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Hey Now! It seems that every several months we get asked for "must do" caches in San Diego. Instead of a few answering back with a few caches, I was hoping to compile a list, publish it on my web space, and refer that URL to whomever asks.

 

So, I'm asking you to submit your top three caches in San Diego County. If you want to include more, that's fine. If you want to include an urban and a country list, that's even better. Post here or feel free to e-mail me. Thanks in advance for all your guys help,

 

Duncan!

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Tough question! Here's what I came up with:

 

Traditional Caches:

 

Gyrus

Balboa Park and Cache

Golden Hammer

 

Caches That Require a Lot of Gasoline:

 

Zis is KAOS, Ve Don’t Bush-vaak Here!

Triwizard Tournament

League of Extraordinary Geocachers

 

Caches That Require Some Pre-Trip Thinking:

 

Monopolizing Your Time

Crossword Double

Direction Maze

 

Obviously, there are many wonderful caches that are not on this list, but these all had something a little different that makes me remember them with a smile.

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Good idea D! No doubt, you'll have to categorize them: top 3 puzzles, top 3 micros, top 3 multi's, etc...

 

I suggest you expand to top ten or so! You're gonna have your work cut out, but then again, you're off for two weeks B) .

 

I have a feeling some folks will resent the wording: top, best, favorite, etc... Shoot they may resent the whole thing, but, overall, I think it's a good idea.

 

My puzzle contributions:

Tykes with Kites, Zis is Kaos, Local Treasure, Proctor Valley Monster Project, Pop Art, both Dits, Between the Dits, Extorted Treasure, America Loves Birds, and the Princess Bride Twoo Wuv series.

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hmm, 3 people mentioned Zis is Kaos.... will have to look into that one.

 

edited to add:

Looked into and have the first part solved. Now I need to get out there and put the info to good use. Looks like a wizard of KAOS stands in my way though. B)

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Here's my list of favorite caches (The only significance of the order is that this is the order that I found them):

 

Sea Monkey Central

Zis Is KAOS, Ve Don’t Bush-vaak Here!

The Forbidden Forest

Pants On Fire

League of Extraordinary Geocachers

 

And my favorite cache series:

 

Stuck In The Merge

Wizards Chess

As The Crow Flies

 

(and there are oh so many runners-up for this list...we are truly blessed :( )

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Any of Tuna's mtn top caches for the view

I'm coming into town this weekend, but I don't know where Tuna Mountain is! Can you name a cache that's there?

:(

Tuna is the cacher's name who placed the caches. Not an actual Mountain.

 

I found one of his at night and it was a nice view of Poway. Too bad my night pictures are all blury. The Mountain Of Moonlit Rocks (GC1CB)

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My favorite Multis:

 

The Forbidden Forest

Jenny's Two-Tone Colour Scheme

Legacy

The Wizard's Chest series

The Ride of the Headless Horseman

Par Four

Black Beard's Grotto

Beyond the Bridge

Fear Factor: up the Rat hole

Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, and

Project "Charlie"

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I'll give my top ten based on a couple of categories for San Diego County

 

NOTE: I have recused my own caches from this list. I can't be an impartial arbiter with them. I leave that to others.

 

Puzzles:

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Zis is KAOS, Ve don't Bush-vaak here!

The Artist's Secret

Greta Garbo's Phone

Where do You Call Home?

A Modern Nursery Rhyme

Local Treasure

The Proctor Valley Monster Project

Pop Art

Binary Tree Puzzle Cache

TucsonThompsen's Cache

 

Multis:

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Snakes and Ladders

Fear Factor: Up the Rat Hole

The Forbidden Forest

Lassie! Get Help!

Lights After Sunset Evoke Resolution

Camouflage Experiment

Wizard's Chess

The Ride of the Headless Horseman

A Tuna View of San Diego

Project Delta

 

Regulars:

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Green Eggs and Ham

Don't Fear the reaper

Code Name: Floppy

Cue Ball

Sandy Creek Cowboy Cache #7

Kumeyaay Solstice Sunrise

Azure Vista

Spooner's Mesa

Wrath

Not for the Delicate

 

--tt--

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Our Favorite 10--in no particular order:

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League of Extraordinary Geocachers

Proctor Valley Monster Project

Surefire Source of Frustration

Rabies

Leonid "The Lefty", or Mission Valley Views

The Forbidden Forest (in spite of our criticism)

Quit Poking Me

"Pseudo"

The Artist's Secret

Wrath

 

If you include the Temecula/Murrieta area as "almost San Diego" we can include several other greats ones.

