Cache Mania

I recently made a series of geocaches from various containers I had lying around the house.  I was trying to decided what is the best container for a geocache.   I used a round lock-n-lock and a square lock-n-lock.  I painted both using camouflage paint.  I looked at the cost of these containers, about $3ea when you buy brand name and about $2ea when you buy the dollar store variety.  I’d never used an ammo can before so I went hunting for one of those as well.

The ammo can was a bit more expensive at about $7ea but I could tell right away that the ammo can was far more robust than the plastic containers.

One complaint about ammo can goecahes is that they can be hard to open.  This is certainly true but you can make it easier to open using a simple technique.  Open the ammo can.  Find the biggest adjustable wrench you have and close it down until it slips over the lip of the ammo can lid.  Gently bend the lip away from the ammo can.  Be careful not to go too crazy with this.  You must need it a little looser.

The ammo can comes in the typical army green but I like to spray on a bit of a camouflage patter using camouflage paint.  I recommend you use camouflage paint as it produces a mat finish.  Put the ammo can geocache in a shady part of the forest and it will be very hard to see, unless you have good coordinates.

An ammo can geocache is also larger than your typical plastic container.  This means it can hold more swag.  The swag helps keep the kids excited.  It’s still a treasure hunt for them.  It’s for this reason that I’ll be trying to place more ammo can geocaches.

Ammo Can Geocache with some swag

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Hidden in plain sight. Very interesting hide. http://flic.kr/p/6MTbtN

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Now what would you do if you were walking through the woods and found a coffin? Turns out this happened to some folks in Minnesota. It turns out these unsuspecting muggles stumbled on a cache voted on as the Minnesota Cache of the Month by member of the Minnesota Geocaching Association. Now that must have been a cool cache!

As is sometimes the case the police were called and it’s only funny until someone sees a skeleton. The owner of the cache wrote a post about the construction of the geocache

I found the police account even more interesting:

While walking off-trail in Lebanon Park in Eagan, the four friends found a coffin with skeletal remains inside. A phone call was made and Eagan Police and members of the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office Parks, Lakes, and Trails Division also responded to the scene. Three of the four individuals had scattered after making the find, but the remaining member took police to the location of the coffin. A closer look at the coffin revealed the skeletal remains were made of plastic and left there as part of a game called Geocache…

Coffin as Geocache Container

The coffin and its occupant were taken into custody and the new coordinates for locating it would be (44 degrees 44’ 29.70 N by 92 degrees 53’ 09.72 W); for those of you without a GPS unit, that would be the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office. Good luck!

I think the police reaction might of been a bit harsh but maybe they were responding the the park’s authority in removing the cache from the park. Why can’t we all just get along?

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