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Geocaching Terms That Aren't In The Handbook


Cal W.

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EVENT CACHE = Gathering of geocachers

 

EVENT CASH = Passing the hat to pay for an Event Cache

 

HATLESS CACHER = What you get when you don't watch who's passing the hat

 

CACHE RATING = Description given on cache pages to help cachers determine the difficulty of caches

 

CACHESTRATING = When your wife insists you not go caching

 

CACHE BAIT = Hollow logs near trails that are just begging to be fed Tupperware

 

VIRTUAL THIEVERY = Using PhotoShop or Google to fake a claim on a virtual cache

 

VIRTUALOSITY = Granting a find on a virtual cache even though you believe the finder never got close.

 

MISSDIRECTION = The nine-year-old girl who points out the cache location while the grown-ups are still checking their PDAs

 

CACHE STICK = A geocacher's staff

 

CACHE TICK = Unwanted hitchhiker from grassy areas

 

CACHE SHTICK = Boring one's coworkers by talking of nothing but caching

 

GARMEANDERING = Act of following the "GO TO" arrow on your little yellow eTrex.; see also: eTREXERCISE

 

eTREXERCISE = All the extra walking you do when all you've got is the little yellow booger

 

BUGHO = Someone who revisits caches just to snag the travel bugs

 

BUGWARDEN = Someone who gets a travel bug and doesn't want to set it free again

 

BUGJUNKIE = Someone who would drive over their own mother for a travel bug

 

BUGSNIFFER = Cacher who hits the cache just in time to grab the travel bug you've been chasing for months.

 

MAGELLICIDE = Walking off a cliff while following the map on your GPS instead of the trail

 

GARMIN DISTRICT = Corner of the Cache Event decorated with "Magellan Sucks" posters

 

MAGELLAND = The other corner

 

POOCACHE = What you sometimes find when you reach into the hollow log without looking first

 

CACHE HASH = The small bits of leaves, broken toys, snail shells, bug bodies and other detritus found at the bottom of a well-visited cache

 

CACHE DRAWER = Where a cacher keeps his supply of pencils, notebooks, plastic bugs, sock puppets, McToys, film cans and other caching supplies

 

CACHE DRAWERS = Items occasionally left in caches at entrances to nudist colonies.

 

CACHE NUTS = Found in above

 

CASHEW NUTS = A yummy, high protein snack

 

CACHE U-NUTS = Used with cache U-bolts to secure caches to poles

 

JOHNNY CASH = Famous country/western singer

 

JOHNNY CACHE = See: muggled, disgusting mess

 

CACHE RELIEF = A handy tree away from the cache and fellow cachers

 

CACHE CASH RELIEF = Finding change for the meter in the micro when all you have left is bills

 

CACHERAM = Mythical source of all Hindu and Buddhist related virtual caches

 

CACHE POTATO = Cacher who spends hours on the computer instead of caching.

 

WAYPOINT = Marked location

 

WAYPINT = Beer at marked location

 

WAYPAINT = Used to make the "X" for the "'X' marks the spot."

 

WAYPUNT = The act of kicking ground cover and anything handy when you can't find the cache at "Ground Zero."

 

GROUND ZERO = The point at which you GPSr claims you should find the cache.

 

GROUCH ZERO = The point at which you curse the GPSr that has you waist deep in a lake.

 

ZERO GROUND = The point at which you learn to swim.

 

GEOCRASHING = Crossing private property to get to a cache.

 

GEOTHRASHING = Act of flailing through the bushes looking for matchbox containers

 

GEOTRASHING = Badmouthing other cache hiders

 

CACHEGUERILLA = One who places a cache anywhere regardless of caching etiquette, rules or proper procedure.

 

GUERILLACACHE = One placed in defiance of rules, just begging to be archived.

 

CACHE GRILLER = Ill-placed micro at a cookout

 

AMMOPHELES = Type of mosquito found living near traditional caches.

 

SKEETER-DEETER = Expert in bug repellent

 

GEO METRO = Inexpensive automobile

 

GEO-METRO = One whose caching activities are limited to urban areas

 

GEO PRISM = Inexpensive car that is my current ride.

 

GEO-PRISON = Cache containing a travel bug that is in a nearly inaccessible location

 

LOGARITHMS = Notes left by poetic cachers

 

CACHE WINE = After-caching libation for adults

 

CACHE WHINE = After-caching laments for all

 

LOGJAM = What occurs when the cache owner fails to replace the cache log.

 

McBEEF = Complaint about the placement of Happy Meal toys in caches.

 

McCACHE = Just like a thousand others found all over the world hidden the same way with the same kind of stuff inside.

 

BRITCHERS = New pants on a hot day

 

BURRITCHERS = Burr-covered pants

 

LEGGROOM = The act off brushing the burrs off one's burritchers

 

DAMBURR = The one you missed

 

BURRDRIFT = The pile of fluff in the Leggroom area.

 

ZIPBLOCK = The bad spot on a cheap baggie that keeps it from sealing properly.

 

CACHE FLUFFER = someone who feels obligated to go through a crowded Tupperware container leaving it impossible to close the lid

 

CAMMO BOX = Cache container hidden in deep woods under three feet of sticks and leaves and another two feet of snow... see also, DNF

 

FILM CAN = Popular micro-cache container

 

CAN FILM = Layer of goo on top of week-old opened soda pop grabbed by mistake in dark garage

 

CACHE COMMANDO = Cacher who seeks to rescue lost, damaged or muggled caches

 

COMMANDO CACHER = One who caches without undergarments

 

GORP = Good Ol' Raisins and Peanuts: A popular nutritious snack

 

DORP = Dumb Ol' Raisins and Peanuts: GORP after three days on the trail.

 

VORP = Very Old Raisins and Peanuts: GORP after three weeks in the bottom of your pack

 

ORP = Sound made after eating VORP

 

credit to: Torry Stiles

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