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I found a reason not to have Snakes and Ladders on the list.  :lol:  It looks like it caused a geocacher to quit caching. ;)

 

  :)

Perhaps they saw it as the high point in their caching career and just haven't found anything else worthy.

Yeah, that's the ticket! :)

Sorry to rain on the parade, but we met Kevin&Susan at Duck Diving a couple of weeks ago. They are still actively caching! (There's photographic evidence. Here's the link to the log. ) They just stopped counting at 999.

 

:) Given this, I'd say that Parsa and Dan-Oh have, indeed, been paid a high honor! :D

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I found a reason not to have Snakes and Ladders on the list.  :)  It looks like it caused a geocacher to quit caching. :)

 

  :o

 

I griped a little about them back in the San Diego thread, pg 73:

 

Rocketman: You mean you don't want to stay at 999 as Kevin and Susan have permanently done?  They continue to cache and log finds, except their finds are logged in as notes, not finds.  They have several FTF's this way; must drive the locals nuts.  I once sent them an email [before I realized what they were doing] asking them if they meant to log a note as a find; they promptly ignored me.  They don't realize they have found over 1K finds if they continue to sign both the cache and webpage logs. 

 

If it's not about the numbers, why log their finds at all, especially FTF's, as notes, except only to taunt their fellow cachers?  I just don't get it idunno.gif; am I putting too much thought into this?  Good grief.

Incidentally, "official" find #999 was Snakes and Ladders .

 

Back to sanity:  Congrats Kawikaturn on 1K; how 'bout a brewski beerchug.gif .

fff

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I found a reason not to have Snakes and Ladders on the list.  :huh:  It looks like it caused a geocacher to quit caching. :D

 

  :unsure:

 

I griped a little about them back in the San Diego thread, pg 73:

 

Rocketman: You mean you don't want to stay at 999 as Kevin and Susan have permanently done?  They continue to cache and log finds, except their finds are logged in as notes, not finds.  They have several FTF's this way; must drive the locals nuts.  I once sent them an email [before I realized what they were doing] asking them if they meant to log a note as a find; they promptly ignored me.  They don't realize they have found over 1K finds if they continue to sign both the cache and webpage logs. 

 

If it's not about the numbers, why log their finds at all, especially FTF's, as notes, except only to taunt their fellow cachers?  I just don't get it idunno.gif; am I putting too much thought into this?  Good grief.

Incidentally, "official" find #999 was Snakes and Ladders .

 

Back to sanity:  Congrats Kawikaturn on 1K; how 'bout a brewski beerchug.gif .

fff

Yeah, I asked them about that when they found my Duck Diving cache a couple of weeks back but only posted a note. They replied "We stopped posting "finds" after reaching 999 last year (Parsa & Dan-oh's "Snakes and Ladders"). We refuse to become "Kilo-Club Members", in protest of the "mass-caching" mentality that, we feel, has permeated and degradated the hobby. We liked it back when quality, not quantity, was the norm. It's so hard to even find a cache we like anymore through all the pages and pages of quickie 1/1's placed within a tenth-mile of eachother. "

 

While I can see their point, and there *are* lots and lots of pointless "for the numbers" caches, it is still possible to sort the wheat from the chaff, and I'm still thrilled at some of the new ones coming out (Mad Eye Moody being a perfect case in point). It wouldn't be too hard to just log finds for great caches - just don't go looking for the crappy ones! It also is a bit of a snub for anyone placing an interesting cache (and underwater ones are K&S's favourites) if they don't think it's worthy of a find.

 

I suppose at the end of the day we're all free to play the game whichever way we choose though, eh?

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Hey Now! It seems that every several months we get asked for "must do" caches in San Diego. Instead of a few answering back with a few caches, I was hoping to compile a list, publish it on my web space, and refer that URL to whomever asks.

 

So, I'm asking you to submit your top three caches in San Diego County. If you want to include more, that's fine.

