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I come across 2-3 every year. This one was painfully obvious. Run into these things when out and about ?

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Yep, some are very obvious, and meant to be; others are insanely clever in how they are hidden, and can be a good source of ideas on how to hide things.
 
zachtateknives said:
We have done a few. Fun. Keep em going. Karma will smile on you.
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Tossed some found coins in one last fall and put it back. Put a tiny note in it also. Was kind of cute with all the knik knacks in it. Probably high school kids. That one was in a chest high hole in a tree.
 
Bumppo said:
Yep, some are very obvious, and meant to be; others are insanely clever in how they are hidden, and can be a good source of ideas on how to hide things.
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I have put every one of them back were I found them. Now I don't even bother touching them. If it gets kids outside and away from the gaming system, it's a good thing, as that dried up clam used to say.
 
I have " come across" about a 1000 of them only a few when I wasn't looking. Fun for the whole family. Also a good reason to get outside.
 
Worldwide network of hidden caches which people hide and then on Geocaching.com post publicly the coordinates of the hidden cache so that people can spend an outdoor day with a mitt full of coordinates.... Some trade swag.... And their pestilence chopper in case of cougars and bears. Lots of fun for kids.... Excellent way to teach them to use and master GPS.
 
There are everything from large caches to tiny magnetic micro caches with just a small piece of paper for finders to write their log entries. Urban and easy to find caches to ridiculously hard to find caches that require overnight trips by canoe to accomplish. When we take the kids camping anymore they always want to log the caches in the areas we will be camping in as an activity. Most have take / give prize setup and kids trade for dollarama swag... There is also often nicer items inside left by adults for other fair minded adults. All runs on honesty and fair play.
 
I am a cacher. My favorite one was one some friends and I placed in an old building. It was one of the rusty bolt micros that I slipped into a hole on an I beam in the cieling of an abandoned resort town from the thirties. It was on the third floor. Stairs? Long gone. You had to bring ladders just to make it to the third floor, then you had to find the damn thing, which was near impossible from the floor. The corp of engineers (it was on a corps lakeshore) fenced the whole place in. Cant even get to it now. We are trying to get permission from them to retrieve it. Only two groups ever found it, but they all raved. Was a great cache. You can read more about it here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Ne It is in the three story tower pictured about 1/4 of the way down the page.
 
MAURICE said:
I am a cacher. My favorite one was one some friends and I placed in an old building. It was one of the rusty bolt micros that I slipped into a hole on an I beam in the cieling of an abandoned resort town from the thirties. It was on the third floor. Stairs? Long gone. You had to bring ladders just to make it to the third floor, then you had to find the damn thing, which was near impossible from the floor. The corp of engineers (it was on a corps lakeshore) fenced the whole place in. Cant even get to it now. We are trying to get permission from them to retrieve it. Only two groups ever found it, but they all raved. Was a great cache. You can read more about it here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Ne It is in the three story tower pictured about 1/4 of the way down the page.
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Wow that would be a tough one. I would need a few trips to the hint page for sure. Back when I first started playing with caches there was no such thing as a smart phone and you either had to print off all the hints beforehand or go look for the cache and if you couldn't find it go home and look up a hint and return another time. Now with smart phones and smart gps units I am a caching dinosaur already. Still a lot of fun, a great way to get everyone outside and off their ass and onto their bootsoles. We spend a lot of time in Alberta's two big National Parks (Jasper / Banff). They used to have hundreds of caches all over them, but I've been told that Park staff has clamped down and forbidden/removed them. That's too bad because I didn't think the odd hidden ammo can etc. was such a big deal if it got people to visit the park and appreciate the outdoors. Wasn't like people were caching potato chips and ding dongs that would attract bears.
 
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