In the ground and then give specific instructions from that marker to the cache.

I was thinking this week about using an old rebar type tent peg painted orange as the geocache coordinate marker with specific intructions from that point by which to locate the cache.

Is this a resonable way to set up a cache?

I'd hate to stumble and impale myself on your piece of rebar

Actually I think I'd be more concerned about what a park manager would think if he found it. It's a good way to do an offset cache - we have one near the Chattahoochee that uses bearing and distance from a marker to locate the cache. But there the marker is on a little chain around a tree.

I'd be concerned that some might view the rebar the same way they'd see a buried cache. But that's assuming it's in a park. If your offset cache hunt starts off at a construction site or an empty lot it would fit in perfectly!

~erik~

It would probably be better to use a natural occurence (stump, fallen tree, big rock) as the waypoint and give directions from that location, especially in a park or a place where putting something in the ground could be seen as disrupting the natural environment.

If the cache is on public land, that could be a problem. As the others have said, find something that already exists and use that. It's the prohibition of digging and the concept of Leave No Trace imho.

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See ya on the hunt!

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Originally posted by http://geocache.drgarris.com:
In the ground and then give specific instructions from that marker to the cache.

I was thinking this week about using an old rebar type tent peg painted orange as the geocache coordinate marker with specific intructions from that point by which to locate the cache.

Is this a resonable way to set up a cache?

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Paint it orange, cool. Make sure it's bent 180 though, like a horseshoe. Otherwise, I'd be cussing you to death if I missteped/tripped myself on one. Or dented a shin.

From experience though (non-caching/hiking related), rebar is NOT a good thing to plant into the ground with it's bits exposed. Best found in groundscaping uses, if you follow me.

I was thinking, just now, that guys and gals with metal detectors also need a reason to get out in the woods.

If I gave the coordinates to the general area of a buried spike and then gave instructions from that point... distance, bearing, etc... the cacher with the detector could find the cache.