My faves from SD county:

 

Puzzles:

Zis is KAOS

Monopolizing your Time

TT's MTRP Nuisance Cache #3: Partnership

To Be or Not to Be

Water Water Everywhere (and a cache, you'd think?)

The 1st PodCache

Blasé Clever Rebuttals

TT annoyance cache #2

The Blueprint

Dit-di-dit-di-di-ding (both of them)

TTbay (though I haven't gone looking for it yet)

The Geocacher Who Knows (ditto)

 

Series/multi:

Triwizard Tournament

Wizard's Chess

Stuck in the Merge (seeing a pattern here??)

...Non-DAK Girls caches: Boo's Door, South Poway Trail, the Crown Jewels

 

Others:

Short Round

Sea Monkey Central

Don't Fear the Reaper

P

 

There have been plenty of others mentioned already that I know I *should* get around to doing too!

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Any more before I start the list?

I'll make links to the bookmark pages too.

 

D!

Maybe. Why don't you give me the coordinates to all of your puzzles that I haven't solved. That way I can see if I want to add any of them to the list. :mad::(

Kinda like a secret shopper or...cacher.:lol: Quality control, I'm sure.:signalviolin:

 

D!

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Hmmmmm. Just came across this thread. I have made a list as well, so I'll just Markwell it here... FlagMan's Favorites. If you don't want to go to the bookmark, here's the list:

 

