+Blue Power Ranger Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I don't know if this topic has been visited on the forums before or not. (I know, most have ) But just for fun, if geocaching had always existed what other figures in history, real or imagined, would have made great or lousy geocachers? For me the picture comes to mind of Magellan, carrying a Magellan or Lewis and Clark leaving a trail of film canisters tossed in bushes from St. Louis to the Pacific (vacation placements?). Maybe you think of Indiana Jones constantly having his FTF prizes stolen by Dr Belloq. "Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away." etc... Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 (edited) Caching HAS existed since the stone age. Edited January 31, 2007 by Snoogans Quote Link to comment
+Blue Power Ranger Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 Caching has existed since the stone age. Clarification then... in its current format. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I think Mary Queen of Scots would have made an excellent geocacher. Quote Link to comment
+mudsneaker Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 The first crew to the moon REALLY should have placed one there.... Quote Link to comment
+tozainamboku Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 (edited) The Puritans would have signed the log. Edited January 31, 2007 by tozainamboku Quote Link to comment
+Blue Power Ranger Posted January 31, 2007 Author Share Posted January 31, 2007 I think Mary Queen of Scots would have made an excellent geocacher. She looks to be strictly park & grab to me. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 The Puritans would have signed the log. Me thinks goodey Toz makeith mirth at someone's expense! I accuse him of witchery! Can I get a BURN HIM from the crowd? Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Seriously, I think King Tut's and the Captain of the Atocha's new caches would have been much anticipated. Their existing caches would have hundreds of watchers and be heavily bookmarked. I suspect folks could get lynched by an angry mob for trading down on any of those. Quote Link to comment
+BlueDeuce Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I don't know if this topic has been visited on the forums before or not. Actually it has, let me go find and markwell it. Quote Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 John Anthony Walker Jr. Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 John Anthony Walker Jr. He might also have been interested in Waymarking. Quote Link to comment
OpinioNate Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 John Anthony Walker Jr. He might also have been interested in Waymarking. Hah! I never saw that one! Too cool... Quote Link to comment
+cache_test_dummies Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Top Ten Reasons the Vikings Would Have Been Great Geocachers 10. Readily available cool swag. 9. Muggles not a problem for large bearded men carrying battle-axes. 8. You DID snap a waypoint on the longship before we ventured off into the woods, right? 7. Erik_the_Pink: "Is there a way to change my user name?" 6. Took Everything, Left Nothing. Hey, we gotta make a living. 5. If we call it "Ice Covered Barren Rock" we'll never get any visitors. Lets call it "Greenland"!! 4. During the hunting season, wearing horns on your head is ok, as long as you remember to also wear a fluorescent orange vest. 3. First to Find! Columbus just logged online first. 2. Wives think we are out fishing. 1. Permission? We don't need no stinking permission! We're Vikings, for crying out loud! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 OK, after some serious thought I came up with the following: Woud have made great geocachers Joan of Arc King George III Patick Henry Guy Fawkes Mary Queen of Scots William the Conquerer Kaiser Wilhelm John F Kennedy Marie Curie Peter Lorre Helen Keller Babe Ruth Buzz Aldrin Isadora Duncan Dorothy Parker Cleopatra Edmund Burke Sun Tzu Horatio Nelson Audrey Hepburn Robert Frost Henry David Thoreau Niccolo Machiavelli The Apostle Paul Wink Martindale Pope Pius XI Elvis Presley Leon Trotsky George Armstrong Custer Charlemagne Groucho Marx F Scott Fitzgerald Sammy Davis Jr. Chief Joesph Bob Denver Og Would have made lousy geocachers Pele Pope Pius XII W.A. Mozart Jonas Salk George Westinghouse Michael Collins (the Irish revolutionary) Michael Collins (the astronaut) H L Mencken Louis Leaky Thomas Jefferson Socrates Gary Cooper Rasputin Josef Stalin Ulysses S Grant Anastasia Romanov Anne Boleyn Atilla the Hun Flavius Josephus Ty Cobb Montgomery Clift John Paul Jones Robert Kennedy Al Capone Louis Armstrong Zebulon Pike Ho Chi Minh Linus Pauling Alan Hale Jr. