Part of the fun with geocaching, once you get the taste for it, is making and placing your own geocache containers. How do I create a geocache? Good question. It’s a fairly simple process. The first thing you need to know is how to make your own geocache container.
All you need for this is a regular household container that you probably have in one of your cupboards. Peanut butter, mayonnaise, and pretzel jars all make great containers. Do you drink coffee? Well, those plastic coffee containers make some excellent geocache containers.
The key to creating your own container is to make sure you thoroughly clean any remnants of food from the container. You don’t want Bambi and his friends of furry vandals getting a hold of your cache. If they can’t smell the food, it will be left alone.
Containers with screw-on lids work best. Make sure you wrap the container with duct tape to help strengthen it and protect it from the elements. Camouflage tape works best and it won’t cost you much, since you’re already repurposing a container you have at home.
Once you have your container, it’s time to create a geocache. Creating a geocache is fairly easy. You just need a couple things. You will need a log book of some sort to put in the container and an item or items that can serve as the “treasure” for the hunters who find your cache.
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What type of cache should I use? Don’t break the bank on these items. After all, the fun is in the adventure. Anything small will work as a geocache item. Guitar picks, plastic soldiers, patches, pins, plastic dinosaurs, matchbox cars, hand warmers, and individual packets of bug repellant all make great cache items.
How to place a geocache? Placing a cache is pretty simple. Look for areas where you can hide the geocache box where the seekers will have to do a little work to find. Don’t make it so impossible that nobody can find it, but don’t make it too easy either. Under piles of small rocks, inside tree stumps, and in small crevices are all great stash locations. Make them work a little, but don’t make it so difficult they feel let down. Just have fun with all of it, get out there and enjoy.
