+StarBrand Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 (edited) Got this log on my oldest hide - It is these stories that make hiding caches worth all the effort and money...thought I would share it. This is one of the funniest geocaching stories ever. I'm still pretty new at this so I made a rookie error and turned too early into a cow pasture. There happens to be a horse trail up to about 200 meters from the cache so I just thought it was a very clever hide. I was with 15 exchange students and dragged them through the field littered with cow pies only to have my gps battery die at about 500 m from the cache (that I now know I couldn't have gotten to). Disappointed and exhausted after a long drive and then a mile hike with no reward, we vowed to return. We came back with 15 more exchange students, so now trekking through this field with 30 people and a full battery, STILL don't find it (since I'm in a totally WRONG place). My students are now hellbent on finding this thing. We find the right road, but because of the recent snowmelt and subsequent drenching rains, there's a huge mudpit in the middle of the road up to the rocks. My boss tells me to stop and that I'll get stuck. "Let it go." she says... HA! My students are now screaming in anticipation as I rev my mini-van and back up to get a run at it. I hit the mudpit around 45 mph and managed to barely make it through. At the rocks, we found the cache and I think we were heard for miles around... I think we would've cued inspirational movie music if we could have. Thanks for giving me such an amazing memory. TFTC! See pic of the excitement and will log on the student's account I made for their hides as well. This cache - Jail Rock Nebraska Edited March 16, 2010 by StarBrand Quote Link to comment
+t4e Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Got this log on my oldest hide - It is these stories that make hiding caches worth all the effort and money...thought I would share it. couldn't agree more Quote Link to comment
+cw1710 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Logs like that are the reason I enjoy hiding caches. Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment
+Winstonsmom Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Thanks for sharing this log entry and photo!! This balances the universe for me after reading the "no digging no pointy things" thread. Quote Link to comment
hoosier guy Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Great story! I bet those kids had a blast! Quote Link to comment
+hukilaulau Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Great story! Thanks for sharing Quote Link to comment
+2Wheel'in Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Thanks for sharing that StarBrand...I'm quite sure you got a warm fuzzy out of reading that log, and you are so right - that's why we hide caches. Bill Quote Link to comment
+Triskeles Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Cool!! I hope this inspires the exchange students to keep on caching...even when they get back to their home countries. Quote Link to comment
+Castle Mischief Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Awesome, thanks for posting that! Quote Link to comment
+chachi44089 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Great pic! That should be on the front page of the web site. Quote Link to comment
+welch Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 An ammo box and an actual log entry? Did these people have to print the page out on paper?? Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted March 16, 2010 Author Share Posted March 16, 2010 An ammo box and an actual log entry? Did these people have to print the page out on paper?? ....and how about the Groundspeak sticker - out exposed to the elements for 8 years and still looking great!! Quote Link to comment
GOF and Bacall Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 This is the kind of log that makes it worth wile to hide a cache. At the risk of offending someone you seldom see a log like that on a P&G in the Wally World parking lot. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 This is the kind of log that makes it worth wile to hide a cache. At the risk of offending someone you seldom see a log like that on a P&G in the Wally World parking lot. No, but I had a very similar experince with a magnetic keyholder in a parking garage several years ago. (No mud or cow pies were involved and our group was smaller.) Quote Link to comment
+Jennifer&Dean Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Great log! Those are my favorite type of logs, you can really hear the fun they had! Jen Quote Link to comment
+Too Tall John Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 Awesome! I love stories like this! As someone who deals with groups as part of my job & frequently having to transport them from place to place, one part of the log made me wonder: We find the right road, but because of the recent snowmelt and subsequent drenching rains, there's a huge mudpit in the middle of the road up to the rocks. My boss tells me to stop and that I'll get stuck. "Let it go." she says... HA! My students are now screaming in anticipation as I rev my mini-van and back up to get a run at it. I hit the mudpit around 45 mph and managed to barely make it through. So, they took a mini-van to the cache? A mini-van has seats for 7 people. Assuming they put the camera on a timer to take a pic, that means they had: . . . 10 people in the mini-van? (11 if someone took the pic!) . . . doing 45 mph into a mud pit? Hope their insurance company doesn't read this. . . Still, a great story! Quote Link to comment
+JJTally Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 A great log. This is the reason I write something unique for every cache. Do you know how much my heart sinks when I read, "TFTC" on my caches? Quote Link to comment
+pamlicojack Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 That almost brought a tear to my eye. I love it on Saturday mornings when I'm dreading working on the honeydew list and my children come up to me and ask "Can we go treasure hunting today?" I can't turn them down so we go find a nearby place we haven't gone to and go caching. "Sorry Honey. I need to spend more time with the kids..." Quote Link to comment
+Titus1919 Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I love it on Saturday mornings when I'm dreading working on the honeydew list and my children come up to me and ask "Can we go treasure hunting today?" I can't turn them down so we go find a nearby place we haven't gone to and go caching. "Sorry Honey. I need to spend more time with the kids..." I am going to use your resoning from now on Quote Link to comment
+Too Tall John Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 I love it on Saturday mornings when I'm dreading working on the honeydew list and my children come up to me and ask "Can we go treasure hunting today?" I can't turn them down so we go find a nearby place we haven't gone to and go caching. "Sorry Honey. I need to spend more time with the kids..."I am going to use your resoning from now on Me too! Oh. . . We don't have any kids. . . Awlright! Who's kids can I rent out? Quote Link to comment
Tahosa and Sons Posted March 17, 2010 Share Posted March 17, 2010 That is just awesome and really shows what the real hiders receive from this marvelous sport. You and I know about the fun and trouble to hide a quality cache, but its logs like this that mean more than any smiley. Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted March 17, 2010 Author Share Posted March 17, 2010 .... No, but I had a very similar experince with a magnetic keyholder in a parking garage several years ago. (No mud or cow pies were involved and our group was smaller.) So what you are saying is ----- other than: rural prairie -- parking garage cowpies -- swept floors mud -- concrete dirt road -- paved garage this guy was a newbie -- you are experienced ammo box -- key holder large group -- small group It was just like this experience. Quote Link to comment
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