I agree with hollera about hints, hides, etc. While I don't really care for micros, though I have hidden one myself due to the area chosen, I find it annoying that a hider will select a micro and then give it a 3+ rating. I have under 100 hides and have recently gotten a good friend interested in caching. He is hooked and still gets discouraged when it's a micro we're after and it has to be hidden like in Fort Knox. It takes him alot to finally give in. I too have seen areas trampled in the mad search for a cache and quite often use trampled trails as an unwritten hint to the cache location. We have started to plan our cache outings more around traditional caches in scenic areas we have never seen and only plan to seek micros when they are in the same areas or on our travel route. I can't wait until all of the guardrails in southern Maine have been taken...