[Team Deejay]

I think you are talking about the old maps, which are no longer available (at least not right now, and probably not ever.) Just click on the new Yahoo map to be taken to a Google map which shows all the caches in the area of the cache you are viewing. It is actually a much better map than before.

[Team Deejay]

It doesn’t really matter, but it seems that most of the really “hard” caches are placed in really boring locations, i.e. picnic shelters, small city parks, playgrounds, etc. I’d much rather have a 4 star terrain HIKE than a 4 star difficulty hide.
[rant mode on]
Most of the difficult hides are made that way by bad coordinates, tiny containers, and “needle-in-a-haystack” type hides. We all love clever hides, but they only comprise maybe 10% of the “hard” caches that I have found. The typical “hard” cache is a nano hidden in a fence with 10000 possible openings and coordinates that put GZ 100 feet away from the nearest point on the fence. Oooh, what fun! After people place such a cache, then, because they know its hard, they don’t bother to respond to DNF logs or post maintenance notes, because it is just too much trouble check after every DNF.
[rant mode off]

If you are not willing to continuously check on your caches as they get DNFed, don’t place hard caches. Find a spot you want to share and place a normal cache there. People will thank you for it.

Bottom line: Place the kind of caches that you enjoy finding. Maybe your neighbors will copy you and then you will have more caches to find that you like.

[Team Deejay]

If you place a cache where you don’t have to use a GPS, you will be asked to modify your listing so GPS usage is required. If we somehow miss one of these “no GPS” caches and someone complains about it, we will ask you to change your listing. For a cache to be listed on geocaching.com, you must require “significant” GPS usage.

Clear enough?

[Team Deejay]

Have you ever noticed that many of the pictures which are displayed of unremarkable things, such as the contents of an ammo can cache, or a benchmark, or a few people hanging around at a picnic, or a closeup of a flower? This is because the website randomly picks pictures from the entire set of those submitted with cache logs. I’ve actually seen the Ecorangers on there once, and the StarWarsGuy family three or four times (since they submit two or three photos with their finds). The remarkable thing is that you saw yourself on the randomly selected photos.

[Team Deejay]

The reality is that all geocaches have to have some sort of integral GPS usage. This required by the guidelines. Most night caches out there have a “semi-random” spot to go to with your GPS as a starting point. I’m sure there are a few out there which don’t have enough GPS usage, but this is not intentional. To be honest, there are probably more puzzle caches out there with inadequate GPS usage than night caches. GPS usage is the second most ambiguous guidelines, and sometimes the reviewer either doesn’t look close enough or doesn’t recognize the problem. If there is a geocache out there which you feel is violating the guideline, please let one of the reviewers know, so that we can investigate. Otherwise, the only times we revisit a cache are when you move it or when we find it ourselves.

[Team Deejay]

I think most would agree that the best way to pay back hiders (in additional to a grateful log) is to hide some more caches yourself.

[Team Deejay]

I forgot about pill bottles. They are a little better than the old style film cans, in that they stay dry at first, but leak after a while do to opening and closing (they are designed to be thrown away, after all.)

[Team Deejay]

Film cans suck!!!!

Actually film cans work fine in the same places that other non-watertight containers work, that is, under benches, INSIDE trees, under lampost skirts, inside guardrails, under an antiaircraft gun, etc. It just needs to be sheltered from the weather

If you are nestling in a tree, hanging from a branch, sitting under a bush, sitting on top of an object, or anywhere within a foot of the ground, you need something better than a film can. Matchholders work great for these spots. Basically, they have them wherever you can shop for camping supplies, and they cost around $1. I will say, however, that you should stick with the plastic varieties with a regular screw top lid. The old fashioned metal ones do seal well, but, unfortunately, many geocachers cannot figure them out and end up breaking the mechanism. I had one of these at “Get Your Free Maps Here” which I had to eventually replace with a plastic type.

Listed from highest to lowest quality micro containers (with regard to durability and water resistance):
Bison Tubes (available on line, $3-8 )/ Pill cases (available at drugstores, about $1)
Nano containers (available at science stores/online, about $1)
Plastic match containers (available at sporting goods stores, about $1)
Old time film containers (internal plug seal)
Metal match containers
Plastic Mag Keyholders
New style film cans (external cap)
Breathstrip containers
Ziploc bags
Metal keyholders
Altoid tins
Lipstick tubes

[Team Deejay]

Donna, I had (have) this problem for a while. This is an Inept Explorer 6.0 problem. Either upgrade your browser to 7.0 or switch to Firefox and you will be able to delete your route PQs (or routes).

[Team Deejay]

I would recommend that you NOT use the battery cover D-ring for a lanyard attachment. The problem is that normal jostling while walking/wading/climbing/falling can cause the cover to pull open, which will leave the cover on your lanyard and the rest of your GPS on the ground. My yellow etrex went sledding, swimming in Lake Michigan, and cliff diving (without the benefit of water) all without the battery cover, before I got smart and moved the lanyard. Amazingly, it still works perfectly, but certainly this sort of abuse is tempting fate. For an example see link.

Incidentally, I suspect that if you call Garmin, they will offer to repair the broken pin for little or nothing.

[Team Deejay]

This is a legitimate Groundspeak promotion. It has been secret for a while, but since they put it in the cache mailer, well, I guess its not a secret anymore! I wonder what percentage will end up directly in someone’s collection, rather than being placed in caches as intended. Rest assured, at least ONE of these coins will end up in a Wisconsin cache (assuming I get one).

[Team Deejay]

I would come, but I have to publish the caches! Anyone have a cellular web connection I can borrow?

[Team Deejay]

I think Marc should be required to post parking coordinates and distance from the parking on all of his puzzle caches!

[Team Deejay]

Sprinkler head caches are allowed (just ask your fiance’!), but as with ALL geocaches, you need permission to place them.

[Team Deejay]

@Coastiegirl04 wrote:

@wooden_nickel wrote:

You have now made me curious of two questions…

1. Does anyone only look for caches that have never been found?

2. Does anyone only look for caches that have not been found for an extended period of time?

#2 is a red flag of mine to spend my time elsewhere 😀

I know that in Ohio, they have a program called the Lonely Cache, and its a challenge or something like it that they come up with a list of caches that haven’t been found for a certain amount of time, and go out to find those caches in a way to check that the cache is still there and is able to be found.. So yea there are some people who do that go out and look for caches that haven’t been found for an extended period of time.

They have a similar program in Indiana (I think they just call it the cache game) where people compete to find caches which haven’t been found in a while. I’ve thought of setting up something like that here, but haven’t gotten around to it.

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