Your best hide?

October 12, 2008

I read all about best finds, best swag, etc.

But I want to know about your best hide.

What you are proud of hiding?

I have several, and it's hard to pick just one...they are all good for different reasons.

But I am proudest of my Lincoln Highway-Engineering the Highway.

Interesting spot and tough hide.

Please share your hide stories.....

October 12, 2008

That would have to be Schizm or Vicarious or 10,000 days on this site. On another site it would have to be hands down Raising the Bar.

Schizm is a 6 part muti through a really cool State Park with a heck of a puzzle at stage one that has to be solved on site. (3 finders to date)

Vicarious is a traditional that you will have to cross a river and climb 30 feet up a pine tree to get.(3 finders to date

10,000 days is on top of a 30 foot old train bridge pillar.

Raising the bar is a puzzle that you have to read a bar code to get the cords for the final and again you would have to cross a river to get to it.(1 finder to date)

But I think you know about these and found most of them. :blink: But I think you might agree these are one's to be a little proud of and sure do get some funny and great logs on. Most of these have been out since March too.

October 12, 2008

Well, I only have 1 hide so far, but I'm pretty proud of it. There aren't that many caches hidden underwater, after all! Took me a couple weeks and about $45 to get all the details right and the operation worked out just so, but it's out there in the wild, just waiting for finds.

October 12, 2008

I have a really small container, called a nano, hidden in an urban area. It drives people nuts trying to find it and lot's of people DNF.

October 12, 2008

I have a hide a key under a light skirt at WW I’m real proud of – Just kidding :blink:

A multi where stage one takes you to a bird house that has a 1970’s gumball machine in it. When you put a penny in a large marble comes out with the second set of coords on it and it plays the song ‘Rockin Robin’. The final is a working 4 dial cryptex made out of PVC. The combo is the right order of leaves on the dial which were on the 1st way point. (Cryptex has replacement pennys in it also – note on birdhouse tells you that)

October 12, 2008

Rogheff's 200th Hide - A Typical Wisconsin Hide

8.4k · October 13, 2008

But I want to know about your best hide.

What you are proud of hiding?

I have several, and it's hard to pick just one...they are all good for different reasons.

But I am proudest of my Lincoln Highway-Engineering the Highway.

Interesting spot and tough hide.

Please share your hide stories.....

OOOooOOo, an opportunity for blatant self promotion. THANKS!

I am proudest of my hides in the Eastern Sierra because of the picture galleries they have developed over the years. I'm very lucky to be able to maintain caches in 2 states.

My most favorite hide is Claustrophobic's Nightmare which is a tricky and fairly hard hide for some folks. What I'm proudest of are the DNF logs on that cache. Most say something to the effect of "Best DNF EVER!" That makes me proud to see people leave happy without ever getting an official smiley for their time and effort.

A Claustrophobic's Nightmare/Just Say NO to Crack

This picture seems to show how much Monkeybrad liked it.

I got to see the smile on his face as he told me about it.

Hardcore Sunrise or Sunset

Steve Fossett's crashed plane and minimal skeletal remains were recently found roughly 2 miles east and 250 feet below this cache. :lol:

Ode to Ranboze and bthomas

The guy in this shot has over 29,000 finds.

Fortress of Solitude

Edited October 13, 2008 by Snoogans

1.5k · October 13, 2008

Snoogans, I would LOVE to be able to cache and hide in country like that! You are indeed lucky!

BC

10.2k · October 13, 2008

I have a hide a key under a light skirt at WW I’m real proud of – Just kidding

Oh, c'mon now, the poster above you is from Sweden. Could be the start of a very disturbing trend in Scandanavia though. Let's see, I'm probably most proud of my firetack night cache, placed in 2004. It wasn't the first night cache in my area, but the first classic firetack cache in the area (and the whole region) though. It's .40 miles to the start from the nearest parking, and then about .25 miles of following the firetacks. Then, of course, you have to make it back to your car.

Either that, or my talking toilet in the woods. :lol:

October 13, 2008

I'm pretty proud of my Cocked, "Locked", and Loaded cache near the small town of Beaman, IA. GCY4Y0

It is a four stage multi that I put a lot of effort into coming up with. It takes you along a nice flat bike trail covering just short of two miles where you have to not only find the next coords in a container, but you have to use your surroundings to get combination numbers for the paddlock on the final. Sadly, only three people have found it in the two+ years since I placed it. A lot of people just don't hunt multis anymore for some reason. I've flirted with the idea of archiving it in favor of a few traditionals but the few finders seemed to enjoy it so I decided to leave it in place.

