Eulogy To Locationless

January 2, 2006

I'll stay on topic

I as well will really really miss LCs. I enjoyed doing the research and then going out on a road trip to grab a find on one or more LCs. I ended up with 161 finds but have a bunch that I was unable to find. I'm sure that I'll see Kugel Balls everywhere I go now

My favorite memory is doing two SF Bay Area County Highpoints in the same day during a large Pacific Storm. Nazgul and I were blasted with 60 mph winds on the top of Mt. Tamalpias north of SF and then treated to amazing views 40 miles away on Mt. Diablo. On the same roadtrip we toured an old WWII sub to get pics of Torpedos and also picked up a few bonus penny smashers.

What was really hilarious is that we took pictures of Alcatraz to log the benchmarks and when I got home from a geocoin event I logged in to see that Nazgul had grabbed FTF on dash for cache with an Alcatraz picture... what a b#st@rd

2.3k · January 2, 2006

Please stop the back and forth off topic ranting.

This is the second moderator request. Further ranting will be met with an admin brick.

Please stay on topic.

Actually it is the 3rd. The 1st was by Quiggle here. That is the warning to which I refer in my 2nd post BTW.

I wish to echo what the moderators have asked for, let's keep this thread restricted to fond memories of locationless caches and let everything else go.

Back to On Topic: Looking over the LCs that I've done a couple of others do stand out.

On my birthday run when my whole family went looking for them I forgot to mention that Goodbye Hollywood was logged as cache find #100. The spot I picked was the mall where 'The Blues Brothers' was filmed- yes, the mall they drove thru and pretty much demolished!

Another one was The (Not-So) Famous Cities of the World. Being of partly Scottish descent I picked an appropriate local town. I wasn't sure if it fit as the corresponding place was not really a town but an area in Scotland. The cache owner graciously said it was fine as it fit into the spirit of the cache. Almost two years later I had made plans to meet up with the owner but due to health reasons we couldn't. I did finally end up meeting the owner at Geobash, he went by the name of SherwoodForest. I say went by as he recently passed away. I'm glad I did finally get to meet him, even if only briefly. The circumstances under which we met were a bit unusual and is one of my best memories of caching. I don't think I'll ever forget how we met or how nice he treated a new cacher when they were still getting their feet wet.

That's enough from me for now, let's hear about your special memories!

January 2, 2006

solid-rock-seekers, I enjoyed the heck out of your final log on Dash for Cache - I'm sure Joel did too. Nice work.

Isonzo,

Thanks for letting us know that you appreciated our final Dash for Cache log. We wouldn't have felt right about posting that find if we didn't have to work for it a bit - our pattern is to try to write fact-filled and hopefully interesting locationless cache logs - writing the log is sometimes the most time-consuming part of our caches!

We were surprised at how much fun it was to go back and look at all our dash for cache finds and put the collage together - brought back a lot of good memories.

January 2, 2006

I didn't have all that many locationless cache finds. Seemed most I knew of had already been logged by the time I got to them. Knowing they would be going extinct soon, I wanted to get a few under the wire. The most fun I had was riding bikes all over Key West with CaptFelix and our wives. We printed the list and researched some of the criteria required for logging. CaptFelix already knew where several examples could be located and it was really fun riding around while keeping our eyes peeled for any others. "There's a carved door!" "There's a mural!" "Is that a metamorphosed building?" "There's a lion!" "I know we'll find a mermaid somewhere." ... and plenty of faded ads. I was surprised at how few LC's (almost none) had been found on the island. My favorite and biggest feather was getting to log The Southermost House for Painted Ladies. Couldn't believe no one had logged that one. Honorable mention goes to a pet chicken cemetary at Blue Heaven. We knocked out 18 LC's over three days in addition to the five virtuals, but only 2 traditional caches on Key West.

Rest In Peace, Locationless (Reverse) Caches.

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6.4k · January 2, 2006

Seems folks forget what a eulogy is about. The unwritten rules when pay tribute to the passing. Please be respectful. Respectful towards the topic and each other.

Folks, treat this as the passing of a coworker that you barely knew. It matters not if you liked or disliked the person. Always put forth a respectful posture and not turn it into some sort of fued.

Thanks folks.

I think that's the problem with this thread. It started off wrong right in the title.

You don't have eulogies for people/things that haven't died.

Do you have a eulogy for a coworker who is leaving your company to strike out on his own and start a new company?

No.

You throw them a party, and wish them much success with the new career.

