sTuRgi Family Geoadventures!: Building Geocaches! Daddy's job.

I LOVE BUILDING GEOCACHES. I don't know why, but I do. I have always collected and kept lil tins, tubs, containers, kool stuff that I thought would come in handy some day! Turns out, as a Scout you always need little containers to make packing easier. Now, that the sTuRgi are geocaching ADDICTS! my collection is coming in handy!

I have built 3 ammo can geocaches - one got scooped. They are great for caching, and are easy to kamo! I found mine at Princess Auto (this is the place for a Daddy to grabajaba, a cart and 2 hours) but you can get them anywhere nowadays!

We have successfully built some solid, weatherproof, geocaching friendly caches to date, but they have been basic. Time to turn it up a notch.

SPOILER ALERT - If I need to explain, click the x in TRHC!

Our next series of caches will be bumped up in terrain, and difficulty. As our experience grows hunting for caches, as does our experience for ideas to hide the treasures! Coming next will be a serious of "L&L's" aka Lock n Loads. Small to regular size caches (according to geocaching.com) with great hidden SWAG and fun for all! These caches will include multi-caches, micro-caches, a possible Earthcache, ah here's the list I'm working off.

As much as I like doing plain ol GC'ing - there's so much more, but baby steps, baby steps I remind myself!! I would really like to host a CITO event in the RMWB, but that's when Scouts is done.

I also have some kool lil dudes that are supposed to hold stuff. So I had a brain fart one night and decided to put these lil fella's in the GC collection of stuff. These outta make for some good stories when found. They will be higher in difficulty, as to NOT get scooped!

Now, another great part of building geocaches is adding the SWAG in each cache we build. I go to the dollar store (don't get me started on the issue of finding stuff actually a buck) with a coffee, and 4 empty recycled shopping bags to fill ;-)The crap one buy for more-or-less giving away in our caches is alot of fun! As much as the toys are important to the mini me's it's tuff keeping it out of their site till it lands in the cache. I guess it's practice for Santa.

Candass and I discussed on the way south last trip the plan to construct a big plaster of paris and chicken wire "fake rock" cache. Complete with lid and shocks to hold it open! More on that to come soon !!!!!! This will hold great stuff we need to get rid of and trade. Remember GC rule # 1

I also just created 3 of our first "micro" caches. Which brings me to my next rant about building caches. Some people seem to make up their own versions of what/how each cache size is rated. I go with the geocaching.com version below, most don't (IMHO)!