+Cryptid Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Elin Carlson, a singer who remade the Star Trek Theme music. She has around 15,000 finds Elin Carlson Quote Link to comment
+MissJenn Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Also there is Ken Jennings "the guy on Jeopardy! for much of 2004, if that rings a bell." Anyone know any other famous geocacher types? Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Also there is Ken Jennings "the guy on Jeopardy! for much of 2004, if that rings a bell." Anyone know any other famous geocacher types? It was once rumored that I was Wink Martindale. I had some fun with that. I also heard a rumor that the Obama Daughters liked to geocache before he became President. Don't know how true that is. Also, a recognizable character actor (name escapes me at the moment) from the 50's to the 70's. Quote Link to comment
+captnemo Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Also there is Ken Jennings "the guy on Jeopardy! for much of 2004, if that rings a bell." Anyone know any other famous geocacher types? It was once rumored that I was Wink Martindale. I had some fun with that. I also heard a rumor that the Obama Daughters liked to geocache before he became President. Don't know how true that is. Also, a recognizable character actor (name escapes me at the moment) from the 50's to the 70's. Well there is always that famous Snoogans or is that imfamous Quote Link to comment
cadavis0609 Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 With all these links, I keep expecting to get rickrolled. Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 With all these links, I keep expecting to get rickrolled. I don't think Rick Astley has ever geocached. He'd be good at it, though. No matter how tough it was to find the cache, he wouldn't give it up. Quote Link to comment
+Keelmann And Cici Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 I would assume that anyone well-known would go to great lengths not to publicize a hobby, at least not revealing actual profile info, as it would invite fan response. I'm sure there's quite a few, as with any hobby, but odds are you'll never know unless you happen to bump into them on the trail. :-) Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 With all these links, I keep expecting to get rickrolled. I don't think Rick Astley has ever geocached. He'd be good at it, though. No matter how tough it was to find the cache, he wouldn't give it up. Funny stuff. Well, I can tell you the Mia Farrow link is dead. And I quickly gave up trying to find it on the Wayback Machine. I can verify there was once an interview on the internet with Mia Farrow, and she told the guy she was going out Geocaching after the interview. You'll just have to trust me. And not to be a nitpicker, but the guy who was the subject of the bump has 0 finds and zero hides. Unless he's like one of those GeoBain type guys that doesn't log on the website. Quote Link to comment
+CanadianRockies Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 I believe the twins (Zach and Jeremy) on Little People, Big World once tried to geocache...without much success. Quote Link to comment
+MissJenn Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 And not to be a nitpicker, but the guy who was the subject of the bump has 0 finds and zero hides. Unless he's like one of those GeoBain type guys that doesn't log on the website. Ken Jennings actually does cache, under a different username. I know that username and decided not to share it because he likely created it for his privacy. Quote Link to comment
+TerraViators Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 With all these links, I keep expecting to get rickrolled. I don't think Rick Astley has ever geocached. He'd be good at it, though. No matter how tough it was to find the cache, he wouldn't give it up. Maybe the funniest thing I've read on the forums. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted December 10, 2011 Share Posted December 10, 2011 And not to be a nitpicker, but the guy who was the subject of the bump has 0 finds and zero hides. Unless he's like one of those GeoBain type guys that doesn't log on the website. Ken Jennings actually does cache, under a different username. I know that username and decided not to share it because he likely created it for his privacy. Well, I figured a Groundspeak Lackey knew what they were talking about. Not like my name is really Mr. Yuck. Although it is a play on my real last name. Quote Link to comment
+Brian~! Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Well there's also Alan Solomon - the creator of Dr Solomon's antivirus. He was mentioned in 2010 on the BBC website as being Europe's most prolific Geocacher. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10731545 Quote Link to comment