October 13, 2008

That would have to be Schizm or Vicarious or 10,000 days on this site. On another site it would have to be hands down Raising the Bar.

Schizm is a 6 part muti through a really cool State Park with a heck of a puzzle at stage one that has to be solved on site. (3 finders to date)

Vicarious is a traditional that you will have to cross a river and climb 30 feet up a pine tree to get.(3 finders to date

10,000 days is on top of a 30 foot old train bridge pillar.

Raising the bar is a puzzle that you have to read a bar code to get the cords for the final and again you would have to cross a river to get to it.(1 finder to date)

But I think you know about these and found most of them. But I think you might agree these are one's to be a little proud of and sure do get some funny and great logs on. Most of these have been out since March too.

Yes indeedy, I only wish I could be as creative as you. Don't forget your Freak on a Leash...we loved that!!!

October 13, 2008

That would have to be Schizm or Vicarious or 10,000 days on this site. On another site it would have to be hands down Raising the Bar.

Schizm is a 6 part muti through a really cool State Park with a heck of a puzzle at stage one that has to be solved on site. (3 finders to date)

Vicarious is a traditional that you will have to cross a river and climb 30 feet up a pine tree to get.(3 finders to date

10,000 days is on top of a 30 foot old train bridge pillar.

Raising the bar is a puzzle that you have to read a bar code to get the cords for the final and again you would have to cross a river to get to it.(1 finder to date)

But I think you know about these and found most of them. But I think you might agree these are one's to be a little proud of and sure do get some funny and great logs on. Most of these have been out since March too.

Yes indeedy, I only wish I could be as creative as you. Don't forget your Freak on a Leash...we loved that!!!

Thanks BB!!!!! Now I have to start dreaming up the next one. :lol:

October 13, 2008

SNOOGANS- those are awesome pictures! Great hides and I bet the finders generate some pretty adventerous logs.

38.2k · October 13, 2008

I like caches with some scenery, history and a bit of a physical challenge. This one has all three.

9.3k · October 13, 2008

I tried deciding between two, but kept bouncing back and forth, so in a Snoogansish glut of self promotion, I'll present Etch-o-Sketch, a night cache where you hike out to the starting point, turn on your track log, then draw a giant number with your track log as you follow the reflector trail. At the end, a match container gives you another starting point, and you draw a second giant number. At the end of that, you find another match container that tells you what to do with the numbers you drew, to find the final. Total hike is about 3 miles. 2.5 of which is bushwhacking through a swamp.

The other favorite is The "Blatantly Obvious" Night Cache, which takes a similar approach, only you are drawing a picture. If you pay close attention to the picture you are drawing, the final location should be "blatantly Obvious". Total hike just over 2 miles, all of it bushwhacking. At one point you cross a mire that is nipple deep.

October 13, 2008

I am most proud of a cache that takes you through a museum which shows destruction of housing by the apartheid system. Through the collection of clues, it gives all the information needed to assist an under privileged person in obtaining a housing subsidy. The housing subsidy is enough to purchase a small house. A cache to help right past wrongs.

October 13, 2008

I have a hide that is a three-part multi cache in a nature preserve. It is not really that difficult but very aesthetic. It has been in place over a year and has five finds and five DNF's. For some reason, people are reluctant to give it a try. The first people to look for it whined up a storm when they could not find it, as if it were my fault that they were inept. Since then, I have even made it easier, in an attempt to encourage seekers, but to no avail. The hide involves a modest walk of about two miles, probably slightly less than that. I wonder why people are afraid to seek this cache. WP2 seems to be the sticking point for most DNF's but it is really quite simple for a moderately experienced cacher. Perhaps I should up the difficulty level in order to challange cachers. Either that or just tell people where it is! Seriously though, I have more difficult caches that have been found (and DNF'd) many more times than this one. Do you think it is the two-mile walk or the history of DNF's that keeps people at bay?

Check it out, it is called "Rush to Guillemot"

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...63-3b2419c6f9d1

3.3k · October 13, 2008

My 100th hide Operation Wreckhunter

Two years worth of research, four aircraft wreck sites (soon to be Six crash sites when I replace stage 1)

When you complete the series you'll have visited:

B-24 Wreck site (10 American Soldiers died)

T-34 Wreck site (2 American soldiers died)

C-46 Wreck site (4 American Soldiers died)

C-130 Wreck site (4 Americans died)

F6F-5k Drone (no fatalities)

F-105 Wreck Site (no Fatalities)

October 13, 2008

"night cache where you hike out to the starting point, turn on your track log, then draw a giant number with your track log as you follow the reflector trail"

I LIKE it!

