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How to "hide" text so that it can't be vandalized but without damaging any public property?
Augmented Reality...
... is what you are looking for.
I basically agree with Olin Lathrop's answer:
You don't, or at least shouldn't. As you say, it's public property,
not yours. What you are ...
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What precautions need to be taken when night-caching?
There are a few, many of which are in common with simply hiking at night, but some are specific to geocaching.
Firstly, the old scouts saying of be prepared! Make sure your torches, whether hand held ...
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Geocaching: How important is having a dedicated GPS device instead of a smartphone?
In addition to the good advice Tullochgorum gave,
I have been Geocaching for a couple years, i did it for about a year with just my phone, later i bought a dedicated GPS device, used it for awhile ...
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What to look for on the site of a geocache?
I've been geocaching for 12 or 13 years. I'm no power cacher, but I do have a few hundred finds. But you know what? I also have a couple hundred no finds. Some may have been missing at the time, ...
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How to "hide" text so that it can't be vandalized but without damaging any public property?
Use something that is already there.
I competed on a similar event recently - a set of clues were given out that each led to a location, and at each location the clue gave a number (for example, "how ...
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How to "hide" text so that it can't be vandalized but without damaging any public property?
You don't, or at least shouldn't. As you say, it's public property, not yours. What you are asking is no different from how to leave garbage around your campsite so that casual observers won't see ...
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Letterboxing vs Treasure hunts
The biggest difference between letterboxing (at least on Dartmoor, its original home) are:
letterboxes are usually intended to be left out indefinitely.
they're put out for anyone to find. It's ...
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Letterboxing vs Treasure hunts
According to the Treasure Hunt wiki page, Letterboxing is considered a form of treasure hunting. Clues are distributed by various manners, including orally, and lead to a specific destination. A ...
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Geocaching: How important is having a dedicated GPS device instead of a smartphone?
Modern smartphones are at least as accurate as dedicated GPS devices in most conditions. Just turn off battery intensive apps to preserve battery life if you will be out for an extended period.
But ...
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What to look for on the site of a geocache?
Since you describe it as "near your residence", it's probably what is known as an "urban micro": a small, camouflaged container attached to something like a street sign or a lamp post.
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Why can't I log a Geocaching "Cache Buddy"?
The thing you found is what's known in Geocaching as a Trackable. They come in various types, such as "Geocoins", "Travel Bugs", etc., but they're all things that are (usually) ...
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How to "hide" text so that it can't be vandalized but without damaging any public property?
I had permission to a bunch of adjacent farm/pasture/bush land near a school I worked at. I think this would be reasonable also in utility type public land: community pasture, national forest, ...
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Garmin Etrex 10
Yes, your GPS device can tell you the distance to a location. You will first need to load the cache locations onto it. Both the manual and the quickstart guide that came with it have information on ...
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Geocache inside of a pole
A hook/eyelet toggle bolt could work, depending on the weight of the cache:
If you unscrew the toggles and reverse them, the hook would be on the inside holding the string, and you would reach in ...
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Geocache inside of a pole
What's the width of the hole? I'm thinking of a mounting system like a wall socket. Spread it aginst the inner surface. Then tie the cach on it.
Or the very low cost variant:
Just use a piece of wire ...
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What are good items to leave in a geocache?
I used to leave lanyards, hair ties or scrunchies, sewing kits, excess usb leads (short ones) pencils and sharpener, batteries with date left on it, even a clean, ironed hanky and a small microfibe ...
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Geocache inside of a pole
I think what I would use would be a Rubber Washer:
If you got a ~45mm rubber washer, you could tie your string to the washer, then put it into the hole one of two ways: either shove the washer in as ...
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Why can't I log a Geocaching "Cache Buddy"?
I am no expert on geocaching at all, and have never even participated in the sport, so take my advice below with a grain of salt.
What I did was google search geocaching "Helium the Alien" ...
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Geocaching: How important is having a dedicated GPS device instead of a smartphone?
If you want to find everything, you'll probably need a good GPS.
But it's entirely possible to work without any device at all.
I started geocaching only this year, and have found almost every cache ...
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What to look for on the site of a geocache?
My friend often goes out with her sister who is the geocasher.
By looking in a different way, she often finds the ones her sister does not.
Going down on her knees (even belly) to look from the ...
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Geocache inside of a pole
It already has a hole in it, what if you used a cam? Not exactly the cheapest method but potentially the easiest.
Edit: if you found the perfect size Tricam that might be a less expensive option
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What are good items to leave in a geocache?
Some other ideas:
plasters/band-aid (if you don't worry about them getting "expired")
cat-eye reflectors (even upcycled ones), to be mounted on bagpacks
small, one-usage raincoats
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Taking only the part that I need from OSM to my Garmin
Another solution if you have a computer running Windows or Mac is to use Garmin BaseCamp™. It's free. I'll describe the full procedure for windows, for Mac there should not be too much difference.
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Etiquette/protocols/conventions for geocache logs
About the closest thing to an official answer to your question that I know of is this geocaching.com blog post, which says (boldface original):
Caches can be logged online as “Found” after the ...
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Is it possible to delete Geocaches from a Garmin etrex without plugging it into the computer?
This is late - however, potentially useful for others in the future.
Long story short - you can't delete files that have been added to the memory via computer!
All the information, including that ...
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What are good items to leave in a geocache?
I agree with the idea for using Challenge Coins for geocaching. We do this with our website, our sailing community does geocaching games all the time.
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What are good items to leave in a geocache?
I would highly recommend that you use challenge coins as they are customizable and can feature unique and amazing images. Embleholics makes some pretty amazing challenge coins and they have great ...
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