knowschad Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 And not to be a nitpicker, but the guy who was the subject of the bump has 0 finds and zero hides. Unless he's like one of those GeoBain type guys that doesn't log on the website. Ken Jennings actually does cache, under a different username. I know that username and decided not to share it because he likely created it for his privacy. I'll bet he's really good at puzzle caches! Has he hidden any caches? Got any links to his hides? (let's see if we can trick MissJenn here. Shhhhh.....) Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted December 13, 2011 Share Posted December 13, 2011 And not to be a nitpicker, but the guy who was the subject of the bump has 0 finds and zero hides. Unless he's like one of those GeoBain type guys that doesn't log on the website. Ken Jennings actually does cache, under a different username. I know that username and decided not to share it because he likely created it for his privacy. I'll bet he's really good at puzzle caches! Has he hidden any caches? Got any links to his hides? (let's see if we can trick MissJenn here. Shhhhh.....) I don't think she's going to fall for it. It would be cool if we Rickrolled her though. That's the first time I heard about Dr. Solomon Geocaching, that's certainly interesting. Quote Link to comment
Ladysbourne Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 The boy from tree fu Tom (the start and end) is a cacher. Quote Link to comment
+Ma & Pa Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 MA says I am infamous PA Maybe the person who started this thread could be considered famous. He is the first person to ever find a cache in New Brunswick Canada. A real caching pionneer in this province Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 One of the cyclists in this year's Tour De France is a cacher. I forget who now though. Quote Link to comment
+Cubby&BigBear Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 With all these links, I keep expecting to get rickrolled. I don't think Rick Astley has ever geocached. He'd be good at it, though. No matter how tough it was to find the cache, he wouldn't give it up. Speaking of Rick Astley...take a look at this series of caches, starting with GC2VDGQ...ending in GC2VDPN Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 I actually had a Together forever cache (without even thinking of Rick Astley, it was a cemetery cache), then about a year later, I put out a "Never gonna give you up cache" in the woods behind the cemetery. And when I tried to rickroll people on the Never gonna give you up cache page, the reviewer originally rejected it, because yougotrickrolled.com contained advertising. But kids built a fort within 20 feet of the final location of Together forever, and kids played paintball and dumped garbage in the vicinity of Never gonna give you up, so my little Rick Astley thing only lasted about a year at most. Both long since archived. Quote Link to comment
+ScooterDawg Posted August 25, 2012 Share Posted August 25, 2012 Nobody has mentioned Richard Garriott yet... Lord British? Creator of the Ultima series of games? Recently appeared on an episode of the Discovery Channel's Oddities? Son of an astronaut, one of the first civilian astronauts, put a cache on the space station (and took a TB there and back)? Has some of the coolest hides in Austin (that I wish I had done when I lived in Texas)? There's a famous geocacher for ya. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 And not to be a nitpicker, but the guy who was the subject of the bump has 0 finds and zero hides. Unless he's like one of those GeoBain type guys that doesn't log on the website. Ken Jennings actually does cache, under a different username. I know that username and decided not to share it because he likely created it for his privacy. I'll bet he's really good at puzzle caches! Has he hidden any caches? Got any links to his hides? (let's see if we can trick MissJenn here. Shhhhh.....) In his book he writes about puzzle caches and it sounded like he enjoys them. The best part of the chapter on geocaching in his book was how he was able to express the feelings I think we all when when we got our first find. It was clearly obvious that he wasn't just writing about geocaching, but *is* a geocacher. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 When I found a cache at the entrance to Mikumi National Park in Tanzania (now Archived) the log just below mine was from Hugh Grant. Yes, there is a cacher with that handle, but I don't think it's the same Hugh Grant. Then there are the two clowns from Florida that had an early exit on The Amazing Race. Quote Link to comment