Description Waypoint

No Hinty on McGinty by twinsportz GC11DA

San Diego Ocean View (Double Peak Summit) by Tuna GC140

Dem Bonz's Revenge by The_Bob GC189B

Greta Garbo's Phone by Tuna GC1A9F

The Mountain Of Moonlit Rocks by Tuna GC1CB

Golf Ball Hill by Tuna GC25B

Glick's Eternal View by mark71mark GC38A8

Tuna View Moonscape (Kumeyaay Moonscape) by Tuna GC557B

Geckos Galore Bike and Hike by Team Gecko GC5A7F

A Tuna View of San Diego by nscaler GC6A9C

Homeland Defense #1 - Archie's Place by Team Gecko GC927F

North Fortuna Mtn. Type-A-Positive Cache by davemail GCBCF

Old Glory Fletcher Point Peak by Jnglkat GCC8A

King Geepius and the Giant Toothache by bunthorne GCD569

''...on top of the world , ma ...'' by k-9 GCFB25

The Proctor Valley Monster Project by Night Hunter GCG0A2

Green Eggs and Ham by Night Hunter GCG2PT

#1 Top of the World by Sea to Sea Trail Geocaching Challenge GCG7WJ

#2 Rattler Cache by Sea to Sea Trail Geocaching Challenge GCG7WK

#19 Stars & Stripes by Sea to Sea Trail Geocaching Challenge GCG7XD

Lost Treasure of Manny A. Cacher by RUSCAL GCH0HY

Bonnie and Clyde Cache by bikedog GCH0Q5

Lawson 4 by Tom By Himself GCH940

Lassie, get help! by Dan-oh GCHKVQ

Pay Homage to the Master by Dr. Boggis GCHQJC

Black Beard's Grotto by The DAK Girls GCHW60

Camouflage Experiment by Dan-oh GCHY40

Fear Factor: Up the Rat Hole by The DAK Girls GCHYJR

Secret Passage to Hogsmeade by The DAK Girls GCJ420

It's the Season for Snakes by Duncan! GCJ4CZ

King Geepius and the Okeanos by bunthorne GCJ5NX

Punkte und Spuren by Duncan! GCJBZ1

Spam Haiku by FlagMan GCJE1E

Snakes and Ladders by Parsa GCJG08

Token A by pqcachers GCJHEG

Riddle Me This, Batman by TrailGators GCJQ8V

Stay on Target.... by FlagMan GCJTFE

Pants on Fire by GoBolts! GCK1GE

Triwizard Tournament - The Goblet of Fire by The DAK Girls GCK3K6

Yrium Celebration Letterbox Cache by Team Gecko GCK6TB

Zis Is KAOS, Ve Don’t Bush-vaak Here! by FlagMan GCKC5B

The Blueprint by John&Jess GCKGYT

Chapter and Verse by FlagMan GCKP0P

Don't Fear the Reaper by FlagMan GCKQ8C

Colette's Last View by bunthorne GCKXFD

A Surefire Source of Frustration by D-Jollymon GCKZG6

Water Water Everywhere (and a cache, you'd think?) by Dr. Boggis GCM1E6

Lucinda by FlagMan GCM484

Rosecroft Gardens by FlagMan GCM48F

Project "Delta" by drew5.10 GCM499

Local Treasure by FlagMan GCM5XJ

Hydro Cache by CAMP W GCM686

High Fruit, Better Than Ever! by FlagMan GCM9Q3

The Forbidden Forest by The DAK Girls GCME1Z

Sandy Creek Cowboy Cache No. 7 by SD Rowdies GCMJ9R

Monopolizing Your Time by TucsonThompsen GCMJWN

King Geepius and the Flame of Friendship by bunthorne GCMQHQ

Wizard's Chess by The DAK Girls GCMTW8

Richland Stone Circle by Parsa GCNBBT

Aliens Ate My T-Bird by NCad GCNCH6

Searching for Bobby Fischer by kawikaturn GCNJK6

Dream State by QDman GCNKHB

FlagMan's 2005 4th of July Cache by FlagMan GCPHN0

League of Extraordinary Geocachers by Duncan! GCPV5K

Eagle Peak - A Boulder Creek View by PassingWind GCPVER

Peeves by The DAK Girls GCPX5V

Mad Eye Moody by The DAK Girls GCPX5Z

3 Sisters Photo Cache by T. R. Violin GCPX6W

The Andromeda Strain by Snake & Rooster GCQ2TW

Prime Recipe by Dr. Boggis GCQ5E7

Who Are You? by TrailGators GCQ99B

It's Buggy! by Let's Look Over Thayer GCQB2D

CHUD by Dan-oh GCR40R

Compromising Positions!!! by redrox GCR7TM

We've Only Just Begun 2 by "Flintstones" GCR890

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Hmmmmm. Just came across this thread. I have made a list as well, so I'll just Markwell it here... FlagMan's Favorites. If you don't want to go to the bookmark, here's the list:

 

