+golfdiva Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 I was caching this afternoon in a beautiful, isolated park, great cache, nice hides, but oh what I time I had!! On the way to the final, I tried to take a short cut. Didn't realize that that "field" was an almost dry swamp! Sank in up to my knees! I got the left shoe out, but the other is making it's way to the bottom. (I left the left shoe sitting on a log as a warning to those who follow!!) I decided to carry on in my stocking feet! Then, when I was about 70 feet from the cache, I was looking under some brush and got poked in the face w/ some branches. A few minutes later, I tried to check my GPS and couldn't see it! Turned out the poke had knocked my glasses off! I crawled around for quite a while trying to find them then gave up. I had been congratulating myself on remembering to mark the car before I left so I would be able to find my way back. Well...here I am with wet cold feet, exhausted and lost cause I can't see my GPS!! I took one last stab at the cache, and would you believe I found it!!! I started making my way back to the car. I ended up having to prop the GPS on logs, etc. to get it far enough away to just barely read! I went the wrong way several times and had to back track cause I couldn't see the arrow!! But, I finally made it and lived to tell about it! lol Some want to reminded me why I took up this hobby? Quote Link to comment
+IV_Warrior Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 To have stories like that to tell, to brighten up the day for the rest of us? Quote Link to comment
Utsman Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 (edited) Well I modified a saying to make you feel better; A bad day of caching is better than a good day at work! Edited October 16, 2005 by Utsman Quote Link to comment
+nctreker Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 On the brightside you left both your shoes and glasses. Gotta call that trading up. Quote Link to comment
+Old Bill Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 (edited) Hey, not that you had a banner day either, but it could be worse. Edited October 16, 2005 by Old Bill Quote Link to comment
+graveyard mom Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Sure there is such a thing...a few weeks ago I tried to take my14 yr old nephew along to introduce him to the sport. I had just gotten a new gpsr and thought about giving him my old one. Well, come to find out he #1 didn't want to go into the woods. ever. because of the spiders. #2 didnt' want to look for anything where there might be spiders. #3 actually sat in the car listening to his cd player during a couple of stops. We hardly found half of the caches we went looking for and once we got close to the end of the day I was barely spending 10 seconds looking because I just wanted to go home. It was irritating, but luckily we(my hubby, daughter and I)went out again the next day to get back in the "spirit" and I know better than to take a certain person out again. BTW, I gave the old gpsr to my 6yr old daughter instead! Quote Link to comment
+JohnnyVegas Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 For me when it is really hot out y brain seems to want to melt down re, finding caches, that is when I go catch a movie instead of looking for a cache. Some other cachers i have talked have also had problems with the heat and finding caches. Quote Link to comment
+ParrotRobAndCeCe Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 Nah, no such thing as a bad day. What I want to know is how you managed to drive home without your glasses Quote Link to comment
+tls11823 Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 I have a pair of sneakers that I had to pull out of the rich, black loam of a Northern Ireland bog and a few months later out of a Louisiana bayou. (I don't take hiking boots on business trips, but maybe I should start.) When I have these adventures I'm cursing and complaining about my luck and stupidity. But by the time I get back to the hotel, shower off the mud, and do my best to clean my shoes and clothes in the bathtub, I realize how funny it all was, and that these will be some of my fondest caching memories. At least you won't forget about this adventure! Quote Link to comment
+JeeperMTJ Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 A couple of weekends ago I did a series of tradtionals. I used the bike to get to each one faster. The last one looked pretty easy. When I got there, I was all fenced up. Finally I found a small old logging path which was in pretty bad shape. It had rainded for days and it was all wet and muddy. Needless to say that I looked like a pig. You could hardly drive the bike, most of the time I had to push it. When I thought the path got better, I jumped on the bike again. I oversaw a ditch though, the bike came to an immediate stop in the mud and I flew right in the mud. Now I really looked like a mud wrestler. At the end of the path I discovered a nice paved road leading to the cache from the other side. Brand new and not in the map. And I did not find the cache because of bad sat reception with an EPE of 30m. Now that was definitely a bad day of caching. Quote Link to comment
Skovar Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 (edited) Is There Such A Thing As A Bad Day Of Caching? You betcha ... they are the most desirable and sought-after geocaching days. The bad days turn people into geocaching legends; nobody cares about the ordinary. Edited October 16, 2005 by Skovar Quote Link to comment
+Rick618 Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 What he said....likely not going to remember the lifted the lampskirt SLTN, but will remember the lifted the skirt got slapped with the lamp Quote Link to comment
+sept1c_tank Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 There is no such thing as a bad day of caching. Quote Link to comment
Skovar Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 There is no such thing as a bad day of caching. You have a clam for a relative? Quote Link to comment
+golfdiva Posted October 17, 2005 Author Share Posted October 17, 2005 Ya, it could have been worse, I could be nearsighted and not been able to drive home! (I got old eyes and can't see close up, faraway is find!) he #1 didn't want to go into the woods. ever. because of the spiders. #2 didnt' want to look for anything where there might be spiders. LOL good thing he hadn't been along w/ me yesterday!! Thanks for the encouraging words and funny stories! I'm not sour on caching at all. In fact, the shoes were very old, and I needed a stronger prescription for my glasses anyway!! I'm just not sure how I'm gonna mark all those student's papers tomorrow when I can't read em!! Maybe einie meanie minie moe? Quote Link to comment
+Rick618 Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Just let them grade each others, save your eyes for later. Quote Link to comment
+geognerd Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 My events aren't bad, but not good either. I recently found a multi where the final stage had bad coords. They had me searching in poison ivy and thorns. I came out unscathed and found the cache, which turned out to be a rather smashed and dirty piece of GladWare. Then there was the time I was scouting out a place to hide a cache. I was checking out a park adjacent to a cemetery. You had to drive through and park in the cemetery to reach the park. Well, I drove in at around 4:35PM. Turned out the cemetery closed at 4:30. They just hadn't gotten around to closing the gate and I didn't see the sign with the cemetery hours. I couldn't find any good hiding spots in the park, so I walked back to the car and went to leave. I got to the gate and saw it was closed and locked. I then tried another gate. It was closed too. Fortunately a policeman was parked there running his radar on speeders. I got his attention and explained my predicament. I was locked in the cemetery. The cemetery was city-owned so he was able to get someone out there in 10 minutes who opened the cemetery and I was able to get out. For this reason I won't place a cache in that park, since it's only accessible thru the cemetery and I don't want anyone else to get locked in. Quote Link to comment
+maritimedriver Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 The first time I took my kids out. My three year old fell and cut her head. I had to carry her out of the woods and to the hospital. It didn't exactly put Geocaching on her mother's top ten list. Quote Link to comment
+joefrog Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 For this reason I won't place a cache in that park, since it's only accessible thru the cemetery and I don't want anyone else to get locked in. yeah, but think of the stories it would generate! Just add another star to the difficulty rating! Quote Link to comment
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