Climbing something – example, tower rungs, bridges, structures, natural formations
Climbing Ropes and harness

Looking Low

Repelling gear
Rope ladder
Gear – Helmet, gloves, lights, grabbing tools, etc.

Ice / Snow

Correct footgear, walking pole,

Mountains – Dessert – Various terrains

Multiday camping equipment
Emergency supplies (first aid, instant shelters, plus basics)

Water

Kayak
Scuba
Skin Diving gear, Snorkel, fins, etc.

Things You Should Know:

Basics and essentials are crucial. For example, hydration and energy foods are must haves.
Wearing the proper clothing is needed. The correct footwear for example makes the difference between a comfortable or painful hike..
It is absolutely necessary to have the proper training and expertise before attempting any high difficulty geocache
Never should attempt extended period (multi day) or extreme geocaches by yourself. If so make sure someone has your exact route and time tables of which to check on. Also be sure that that person has the correct information of WHO to contact if the need arises.
Always be prepared for the worse. Injuries, animal encounters, falls and more happen all the time.
If during certain seasonal times of the year be prepared for sudden storms and inclement weather. Thunderstorms, whiteouts, extreme heat or cold, etc.

NurseNanna wrote in: Tried Scuba diving for 1st time to get “5 Fathom” cache in Key Largo last month. Only 7 finds since placed May, 2011. Wheeee!

Garry Heintz chimed in with: When I have found what I have considered to be an extreme geocache, it meant waiting until there was ice until I could walk to the cache, or that I didn’t find the right way to GZ and made it near to impossible on myself, quite apart from the “easy” to get there.

Louis Caplain told of his winter mishap: You want to hear about the time I fell in the creek up to my waist, in about 28 degree temps? Actually, my logs pretty much speak for themselves, since I started writing more detailed experiences including a storm drain tunnel and climbing a ladder up a tree.

Scott Seegars - Define extreme. I have tunnel cached, cached by kayak, and climbed a 75′ tower for a cache.

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Fat Tuesday: Varying The Geocacher’s Diet

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:19:06 +0000

It’s not all about Mardi-Gras Food

Andy & Andy discuss the ways that Geocachers vary their cache discovery diet in picking out terrain and challenge levels to keep things interesting.

We feature some episodes of Geocache Radar in New Orleans, Utah and other areas of the country and Andy Smith describes the gear and tactics that you need to safely geocache under a variety of conditions.

Why I love Geocaching

admin — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:42:18 +0000

The Valentine’s Day Show

- Geocaching World Show Notes #920

-Novatoba: @HeadHardHat love #geocaching for all the local cool spots to visit that as a tourist you wouldn’t get to see.—————————————-
PingVoyager:I Love Geocaching because… I can experience many different things while im caching.#1 How has the cache hider made his/her cache different to make it more challenging to find.

#2. ? mystery caches! many puzzle caches that make the cache find more difficult.

#3 Exploring Rivers and waterfalls you never new that existed

#4 Caching that includes kayaking

#5 Caching that includes Hiking

#6 Caching that includes Bicycling

#7 Adventure of climbing walls/trees etc just to grab a cache.

#8 travel bugs and geocoins

#9. You can cache almost anywhere in the world.

#10 most of all the rush to get that “FTF” First To Find
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Louis / Nighthawk700 – Photos in email..

Why I love geocaching!

1) The thrill of the hunt. Sometimes I can feel my pulse quickening as I get to Ground Zero!

2) Some geocaches make me push my limits. Case in point: (My legs were shaking the whole time…)

Dads_First_Princess (facing the camera) was very nervous about going in the tunnel. She made me promise over and over that I wouldn’t turn off the lights. She did just fine once she got in. Dads_Second_Princess just ran right in.

3) It’s great to go geocaching with the kids. (at a night geocache)

4) Taking friends (the kids’ friends, and the grownups’ friends) out to learn caching. (I didn’t have time to ask the friends if I could use their picture, so I improvised… They really were smiling like this anyway.)

————————————————————-Denise E. Vajdak ><> (aka NativTxn)Let me count the ways…
It takes me places and allows me to see things I would have never otherwise seen.Plus…I’ve met some of the coolest people through geocaching (face-to-face and online). It’s like a family that I never knew I had.—————————————————————-

Amanda Alsip

I love Geocaching because of so many things.

1st – the time spent with family.
2nd – The friends we have made.
3rd – The awesome new places we have found.
4th – spending time outside, seeing the beauty of nature! 5th – The exercise we get! I am sure there are more, but that is off the top of my head

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Android_Travels: @headhardhat It’s always different, exciting, and you never see the same place twice! Never thought I would have #travel so many places.

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- GiantPickle – aka Clint Rose

It takes me to places that I never would have thought of going
It is a great excuse to get out and enjoy the sunrise in different places
It is a very enjoyable way to get exercise
It helps me be creative in figuring out new ways to hide caches
It is fun for the whole family
It is a great way to meet people and learn new things about your community
It’s just really DARN fun

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HeadHardHat

- There is a great sense of community that is literally world wide. I can go “Let’s Go Geocaching just about anywhere in the world and there are fellow geocachers there happy to ablige.
- Geocachers who care about their communities and the planet. Picking up trash where others dread to enter.
- I love finding myself in an environment I never expected. Be it at the beach, in the mountains, in a swamp or deep woodlands. When you are suddenly in the thick of it there is nothing like that moment.
- Many times I love hiding a geocache as much or more than finding one.
- I love that “found it – gadzooks!” moment after many unsuccessful attempts at finding that particular geocache.
- I love having a “spider or geocache sense” go off when looking for a geocache and be right.
- I love that smile and almost giddy feeling when I spot a well placed geocache for the first time
- I love being a seven year old again when opening up an ammo box. Finding that really cool swag item.
- I love the logical thinking involved when finding a challenging geocache.
- I love that magical moment when I find nature at just the right time as if it was meant just for me.
- I love spending time with others while geocaching. Sometimes for the companionship others for the competition.
- I love geocaching for the journey and to where ever it takes me… -HHH

Geocaching Faux Paux

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:38:06 +0000

Geocaching Faux Pas

Andy Smith steps through mistakes that beginners and experienced geocachers often make.

Accidentally damaging a container… don’t mention it in the log
Spoilers in logs.
Logging a find when you didn’t actually find the container.
Submitting a cache online when you have not placed the container out yet
Assuming you have permission to place a cache because it is publicly accessible
Leaving caches exposed to the general population.
Non family friendly language in logs.
Hiding 20+ caches in a series and not taking care of them.
Any cache near electrical equipment, or masquerading as electrical equipment.
Finding your own caches.
How about placing a cache with deliberately soft coordinates to “make it harder” – sorry i skipped
Replacing a cache container with something different than is in the description, and not updating the description.

Listing an event at a restaurant that’s closed.
Using the Scuba attribute on caches on dry land to make it easier to search for power trails.
Using cheap plastic containers instead of something that will withstand the environment.
Keeping travelers f-o-r-e-v-e-r instead of moving them on.
Making a geocache that easily can be thought of as dangerous
Lying to the police about what you are doing
Speeding away from a geocache placement when spotted
Deliberately stomping down landscaping or other natural flora to get to a geocache when not necessary
Not replacing the geocache as found or better
Putting a geocache hide where you think it should be instead of the actual coordinates.
Parking where you should not be just to make the find easier
Hiding a geocache in a residential are where muggles are not going to appreciate the hide location