Top ten things I learned while Geocaching...

[+mgbmusic]

10. Bushwhacking is a polite term for "stumbling blindly through the woods"

9. If it forms a rash right away, the cache is not that important.

8. Spiders will always build their webs face high and in the most inconvenient place possible.

7. If you don't like bugs, take up go-kart driving instead.

6. Always add a waypoint for your car, or at least bring enough change for the bus.

5. Long hair and windy environments DO NOT MIX.

4. When a cache is listed as being 1,000 feet away, plan on walking 4,000.

3. If you're caching near a river, the cache will always be on the other side - even if you've already crossed it.

2. You don't know that area as well as your thought.

1. The average GPSr holds enough battery life for about 4 caches, 2 bottles or water, one sprained ankle, a couple of DNF's, and about 50,000 pickly seeds that stick to every available inch of clothing, hair, etc.

 

What do ya'll think? Got any others to add?

[+Airmapper]

Well, I got 5.

 

5. Given a single muggle in a park, they will be within 10 feet of the cache.

4. The first place you park usually has a fence between it and the cache.

3. You always have a better GPS than the cache hider.

2. Every cache has ticks, some just have millions more than others.

1. The cache will always be in the last place you looked.

[nonaeroterraqueous]

1. The cache will always be in the last place you looked.

I don't know about you, but I usually stop looking once I've found the cache. But that's just me.

[Clan Riffster]

I don't know about you, but I usually stop looking once I've found the cache.

Which technically makes it the last place you looked.

 

1) Hiding a film canister in the bushes of every Burger King on Florida's east coast does absolutely nothing to enhance the game.

2) Gladware sux. Period.

3) "Snarky" is a real word, not just something Criminal made up for his amusement.

4) I'm pretty "snarky".

5) Loving your numbers does not make you evil.

6) Not giving a carp about your numbers does not make you evil.

7) Hiding a film canister in the middle of 500 acres of saw palmetto does make you evil.

8) The "Ignore" button is your friend.

9) You'll only see the kewlest stuff if you forget your camera.

10) Briansnat is da man!

[+James Lobb]

i have a few

 

1. The nearest cache to your house will never be found

2. caching near storm water creeks in a storm can hurt

[+oldsoldier]

1. The DNF you've logged 3-4 times will ALWAYS be found by someone else's 4 y/o, shattering your ego.

 

Ah, I got nuthin else.

[+Big Max]

10. Caching is a great hobby

9. Caching is extemely frustating

8. People like top 10 lists

7. Caching is going to get me fired if I don't quit hanging out in here at work.

6. Cachers are great people

5. Bushwhacking in always leads to an easy path out

4. Muggles always sit on top of caches

3. 1/1 can be extremely irritating

2. Caches will be temporarily disabled after you have printed the cache page

1. Never discuss Politics, Religion or parking lot Micros.

[+darus67]

 

3. If you're caching near a river, the cache will always be on the other side - even if you've already crossed it.

 

 

Shouldn't that be, "ESPECIALLY if you've already crossed it"?

[+GreyingJay]

1. If you're caching at night, do NOT turn off your only flashlight and put it down in the middle of the thistle patch. You will regret this move seconds later.

 

2. You will always find the easy trail AFTER the 5/5 bushwhack.

 

3. WEAR LONG PANTS!

 

4. The homeless person sitting on top of the park bench micro may be sitting perfectly still, but he's wondering what you're up to sneaking around behind him.

 

5. There's no shame in DNF.

 

6. Bring gloves.

 

7. And a first aid kit.

 

8. Between the time that you print the cache listing with no finds yet (even if it was JUST published) and the time you find the cache, someone will have been FTF already.

 

9. There's no shame in 2TF.

 

10. Your cool creative cache hide idea? It's been done.

Edited September 11, 2006 by GreyingJay

[+DocDiTTo]

1. Batteries always die on the way to a cache, not on the way home.

 

2. Pine trees aren't your friends.

 

3. Entering storm drains during a rain storm is inadvisable.

 

4. Exiting a storm drain during a rain storm can be much exciting than entering it was.

 

5. Most 5/5 rated caches aren't properly rated.

 

6. Neither are most 1/1's.

 

7. In general, cachers are very nice people.

 

8. But there's always that one guy...

 

9. The best caches are usually the ones found the least.

 

oops.. out of time.

Edited September 11, 2006 by DocDiTTo

[+markp99]

999. Don't step on your GPS unit!

[+Arrow One]

1. You'll remember the bottle of water is in the car when you get 1/2 mile away on a hot day.

 

2. There is never an "easy" way to bushwack.

 

3. A 1/1 means I should be able to find the cache even if I'm dead, but I'm logging a DNF.

[+OienLabs]

Wet spruces are really wet when the cache is hidden somewhere on a branch close to the stem. And there are many spruces to search in.

[+The Pastor & Pastor's Wife]

1. Every body logged a "went right to it" on the cache you're hunting, although you've been searching for it for 45 minutes.

 

2. There are no mosquitoes in the area until you forget the mosquito spray.

 

3. Lovebugs like mosquito spray.

 

4. Redbugs always hide in the brush to the cache.

 

5. Following big paw prints towards the cache is not a good idea.

 

6. Wild hogs can move a 1/1 cache several yards from the original spot.

 

7. Wild hogs that guard a moved cache raise it to a 5/5.

 

8. A camo'd 35mm in the middle of a National Forest is not fun.

 

9. With that many cemeteries in one place it's a wonder anyone is left alive in the area.

 

10. Carrying a camera and taking pictures is a great way to explain to any muggle what you're doing. Always carry a small notebook and pen for the muggle's name. Why? For the newspaper article of course.

