Posted: 10/4/2010 9:53:27 AM EDT
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List your best find. I just got started as a way to do more with my kids and get out. First one was an old crushed soda can. The cache was screwed underneath it and buried. Only the soda can was visible. Pretty cool. So far its pretty interesting. I dont see gettnig as involved as others but its still neat. |
One was one of those little button-sized magnetic fuckers. It was stuck up in a signpost between the sign and the post.
The other one was a pill-bottle stuck under the square base where the pole meets the concrete on one of these: 
had to lift up the square part. After walking right by the thing 38 times. IDK why, but for some reason I just feel more accomplished with the urban geocaches. Something neat about an object hidden in plain sight where so many people walk right by it. Actually going to get the woods ones are better though: |
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Quoted: One was one of those little button-sized magnetic fuckers. It was stuck up in a signpost between the sign and the post. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs144.snc3/17159_1213147260184_1573860178_30610807_4716636_n.jpg The other one was a pill-bottle stuck under the square base where the pole meets the concrete on one of these: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs124.snc3/17159_1213146980177_1573860178_30610801_1587024_n.jpg had to lift up the square part. After walking right by the thing 38 times. IDK why, but for some reason I just feel more accomplished with the urban geocaches. Something neat about an object hidden in plain sight where so many people walk right by it. Actually going to get the woods ones are better though: The light pole thing is called a "skirt-lifter" and we have TONS of them here, way too many actually. The "little magettic fucker" is a nano cache and they are fun, I have found a few and the challenge is great. My personal favorite of the 150 or so that I have found in the year since I started was not really a great cache physically, it was just a camo taped metal can but it was at about 11,000 feet on Pike's peak. This cache was called "Fraggle rock" and it has since been disabled. This is me standing very close to where it was located...  And this is my GPSr over the hide...  I have found a lot of great ones here at home but nothing like the tons that I found on my month long road trip from Pittsburgh to Colorado to Utah to Santa Fe. |
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One was one of those little button-sized magnetic fuckers. It was stuck up in a signpost between the sign and the post. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs144.snc3/17159_1213147260184_1573860178_30610807_4716636_n.jpg The other one was a pill-bottle stuck under the square base where the pole meets the concrete on one of these: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs124.snc3/17159_1213146980177_1573860178_30610801_1587024_n.jpg had to lift up the square part. After walking right by the thing 38 times. IDK why, but for some reason I just feel more accomplished with the urban geocaches. Something neat about an object hidden in plain sight where so many people walk right by it. Actually going to get the woods ones are better though: The light pole thing is called a "skirt-lifter" and we have TONS of them here, way too many actually. The "little magettic fucker" is a nano cache and they are fun, I have found a few and the challenge is great. My personal favorite of the 150 or so that I have found in the year since I started was not really a great cache physically, it was just a camo taped metal can but it was at about 11,000 feet on Pike's peak. This cache was called "Fraggle rock" and it has since been disabled. This is me standing very close to where it was located... http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i245/jimp6995/NEWEST/DSC_0104.jpg And this is my GPSr over the hide... http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i245/jimp6995/NEWEST/DSC_0092.jpg I have found a lot of great ones here at home but nothing like the tons that I found on my month long road trip from Pittsburgh to Colorado to Utah to Santa Fe. I didn't know the terminology "skirt-lifter," but I did know nano-cache. Of course, I'm sure you can agree that "magnetic fucker" is a fitting term. Here's another nano my sister and I found on the back of a fence in DC. Try geocaching inconspicuously around construction sites in DC, not easy 
Just across the street from this: 
Our cache-sniffers: 
This one was a doozy at night
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I found one that was a fake tree stump among real tree stumps. I was just about to give up when I saw a bit of space between part of the stump and the ground. I lifted the stump straight up, it was on a rod, and the cache was in a buried can underneath!
