+DodgeExplorer Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 We were out caching near a creek yesterday, I was trying out the blackberry for caching and it worked quite well, until we got back to the truck and realized oh no the blackberry was not with me, we backtracked the 200 feet to the creek and tried to phone the blackberry with another phone but it rang twice and then went to a voice message that said the phone was out of the service area. We checked the creek for awhile but it was quite deep and flowing fast, my sister looks at me and says, at least you found the cache. Quote Link to comment
+simpjkee Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I've lost a minimag flashlight at a cache once and the next finders picked it up and returned it to me at the next event I've also lost my mind at a few needle in a haystack rock pile hides too. Quote Link to comment
+The Ravens Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I lost my cell phone 2 days ago. If anyone finds it call "Wifey" and let her know where we can retrieve it. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Lost my patience a few times. Lost a lot of time geocaching. As for physical items, I left a GPSr behind once, but fortunately it was still there when I went back to it. I lost about 5 pens so far. They never have a chance to run out of ink. I've also lost the lid of a container (dropped down a hole) and a nano cache. Both of them I replaced. Quote Link to comment
+gorillagal Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I left my GPS at a cache once a couple of years ago. The folks that found it were cachers (coulda been anybody, because it was at a pretty busy nature center), and they used the contact number I'd put on the welcome screen to contact me. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I have killed several PDAs. They don't float. I lost my brand new 60Cx in the woods. They had just come out when my Legend had died and we were going on a geocaching vacation so I had way overpaid for it so that I could have it in time for the trip. So there we were, searching among waist deep ferns for over an hour on the first day of the trip. When we found it I went to the nearest hardware store and bought some yellow duct tape. Never lost track of it again. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Sometimes I wonder if I've lost my mind. Quote Link to comment
+Firefly911 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I lost my nice perscription sun glasses looking for a cache in some cedars. (small, dense ones very close together). On top of that I never found the cache either. I didn't notice until I got out of the trees. I made a "guess" of my previous route into the trees and got lucky and found them. Quote Link to comment
+cycler48 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Pens ... I'm always losing pens. Now I keep them in a special place. Quote Link to comment
+Chrysalides Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Pens ... I'm always losing pens. Now I keep them in a special place. What sort of special place? I thought of getting a pen that I can attach to a lanyard or one of those retractable belt clip thingie. But I ended up getting pens I don't mind too much losing. Quote Link to comment
+42at42 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I lost my glasses once. I was in very thick brush just before sunset when a branch caught my glasses and flicked them off my face. In normal light I can't see 10 feet and in the fading light it was impossible. I didn't want to move in fear I'd step on them. I started searching with my hands close to me and then got on my hands and knees and increased the circle. After ten minutes I found them. This past weekend doing a multi I lost ONE YakTrax. I never notice until I got back to the van. This multi took me in 3 directions, there was no way I was retracing my steps. Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Sometimes I wonder if I've lost my mind. I've lost my mind. But my wife assures me it was no big loss and I am probably better off. Not sure I believe her but without my mind it is kinda hard to figure it all out. BANANA! Quote Link to comment
+42at42 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Pens ... I'm always losing pens. Now I keep them in a special place. What sort of special place? Loaded question Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Pens ... I'm always losing pens. Now I keep them in a special place. What sort of special place? Loaded question And possibly a loaded place. Quote Link to comment
Mr.Yuck Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 (edited) We were out caching near a creek yesterday, I was trying out the blackberry for caching and it worked quite well, until we got back to the truck and realized oh no the blackberry was not with me, we backtracked the 200 feet to the creek and tried to phone the blackberry with another phone but it rang twice and then went to a voice message that said the phone was out of the service area. We checked the creek for awhile but it was quite deep and flowing fast, my sister looks at me and says, at least you found the cache. Yup. Dropped a cell phone off of an old abandoned railroad bridge, about 30 feet above the water. Heard something fall and clunk off some girders and splash. Checked my pockets, and saw that it was my cell phone. Better than my keys I suppose, as I was driving that day. Also, it was just a cheesy flip phone that was free with the family plan contract. I confiscated one of my daughters old ones, and used it for over a year. Now, I have a Palm smartphone, I'd be livid if I dropped that in the drink. Oh yeah, I could see it on the bottom of the creek in about 2 feet of water. When my pardner called it, it went to voicemail. Edit to add, we did DNF the cache. Edited February 20, 2010 by TheWhiteUrkel Quote Link to comment
+ngrrfan Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Lost my cell phone once. Thankfully someone in our group found it. Ever since then, I put it in the pack. AND.... I've gotten lost in the beauty of the area we were hiking in. Now that kind of loss I don't mind at all. OH!!!......... just thought of this too.... Sometimes I think I've lost my mind when we're going after some cache that is a wee bit tough to get to. Quote Link to comment
