+kewfriend Posted August 20, 2007 Posted August 20, 2007 Prompted by emails to me and my own experiences - yours? * you get to the cache, its a regular - no probs you get the cache open, find the logbook, even find the pencil - then d*mn the lead is broken! * the cache is in green space at the back of the housing estate, you find the way in - no probs, you find the cache - no probs, you set off back to the car and exit the park through another exit and within minutes are lost in a massive housing estate and have no idea where the car is! * the cache is a good couple of miles across open country, its raining and you've got the cagoule ... but your footwear ... disintegrates ... leaving you walking just in socks across streams, rocks and cowpats * you invert the digits which you typed in and find another cache by accident! Quote
nobby.nobbs Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 (edited) You stuff up the calculations and some how end up in a spot that exactly matches the clue, so spend ages looking there before thinking to re-check the figures Edited August 21, 2007 by nobby.nobbs Quote
+Bambography Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 You're happily searching away, no joy.... check the hint... no joy... Read the previous logs on the PDA... 5 DNFs - D'oh! Why oh Why didn't I notice that before!!! Quote
+Pengy&Tigger Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Read the previous logs on the PDA... 5 DNFs - D'oh! Why oh Why didn't I notice that before!!! Or why hasn't the owner at least temped it so they can check. These days if that happens to us and there is no reply from the owner we post an SBA so that the reviewers can at least temp it. This just stops anyone else from wasting their time on it. Quote
+Father Jack Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Come on a caching trip with Hazels and myself. Everything that can go wrong will!!! Normally we get about half way through our ‘planned’ caches then abandon out trip for the pub! Quote
+Delta68 Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 ... we post an SBA so that the reviewers can at least temp it... Sorry, but what's an SBA? Quote
+scanker Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Should Be Archived I think, "Needs Archived" in the log list. Quote
+mousekakat Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Come on a caching trip with Hazels and myself. Everything that can go wrong will!!! Normally we get about half way through our ‘planned’ caches then abandon out trip for the pub! I think Mr Mousekakat just found his dream caching partner!! Quote
+SidAndBob Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 You're happily searching away, no joy.... check the hint... no joy... Read the previous logs on the PDA... 5 DNFs - D'oh! Why oh Why didn't I notice that before!!! Or worse still... you look at the past logs, they're all "Found it". You start reading them and the last one says "We found the pile of sticks where it was supposed to be so we're logging a find", but "Needs maintenance" hasn't been logged either. or... one we had recently. The owner wrote a note to say they'd removed the cache to dry it out, but didn't disable it. Quote
+Foinavon Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Both these happen to me all the time! 1 You rely in Tom Tom to take you somewhere near the cache. TomTom does its job and finds the nearest road to the cache site. Unfortunately somebodys house is in the way. 2 You have manually entered the coordinates by hand and you drive to the area where you think it is. Flick the gps on and alarm bells ring when the map does not show the waypoint with a little dot. Then "Find my nearest waypoints" does not have it on because its listed as being 10 miles away. Quote
+tonibunny Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 You get to the cache site and it's all dank and dirty and miserable, and when you reach your hand into the hollow to retrieve the cache you find that it's been muggled and the muggle has kindly left something utterly revolting (usually involving bodily fluids) for you to find instead Thankfully I've only ever had this happen once.....good thing I looked before I tried to grab the cache! I have since learned to wear thick gloves. Quote
+Bud Lightbeer Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 You attempt a really tricky puzzle cache with Mr Hancock and enjoy 3hrs up to your chest in gorse, brambles and nettles, followed by a near death experience! Perhaps we should have used the specialist equipment and our brains, but it was still worth it! Check out the injuries! Quote
+Bambography Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Read the previous logs on the PDA... 5 DNFs - D'oh! Why oh Why didn't I notice that before!!! Or why hasn't the owner at least temped it so they can check. These days if that happens to us and there is no reply from the owner we post an SBA so that the reviewers can at least temp it. This just stops anyone else from wasting their time on it. Following these I always put a Needs Maintainance note. I assume that some people just don't know about this, or are afraid to use it. Quote
+HazelS Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 There have been many times we've been out and something funny has happened, but this trip was the worst day out ever.... I was truly scared! Quote
+kewfriend Posted August 21, 2007 Author Posted August 21, 2007 That reminds me of getting my thumb stuck up some piping trying to remove a micro and trying to explain to the passing cyclist that I was perfectly 'fine - thank you!' Quote
+The Book Of Shadows Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Come on a caching trip with Hazels and myself. Everything that can go wrong will!!! Normally we get about half way through our ‘planned’ caches then abandon out trip for the pub! Is that an invite? Quote
fraggle69 Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 It all went wrong today, my tyre popped as I got to within 2kilometers of the cache. Spent the rest of the day with the AA and trying to source a new tyre. Sob So close yet sooooooo far..... Quote
+Coppers Lot Posted August 22, 2007 Posted August 22, 2007 (edited) *You drive out to a cache in the woods and park as close as the woods allow on a little country road. You then walk into the wood to find the cache. Found it. Looking and the list in your hand you then follow co-ords to the nearest cache in the next wood and then another. Found them. Once all three are done you realise that you didn't log where the car is and now it's dark and your in the countryside, car is at least 2 miles away..... fortunately you have an image of the road map in your head and walk the road route back to the car with a few detours on the way. ALWAYS LOG WHERE YOU LEFT THE CAR!! *You go out caching with AJRNews, rushing as many caches as possible before having to rush back to retrieve your son from nursery. On the last cache AJRNews parks his car in a ditch!! Thinking no-one will steal the car we go and do the cache and then when we get back we call the AA. Oh no, what about nursery!! Fortunately a truck comes along and the driver offers to tow the car out of the ditch so long as AJRNews doesn't sue for any damage. Car retrieved. HURRAH, made it to nursery. *You rush out in good weather to do a series. Its nice and sunny so you leave coats behind and wear a t-shirt. Half way through the series teh heavens open and a monsoon begins........... now we're a little wet. Edited August 23, 2007 by Coppers Lot Quote
+scanker Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 ALWAYS LOG THE WHERE YOU LEFT THE CAR!! Haha. The number of times I've said that - it was my mantra for a while. Quote
+Mr'D Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Jump out of car, turn on GPSr, save position as MOB, go find cache. Return to car using saved MOB location, only to realise it's 60 miles away as it never locked a signal when registered. Walk 2.5 miles in wrong direction until realised mistake Quote
+Bill D (wwh) Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 You read that a cache is an eight mile round trip on foot, but you see on the map that it's possible to park just half a mile away from it. As night falls and you're sinking into a bog you realize you haven't been very clever... Quote
+Dizzley Posted August 23, 2007 Posted August 23, 2007 Come on a caching trip with Hazels and myself. Everything that can go wrong will!!! Normally we get about half way through our ‘planned’ caches then abandon out trip for the pub! And that's a problem in which way? Quote
+SidAndBob Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 You get to the cache on a camping / caching trip and then realise it's a micro, you only have the last 5 logs and they say the coords are a long way out and to refer to a log from months ago for the correct reading. Quote
+cakemaker Posted August 25, 2007 Posted August 25, 2007 A bit like Kewfriend- you make a mistake entering final co-ords for a multi but still end up on a footpath that seems reasonable! A bit like Foinavon- Tom Tom tells you that youv'e reached your destination on a motorway! But the other day in Cannock Chase, I got multiple stings on my rear end. Didn't know what could have got up my trousers so ripped them off and flung them about in an exagerated over zealous way- well I was in great pain and still am!!!! Turned out it was wasps! Quote
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