Locationless caches haven't died. They moved to a different place. A place where they are the star employee, and not having problems trying to fit in, like here.

They even have a few brothers and sisters thriving at some other companies.

Anyone who truly likes doing locationless caches should love doing waymarks.

Now, if you really just liked collecting GC.com smileys, I guess locationless caches are dead to you; but that doesn't change the fact that they are really alive and well and putting on weight at their new job.

Edited January 2, 2006 by Mopar

6.5k · January 2, 2006

I too will miss LC's. I enjoyed doing the research to find something unusual like (one of) the only Frank Lloyd Wright designed home in New England, and finding out that it was very near where I was traveling in a few weeks. I was quite surprised that none of the locals had logged it yet. I enjoyed the goofy ones like the Odd Speed Limit Signs.

But perhaps my favorite was target #39 of Dash for Cache-Life Imitates Art where you were asked mimic or interact with a public statue. Now I often do that anyway, just to amuse those with me, so it was a big bonus for me to see it appear as a cache location(less).

I think this site gave up on them too quickly after some of the weaker or problematic ones were listed. I understand the functionalty part of why Waymarking is better, just not why that could not be incorporated into geocaching.

To me they were bonus caches to look for on the way to somewhere else. I carried the Categorized Checklist with me at all times. I hope there is someway to do this with Waymarking, but I haven't taken the time to figure that out yet.

(edit to correct reality per SRS :lol: )

Edited January 2, 2006 by wimseyguy

January 2, 2006

I too will miss LC's. I enjoyed doing the research to find something unusual like the only Frank Lloyd Wright designed home in New England...

Wisemyguy,

Congratulations on finding one of the elusive Frank Lloyd Wright homes in New England. However, just FYI, there's more than one in New England. Indeed, three were logged on the cache page before it was archived. (See Distance-Sorted Frank Lloyd Wright homes from SRS find in Manchester, NH). I suspect there are a fair number more around, as well...

Happy (Non-Locationless) Caching!

Edited January 2, 2006 by solid-rock-seekers

1k · January 2, 2006

I logged 25 Locationless caches.

My favorites.

Observatory Quest - I'd found one near my house on a local college campus, but it had already been logged.l I knew of this one, but never bothered because I figued it had already been logged. Not so.

Sundials - One of the things I liked about locationless caches was it made you more aware of your environment. I had been driving by this sundial every week on the way to church. One day I happened to glance over at it and said, "Is that a sundial?" My son rolled his eyes, because he knew it was and he had noticed it long ago. I guess that's what you get for sitting in the passenger seat, a better appreciation for your surroundings. Waymarking does the same thing now making you more aware of your surroundings.

US Flag - Biggest flag I've ever seen flying on a staff. This one is at the Oasis Casino in Mesquite, NV.

Yellow Jeep Fever - Just because it's cool. Our neighbor owns a yellow Jeep. I refused to log that one. I found this one while out caching. Like I said, locationless caches made me more aware of my environment.

7.2k · January 2, 2006

Please stop the back and forth off topic ranting.

This is the second moderator request. Further ranting will be met with an admin brick.

Please stay on topic.

Actually it is the 3rd. The 1st was by Quiggle here. That is the warning to which I refer in my 2nd post BTW.

I wish to echo what the moderators have asked for, let's keep this thread restricted to fond memories of locationless caches and let everything else go.

If you had looked at the time of Moose Mob's post and my post, you would see they were posted at the exact same time. Let's just say it is 2.a and 2.b and that *both of us* recognize that everyone in this topic needs to lay off the personal attacks and get back on topic.

You could have done a better job of staying on topic by not correcting me. EDITED TO ADD that if there are additional questions outside of the topic please handle them through private messages.

Thank You.

Edited January 3, 2006 by mtn-man

3.9k · January 2, 2006

Psst - the posts concerning whether it is off topic or not is off topic

Lets drop it and get on topic, OK?

2.5k · January 2, 2006

Lets drop it and get on topic, OK?

Yeah, let's. And no more personal attacks on CoD too, ok?

Anyway, I forgot about the Smashed Penny Locationless Cache. I can't tell you how many times I was near a penny smasher but didn't have my GPS or camera handy. It took a real long time to log this one since I didn't set out to find it on purpose. Then one day, there was a penny smasher and the GPS and camera were in the car. Fun!

1.6k · January 2, 2006

We have logged 86 locationless caches .. each and everyone of them has taught us something . Perhaps my favorite one was Log for Pet Cemetery

We will often be caching or driving from here to there and point out to ourselves .. Hey llook "log a Lion" ... or someone will yell out "Yellow Jeep ! " ... and many many more like ooooo there's a "Round Barn" How cool is that one compared to the one we loged ?