Except that part about nipple deep mire---no way!

Clever hides are fun to find, but the most fun I have caching is going to all the really nice little parks and public areas that I NEVER would have visited if I wasn't caching.

My "best" one (of 3 is a simple little P&G that brings attention to an abandon, previously unmarked graveyard of local historic significance. Many people have logged that they have been past there lots times and never knew it existed. GC1BCG3

Edited October 13, 2008 by Dnalsi

October 13, 2008

I like caches with some scenery, history and a bit of a physical challenge. This one has all three.

I have the same likes!

This one has all of those:

Scenery:

History:

Physical Challenge:

The Goal:

Signing the Log Book:

The river is seen below through the end of the train car. Cowboy is standing inside the car and Turtle is outside looking through a window.

I have had people from Texas, Georgia and other states travel to Washington to do this one.

9.5k · October 16, 2008

This one found by cachers and muggles.

8.3k · October 16, 2008

I have a hide that is a three-part multi cache in a nature preserve. It is not really that difficult but very aesthetic. It has been in place over a year and has five finds and five DNF's. For some reason, people are reluctant to give it a try. The first people to look for it whined up a storm when they could not find it, as if it were my fault that they were inept. Since then, I have even made it easier, in an attempt to encourage seekers, but to no avail. The hide involves a modest walk of about two miles, probably slightly less than that. I wonder why people are afraid to seek this cache. WP2 seems to be the sticking point for most DNF's but it is really quite simple for a moderately experienced cacher. Perhaps I should up the difficulty level in order to challange cachers. Either that or just tell people where it is! Seriously though, I have more difficult caches that have been found (and DNF'd) many more times than this one. Do you think it is the two-mile walk or the history of DNF's that keeps people at bay?

Check it out, it is called "Rush to Guillemot"

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...63-3b2419c6f9d1

My guess is the drive to the cache. A bit of a drive and no big numbers for the drive. Yes, I'm guilty of that also. But I will get to it either this year or early next.

Jim

3.6k · October 16, 2008

Wow, there are some great looking caches here. Nice! CT where I live is pretty too, but some of those areas are amazing.

Snoogans, where exactly is Armpit located? Maybe it would be a good place for a GeoWoodstock?

8.4k · October 16, 2008

Snoogans, where exactly is Armpit located? Maybe it would be a good place for a GeoWoodstock?

The Armpit of the Universe is Houston, Texas where I am forced to spend 10 months of every year. There has already been a GW not too durn far from here. I helped organize it. (GW4)

If you're talking about the area where the pictures were taken, that's anywhere from Mammoth Lakes to Lee Vining, California. It is the area I claim as home even though I only spend about a month there every year.

The last GW was not too durn far from there. That pic of Monkeybrad was taken on his way to GW6.

1.1k · October 16, 2008

Triple B-Flat Reprise (GCXBBK) - 3/4 mile offshore on Cape Cod. No swag. A soggy piece of tyvek for a logbook. Only 45 finders in 13 months, before it went missing.

How many cachers can claim they hid a cache nearly a mile offshore that you can walk to?

One of the finders has placed the Cape Cod Tidal Flats earthcache in the original cache's location.

Edited October 16, 2008 by CacheNCarryMA

October 17, 2008

Not my hide, but one of the coolest things I read about was a guy who set up the first set of coord at a payphone, with an 1-800 # he had set up with a recording of the second set of coords. He said it was relatively cheap to set up and maintain (less than $10 a month).

October 17, 2008

My favorite hide had to be archived before it was ever found I thought this was hilarous when I drove by, but when other people could not find it, I discovered someone came through and chopped it down.

GC1CBN8

October 17, 2008

We recently placed ( GC1D7QT ) The 555 Club. It`s a challenge cache, rated 4.5/5

1k · October 21, 2008

I've loved the dr evil cache series inmy area that I have FTF and gotten to hide in twice now. The latest one is my second hide and has been lsited for months with no finders Fun Stuff

GC1622X

Dr. Evil Series

24.7k · October 21, 2008

My best hide?

Joint venture at crater rings.

I picked a spot on the map and stuck the coords on this site. The FTF marked where the container should go. The 2nd TF placed the can. The 3rd TF stocked it. They got credit as owners.

