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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5127198" data-attributes="member: 54707">All of those sound like good ideas Janx.I will.I was under the impression that supposedly the finder was either supposed to leave the cache for others to find, or add new things to it. I could be wrong.That's a good idea. Multiple components at the same location but not necessarily at the same coordinates, or multiple components located at connected or nearby locations.Good idea, and I had already considered that to some extent. These were my takes:Create a cache and run an "In-house search and/or recovery operation," then use geocaching methods to plant and seek it. Then after everything has been cleared with the game list it on the geocache site so that they can recover it too.Create caches just for our games, using geocaching principles and methods.Use already existing geocaches as "open dead-drops." But if what you say is true, and so far I don't know how it operates because I just created my account last night, then I'll have to use this carefully or sparingly.Use already existing geocaches with "replants." (Stuff for our game planted in.)Develop new caching techniques of my own and improve existing techniques. (For instance I'm thinking about combining mnemonic and coding and forensic techniques to add in to caching methods of planting and recovery.)I'm kinda excited about the possibilities of all of this. There are game applications, and real world applications. It will teach my kids a lot about map reading, coordinate tracking, etc. I've decided to make it a part of their Friday Field Trips.(I homeschool my kids and every Friday involves Field Trips, usually to historical or impart locations - so I'm gonna work in geocaching into some of their field trips. I'll also work in the technical methods into their Thursday laboratories. Such as their detective and SAR and forensics work.)It will be excellent training for site searching and teaching them to sweep a scene for evidence. The GPS functions and mapping functions I'll use to teach them about SAR operations, and my daughter can use that for SAR operations conducted with her squadron.  Well, thanks for your ideas and suggestions. They were very good.I've still got a lot to learn about it though. Exactly how it operates and so forth. Well, gotta go eat lunch now.See ya.</blockquote>

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