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Ivan the Terrible William Pitt Dick Butkus Napoleon Boneparte Ferdinand Magellan Metacomet Thomas Edison Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 OK, after some serious thought I came up with the following: Woud have made great geocachers Joan of Arc King George III Patick Henry Guy Fawkes Mary Queen of Scots William the Conquerer Kaiser Wilhelm John F Kennedy Marie Curie Peter Lorre Helen Keller Babe Ruth Buzz Aldrin Isadora Duncan Dorothy Parker Cleopatra Edmund Burke Sun Tzu Horatio Nelson Audrey Hepburn Robert Frost Henry David Thoreau Niccolo Machiavelli The Apostle Paul Wink Martindale Pope Pius XI Elvis Presley Leon Trotsky George Armstrong Custer Charlemagne Groucho Marx F Scott Fitzgerald Sammy Davis Jr. Chief Joesph Bob Denver Og Would have made lousy geocachers Pele Pope Pius XII W.A. Mozart Jonas Salk George Westinghouse Michael Collins (the Irish revolutionary) Michael Collins (the astronaut) H L Mencken Louis Leaky Thomas Jefferson Socrates Gary Cooper Rasputin Josef Stalin Ulysses S Grant Anastasia Romanov Anne Boleyn Atilla the Hun Flavius Josephus Ty Cobb Montgomery Clift John Paul Jones Robert Kennedy Al Capone Louis Armstrong Zebulon Pike Ho Chi Minh Linus Pauling Alan Hale Jr. Elizabeth Cady Stanton Ivan the Terrible William Pitt Dick Butkus Napoleon Boneparte Ferdinand Magellan Metacomet Thomas Edison Ummmmmm, you're forgetting THE GREATEST GEOCACHER EVER! One Hung Lo himself, I give you: *Drumroll please* Saddam Hussein and his famous caches of mass destruction. As yet this series of puzzle caches has yet to be found! Quote Link to comment
+Blue Power Ranger Posted February 1, 2007 Author Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) Saddam Hussein Not to mention that he once gave himself as a FTF prize! Now that's innovation! Only downside would be that I bet his hints would be long and useless. Edited February 1, 2007 by Blue Power Ranger Quote Link to comment
+supertbone Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Saddam Hussein Not to mention that he once gave himself as a FTF prize! Now that's innovation! Only downside would be that I bet his hints would be long and useless. Talk about camo! Quote Link to comment
Clan Riffster Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) Saddam Hussein He's been archived......Thank God. Edited February 1, 2007 by Clan Riffster Quote Link to comment
+supertbone Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I would say the old trapper/mountainman Jim Bridger would be a great cacher since he did place and discover caches. Of couse his were a little different. http://www.pcu.net/web/mendon/mendon_utah_...e_county/02.htm Quote Link to comment
+tomfuller & Quill Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The first geocacher in Oregon was not Dave Ulmer. It was Chief Joseph and his tribe in The NE corner of the state. The women and children gathered Camas bulbs for weeks so that they would have a winter food supply. Their major cache was near present day cache GCNBGX. For some greedy reason the U.S. Government decided that they didn't want them there, so they muggled and burned the cache to force them to move at the beginning of winter. This is one of the history lessons I learned while competing in "Counting Counties in Oregon" GCR9XY. Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Saddam Hussein He's been archived......Thank God. Yes, but he was only the first in the series. The bin Laden cache hasn't had a confirmed, logged find for how many years now? What a FTF prize that would be! Quote Link to comment
+Scooter Bill Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 St. Anthony of Padua (Portugal, 12th Century) would make a great geocacher. He's the Catholic patron saint of lost items (and now geocaching). Quote Link to comment
nobby.nobbs Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 either ghenghis khan and his epic caches along a route all around the asian and europe continents.... hannibals trip to italy. julias ceaser the origianl " i came i found i logged" or the mass cache trip in june '44 by the allied forces into france LOL Quote Link to comment
+GSVNoFixedAbode Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 The bin Laden cache hasn't had a confirmed, logged find for how many years now? What a FTF prize that would be! Yeah, but that's a Travelling cache - no more allowed thank goodness. Quote Link to comment
+Woodlit Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 *snip Maybe you think of Indiana Jones constantly having his FTF prizes stolen by Dr Belloq. "Dr. Jones. Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away." That was my first thought! Indiana ftf hound jones!! I think pirates were geocachers. Of course rules were different back then, digging for caches was acceptable. They must have made excellent hiders. Talk about awesome 5/5 mulitcaches. Well, you will need a boat, a months supply of food, a map, and a nice digging tool. Oh and by they way, NO TRADES. They must have had thousands of finds to. Quote Link to comment
+tands Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 (edited) Look at these finders (Isn't that another meaning of founder?) in their goofy pants signing the log. Talk about a mass FTF yet the log said they found it 'Independently.' At least the prize was first-rate. I heard that Hancock dude really used up a ton of the log with his handle. - T of TandS Edited February 1, 2007 by tands Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 I heard that Hancock dude really used up a ton of the log with his handle. Quote Link to comment
