Pictures Of The Crazy Things You Have Done

2.2k · September 8, 2005

I really enjoy looking through photo galleries. I was looking at the gallery of one of the frequent posters here in the forums and I saw this photo:

It reminded me of this photo from my gallery:

I am sure you have been caught on camera doing some interesting things while caching.

Come on, share some photos of the crazy things you (or your caching buddies) have done in search of Tupperware.

1.6k · September 8, 2005

I have a relatively good one, which has never been unearthed. Up until recently, it would have revealed the "twist" involved in a particular cache, but the cache was changed, so I think I can post it.

Let me find it...

2.2k · September 8, 2005

I have a relatively good one, which has never been unearthed. Up until recently, it would have revealed the "twist" involved in a particular cache, but the cache was changed, so I think I can post it.

Let me find it...

There is this one from your gallery:

1.6k · September 8, 2005

Found them!

I honestly do not think these pictures do the feat that was involved in retrieving the cache any justice. The pictures make it look relatively easy, but one wrong step, and you'd either fall about 15 feet into the very cold spring stream, or fall the other direction onto a huge dam of driftwood and trash from the September 2005 floods, and still possibly get wet.

I felt kind of guilty making my 51 year old dad go out and retrieve the cache, while I, an able-bodied 15 year old stood on shore, but hey! I can't swim, and someone had to stay with the K9 counterpart of TeamK-9, because there's no way she was crawling across that.

Anyway, here's the pictures...

2.2k · September 8, 2005

Anyway, here's the pictures...

Hey, is your dad on the top side of the bridge that is in the first photo in this thread?

1.6k · September 8, 2005

I have a relatively good one, which has never been unearthed. Up until recently, it would have revealed the "twist" involved in a particular cache, but the cache was changed, so I think I can post it.

Let me find it...

There is this one from your gallery:

*snip*

Oh jeez, now I really feel guilty.

That would be IV_Warrior and my dad. This would be yet another case where I waited from shore. There was only room for two on the grates, and the boat was taking on serious water when all three of us were in the boat, so I stayed on land and patrolled the shoreline, taking the occasional picture.

Of course, I really took this one at a good angle. You'd almost get the impression that they were risking life and limb to simply pick out some garbage. I was standing on shore when I took that picture, and I don't think I used the zoom at all. Quite frankly, the boat was just barely necessary. The shore was maybe ten feet away at most, and I doubt it would go up to a taller guy's chest. But there's no way you could have convinced anyone to go wading in that water....

1.6k · September 8, 2005

Anyway, here's the pictures...

Hey, is your dad on the top side of the bridge that is in the first photo in this thread?

Nope. That picture was taken in good 'ole Fayette County, PA...

September 8, 2005

The caption I put on this one was "Heading out to the middle of the pond"

The log I got to after this one was actually submerged. I balanced across an underwater slime covered log for about 20 feet to get to a bog island. In the end I had to post a DNF. I probably never had to leave the shore in the first place. I still need to get back and find that one.

4.8k · September 8, 2005

I really enjoy looking through photo galleries. I was looking at the gallery of one of the frequent posters here in the forums and I saw this photo:

My shoes were green after that! Seriously! Green sport sandals! Just from a little easy/innocent wade to get a cache in green water! I washed them and my feet in a store restroom shortly after and had to wash moss and algae out of the sink after. The pants stayed green until the next wash since we had more caches to find and such. Priorities! That water was really, really green, but not so green that I thought it would re-color things! Such fun! I didn't expect to see a pic of that here!

So what is the story behind your's? Why the stick? Fun stuff/stories! :mad:

7.3k · September 8, 2005

log bridge?

we had to ride these guys for the poker run!

Pics posted with cache owner's permission

I was looking for tools, Treadmark went up

Is the trail under water? Absolutely!

9.2k · September 8, 2005

At Ricketts Glen State Park in Northeast PA. There wasn't even a cache in the area.