How about a Dome Home ! well theres one now !

Yes we will sadly miss the locationless caches .... very much they brought us joy and entertainment on caching drives and just plain traveling from here to there.....

Star

January 2, 2006

Is it just me, or it's still possible to log these babies?

1.4k · January 2, 2006

Got an earthcache in under the wire - 1505 hours today. It's a whopping 2 miles from home. RIP - give me a box to find and I'm a happy camper.

3k · January 2, 2006

Got an earthcache in under the wire - 1505 hours today. It's a whopping 2 miles from home. RIP - give me a box to find and I'm a happy camper.

Congratulations on your earthcache find.

But earthcaches aren't being archived - they are grandfathered, and are still available for logging finds.

Only Locationless caches are being archived as of the first of the year.

(my apologies to the OP and the mods for the OT response)

January 2, 2006

Well, despite what anyone else thinks, we will miss locationless caches. We enjoyed them and found them a great addition to the game.

Now please, no one suggest we try Waymarking. This thread was started as a eulogy to locationless caches so let us say farewell to them as we express our presonal regrets at seeing them leave the geocaching.com website and the game of geocaching.

When Waymarking began and we expressed our criticisms of it even Jeremy was upset because we were being negative. Well, this was started as a farewell to locationless, so why not refrain from stating negative opinions about locationless and just say good bye to them.

3.8k · January 2, 2006

I enjoyed them a great deal. They made me look for things that I wouldn't have ever given more than a passing thought to.

My favorite was the Hippie Microbus. There is only one in my town, and I spent 3 months chasing it down.

1.4k · January 2, 2006

cache-test-dummies - AHHHHH I see now . It's a good thing, it is a wonderful place to enjoy. It is a shame that I live so close to it that I have taken it for granted. I still enjoy finding a standard cache, good thing I have not found any caches on the earthcache - gives me even more fun.

10.1k · January 2, 2006

Another locationless cache that we greatly enjoyed is Where's My Name ??? . For most, it's a very easy cache. I logged a sign in Princeton that was two letter off from my full name. For those with less common names, it can prove neigh unto impossible! My caching buddy's name is Jesus (very uncommon last name). (Thank you, that is pronounced hay-seuss.) We searched the on-line road map programs for the New York City metropolitan area, for the closest road sign with 'Jesus' in it. The nearest is in Carmel, New York, about seventy miles north! We decided to cache at Bear Mountain, on vacation, and drove the extra thirty miles each way to find Jesus' Gospel Way. A very challenging, but very rewarding cache!

January 3, 2006

Another locationless cache that we greatly enjoyed is Where's My Name ??? . For most, it's a very easy cache. I logged a sign in Princeton that was two letter off from my full name. For those with less common names, it can prove neigh unto impossible! My caching buddy's name is Jesus (very uncommon last name). (Thank you, that is pronounced hay-seuss.) We searched the on-line road map programs for the New York City metropolitan area, for the closest road sign with 'Jesus' in it. The nearest is in Carmel, New York, about seventy miles north! We decided to cache at Bear Mountain, on vacation, and drove the extra thirty miles each way to find Jesus' Gospel Way. A very challenging, but very rewarding cache!

I also enjoyed Where's my name? I found out that my name and my hubby's name are an intersection in town. I probably would not have ever been in that neighborhood if not for this challenge.

4.1k · January 3, 2006

Some of my favorite geocaching experiences were with the locationless. I was able to track down an underground railroad station (even in San Francisco), find historical lime kilns where regular caches could not be placed, and add an extra degree of adventure for everything from waterfalls to petroglyphs. They helped make me more aware of things that were in my area, and gave me something to look for when I could not do other types of caches. I will miss them, so they deserve a eulogy.

January 3, 2006

Has anybody noticed they have not been archived yet? Whoo hoo for the Gift of more time.

January 4, 2006

They're dead, Jim.

Gonna miss 'em....

9.4k · January 4, 2006

7.3k · January 4, 2006

I was going to name some locationless that I really had enjoyed, but as I was scrolling through the ones I had done, I realized that there were too many wonderful ones to be able to list.

I mention what I mentioned before - I learned so much about the world because of them! I can only hope that things will get even better with Waymarking!

Here's a few that stick out:

Mission Madness: A mission that we found in Todos Santos, Baja California. Beautiful!

