As a recurring feature, Today's Cacher poses questions to children and publishes selected answers. Their views provide information and humor, and at times, remind us how insightful children and teens can be. This month, we asked:
If you made your own cache, what would be in it, where would you hide it, and why?
Michael, age 8
Star Wars toys, cars, video games, a Nintendo and pokemon cards. I would hide it at Chuck E Cheese so kids could find the cache and then stay and have fun there
Wray Clan, age 14
If I made my own cache, I would either put in the regular trinkets or a huge bunch of travel bugs. I'd like to hide it somewhere near Mount Baldy, because (I think) cache density in that area is sparse to none, and it's full of really great views.
Rebecca, age 7
I would hide it in a hole in a tree and I would put in toys and a whistle. I would hide it in Des Moines because then it would be hard to find.
Evan, age 14
I plan on hiding my first cache suspended on a rope from a piton over the edge of a cliff (hoist it up from the top). I will put practical items, LED flashlight, compass, keychain, etc.
Megan, age 11
I would hide my cache in an ammo box and I would put things for kids in it. McDonald's toys, BK toys, stuff like that. I would want to hide it because there aren't very many "kid's caches" in Illinois.
Andilea, age 8
A cache just for kids, with games, books, puzzles and small toys for boys and girls. It would be hidden in a nice spot in the woods, but not too long a hike for short little legs.
Mark, age 13
If I made a cache I would put in a log book, a travel bug and a Where is George bill. I would hide it in Pioneers Park in the woods because no body would ever be able to guess it.
Ridley, age 5
I would put some money, a carabiner, some key chains, a flashlight and a rubber ball. That's all.
Jordan, age 13
I would hide it in a tree, and it would be full of monkey related items because WE NEED MORE MONKEYS!
Corey, age 12
Toys and small games. I would hide it in the hills and make it difficult to find.
Little Leprechaun, age 9
I would hide it up in the mountains because that is where you can only do one cache in a day, not a cache machine. You would need to hike at least 3.5 miles round trip on a pretty trail. It would be a camouflaged ammo box, painted gray to look like rock and then hidden in a cranny of a big cliff. In it be kids toys, like crayons, pencils for school, and *maybe* McDonalds toys.
Anastasia, age 7
I would put Barbie stuff and some Polly stuff. I would hide it a few blocks away from my house so we could walk over to it.
Alexander, age 5
I'd put skeleton stuff, and hide it in the very top of a tree so it would be a hard cache.
Stephanie, age 10
There would be earrings, hair clips, little happy meal toys, and little micro caches to take and hide on your own. I would hide it at Kiwanis Park. I would hide it because I like finding caches so maybe other people would too.
Kaleb, age 9
I would probably put in things that are useful – not junk that you don't even need. I would hide it in a tube, like the something different cache because it was dark and pretty hard to find. I would put cars, gundam action figures and game boy advance games because they're fun to play with.
E, age 9
I would put girlie stuff (bracelets and stuff, not lipstick). I would put it in the garden so I could see fellow geocachers.
A, age 6
A logbook, 2 travel bugs, squishy pencil holders that you hold onto, and mini-baseball cards. In your desk because you work there.
Carmen, age 11
I would hide a cache in the garden behind our house because it would be fun to watch people find it. The cache would have a flower/plant theme and I would put flower and weed identification books, a poem about flowers, and different flower beadlings.
Aurora Jade, age unknown
It would be in the smallest container I can find. I would hide it up in a tree partly in a forest cause I want to make people climb.
Team K-9, age 14
Right now, the cache I'm working on includes just sort of random things. Some stuff that I think little kids would like, stuff people my age would like and stuff normal adult geocachers would like. Right now, I'm planning on hiding it in a State Park because PA DCNR has an official geocaching policy and I think it would be easier just walking into the ranger office and ask for a permit, than a sit down meeting with a landowner.
Lost One, age 6
Well, I'd put toys in it and I would hide it somewhere in a rock cause it would be a good place.