I become rather intimate with a lion somewhere in Jacksonville at GW3.

September 8, 2005

GCKE4G - In The Future, We'll All Wear Mylar Jumpsuits

You had to wear a mylar suit (or other spacey/futuristic costume), wear a tinfoil hat, hold up a big sign with a futuristic message, and optionally balance the highly popular local grandfathered travelling cache (GCCF79)"The Rock that Rolls" on your head. Total smiley possibility if you did all these things simultaneously: 4 (plus one for finding and moving the rock).

Moosiegirl doing a foil-wrapped Princess Leia (note the hair 'buns' made of foil):

GagetGirl looking very futuristic:

Cybercat made the trip up from San Antonio in style:

NoseCone stopped by to phone in his smiley fix:

And the FTF was of course Austin's own very futuristic Mrs. Captain Picard, who actually wore her official Star Trek uniform to work that day:

38.2k · September 8, 2005

Had to crawl into that narrow mine shaft to my right. Cache was back at least 100 feet and I'm pretty claustraphobic. Took me two visits to get up the nerve.

Edited September 8, 2005 by briansnat

5.6k · September 8, 2005

This was the fun part of the cache.

2.2k · September 8, 2005

I really enjoy looking through photo galleries. I was looking at the gallery of one of the frequent posters here in the forums and I saw this photo:

So what is the story behind your's? Why the stick? Fun stuff/stories!

We did a little impromptu caching along the beach near Santa Barbara. We were on our way to this cache when we realized that we would have to ford the river to get to it. I had picked the bamboo pole up along the beach and was just using it to test the water depth. I thought I could make it across with getting my shorts wet, but as you can see, that plan didn’t work out.

BTW: I love all the photos so far. Please keep them coming.

2.2k · September 8, 2005

At Ricketts Glen State Park in Northeast PA. There wasn't even a cache in the area.

I become rather intimate with a lion somewhere in Jacksonville at GW3.

There seems to be a common theme here.

September 8, 2005

This is a pic of me after finding an underwater cache in the sea (FTF and the only one) last year, it was very well hidden between sharpened rocks, the waves pull us against the rocks. Bleeding in the water is a bit exaggerated.

It was hidden in front of a nudist beach, it was crowed. Try to think how nude muggles scared when they saw two bleeding and dressed guys coming from the water carrying a mysterious box.

Edited September 8, 2005 by garri

September 8, 2005

The German Cache Walddusche GCKA1T (Shower in the woods) has a logging requirement: Take a shower . . . (and the water is REALLY COLD)

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/6d562...7575ebf5d0b.jpg

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/cc295...35e90252694.jpg

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/84e1b...d194c6f1eb9.jpg

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/03304...ae045fdd4b2.jpg

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/31871...44847b5146b.jpg

September 8, 2005

was taken in an uncomprimising position while doing some close-up photograhy

September 8, 2005

Not me in the pic but D-Jollyman. We looked very similar after completing The Secret Passage To Hogsmead.

Oooh, the stank! Every step through the muck brought out this horrific odor. The kids didn't like the idea of crawdads nibbling on their toes either.

September 9, 2005

I heard about one cache where it was in the middle of a sewer thingy. Not rain sewer either. Some times people did it when it was higher than them. Just today I scrped myself up to get a 1/1 was riding my bike and decided to cut through field bad idea it was a stinkin 1/1 extremely easy too but I think it got muggled there's another DNF for me.

3.8k · September 9, 2005

Not really tupperware. The ice cream place was closing right as we got there, so we had a small audience.:

40 miles on bikes on the Western Maryland Rail Trail, 17 degree weather, nano micros.

Now how do we get back down?

Edited September 9, 2005 by robert

22k · September 9, 2005

Oooh, the stank! Every step through the muck brought out this horrific odor. The kids didn't like the idea of crawdads nibbling on their toes either.