+dukeofurl01 Posted August 26, 2012 Share Posted August 26, 2012 There's that guy that hid a cache on the International Space Station, I think he's the guy that created the Ultima RPG, I think he goes by the name Lord British. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 (edited) OK. My Mother in Law (aged 68) is kinda whacky, and has been known to make crap up, and/or totally get names wrong. But here's what I have from driving her to the Grocery store today. Can anyone verify any of this stuff?? Rosie O'Donnell (universally hated by all men) Has talked about finding Geocaches on "The View", and found one in Central Park in NYC On that same episode of "The View", Whoppi Goldberg said she has found caches in California. Tim McGraw whipped out a Geocache container at the CMT awards, and threatened to hide tickets for next years CMT's inside of it. What say you? Edited July 28, 2014 by Mr.Yuck Quote Link to comment
Night_Hiker Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Yes Hugh Jackman is so awesome that he also geocaches. http://www.notaboutthenumbers.com/2014/04/24/geocachings-new-celebrity-x-man/ Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Yes Hugh Jackman is so awesome that he also geocaches. http://www.notaboutthenumbers.com/2014/04/24/geocachings-new-celebrity-x-man/ Oh yeah, I read that blog when it's not in one of it's periods of dormancy (which it is now). But I have no clue who that is. The most famous is probably Mia Farrow, who seemingly blurted out of nowhere to a reporter she was going out Geocaching. And that was way back in the "everybody had a dedicated GPS unit" days. I'd imagine many more celebrities have tried Geocaching in the smartphone era. I am unable to verify Rosie and Whoppi having discussed Geocaching on The View via Google, although it sounds very possible. Tim McGraw I suspect was totally fabricated. Quote Link to comment
+wmpastor Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 Just wondering if there are any famous Geocachers. Celebraties, politicians etc. Sure! Roman! Quote Link to comment
+beauxeault Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I don't know if he's an active geocacher, but George Stephanopoulos seemed to have a pretty intimate knowledge of geocaching in a discussion with his co-anchors when "geocaching" won the contest to become the newest word in the Scrabble dictionary. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 I don't know if he's an active geocacher, but George Stephanopoulos seemed to have a pretty intimate knowledge of geocaching in a discussion with his co-anchors when "geocaching" won the contest to become the newest word in the Scrabble dictionary. He could, as a journalist, have read up on it. Unlike 99% of Smartphone newbies. Oh no he di'nt just go there, did he? I forgot about bumping this thread. In all this time (almost a week) if no one else in all the USA has verifed Rosie O'Donnell and Whoppi Goldberg talking about Geocaching on The View, and saying they've done it, I'm going to chalk this up to another Mother-in-Law fabricated story. Don't take pity on me, I've been hearing them for almost 30 years. Quote Link to comment
+DrPossum Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 Liev Schrieber (I think that’s you spell his name), Hugh Jackman, etc. geocache Quote Link to comment
+funkymunkyzone Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 On 8/26/2012 at 8:12 AM, Beach_hut said: One of the cyclists in this year's Tour De France is a cacher. I forget who now though. The one that keeps randomly stopping? 3 Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 15 hours ago, DrPossum said: Liev Schrieber (I think that’s you spell his name), Hugh Jackman, etc. geocache I signed a log book on a cache in Tanzania just below someone that signed as Hugh Grant. I have no idea if it was Hugh Grant, the actor. Quote Link to comment
+noncentric Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 On 8/7/2018 at 3:35 AM, NYPaddleCacher said: I signed a log book on a cache in Tanzania just below someone that signed as Hugh Grant. I have no idea if it was Hugh Grant, the actor. Probably not: Hugh Grant Quote Link to comment
+irisisleuk Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 On 25-8-2012 at 10:12 PM, Beach_hut said: One of the cyclists in this year's Tour De France is a cacher. I forget who now though. You mean Jens Voigt? See his twitter account on July 25...link about the hidden creatures challenge during the Tour de France. Former cyclist btw. Quote Link to comment
+TriciaG Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 2 hours ago, irisisleuk said: Former cyclist btw. The original post (that you quoted) was from 2012. Quote Link to comment
+noncentric Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 Danny Bonaduce started geocaching a couple years ago. Quote Link to comment
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