[+Clothahump]

Bring a stick for poking.

 

If you don't bring a stick, bring a pole.

 

Whether you bring a stick or a pole, bring gloves and wear a long-sleeve shirt.

 

I don't care how hot it is, wear jeans. If you're caching here in Texas, where even the baby thorns are four inches long, body armor is indicated.

 

Did I mention you should bring a stick?

[+Airmapper]

 

7. In general, cachers are very nice people.

 

8. But there's always that one guy...

 

I don't care where it is, that one guy is in every crowd.

[+evelbug]

Poking around the tree line at a park while wearing a military uniform will get the neighbours to call the cops.

[+3blackcats]

If a cop shows up, ask if he knows where the cache is...you just never know!

[+Keruso]

1. WEAR SHOES, not sandels

 

2. if your going to visit a cache that you co-own,and you and the co-owner park FAAAAR away frow the cache spot,while biking, bring PLENTY of water, otherwise youll get heat exhaustion

 

3. get your own GPS

 

4. dont forget the bug spray

 

5. never wear cologne while caching

 

6. did i mention wear shoes?

[+OKTerrific]

999. Don't step on your GPS unit!

 

HAHA!!!! I don't know why this one was so funny!

[+kc8bdr]

Make sure that you properly secure your GPS before using the Porta-john.

 

http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...ic=61865&hl

[+GreyingJay]

I don't care where it is, that one guy is in every crowd.

 

And if you're thinking, "Wait, not in my area..."

 

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It's YOU!

[+swizzle]

10. My GPS thinks I'm fat it makes me walk in circles a lot.

9. You've just spent an hour searching for a cache that has been muggled.

8. You forgot extra batteries and your GPS dies .15 miles from the final stage of a deep woods multi.

7. The log is soaking wet and unsignable.

6. The muggle sitting on a park micro, talking on a cell phone, is a geocacher in disguise and you don't realize it.

5. The geocoin that's suppose to be in the cache is stolen

4. You found the cache and it only contains a logbook and a stamp?!? (Letterboxes are cool)

3. Nano in the middle of an overgrown forest?!? Why? (if there's a nano in the forest and there's no one there to hunt it does it exist?)

2. Nano's

1. Returning to the same evil micro 4 times only to find out that the original container and location and clue has been changed.

 

That's all I know. Swizzle

[+Sevateem]

! There is always an easier way to the cache than the one you took.

2 You don't get immune to poison ivy after getting it many times.

3 There are many ways to get lost.

4 There are too many lamp posts.

5 Even if it hasn't rained for weeks there is mud.

6 Bees , wasps, ect. love caches.

7 The spare battery's you haven't been re-charged.

8 Your camera is full when "the picture" is in front of you.

9 There is never a bad time to cache.

10 20% chance of rain means it will when a mile from the car.

[+xplorer7]

If you don't wear your old shoes, the terrain will always be one star muddier than you expected.

 

Palmettos are harder to trudge through than they look.

 

After 4 exhausting DNFs, don't be surprised if you find the cache within the first 30 seconds of your 5th visit.

 

You're better off with a muggle that won't leave than one that sneaks up on you out of nowhere when you have the cache wide open.

[+Colorado Cacher]

Eventually you will get to meet every animal in the forest up close. Giant coyote walked out of the sagebrush ten feet in front of me the other day. Bears, snakes, mountian lion, will eventually greet you also like I have.

[+Bad_CRC]

good stuff!

 

compiled my favorites from the previous posters... (not mine)

 

21 things I learned from Geocaching

 

1. Bushwhacking is a polite term for "stumbling blindly through the woods"

2. Spiders always build their webs at face height and in the most inconvenient place possible.

3. If a cache is listed as being 1,000 feet away, plan on walking 4,000.

4. If you're caching near a river, the cache will always be on the other side - even if you've already crossed it.

5. You don't know that area as well as your thought.

6. If there is only one muggle in a park, they will be within 10 feet of the cache.

7. The first place you park will have a fence between it and the cache.

8. You always have a better GPS than the cache hider.

9. If you wear long pants the trail will be clear, if you wear shorts there will be thorns and nettles.

10. Gladware sux. Period.

11. Loving your numbers does not make you evil, Not giving a carp about your numbers does not make you evil, but hiding a film canister in the middle of 500 acres of saw palmetto does make you evil.

12. You'll see the coolest stuff when you forget your camera.

13. Caches will be temporarily disabled after you have printed the cache page

14. There is always an easier way to the cache than the one you took.

15. A camo'd 35mm in the middle of a National Forest is not fun.

16 Your GPS makes you walk in circles a lot because it thinks you're fat.

17. If the log book isn't soaking wet and unsignable, there probably won't be a pencil anyway.

18. If you remembered the spare batteries you probably forgot to charge them.

19. Rain will not begin to fall until you reach the point farthest from your car.

20. There are no mosquitoes in the area until you forget the mosquito spray.

21. If you don't add a waypoint to your car, bring enough change for the bus.