Now that's nasty, and I've shoveled liquid hog manure. At least I wore boots!

September 9, 2005

Here's CarleenP's dad the first day I took him out caching way back in November 2002. This was in Florida and there were lots of little cypress knees sticking out of the mud under there.

And he will still go caching (if the fish aren't biting)

NevaP

September 9, 2005

Had to be pulled out of this predicament by my son! (I was obviously much heavier than he was)

Edited September 9, 2005 by Cacheola Crew

1.3k · September 9, 2005

This is one of my favorite cache log photos, it's not me BTW.

The most crazy thing I've done is get up way to early to go group caching. No good pics of that though as I was usually not awake enough to work the camera.

*edit spelling*

Edited September 9, 2005 by Wander Lost

4.8k · September 9, 2005

Here's CarleenP's dad the first day I took him out caching way back in November 2002. This was in Florida and there were lots of little cypress knees sticking out of the mud under there.

And he will still go caching (if the fish aren't biting)

NevaP

Yet Dad would not climb up Amber's Revenge! What a wimp! Oh wait.... we were wimps too.... But at least we have the "short people" excuse! :blink:

Edited September 9, 2005 by carleenp

1.1k · September 9, 2005

This is one of my favorite cache log photos, it's not me BTW.

The most crazy thing I've done is get up way to early to go group caching. No good pics of that though as I was usually not awake enough to work the camera.

*edit spelling*

And the log (and previous DNF's) that went with it were priceless!

Day One, Part One.

Day One, Part Two.

Day Two.

Day Three. Which is the log associated with the photo.

4.8k · September 9, 2005

Well, my Mom posted a pic of Dad, but I think this pic from this cache log is more interesting! I need to view Mom's gallery more often!

September 9, 2005

Operation Ice Walk 2005 we all had a blast despite the blizzard and somewhat shaky ice! :blink:

Edited September 9, 2005 by Two Geeks and a GPS

September 9, 2005

Or this! Dutch Fred Lake

Very secluded place. It was NOT a requirement to log the cache!

Edit: to add pic

Edited September 9, 2005 by Two Geeks and a GPS

September 9, 2005

Here's CarleenP's dad the first day I took him out caching way back in November 2002. This was in Florida and there were lots of little cypress knees sticking out of the mud under there.

And he will still go caching (if the fish aren't biting)

NevaP

Yet Dad would not climb up Amber's Revenge! What a wimp! Oh wait.... we were wimps too.... But at least we have the "short people" excuse!

But he did try to climb a tree once at this cache May 13, 2003 - my 100th cache.

Edited September 9, 2005 by NevaP

3.5k · September 9, 2005

The picture isn't much to look at, so I won't post it in the thread, but this is me hanging by an exposed tree root on the side of a cliff. I was busy retrieving a cache and handing it to an old man who didn't want to make the trip himself.

Bret

3.9k · September 14, 2005

Well, the first three fotos below are (to me, at least) really funny pics of my rear, and then my feet, upon entering a small storm drain pipe, while placing stages for our new 5/5 Psycho Urban Cache #7 - A Good Day to Die :laughing:

I really don't want to have to tell you how far I had to crawl into that pipe...!

And, here is a pic taken while I was gearing up to descend into the rusty steelwork under an abandoned RR bridge, 66 feet above the Raritan River in NJ, to grab Wheretogo?Vertigo!

And, last, a pic of Sue's bloody face after bumping her head while seeking Dark

Fun!

1.1k · September 14, 2005

At a premium cache hide location in Calgary, Alberta, Canada ( http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&log=y&decrypt= ), here I am:

...and this photo is the great payoff once the cache is completed:

September 14, 2005

K so this isn't me - but I had to post the pic because this is one of the caches that I went out to hunt down and find. Based on the pictures, we knew it was well maintained - it's this one: GCMTA9 - and the page at: Gilligans Island Should really be checked out for more pics.