I also found one that was a fake electrical connection. I would post some pics but flickr has been acting up lately. |
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Quoted: OK you are right "Magnetic fucker" it is, the first one I found was under a picnic table in a bolt hole in a picnic shelter on a lake in Este's Park Co. Quoted: Quoted: One was one of those little button-sized magnetic fuckers. It was stuck up in a signpost between the sign and the post. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs144.snc3/17159_1213147260184_1573860178_30610807_4716636_n.jpg The other one was a pill-bottle stuck under the square base where the pole meets the concrete on one of these: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs124.snc3/17159_1213146980177_1573860178_30610801_1587024_n.jpg had to lift up the square part. After walking right by the thing 38 times. IDK why, but for some reason I just feel more accomplished with the urban geocaches. Something neat about an object hidden in plain sight where so many people walk right by it. Actually going to get the woods ones are better though: The light pole thing is called a "skirt-lifter" and we have TONS of them here, way too many actually. The "little magettic fucker" is a nano cache and they are fun, I have found a few and the challenge is great. My personal favorite of the 150 or so that I have found in the year since I started was not really a great cache physically, it was just a camo taped metal can but it was at about 11,000 feet on Pike's peak. This cache was called "Fraggle rock" and it has since been disabled. This is me standing very close to where it was located... http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i245/jimp6995/NEWEST/DSC_0104.jpg And this is my GPSr over the hide... http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i245/jimp6995/NEWEST/DSC_0092.jpg I have found a lot of great ones here at home but nothing like the tons that I found on my month long road trip from Pittsburgh to Colorado to Utah to Santa Fe. I didn't know the terminology "skirt-lifter," but I did know nano-cache. Of course, I'm sure you can agree that "magnetic fucker" is a fitting term. Here's another nano my sister and I found on the back of a fence in DC. Try geocaching inconspicuously around construction sites in DC, not easy http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs144.snc3/17159_1213159300485_1573860178_30610834_2740826_n.jpg Just across the street from this: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs144.snc3/17159_1213159100480_1573860178_30610829_6297419_n.jpg Our cache-sniffers: http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs244.ash1/17159_1205684073609_1573860178_30592421_3670956_n.jpg This one was a doozy at night http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/hs244.ash1/17159_1213147380187_1573860178_30610810_1796994_n.jpg Here is another one I found on the Outer Banks if you have been to this place you might recognize it....   This is a TB that I launched after my trip out west I wanted it to get to PP and back but it is stalled somewhere in New Mexico...  |
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My Wife and I Geocache. We have over 1400 finds. I think our favorite was number 100, Scarface Mtn. Cache, where we found one on the peak
of the 100th highest mountain in the Adirondacks. Took 4 hours up and back. We're not what you would call extreme geocachers. 
A pic of Scarface Mountain. 
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HERE is video (not mine) of a cool one. Not sure if I would fit now
I have had some very cool finds from a guy that is a professor at the University of Utah. One was a multi requiring you to go pick up a UV light stashed then use it in a cave to find the next coords. Had to add one more. There is a seasonal one at a canyon here that leads you to a pine coffin. You open the coffin and a skeleton stands up, and hands the cache to you. |
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http://skepticult.org/ar/asnake.jpg We passed on this one. The absolute best thing I've found in a cache though was a can of bug spray after a miserable slog through a much wetter and mosquito infested than expected bayou. Looking forward to going back out now that the weather is nice again. 
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Found one on the top of a granite pinnacle at Johnson Shut-In State Park (Missouri). It took a bit of climbing skill to get to. It was removed by the state soon after I found it. Found one that was in a empty floppy disk that was hidden in the cracks of a spring house made of flagstones. It took a LOT of searching to find it! I have one in a OD green waterproof match case hidden on a the track of a Sherman tank . http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=d852f92e-43f9-412a-a12e-d774b003d820 |
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All right stupid question's, where do you find out about the cache's? Then what do you do when you find it? http://www.geocaching.com/ |
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All right stupid question's, where do you find out about the cache's? Then what do you do when you find it? Usually you take an item and leave an item. It is an "on your honor" type of thing. Many caches have a theme so you try to stick to the theme. Usually the hide and seek is the best part of the adventure. |
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I have some hidden but they are ammo cans in the woods... My kids and I put one out 12 years ago...interesting to read the book inside and see who signs it and where they are from. I used geocache to learn how to use my GPS years back.. Took my family and my sons friends when they were little.. Alot of the parents didnt understand and still ask me if I am going on "treasure hunts" |
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funny, i got an email from a state park saying that I have to move my geo cache once a year to avoid enviromental footpath damage... It has been there for 12 years and I am not moving it...It is 100 feet of the path and people mountain bike all over the woods.. I soon learned that i needed to send them the new coords so they can put it on the state park web site...something about the whole thing just pissed me off.. |
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Quoted: That. Click on hide and seek a cache. Put in your zip code. Use google maps and it will show you all the ones near you. When you find it, sign the logbook. Some have trinkets inside you can take, just leave something else.Quoted: All right stupid question's, where do you find out about the cache's? Then what do you do when you find it? http://www.geocaching.com/ Kind of goofy but kind of fun. Great for when you are bored and just want to get out of the house. |
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Quoted: My Wife and I Geocache. We have over 1400 finds. I think our favorite was number 100, Scarface Mtn. Cache, where we found one on the peak of the 100th highest mountain in the Adirondacks. Took 4 hours up and back. We're not what you would call extreme geocachers. A pic of Scarface Mountain. http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/a0084de0-64ba-433f-b546-4955154410cb.jpg Was there a note inside saying "Say hello to my little friend"? |