"They will be buried in earth

hence Geo
perhaps Terra?
or Dirt?
or Buried Treasure?

Maybe they will give me a Sporting chance of getting to my BOL.

I think they might just give an adequate edge. But I think it might be too slight. Thanks for your thoughtful input though.
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"Hmm . . . These caches are a good idea, but at the same time a bad one.

You've made it to your B.O.L and things are going good. Then your supplies run low (Lost a fishing pole, gun broke, knife shattered, etc.) and you realize that you have a dozen bottles filled with supplies and a dozen guns and lots of ammo right outside your door.

But you have to go <i>out there</i> to get them.

That's just tortuous. It's a bad idea to go out there just to find a few useful supplies, but what else can you do?


I would implement a system where you actually collect the supplies as you go along. Maybe your B.O.B would just be extremely bare? That way you wouldn't be leaving valuable supplies out there to just rust and rot to oblivion.

Any way you look at it, you need a way to get the supplies to your B.O.L, even if you don't need them to complete your journey. It'd just be a waste not to, and wastes are decidedly "killer" in a post-apocalyptic world.

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"I think I see a reasonable goal in here somewhere.

True, you can go all out and hide an armory in your back 40 so the gubberment can't take all your guns when the pinko socialist take over.

For a lot of people, however, their BOL is not near their home. This kind of dirtbag cachin' could be ideal.

2 liter bottles are free in many people's consumption habits, and with a post-hole digger and sand you could bury them quickly and efficiently.

Dig the hole just past bottle deep, put it in there cap up, fill the hole with sand, attach a string to the neck, fill it up the the surface, and cover with leaves, mulch, or other cover. The sand and string mean that you just have to remove the covering, pull the string, and the bottle will come right out. Avoid areas with grass or covering with clay - you want a tool free extraction.

Rather than survival supplies that should be in your BOB (or your pocket) every day of the year, put in supplies that you will need on the trek to your BOL.

Clean chlorinated water could be stored every few miles along your route saving you from having to carry much portable water and would stay there for decades.

Stable foods, fire making supplies, plastic sheets, rope, etc could be stored are likely camping spots. At these spots you might want more that just the 2-liter storage - but it would work with them.

Choosing spots unlikely to be developed with clear, lasting cues to the location would be challenging, and there is some mild trespassing involved.
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"But how are you going to find them though? That's the problem, might i sagest a simple idea? OK, here it is you could make a map if you wished but the problem with maps is that if you lose it in any way your screwed, and if the enemy captures it then your even more screwed. So a good idea would be to make a map, but cut it up into puzzle pieces and distribute it to very trustworthy people. This makes it so that if the enemy gets one of your guys all he has is a piece of a map not the whole map."