Note that the water is ONLY supposed to be between KNEE and ANKLE deep.

(special thanks to Damenace who is pictured here and reminded me to rent a paddle boat before visiting)

~Rose

2.3k · September 15, 2005

Where to start?

Here's my (then) 16 year old son early in our caching career:

This is a bridge I crossed over to get to a cache:

Then there was this cache:

Where we lost not just 1:

but 2 cachers:

We did take care of the evidence, er, remains in true caching style:

and said our goodbyes before heading to the next one:

This one I attempted on a rainy, windy day:

2.3k · September 15, 2005

Of course nothing compares to the horrors of camping with this crew:

Having to deal with rabid badgers,:

to say nothing of the leprechauns, lurkers and wild chickens, flamingoes, cows, pikas and pigs!:

Yep, we cachers will do pretty much anything.

Which I did after being dared to go out onto this bridge even after the cache was logged (instead of going out and back in, I just crossed it that way....):

September 16, 2005

This is not us but a fine couple we've met a couple of times at geocaching events. Got to be the Funniest Pic I've seen. They were checking this spot for a cache!

September 16, 2005

Ok, I'd much rather take a DNF on that one

7.3k · September 16, 2005

I really enjoy looking through photo galleries. I was looking at the gallery of one of the frequent posters here in the forums and I saw this photo:

My shoes were green after that! Seriously! Green sport sandals! Just from a little easy/innocent wade to get a cache in green water! I washed them and my feet in a store restroom shortly after and had to wash moss and algae out of the sink after. The pants stayed green until the next wash since we had more caches to find and such. Priorities! That water was really, really green, but not so green that I thought it would re-color things! Such fun! I didn't expect to see a pic of that here!

So what is the story behind your's? Why the stick? Fun stuff/stories!

I thought that was you!

7.3k · September 16, 2005

Ok. Hope she doesn't kill me for this, but here is GeoAspen at the cache Potholes Paradise Redux.

That day will live in infamy!

September 16, 2005

This is not us but a fine couple we've met a couple of times at geocaching events. Got to be the Funniest Pic I've seen. They were checking this spot for a cache!

Hmmm... give me an idea for a cache

2.2k · September 16, 2005

Ok. Hope she doesn't kill me for this, but here is GeoAspen at the cache

That day will live in infamy!

So, is that area known for butterflies?

7.3k · September 16, 2005

Ok. Hope she doesn't kill me for this, but here is GeoAspen at the cache

That day will live in infamy!

So, is that area known for butterflies?

Lots of other bugs though! The biting kind.

September 16, 2005

Moosiegirl doing a foil-wrapped Princess Leia (note the hair 'buns' made of foil):

Hilarious!

(I am very glad my daughter met Moosiegirl before seeing that photo. The poor toddler would never have been the same...)

1.1k · September 16, 2005

Ok. Hope she doesn't kill me for this, but here is GeoAspen at the cache Potholes Paradise Redux.

That day will live in infamy!

This is a required follow-up to that photo:

http://www.jengajam.com/r/turlingtons-lower

Need Windows Media Player, sound/video, and a broadband connection.

September 16, 2005

I would *so* kill you in a cruel and weird way for posting a photo of me in that position.

September 16, 2005

What??? You expect me to show pictures of the stupid things I do while looking for caches??? What do you think I am? Some kinda idiot??? BTW, I don't think anyone caught me on camera...

September 16, 2005

In this take-off of the immensely popular "Fear Factor" Reality-TV show, contestants had to compete for smileys in three stunts, the second of which was the "Gross-Out" stunt:

Panic Factor, by your host, Joe Rogaine (GCKCPH)

Here's GadgetGirl and Mrs Captain Picard grossing out. The pool of foul green slime they're about to sample is one of many settling ponds at Austin's sewage treatment plant. There's a nature preserve that abuts the plant, so they weren't trespassing to grab the smiley for this event:

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