+tands Posted February 1, 2007 Share Posted February 1, 2007 Snoogans! Yes, it was absolutely you who was the object of my affectionate intimation!!!! -T of TandS Quote Link to comment
+Blue Power Ranger Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 Here's an obscure nomination from "reality" TV... Remember Flo & Zach, "winners" of one of the early The Amazing Race seasons? They would be great fun to cache with. I remember Flo sitting on the bottom of a little boat in Vietnam, crying because paddling across the river was too hard all while her eternally patient boyfriend begged her to get up and do something. Wouldn't you love to take her caching on a hike to some mountain top? Quote Link to comment
Rupert2 Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Genghis Kahn wold have hidden the ultimate 5/5 cache! Of course, then would have killed everyone with him to insure no hints were given. Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 (edited) Saddam Hussein and his famous caches of mass destruction. Don't forget that cache of money soldiers found over there. I think it was 9 Million in US cash per "Ammo Box" (Watertight containers.) I think there were several hundred Million $ found in a storage shed, hidden there by Saddam. All in greenbacks, my kind of FTF prize! EDIT: Found a link: http://www.iraqfoundation.org/news/2003/da...5_treasure.html Edited February 2, 2007 by Airmapper Quote Link to comment
+Blue Power Ranger Posted February 2, 2007 Author Share Posted February 2, 2007 Don't forget that cache of money soldiers found over there. I think it was 9 Million in US cash per "Ammo Box" (Watertight containers.) I think there were several hundred Million $ found in a storage shed, hidden there by Saddam. All in greenbacks, my kind of FTF prize! EDIT: Found a link: http://www.iraqfoundation.org/news/2003/da...5_treasure.html Yeah, that would be great to find and all but what do you leave for trade? Quote Link to comment
+drat19 Posted February 2, 2007 Share Posted February 2, 2007 Saddam Hussein Not to mention that he once gave himself as a FTF prize! Now that's innovation! Only downside would be that I bet his hints would be long and useless. Talk about camo! Tsk, tsk...no buried caches allowed! Quote Link to comment
+sun-moon-starz Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I'm really surprised no one has mentioned Abraham Lincoln! He was a land surveyor and you know he would have been a natural FTF hound and awesome hider! This thought actually came to me when doing the Knob Creek Virtual here in KY - he lived his first 7 or so years there. Quote Link to comment
nonaeroterraqueous Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Worst cacher: Ponce de Leon. I think he's still looking for that Fountain of Youth cache. Too bad it was muggled. He should have read the logs first, and he should have stuck to the seven-minute rule. Quote Link to comment
+Tahoein' Bunch Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Superman, X-ray vision But he would keep melting those pesky film cans in lamp post skirts. Quote Link to comment
+Airmapper Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 Superman, X-ray vision But he would keep melting those pesky film cans in lamp post skirts. He is a hero, that's what he's supposed to do. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 A few more for my list: Great Geocachers Wilt Chamberlin Millard Fillmore Henry VIII General John Burgoynne Ralph Waldo Emerson Anwar Sadat Ghandi King Charles II Eva Peron Yitzhak Rabin Florence Nightingale Robert the Bruce Roger Williams Alexander Fleming Orville Redenbacher Nikola Tesla Orville Wright Mother Teresa Calamity Jane Thomas Aquinas David Livingston Norman Vincent Peale Jimmy Hoffa Clyde Barrow Amelia Earhart Sir Walter Raleigh Sacagawea Friar Tuck Jim Thorpe Dolly Madison Oliver Cromwell Gary Gilmore Sam Houston Erwin Rommel Fred Rodgers Booker T Washington Casanova Irving Berlin Lousy Geocahers Galileo Audie Murphy John the Baptist Louisea May Alcott Hans Christian Anderson Winston Churchill Geronimo Edward Teach John Peel Douglas McArthur Cochise Charles Lingbergh Barry Goldwater Chief Seattle Bernadette Soubirous Marquis de Lafayette Paul Revere Jacques Costeau Albert Einstein Sigmund Freud Sir Issac Newton Nostradamus Wilbur Wright Doc Holliday Daniel Boone Stonewall Jackson Martin Luther Margaret Thatcher Betsy Ross Now let me go think some more about this Quote Link to comment
+DcCow Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I don't think Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan would have made a very good cacher. Quote Link to comment
