Undercover Cacher

[+GeoHowerz]

Here is an intertesting question. Has anyone ever been an undercover Cacher? Have ou pretended to be a muggle to make it harder for another cacher to find your or another cache? I think it would be a good idea. Would make it harder for someone to search. I got this idea when I went to a place to search for cache and left because of some muggles. I returned a week later and I was surprised to see a familar muggle who was there week earlier. Does this happen? Is there a group out there who does ths?

[+TexasGringo]

If someone is close to the cache, I pretend to be an Under Cover Secret Spy. I talk into my GPS while pretending to take notes.

 

Eventually, they leave....maybe because I look more like a Nut than a Secret Spy.

[+Star*Hopper]

Heck double heck TRIPLE heck NO - and I wish I had free speech to say it more emphatically!

 

So why not? Cuz there are way WAY too many "hunters" who don't give a rat's hiney who spots them - they will blatantly go straight at anything in sight where they think a cache is, rip the place apart in full view, pull the cache & sign it when they find it, slam it "maybe" back in place & tear off for yet another number.

 

Who gives a "dam" about a cache that's been found.....they got their bite of the candy - not their worry any more, what happens to it after they leave.

 

And I KNOW --- have SEEN 'em do it -- have been caching WITH some that are that way....and heard 'em express those "I don't care, I got mine" thoughts about it.

 

Some of these characters - all I can say is your "undercover dood" better stay the HE77 out of their way for his own good, unless he's "into" gettin' stampeded over!

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[+off-camber]

I did that today.. on a busy biking trail...had my wife watch one direction and my daughter watch the other while I removed and replace it. I actually found the hiding place but didn't go get it till the area was clear.

 

However sometimes its hard to be stealthy with 6 year old in tow..." Daddy daddy DID YOU FIND IT!" lol

[+whistler & co.]

There is a muggle who frequents the area near the final stage of one of our caches. The final is near a horse pen in an unexpected spot in town, and many people stop by on their walks to feed or pet the horse. There is one little old lady with a beagle who we have seen there three times. She's not an undercover muggle intruding on the cache area...WE have placed a cache in HER chosen recreational area. Frankly, I would rather be out finding or hiding new caches than haunting old ones in order to creep out other cachers.

 

(Which is not to say we haven't occasionally given searching cachers a bit of a fright, just for fun, you know!)

[+Proud Soccer Mom]

I did that today.. on a busy biking trail...had my wife watch one direction and my daughter watch the other while I removed and replace it. I actually found the hiding place but didn't go get it till the area was clear.

 

However sometimes its hard to be stealthy with 6 year old in tow..." Daddy daddy DID YOU FIND IT!" lol

 

Oh dear lord that's my six year-old too! "Where's the geocache, Mom?", "How much farther to the geocache?", "What will the geocache look like?", "Are they geocaching, too?"

... all at Volume 11.

 

- Elle