Description Waypoint

No Hinty on McGinty by twinsportz GC11DA

San Diego Ocean View (Double Peak Summit) by Tuna GC140

Dem Bonz's Revenge by The_Bob GC189B

Greta Garbo's Phone by Tuna GC1A9F

The Mountain Of Moonlit Rocks by Tuna GC1CB

Golf Ball Hill by Tuna GC25B

Glick's Eternal View by mark71mark GC38A8

Tuna View Moonscape (Kumeyaay Moonscape) by Tuna GC557B

Geckos Galore Bike and Hike by Team Gecko GC5A7F

A Tuna View of San Diego by nscaler GC6A9C

Homeland Defense #1 - Archie's Place by Team Gecko GC927F

North Fortuna Mtn. Type-A-Positive Cache by davemail GCBCF

Old Glory Fletcher Point Peak by Jnglkat GCC8A

King Geepius and the Giant Toothache by bunthorne GCD569

''...on top of the world , ma ...'' by k-9 GCFB25

The Proctor Valley Monster Project by Night Hunter GCG0A2

Green Eggs and Ham by Night Hunter GCG2PT

#1 Top of the World by Sea to Sea Trail Geocaching Challenge GCG7WJ

#2 Rattler Cache by Sea to Sea Trail Geocaching Challenge GCG7WK

#19 Stars & Stripes by Sea to Sea Trail Geocaching Challenge GCG7XD

Lost Treasure of Manny A. Cacher by RUSCAL GCH0HY

Bonnie and Clyde Cache by bikedog GCH0Q5

Lawson 4 by Tom By Himself GCH940

Lassie, get help! by Dan-oh GCHKVQ

Pay Homage to the Master by Dr. Boggis GCHQJC

Black Beard's Grotto by The DAK Girls GCHW60

Camouflage Experiment by Dan-oh GCHY40

Fear Factor: Up the Rat Hole by The DAK Girls GCHYJR

Secret Passage to Hogsmeade by The DAK Girls GCJ420

It's the Season for Snakes by Duncan! GCJ4CZ

King Geepius and the Okeanos by bunthorne GCJ5NX

Punkte und Spuren by Duncan! GCJBZ1

Spam Haiku by FlagMan GCJE1E

Snakes and Ladders by Parsa GCJG08

Token A by pqcachers GCJHEG

Riddle Me This, Batman by TrailGators GCJQ8V

Stay on Target.... by FlagMan GCJTFE

Pants on Fire by GoBolts! GCK1GE

Triwizard Tournament - The Goblet of Fire by The DAK Girls GCK3K6

Yrium Celebration Letterbox Cache by Team Gecko GCK6TB

Zis Is KAOS, Ve Don’t Bush-vaak Here! by FlagMan GCKC5B

The Blueprint by John&Jess GCKGYT

Chapter and Verse by FlagMan GCKP0P

Don't Fear the Reaper by FlagMan GCKQ8C

Colette's Last View by bunthorne GCKXFD

A Surefire Source of Frustration by D-Jollymon GCKZG6

Water Water Everywhere (and a cache, you'd think?) by Dr. Boggis GCM1E6

Lucinda by FlagMan GCM484

Rosecroft Gardens by FlagMan GCM48F

Project "Delta" by drew5.10 GCM499

Local Treasure by FlagMan GCM5XJ

Hydro Cache by CAMP W GCM686

High Fruit, Better Than Ever! by FlagMan GCM9Q3

The Forbidden Forest by The DAK Girls GCME1Z

Sandy Creek Cowboy Cache No. 7 by SD Rowdies GCMJ9R

Monopolizing Your Time by TucsonThompsen GCMJWN

King Geepius and the Flame of Friendship by bunthorne GCMQHQ

Wizard's Chess by The DAK Girls GCMTW8

Richland Stone Circle by Parsa GCNBBT

Aliens Ate My T-Bird by NCad GCNCH6

Searching for Bobby Fischer by kawikaturn GCNJK6

Dream State by QDman GCNKHB

FlagMan's 2005 4th of July Cache by FlagMan GCPHN0

League of Extraordinary Geocachers by Duncan! GCPV5K

Eagle Peak - A Boulder Creek View by PassingWind GCPVER

Peeves by The DAK Girls GCPX5V

Mad Eye Moody by The DAK Girls GCPX5Z

3 Sisters Photo Cache by T. R. Violin GCPX6W

The Andromeda Strain by Snake & Rooster GCQ2TW

Prime Recipe by Dr. Boggis GCQ5E7

Who Are You? by TrailGators GCQ99B

It's Buggy! by Let's Look Over Thayer GCQB2D

CHUD by Dan-oh GCR40R

Compromising Positions!!! by redrox GCR7TM

We've Only Just Begun 2 by "Flintstones" GCR890

For series I vote Sandy Creek Cowboy series

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Hey Duncan, this thread has really grown into a treasure trove of best caches. Geocachers come through again! After recovering from my trip to San Diego, I'd have to say that my favorite area was Point Loma for its scenic beauty and historic significance. I enjoyed hiking in the Laguna Mtns and consider myself really, really fortunate that you took me caching there. Getting a FTF was a thrill!!! And I saw the best fake rock I've ever seen there.

 

I'll try to come back soon and clean out all the rest of the caches I missed the first time! OR, if you run out of puzzle caches, you can come visit in Austin and snag a zillion or two!!!

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I've been trying with many others for over a year so far to get GC to create a community favorites list!

I thought it would be cool to know all the coolest caches when I travel to other areas.

Anyhow, here is a recent post from that thread.

Don't bother to read it all because it goes in circles everytime a newbie chimes in. :cry:

But maybe you guys can help push it some more! :ph34r:

 

The bottomline is that the bookmarks are a big step forward!

If everyone makes their own favorites we can easily combine them to make a main SD list but it will be constantly changing so it will become quite a chore! :blink:

But sommmmmmmmmmeday GC will do this for us..... :lol:

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hmm, 3 people mentioned Zis is Kaos.... will have to look into that one.

 

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Looked into and have the first part solved. Now I need to get out there and put the info to good use. Looks like a wizard of KAOS stands in my way though.  ;)

Over a month later and I now agree that Zis is Kaos is a must do cache. ;)

 

I also noticed today that Stuck In The Merge is no longer a series. It looks like I will never be able to enjoy that one aside from the 1 cache left. :blink:

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