The Vargman Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 (edited) Just about anyone involved in the underground railroad... good cachers. Magellan...Bad cacher. I thought that was really funny when I first read this thread. 2 related side notes: 1. There is actually a park very close to my house that has a cache in it and is a historical marker (the park) for the underground railroad. 2. I always think of the Animaniacs song when Magellan's name comes up, but not when referencing the GPS. *edited to clarify Edited February 3, 2007 by The Vargman Quote Link to comment
+DocDiTTo Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 (edited) Robber Lewis would have made an excellent cacher. His hides are extremely difficult to find, his choice of locations is excellent and the FTF prize would be unequaled. In fact, it might still be out there... Edited February 3, 2007 by DocDiTTo Quote Link to comment
+The Leprechauns Posted February 3, 2007 Share Posted February 3, 2007 I'm surprised that nobody's Markwelled back to the How Would They Sign? thread from 2004. It was a classic. I really can't improve upon my observation there that Moses was a lousy geocacher: Log by Moses on "The Promised Land" multicache Hi, this is Zipporah, logging this find on Moses' account since he FREAKIN' DIED right before the last stage. Nothing sucks worse than to be able to see where the cache is hidden, but you can't get to it because it's up in a tree, or because you're looking down at it from up on a mountain and God tells you it's "that time," or whatever. Anyways, this multi really kicked our butts. Definitely the hardest cache we've done since the "Building the Pyramids" CITO Event. It took us 40 years to complete this cache. Jehovah, you always place great caches but this one makes the "Pharoah's Plagues" series look like a bunch of 1/1 historic marker virtuals. Our troubles started right from the beginning. We strongly suspect that this cache was not placed with permission, as we were chased by law enforcement chariots all the way to stage two. I know you had set that part up as a hydrocache, but as we didn't have any boats and were pressed for time, Moses used his El Diablo hiking staff to part the waters and we made the crossing just ahead of Pharoah's army. We found the micro with the clue for the next stage. A quick check of our topo maps showed it on the top of Mount Sinai, so we headed there. As the hill looked pretty steep, Moses made the trip up all by himself while the rest of us waited at the bottom and worshipped graven images. Nice touch with the burning bush that talked, how did you set that up? We got the stone tablets with the clues for the remaining stages. It took awhile to decode the word puzzle, but once we figured out that "Thou Shalt Not" meant South Latitude, we were off and running. There then followed a very, very long period in which our Garmin eweTrex could not get a lock to point us towards the next cache. As we were stranded in the desert, this part of the cache was not much fun. Sometimes it seems like people put extra stages in multi's just for the heck of it. Anyways, bring plenty of water. Finally we did get to the mountain and viewed the Promised Land. Just in time, too, as we were down to the last few goats. After burying Moses we made our way to the final cache and made our trades. We liked the area so much that we decided to settle here. Thanks for showing us this cool place, Jehovah! YAPIDKA (Yet another Palestine I didn't know about.) It was worth the trip. Quote Link to comment
+karstic Posted February 5, 2007 Share Posted February 5, 2007 briansnat I'm surprised John Wesley Powell didn't make your list He's definately a 5/5 cacher, with one arm to boot! Quote Link to comment
Choppersean Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 How about Benjamin Franklin.............I would bet even Da Vinci would have been great. Quote Link to comment
+tenacityj Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Worst cacher: Ponce de Leon. I think he's still looking for that Fountain of Youth cache. Too bad it was muggled. He should have read the logs first, and he should have stuck to the seven-minute rule. That is absolutely hilarious! Quote Link to comment
+tenacityj Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Christopher Columbus? Don't know how good he would have been, but surely he would have accidentally found some large cache while looking for India. I think that MacGyver would have made an excellent hider. Using only a piece of gum, half inch of wire, 1/4 of a credit card, and a blade of grass, he would have been able to hide a .50 cal ammo box on completely flat terrain with no trees as a 5/5 hide. Quote Link to comment
+lacey38655 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 Amen! He is my heroo.. LOL Quote Link to comment
+aharris Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 George Washington - First job was a surveyor Quote Link to comment
+9Key Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 OK, after some serious thought I came up with the following: Would have made lousy geocachers Pele Pelé? Why would be Pelé be a lousy geocacher? Quote Link to comment
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