NorthWest Arkansas Cachers

I just finished making up some more CITO containers to drop into caches and I was wondering if anybody actually uses them. I included the poll to see what everyone really thinks.

I'm going to put this poll on the portal page

I found this picture of a CITO container on the GC forums.



Basically it's a small container, usually a 35mm film canister, with a small garbage sack or grocery bag inside that you take from a cache or on the way to another. Use the bag to gather trash around the cache site, and then drop in another cache after you've replaced the bag.

I recently revisited a cache that I had dropped a container in. It had been visited by a few cachers, some very well known, none had bothered to remove the container. I'm just wandering if I'm wasting my time and money. I'll still do it anyway though.

Thats a great idea. I haven't seen one before. I usually have my own grocery bag. Is there a label for them?

I didn't vote yet because Im between "All the time" and "I used to but not lately". I fall into the "80% of the time" category.

I do need to start carrying latex gloves and handi wipes.

Gratefulldad wrote:Thats a great idea. I haven't seen one before. I usually have my own grocery bag. Is there a label for them?

Yeah. I use the ones from Geocache-U I print them off and then cut them out. Then I use clear masking tape as a laminator and tape them to the containers. It works pretty well. You don't have to laminate them though. Just tape the labels to the containers.

I get my containers from the photo center at Wal-Mart. If you ask and tell them what you're doing they'll give you a bag full for free. I just labeled our last fifteen or so for our caching trip to Glenwood this Saturday.

We have not run across one yet but I think it is a great idea too. There are many times I have forgotten to bring my trash bag along and have wished I had one to pick up trash along the way. Kudos to you!

Whiler caching in Clarksville I revisited a cache that we had found almost a year before. Sure enough, the CITO container was still in there. That's kind of discouraging but I did recieve an email from another cacher after finding one and they were asking what to do with it and really liked the idea.
According to the poll results 63% of everyone that voted didn't know what one was. Hopefully everyone has figured out what to do with them and even better yet dropped some off yourself.
They're really good cover for caching in muggle rich places to. Nobody thinks twice about someone picking up trash somewhere. You can even dig around bushes and stuff without calling attention to yourself