[rogheff]

I have four Earthaches and find the approval process can be easier than a geocache. However, they’re really picky about the geological significance of the location. So your write up better talk about geological “stuff” rather than environmental “stuff”.

I have gone through the process to have an earthcache approved in a State Natural Area. A relatively painless process as well, but necessary for approval.

[rogheff]

@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

IMHO

Although the pill bottle in the crotch of a tree (not yours Rog) can get real boring, real fast.

A newbie placing a pill bottle in the crotch of a tree is a great IMHO. I would never discourage anyone from placing anything. You have to learn somewhere.

When an experienced cacher places a pill bottle in the crotch of a tree, he/she CAN create a great cache if he/she uses their imagination.

[rogheff]

The problem I have with many regular sized caches is that they have good swag when they’re new. After a while, they’re filled with bottle caps, rocks, a stick, food, and a bunch of worthless junk.

I just went on a maintenance run of a bunch of my caches in Minnesota. I pulled out at least half of the contents. Those contents, in addition to the items I mentioned above, included a small bottle of vodka and a camera with less than family friendly photos.

So I’ll hide and seek any type of cache- large or small. It’s more than the journey and destination for me. It’s also the craftsmanship of the container, creativity of the hider and often, the difficulty of the hide.

[rogheff]

I recently discovered an interesting muggling while doing maintenance on one of my caches. It had a camera in it.

The cache was sitting right where it should be, the contents in good shape, just a little note in the log (from the muggle) telling me to look at the camera images.

It seems during hunting season, he was in his deer stand and saw some folks walk up to the tree, nose around for a while and then leave. He was bored and curious, so he checked out the situation.

Oh, he found the cache, wrote his (very nice actually) note and took his picture.

I never realized just how hairy the moon was.

Needless to say, the camera is gone, the log book page is also gone. I’ll have to disable it for hunting season.

[rogheff]

You just described one of my caches “An Eagle’s View” GCQ2A9

It’s in Northern Minnesota though

[rogheff]

I’ve seen two Eagle attacks that were awesome. One was a Bald Eagle grabbing a Loon on a lake in Northern Minnesota. The other was this past week. A Bald Eagle swooped down near (8′ ish) the head of one of my Scouts on our canoe trip down the Black River.

Eagle Bait, as he is now known, is a smallish kid and was wearing round sunglasses. Looked like a small critter sitting on an orange pad (life jacket) from the air? Maybe it saw the much larger Mosquito Bait (my son) in the canoe with him and called off the attack.

[rogheff]

“under the radar” and “get permission” contradict each other. I archived mine.

[rogheff]

I’m guessing that if the DOT knew about all the guardrail caches across the state, they’d have the same opinion of them.

I’d be more than happy to address the issue of rest area caches with the DOT. However, I do believe that the WGA would have more influence than one lone cacher as it represents hundreds or thousands of geocachers across the state.

I do not have the authority to speak for the WGA, that’s why I brought up the subject. I was not aware that it was already being worked on.

So essentially, every rest area cache should be archived? Boy, did I unknowingly open a Pandora’s Box?

[rogheff]

As stated on another thread – fun, creative, interesting, unique caches deserve fun, creative, interesting and unique logs.

[rogheff]

Way to go Ken. At this rate, you should hit 2000 by the end of the year!

[rogheff]

When you find 3 caches a day, it’s a lot easier to remember them. You enjoy the journey more, you slow down and take in the scenery. It’s easier to post a nice log.

When I’ve been out on long caching runs, it’s hard to remember one cache from the rest. I cache with lots of paper printouts, so I make a note about each to spark my memory. When you find 20 in a day, you run out of things to say – even me.

[rogheff]

I for one, will admit I am guilty of this offense. Cookie cutter geocaches get cookie cutter logs.

However….

Fascinating, unique and interesting geocaches get fascinating, unique and interesting logs.

[rogheff]

I’ll be placing a few

[rogheff]

Master Nai got his today!

[rogheff]

Welcome!

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