Turns out it's not a bad hide either.

4.1k · October 21, 2008

Choosing our best is tough without some kind of criteria to base the decision on.

We chose 2oldfarts do it again because so many people have enjoyed this "park and grab". Most people find it quite unique for a regular size cache and it is pretty much muggle-proof.

John

2.6k · October 21, 2008

Shortly after I began caching I set up a cache in New Orleans called " View Carre' ", the name being a spin off of Veaux Carre'. The physical cache is a huge tool chest located in the penthouse of a 32 floor building. Cachers are escorted to the cache which is behind locked doors and only assesible by private elevator. The cachers are then taken to an observation area for a look down on New Orleans where caching and dining questions are answered and pictures taken ( hence the "View" )

Well over a thousand cachers from every state and many foreign countries have visited and I've had the good fortune to cache with a few including folks from New Zealand and Guam. My staff deserves a lot of credit for assisting me in cache operations.

I've had two geocoins minted featuring View Carre' as well.........look it up, I think you will enjoy the pictures, etc.

October 21, 2008

I make a magnetic "zip" container that I hide in the skirt of a lamp post some where which is very challenging and sometimes gets a number of DNFs...You can do the same with a "Pica" container. There are ingenious ways to hide different cache containers in places that are sometime ridiculed by other cachers because these places are numerous and basically easy and monotonous. Then comes a cache container hide that blows your mind. I just luv this game and I luv hiding caches as a payback to the geocaching.com community for all the fun and enjoyment I receive from playing this game on a simple level. (Go on caching runs and hide caches for others to search for and log). Happy Trails.

October 22, 2008

I have two that I'm rather proud of.

The first one kinda gives you a DOOOH!!! moment. Seven Sisters Road

The second one is kinda evil, so many choices but only one cache. It drives me nuts trying to find it every time I go to check on it. 6" Special

October 22, 2008

MY Where the sun doesn't shine Isn't a super hard to find cache but it is one of my favorites. It is close to a new park and the place it was hidden was very interesting.

5.3k · October 22, 2008

My most favorite hide is Claustrophobic's Nightmare which is a tricky and fairly hard hide for some folks. What I'm proudest of are the DNF logs on that cache. Most say something to the effect of "Best DNF EVER!" That makes me proud to see people leave happy without ever getting an official smiley for their time and effort.

Just did it last weekend. A truly great cache. Like I said in my log, you know it's a good cache hunt when you come out bleeding.

Haven't gotten around to posting the pictures yet, but I will.

8.4k · October 22, 2008

My most favorite hide is Claustrophobic's Nightmare which is a tricky and fairly hard hide for some folks. What I'm proudest of are the DNF logs on that cache. Most say something to the effect of "Best DNF EVER!" That makes me proud to see people leave happy without ever getting an official smiley for their time and effort.

Just did it last weekend. A truly great cache. Like I said in my log, you know it's a good cache hunt when you come out bleeding.

Haven't gotten around to posting the pictures yet, but I will.

THANKS.

I saw Ben was your guide.

bthomas can't stay outta that crack. :ninja: He has been there at least 6 times.

Here's some DOH! factor if you didn't get it. No one in your group has logged it on this trip and it was just .2 from that one in another crack. :ninja:

8.9k · October 22, 2008

Since it hasn't been published yet, I'm only going on my own feelings here. My best hide will be the night cache we've finished and are going to open just in time for our evening event Nov 1st!

A 6 stage multi taking you on a 2 mile tour in the darkness of a nature preserve! Some stages require the GPS, some require a flashlight...but the final??? OUCH!!!

We'll see how the responses go!!

TR&T w/K love to hide tough, bushwacking hides which often leave our victims (errr...visitors) bloody, dirty and sweaty, we pride ourselves on our ADVENTURE series (and yes, we label them apporopriately so everyone knows what they're in for) in Hayes State Park! Link: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...6b-11738712a799 Link: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...11-5bb80fd17d42

When Tod passed, we put in a 2 mile 3 stage adventure tributing Tod! I like it, but not many have braved it...yet! That one is a doozy as well! Link: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...b2-9fc5aa3f559d

For one which is on a paved trail (well on the stairway leading to the paved trail), we placed one called "Where's the Elevator". A simple hide actually, it's right underfoot lol, but we soon found that no one finds it easy! We host an event in the park yearly, the last event found me hiking up that trail a few times to help prolific cachers make the find!! Link: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...96-3e19e6519cf5

Edited October 22, 2008 by Rockin Roddy

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