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Tip of the Day 7/30: Hide as you found

Always re-hide a cache in the same manner you found it. Small changes in covering or camouflage can elevate a difficulty 1 to a difficulty 3 in no time.

On the other hand, if a cache is out in the open and you’ve been searching for a difficulty 3, it could probably benefit from a little extra care in hiding it. Make sure you note in your log that you’ve hidden it better, so that the owner and the next person looking for it have that valuable information.

Owners can choose to receive every log for each cache they own as an email, and most owners keep pretty good track of which of their caches is falling into plain sight regularly. So these logs really help caches from being stolen.

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Groundspeak Gets Social

Maybe this is a case of total coincidence or possibly great minds thinking alike, but when we wrote The Joy of Geocaching, we noted that geocaching.com’s social networking features were weak at best and the Groundspeak itself was an ineffective participant in social networks. My, how times have changed. Here’s a snip from Groundspeak’s latest newsletter:

You can join Lackeys and tens of thousands of geocachers on Groundspeak’s Facebook page, Twitter feed, YouTube and Flickr account.

Geocaching.com also offers online discussion forums where geocachers around the world “meet” to ask questions, provide advice and discuss the activity in general.

Use Get Satisfaction, our new feedback tool, to share your comments, questions, concerns and praise about Geocaching.com. Lackeys are monitoring your suggestions so that we may improve the geocaching experience!

Want to enjoy a unique perspective on geocaching? Explore and comment on the official Geocaching.com blog, Latitude 47.

Welcome to the social media world, lackeys!

Tip of the Day 7/29: Common goals keep an outing fun

When caching with other people, make sure to keep it fun by hashing out ahead of time what the goals of each person are. If some are out for a nice leisurely stroll in the woods and others want to clear out a park by sunset, you may have some discord on the trail. Keeping everyone moving at about the same rate with the same goals will ensure everyone enjoys the day.

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Tip of the Day 7/28: Sticker ‘Round

If your handwriting is as bad a Paul’s, or if you just don’t like squeezing your name into tiny logbooks, create stickers with your geocaching handle and maybe a special logo, URL or Twitter ID. We use Avery 5267 labels, which enables us to squeeze 160 labels onto a single printed sheet. You can even add the date if you want to save time on a power-caching run. Just print ‘em when you need ‘em. Avery provides Microsoft Word templates that make it easy to create your own. Here’s ours:

PnD Geocaching labels

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Tip of the Day 7/27: Difficulty/Terrain ratings are your friends

Those pesky star system ratings that tell you difficulty and terrain for each cache aren’t just for pocket query sorting! Keep them in mind when you’re actually at Ground Zero (GZ) and you may find the cache right in front of you.

A terrain of 1 means that it’s wheelchair-accessible, so if you’re searching off the path and have tripped over an exposed route, you’re making the hunt too hard.

On the other hand, a difficulty rating of 5 means you need either special training or special equipment. If you’re at the edge of a cliff rooting around in the bushes for this one, it may mean that your hunt will require you to rappel down the cliffside (which requires both training and equipment).

Keeping the ratings in mind help you to not waste time when you’re out for the hunt.

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Tip of the Day 7/26: Caching Alone? Take These Precautions

We don’t recommend caching by yourself in the deep woods because there are so many nasty things that can happen. But if you must go solo, take these precautions:

  • Create a waypoint on your GPSr designating where you parked so you can find your way home. Ever seen Blair Witch Project? ‘Nuff said.
  • Leave a copy of the cache’s information page, with the coordinates highlighted, in your car in case someone has to find you later.
  • Bring your cell phone! We heard a story about how the Geocaching.com forum once banded together to send a helicopter out to an injured and stranded cacher. Luckily, he had his cell phone and could call for help.

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Tip of the Day 7/23: Bolt head geocaches can be hard to find

Many a cacher has been stumped by a seemingly simple guard rail cache. A magnetic keyholder behind a vertical support bar is usually easy enough, but what if you’re faced with a fake bolt?

An innocent rusty bolt

An innocent rusty bolt

Psych! It's a geocache!

Psych! It's a geocache!

Be sure to check out all the bolts (try turning them, tugging on them) to see if they’re steadfast. If they turn or come off in your hand and STILL look just like a bolt — or worse yet, a rusty bolt! — try unscrewing the top. You may just find a log book inside.

Want to hide a rusty bolt cache? You have to purchase them first (or make them, but it’s difficult). Cache Advance makes some great ones!

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Tip of the Day 7/22: Invest in good hiking boots

While some shoes are just fine to get at discount stores with discount names and discount comfort levels, hiking boots are not. Invest in a pair of good boots (we love our Merrells, but there are several brands out there that make wonderful boots) and you won’t be sorry. When you’re hiking 4 miles through muck, you’ll thank us. But you’ll also thank us when you’re taking to the streets for urban caching (believe it or not) or out on perfectly groomed trails on a sunny day.

Good hiking boots tend to be mostly weatherproof, durable, and lightweight; hug your foot, provide ankle support, and provide air circulation. All this engineering can cost you about $100 or more, but good boots are the most important pieces of clothing you can bring with you on a geocaching trip.

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Tip of the Day 7/21: Don’t hide a geocache until you’ve found a good variety

People usually start geocaching and think to themselves, “I have tons of ideas for placing caches now! I want to be on the giving end.” While we love that spirit, try to resist the urge to place your own caches until you’ve cached in lots of different regions (of the country, of the world) and found many different kinds of hides.

There is a time and a place (actually many places!) for LPCs (lamp post caches), but they don’t make for interesting finds or enrich the game much. (They’re mainly meant to increase numbers.) So take ideas from other people’s hides (without blatantly stealing them, if you can help it) and incorporate them into your own, which DOES make for interesting caching. This collection of information takes time to accumulate, though, so don’t rush into the hiding part of the game in your first few months.

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Tip of the Day 7/20: Cache up a tree? No problem!

Unless a geocache has a terrain or difficulty rating of over 4, you shouldn’t need special equipment. That’s not to say, however, that you can just walk up to all of them. If you see a cache a dozen or so feet up in a tree or up a pole, look around for items that the cache hider has left to help you. Maybe there’s a stump to stand on, maybe there’s a stick to help you knock it down. Or maybe there’s a fishing line attached to a pulley system even higher in the tree that will let you bring it down to you. (You may have to run your hands around the pole/tree to find this, as fishing line is often nearly invisible to the “naked” eye.)

Just don’t forget that what comes down must go back up! So have a replacement solution in mind when you retrieve your prize.

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JOGTOTD 7/21: Don’t hide a geocache until you’ve found a good variety