Speleo: My husband and I had a great time in this ice cave (in Lava Beds NM) during our anniversary last year.

Fire Fighting Vehicles: My dad has been a fire fighter since I was 5, and my husband was one when I met him. My father is now stationed below my house, so he is my firefighter! :lol: Here he is in my driveway, with my husband leaning in to talk to him.

Thanks to all the people who owned locationless, and who visited them and posted cool pictures!

Edited January 4, 2006 by Ambrosia

January 4, 2006

I travelled 5 hours for a locationless (A merci train car) and received quite a history lesson. Other than Tube Torcher it had to been my greatest feeling of accomplishment. They kept my eyes open while travelling and sometimes gave me a history lesson. If only waypointing didn't seem so lame, but then again were the locationless lame and I didn't realize it? hmmm....that's something to ponder

Edited January 4, 2006 by Geo-Deputy

January 4, 2006

What it is, what it was and shall be!

I will miss having all my CCC finders in one place.

January 5, 2006

So, your favorite locationless cache was in Phoenix?

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January 5, 2006

I enjoyed the locationless caches immensely. I'd always been fascinated with photography and cool or unusual spots, so when I learned about this cache type it was right up my alley.

The weird thing is that just after I learned about them, my new digital camera crapped out and had to be sent back to Kodak for warranty repair. For the next six weeks or so, it seemed that everytime I left the house I spotted something I could use for a locationless, if only I had a camera!

Fortunately, I had the foresight to mark a waypoint at each of these spots, so once I got my repaired camera back I hit the road and logged a ton of them within a few days. Great fun, and I'll miss the excitement and serendipity -- at least on this listing site!

5.2k · January 5, 2006

So, your favorite locationless cache was in Phoenix?

Obviously that was too subtle for you.

Clicky the picy. :blink:

January 6, 2006

So, your favorite locationless cache was in Phoenix?

Obviously that was too subtle for you.

Clicky the picy.

Edited January 6, 2006 by kcart

7.3k · January 9, 2006

Memory for Dash for Cache fanto has created this cache in memory of their favorite locationless. A nice idea which I may well copy. Edited January 9, 2006 by Isonzo Karst

January 9, 2006

This one was my favorite of the few I did, but also one that particularly stood out from so many others. I have a bit of a fondness for forgotten pieces of the past, be they buildings, bridges, or even these cool ads that are so seldom employed anymore, at least not like this. Roadside billboards just aren't the same.

24.7k · January 9, 2006

I will miss Fill in the Blanks. It took everthing people liked about geocaching, maps, a quest and turned it into a locatinoless that created caches.

Waymarking doesn't even have such a concept. <_<

7.3k · January 9, 2006

Yeah, Fill in the Blanks was a good one. I created Lacoochee Stanley Park cache for it. And placed a ? cache where you had to log Fill in The Blanks first to get the real coords. A bunch of new caches were placed in west central Florida then. Eagle Dad's San An Nano, Fishing Freak's Clay Sink, Msdrg0n's A Place of Honor (Ehren Quad), the most amazing was South Tampa's Sulphur Springs (Sulphur Springs Quad). Even though it was within Tampa city limits, there were no caches in the area - a mostly black part of the city, with some nice river front neighborhoods and the spring, a second magnitude I think.

Edited January 9, 2006 by Isonzo Karst

3.2k · January 9, 2006

I never got into locationless caches but I did one that was supurb. GC50E0 was to find the highest point in a county and climb it. Mine was a great adventure that ranks among my personal top 10 caches of all times.

January 23, 2006

1.1k · January 23, 2006

Just wrong ©¿©¬

Can't say I found it that funny when Keystone did it. Wonder how many more links will be posted in the forums pointing there....

7.3k · January 23, 2006

Just wrong ©¿©¬

Can't say I found it that funny when Keystone did it. Wonder how many more links will be posted in the forums pointing there....

I like to see a bit of lightness in the forums once in a while.

Edited January 23, 2006 by Ambrosia

January 23, 2006

My son and I have done many locationless caches as we were getting into geocaching. We also enjoyed webcam caches until they too were stripped from the game. Taking away a big part of the game will certainly make me give second thoughts to making the upcoming Paypal payment that GC.com is looking for.

7.3k · January 23, 2006

My son and I have done many locationless caches as we were getting into geocaching. We also enjoyed webcam caches until they too were stripped from the game. Taking away a big part of the game will certainly make me give second thoughts to making the upcoming Paypal payment that GC.com is looking for.

Well, it's good that there are still a bunch of grandfathered webcams still out there to do!

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