+popokiiti Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I have lost............................................a bit of weight! Quote Link to comment
+WHO-DEY Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I lost the stress of a busy week after one cache with my son. Quote Link to comment
+bittsen Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I've lost my sense of direction.... many times. All it takes is 3 or 4 turns on a drunken bee dance and I'm lost. Quote Link to comment
CLV3 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I have lost my mind on a few nanos. Quote Link to comment
+Gitchee-Gummee Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I still have my mind... such that it is. I do believe however, that I lost my sanity. Thankfully, Gummee is Gitchee's guiding light! Quote Link to comment
+a-body Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I left a perfectly good hickory walking stick at a cache once. I left notes in the logs if someone finds it to let me know. I don't think anyone has found those yet, almost a year. A couple days later, in the same park, I left a perfectly good diamond willow stick at a cache. I found that one a few days later while mushroom hunting. Quote Link to comment
Bag o'Tricks Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Briefly lost the 60CSX, but went back to the cache and found it right where I'd placed it to log the find. Also managed to lose a whistle, magnesium fire starter, and Silva Ranger on a common lanyard while doing the bee dance for a cache that was 30m from GZ. I searched for over an hour for those and a couple of cachers also searched soon after, all to no avail. Quote Link to comment
+SweetPea&Crew Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Like several others, I have lost a pen: particularly my "lucky" caching pen (which apparently wasn't too lucky...). I had special ordered it just a few weeks before, and it was decorated with my favorite photo of my daughter and a special caption. I was kneeling and peering into a sewer grate (we call them "TMNT" caches in my area), and it slipped out of my pocket, and about ten feet out of my reach. I HATED losing that pen, but a caching buddy later gave me a pen with a carabiner attached to the end of it. Quote Link to comment
+Falach-fead Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Lost Blackberry as well and drove 1/2 hr back to area and retraced GPSr track for 20 minutes to find it. Lost GPSMAP60CX in a stream under the ice after it fell into an open pool at the base of a waterfall in March a few years back. The GPSr was returned 2-1/2 months later by a fellow cacher who found it under water just down stream from the waterfall...new batteries and it worked fine ever since. Quote Link to comment
+SwampFox4Christ Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 4 - mag-lite's of various colors. at least a couple pocket knives. 2 - socks, 1 - little brother, but then he came out down the road - maybe I was the one who was lost? Quote Link to comment
+beejay&esskay Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 1. My wallet (found a few days later by another geocacher) 2. One glove 3. Too many pens to count. Quote Link to comment
+ras_oscar Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 PDA (backtracked and found it, found cache) Cel phone (backtracked next day, it had snowed, didn't find it, found cache) several pair of cheaters, (never bothered to go back and look for a $12.00 item from the drug store) Now all my geogear goes in my eagle creek mini pack behind zippers. The last thing I do before moving off to the next hide is to verify the zippers are ALL closed. The GPS is either in the bag ( hike out) in my hand(hunt mode) or around my neck on the lanyard (do business after find) Quote Link to comment
aniyn Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I dropped my car keys once. I was very surprised to see them laying in the trail when I walked out. Quote Link to comment
+Border Caz Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I lost my Garmin Nuvi somewhere between caches, went back to most likely place, no sign. That was the end of caching that weekend. Rushed out and bought a new one on the Monday. Quote Link to comment
Hyger Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I lost my sun-glasses while I was taking photos for Earthcache. Unlucky! Quote Link to comment
+Markwell Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I've lost too many things to count, but the good stories are where I get them back. Lost my cell phone on the trail of a suburban cache. Got back to civilization and had my wife start calling the phone after about 10 minutes and played "marco polo" until I found it. Another suburban cache - lost prescription sunglasses at the cache site but didn't realize it until much later. Someone else posted a log on the cache that said they found them and would leave them right next to it - went out and got them the next day. But the best was a pair of magnetic clip sunglasses I lost on a hike some 400 miles away in 2002. It was about 0.75 miles along on a 1 mile hike (I was with Hikenit, mtn-man and gpsfun). The red dot is where I lost the glasses. They slipped out of my pocket, but I didn't realize it at the time. How do I know exactly where I lost them? Four days after the hike, I got this e-mail: ...we logged a visit to the Tribute to Cumberland Trail cache on December 28th, after your visit to the cache on December 26th. We found a pair of sunglasses on the trail, somewhere after we crossed the suspension bridge and started up the hill, and before we got to the small cascade flowing down to the creek. The glasses were clean and on top of the leaves and obviously recently lost. They have a dark pewter color frame, and small rectangular dark grey lenses. The frame is only the front bridge piece, without temples, and looks to be a magnetic insert for prescription glasses (or ???). If the sunglasses belong to you or one of your group, or if you know anyone else (of the many hikers) who was on that trail recently, you can contact us by e-mail...Thanks. They shipped them back to me. Aren't cacher's awesome?!? Quote Link to comment
