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Trekkin and Birdin 9 years, 8 months ago.
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I know the gold standard for a cache container is an ammo can in the woods, but since we don’t cache with kids nor do we move many trackables, I have come to enjoy a well-placed winter-friendly micro. Whether in the woods or elsewhere, I find it much more enjoyable to look for a pill bottle, matchstick holder, or small container as long as it is above the snow level and out of view of non-cachers.
As a cache hider, they say to place caches like ones you would like to find, so we have tried to make our recent caches above the snow level and preferably hanging where they are not easily spotted. (We have had ammo cans go missing, and even those are sometimes hard to locate in the winter.) Much of the public land around here is used heavily by hunters, so we don’t want to leave something that is easier to spot and loaded with goodies in those places. Camo-taped pill bottles or the like are cheap to replace and easy to come by. Sometimes we’ll hang containers that are big enough for some swag or trackables (peanut butter jars), but even with no snow on the ground, containers get frozen in if they are in logs or tree crotches. I’m always afraid of stepping on ground hides when I can’t see under the leaves or snow.
So, yes, I like micros (larger than nanos and bison tubes, although we use a lot of the latter if the space is limited), and I have enjoyed looking for well-done ones, even in the woods. That cache got me on that hike or to that location, and as long as the CO wasn’t trying to be tricky, that hide was fun.
Agreed.
***Opinions expressed are mine alone and will change based upon new information. ***
I like micros, if done right. However a micro in the woods is almost always a disappointment for me. There’s plenty of room in the woods for something larger, and a lot less frustrating.
But why do you need to find something larger in the woods unless you’re into swag or trackables? And as long as the CO isn’t trying a “gotcha”, a hanging larger micro is a lot less frustrating to me.
Some people hear “micro” and think nanos and bison tubes. Those don’t belong in the woods, IMO. It sometimes depends on one’s version of “micro”. I have seen magnetic key cases called small, but in my book, they are micros. So are pill bottles (unless they are large enough to be called “small”) and matchstick holders. I call decon containers “small”, but they can’t hold much in the way of swag, and are definitely not ammo cans… but they are OK by me.
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Some people hear “micro” and think nanos and bison tubes. Those don’t belong in the woods, IMO. It sometimes depends on one’s version of “micro”. I have seen magnetic key cases called small, but in my book, they are micros. So are pill bottles (unless they are large enough to be called “small”) and matchstick holders. I call decon containers “small”, but they can’t hold much in the way of swag, and are definitely not ammo cans… but they are OK by me.
You mean Twin City regular sized caches! lol
***Opinions expressed are mine alone and will change based upon new information. ***
I like them all if they’re in a good location!
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
I like to use micros as trail markers on how how to get to the ammo can miles deep. Give good hints and set the difficulty accordingly unless I want to make it evil and state so. Rare but some spots warrant it. Ammo can also cost a lot so some micro filler is much cheaper than all ammo. I find that nowadays that if you don’t have a few along the way your cache may never get hit. I enjoy the long walks navigating my own route but some don’t like that.
On the flip side if I walked across a mile of field or open hardwoods and found just an ammo can at the base of a tree than that is not always rewarding either. Sometime the extra search is makes it worth it if done tastefully.
***Opinions expressed are mine alone and will change based upon new information. ***
We aren’t major fans of micros in the woods, but there are places where it works out just fine. A camoed matchstick hung near a tree trunk in the woods, for instance. We have had I think three ammo cans stolen, all of which were well hidden in the woods. The most recent one was our “Post Secrets,” which is well off any trail, so a hunter or someone must have come across it. I was bummed, because along with the ammo box, all those wonderful caching secrets people have added over the years….gone. They were always fun to read through when we’d do maintenance….which is a regular activity up there for us. Once one goes missing, we’ll replace it with something less attractive and usually move it to a new beacon, too.
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