Why?

[rpaske]

Armor on! Just got back after searching for geocaches in piles of bark, searching for the correct pile of dog doo-doo, and micros hanging from pine trees! Sorry if I have offended. What ever happened to the traditional geocaches? Have they gone the way of $2.00 Gas? Evaporated?

[Lostby7]

Oh way to give all my hiding spaces away; now everyone will know where to look for my hides. 😥

[Cathunter]

I’m with you Randy…. any more room behind that shield? 😕

[PCFrog]

Because you are caching in the wrong area. Come to this area and you will find lots of traditional caches, woods, open fields, ticks, thorns……

[Timberline Echoes]

Come to Vilas and/or Oneida county… there are plenty of long hikes through the woods with plenty of nature to enjoy, rivers, lakes, islands, bogs, deer, turkeys, sandhills, bear, butterflies, song birds, mosquitos and ticks. Also some great history and intersting man-made creations.

One of us would like to have a meet and greet up here but wonder how many would really be interested in driving this far north to find a few caches. There are several that can take at least half a day to get.
Timberline Echoes

[greyhounder]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

One of us would like to have a meet and greet up here but wonder how many would really be interested in driving this far north to find a few caches. There are several that can take at least half a day to get.
Timberline Echoes

Just say when and I’ll be there!

Bec

[Geoffnsara]

We are also with you Randy. There are way to many micro caches in our area. Every park the size of my thumb with at least one tree has a cache hidden in it. We can not wait to go on vacation and find some worthwhile caches.

[Cache_boppin_BunnyFuFu]

Agree… soooooooooo many micros and such. Unfortunately for my Fishin’ Hole series, the area were limited in size so they had to be small, except for one.

Have a series of caches in Manitowoc I am working on and I am going to TRY to get stuff that is at least a small. Again, limited in some areas do to “Mugglability” Is that a word?? If not is SHOULD be. Have to make up a Cachers Dictionary LOL 😀

[hogrod]

I’ve been to some really crappy caches/areas that were ammo boxes, and been to some great caches/places that were micros. For me the container size doesn’t matter, as long as the area is worth a visit.

it is nice to have room for travel bugs and other stuff, though sometimes a larger container can’t be hid as well. our cache “spelunking in magnolia” GCQRXZ was a small container till it was muggled. we replaced it with a micro for now so it wouldn’t get noticed so easily, maybe someday we will put another small container there.

[cacheseekers]

We tend to enjoy micro’s more than full size traditional caches. They tend to be interesting containers. I guess I should say we are enjoying Urban Micro’s. While in Florida we found some that were very interesting. I’ve even been ebaying for some cache containers for micros 🙂 Sorry to add more micros to WI 😉

With Urban Micro’s it doesn’t require us to go out into the woods and get scraped up everytime we Geocache. Don’t get me wrong, we love the hikes too. We just don’t have much time to do them anymore so we’ve been concentrating on Micros.

But yes, there are good micros and bad micros. The good/creative micros make it all worth while 🙂

While searching ebay I did find this cache very interesting if not amusing 😉 I don’t know how many of us would actually poke at it to see if it was real or not. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8818735924

That being said, did I buy one or not? 😈

[EnergySaver]

@cacheseekers wrote:

While searching ebay I did find this cache very interesting if not amusing 😉 I don’t know how many of us would actually poke at it to see if it was real or not. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8818735924

I’ve run into a couple of those already.

LOL … this reminds me of the time that cacher went for one of my caches and thought that I used one of those containers and thought they found my cache, but they were wrong, boy were they wrong.

As for micros … I’d rather find a regular than a micro any day. We do go for micros that are in interesting places and/or that give us a nice scenic hike in the woods; but for the most part we won’t go out of our way to get one that’s a drive-up or 500′ dash, UNLESS we’re already in the area doing other caches in the general area. Sometimes we’ll do a few urban micros when we really have the itch to cache, but the weather isn’t the best. However, I get frustrated when you hike in the woods for a micro, that could have been something bigger in the same basic spot … as I’ve said before, sometimes it seems a shame to “waste” a nice big hiding spot for a little container. But then again, this is totally our family’s opinion and others may do what they wish and they’re following the rules, so I don’t let it bother me. When we take cachers out for the first time, I will also make sure that the first few are regulars, so they have more of a “wow factor” and get hooked on caching, before we add in some of the micros.

[cacheseekers]

However, I get frustrated when you hike in the woods for a micro, that could have been something bigger in the same basic spot … as I’ve said before, sometimes it seems a shame to “waste” a nice big hiding spot for a little container.

I couldn’t agree more. We’ve had that occur this year where we did a nice trek through the woods and in such a remote area we expected to find something big. Nope, a little container where we couldn’t even place a travel bug which was one of the reasons we picked the cache. Oh well 😉

[Team B Squared]

@Timberline Echoes wrote:

One of us would like to have a meet and greet up here but wonder how many would really be interested in driving this far north to find a few caches. There are several that can take at least half a day to get.
Timberline Echoes

We would definitely make the drive WEST to come over to an event…as long as we don’t have anything previously scheduled. We we would like to get over to your area to do some caching sometime this summer, it sounds like there are some fun places to visit over there.

@EnergySaver wrote:

However, I get frustrated when you hike in the woods for a micro, that could have been something bigger in the same basic spot … as I’ve said before, sometimes it seems a shame to “waste” a nice big hiding spot for a little container.

I couldn’t agree with the above statement any more. If there is room for a full size (or even small) container, I feel that is what you should put out in that spot. I don’t mind searching for well done micros (but lampost micros drive me up a wall) and I even feel that micros have a place. There are many micros that have brought us to very interesting areas, but I really don’t feel they have a place in the woods (except maybe as a stage in a multi).

[Green Bay Paddlers]

LOL – With bomb squads going out and detonating traditional cache containers (and sending the bill to the cache owner), I don’t blame people for placing micros near urban areas.

I’m waiting for Groundspeak to require these types of “traditional” containers…

[onesearching2find]

If you are looking for some nice traditional caches there will be 50 being published this week (thanks to hard work and cooperation of our great reviewer- TIe in particular). I have placed them in honor of Zuma’s birthday. They are in sets of 7 – 6 regular caches and using clues from them you find the 7th (a mystery cache). Each set is confined to an Eau Claire county park. I had a great time putting them out and I hope people have a great time finding them! They are 90% full sized ammo cans.

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