SO YOU WANT TO HIDE A CACHE

I think a good rule of thumb which should allow you to get experience before hiding your own GeoCache is to use the 1% rule.  That means only hide 1% of the Caches you have found, so it would take 100 caches found before you would attempt to hide your one cache.  Now I'm a bit of of a hypocrite, since I started hiding caches at about 50 Caches.  

In retrospect I should have waited, as there was no creative thought in my initial caches since I only imitated those I had found, which at that point were mostly hidden in coniferous trees.  I now dislike caches in coniferous trees,  they don't offer any adventure, the reward at the end doesn't make you go Ahhh! They don't leave you with any lasting memory other than the scratches you received from digging around in the tree.  

I realized after about 100 cache finds I had experienced some genuinely innovative caches such as; Chronicles of Narnia  http://coord.info/GC2FF1Z and now was able to start thinking out of the box or tree as it were.  

I am still not practicing what I preach and with almost 200 notches in my GPS (Caches Found) I have 9 caches hidden, but then my Dad always said, "Do as I say, not as I do!" well it worked for him.  I would just suggest finding lots of variety before hiding your own Geocaches.  You will be rewarded many times over by the truly interesting logs fellow Geocachers leave for you.

KEEP ON CACHIN'
   BILL
B&CJones on Geocaching.com

GEOCACHING WHAT THE..... ?

Are you just getting started in the activity of Geocaching? Perhaps you've just heard about Geocaching and have decided to do some research before getting involved.  You are probably like most of us when we first heard about Geocaching, we thought what a strange thing to do look for little containers of stuff.  I mean really, how many of these Cache things could possibly be out there anyway, the quick answer is over 1.4million according to Geocaching.com the Official Global GPS Cache Hunt site.  Another comment by the non-initiated is, "It can't be very popular because I have never heard of Geocaching".

Geocaching is probably one of the worlds biggest secrets, even though nobody is trying to keep the secret.  At the time of the writing of this post Geocaching.com reports have over 5 Million registered Geocachers worldwide, that's a lot of people busy at a secret activity.  

Can you just imagine how many caches that many people could log as found each month? I will again use numbers from Geocaching.com; for example in the last 30 days 5,578,529 have been logged.  I'm sure you are with me, when I say that it's amazing that 1.4 million people hunting around neighborhood parks, wilderness areas and even in the centers of some of our biggest cities go unnoticed.

If you have already found your first cache, then welcome to your new obsession!  If you just doing you initial research on the subject of Geocaching then here are some links explaining Geocaching.  

http://www.geocaching.com/guide/default.aspx

http://www.geocaching.com/videos/default.aspx

I look forward to seeing you out caching soon.  

Happy Caching

  Bill

    B&CJones