+ngrrfan Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I've lost too many things to count, but the good stories are where I get them back. But the best was a pair of magnetic clip sunglasses I lost on a hike some 400 miles away in 2002. It was about 0.75 miles along on a 1 mile hike (I was with Hikenit, mtn-man and gpsfun). The red dot is where I lost the glasses. They slipped out of my pocket, but I didn't realize it at the time. How do I know exactly where I lost them? Four days after the hike, I got this e-mail: ...we logged a visit to the Tribute to Cumberland Trail cache on December 28th, after your visit to the cache on December 26th. We found a pair of sunglasses on the trail, somewhere after we crossed the suspension bridge and started up the hill, and before we got to the small cascade flowing down to the creek. The glasses were clean and on top of the leaves and obviously recently lost. They have a dark pewter color frame, and small rectangular dark grey lenses. The frame is only the front bridge piece, without temples, and looks to be a magnetic insert for prescription glasses (or ???). If the sunglasses belong to you or one of your group, or if you know anyone else (of the many hikers) who was on that trail recently, you can contact us by e-mail...Thanks. They shipped them back to me. Aren't cacher's awesome?!? Did ya give them a smiley?? Quote Link to comment
+JJTally Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 My Wedding Ring! Came off when I jumped a chain link fence and got my glove ripped off. Didn't realize it until we got back to the vehicle. It was raining and dark, so we waited to head back and found it laying right where I thought it would be! GC1ZNVH Quote Link to comment
+tomfuller & Quill Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Magellan Meridian Platinum. Found a micro in the end of a guardrail, carried it back to the hood of the truck to fill out the log, drove off with the GPS still on the hood after I replaced it. I hiked up the road 10 days later and found it 0.4 mi. up the road. It was face down and 2 of the buttons are messed up but it still works. The first Magellan I lost is gone forever. Quote Link to comment
crawil Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 We lost our first GPSr, a Lowrance Map-n-Music. We were on the waterfront in Long Beach, CA and one of our kids put it on the bench where we were sitting and told the other kid to watch it. We got up and walked away for only a few minutes when I asked who had the GPSr. The kids pointed at each other, "He/she does!" We ran back to the bench but it was gone. Never seen again. We got a Garmin Vista HCx quickly after that. Quote Link to comment
gold735uk Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I lost my pen on the way to a micro in the woods with my 3 and 5 yr old daughters yesterday, i had to sign the log with a twig initiative Quote Link to comment
+Mini-Geek Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I lost a pen recently on a four mile hike, luckily I knew how easy pens are to loose so I had come prepared and brought four pens! A pen for each mile I havn't lost a GPSr (Yet??? Hopefully not) Mainly because I keep it on a lanyard around my neck. Quote Link to comment
+Scubasonic Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Only thing I have lost is my pride sometimes. Scubasonic Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 (edited) 3 or maybe 4 pairs of glasses. Fortunately they were Costco readers at around $20 or so for 3 pairs. I also left my hiking stick at a cache but another local caching couple found it. Since it has my name carved into it they contacted me and I got it back. Edited February 20, 2010 by Thrak Quote Link to comment
+cycler48 Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Pens ... I'm always losing pens. Now I keep them in a special place. What sort of special place? Loaded question And possibly a loaded place. At least no one steals them anymore. Actually, I purchased one of those from the Groundspeak shop that's attached to a carabiner. I attach it to a loop on my pack. I'm sure I'll find a way to lose it too. Quote Link to comment
+narcissa Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I lost my old Magellan eXplorist 500 several times and found it again before finally leaving it on the roof of my car in North Carolina. We've lost a couple of toys while geocaching. My son loves Thomas the Tank Engine, but the wooden toys are $15 and up. I've bought some older ones second hand at garage sales and flea markets for $1 or $2 each, and I let him bring those when we go out. Quote Link to comment
+edscott Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Left my compass on a rock by a cache. Next finder sent it back. Lost a flashlight somehow while doing a cache by moonlight. Took it along just in case and when I got home it had fallen out of my pocket. Quote Link to comment
+zurichuk Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Not lost anything yet, but found lots of pens Quote Link to comment
+Mini-Geek Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Not lost anything yet, but found lots of pens We want our pens back Quote Link to comment
+usyoopers Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 We lost a GPSr after finding a cache. Our best guess is that I put it on the bed rail of the truck then went to talk to mother nature....got in the truck not thinking about the GPSr and left. Once we found it missing we went back to the spot and searched and searched.....nothing. Our name and address were on the start up screen..... Replaced it with a better unit.... Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Nevada drivers' license (never found) Brother-in-law's cellphone (unhooked from my belt while I was tying a bootlace. Backtracked a mile very carefully. Found it.) my balance (while trying to leap a deep creek. *SPLASH*) 50 pounds (found 20 of them again. Working on re-losing them) Quote Link to comment
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