WorcesterDan Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 I already posted this in the chat room but for anyone that missed here it is again so you can laugh at me too Today I spend about 40 minutes looking for a cache before I realised the coords in my GPSr were in fact for the car park not the cache. what a muppet and then as if to confirm my muppet status, when I got home I stood on a rake, cartoon styleee and got it full force in the side of the head Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Today I spend about 40 minutes looking for a cache before I realised the coords in my GPSr were in fact for the car park not the cache. You're not the first to do this and almost certainly not the last Mark Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 (edited) I'm a firm believer that a garden tool has many uses. Welcome to the club. PS...never admit to being a fool. Everyone may believe you. Edited March 28, 2010 by currykev Quote Link to comment
+GAZ Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Nope......not gonna laugh at you at all I had worked out a simple puzzle cache yonks ago, and then last week I was working close by. The GPSr took a while to find any satellites as I faffed about in a car-park for ages holding it above my head, at arms length looking for a signal and when it did say those magic words "ready to navigate", I then looked for the said co-ords......that I HADN'T put in.....D'oh! What I had done was write them down on a bit of paper......back at home, of course......ready to put in the GPS! Yep......we can all be muppets sometimes Quote Link to comment
+CnJnA Posted March 28, 2010 Share Posted March 28, 2010 Thankyou for being brave enough to share this, it made my night! So would you log that as a DNF? Quote Link to comment
+Eclectic Penguin Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 (edited) Done this similar thing too myself! Mine was even more embarrassing though... Kites in Flight, February 9th 2008 I'd only just way-marked the car on the GPSr after parking and started going for that rather than the cache coordinate and even changed footwear based on the "updated" information... Edited March 29, 2010 by Eclectic Penguin Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Multis listed as Trads have caught me out like this in the past. As for the rake, self-inflicted pain brings the best lessons. Quote Link to comment
+Team Noodles Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 Multis listed as Trads have caught me out like this in the past. As for the rake, self-inflicted pain brings the best lessons. We once spent 25 mins looking for a multi listed as.............................a multi, at stage 1, DOH! Quote Link to comment
+HouseOfDragons Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 I've wasted an inordinate amount of time using the coordinates for one cache alongside the clue/logs for another. The logs for the wrong cache mentioned high nettles so off I went... Quote Link to comment
+CanUK_TeamFitz Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 I've wasted an inordinate amount of time using the coordinates for one cache alongside the clue/logs for another. The logs for the wrong cache mentioned high nettles so off I went... I take it you cache paperless too, then? I have the shame of doing this more than once on series caches where they all start with the same name (I have a BB Pearl with a small screen). Quote Link to comment
team tisri Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Multis listed as Trads have caught me out like this in the past. As for the rake, self-inflicted pain brings the best lessons. We once spent 25 mins looking for a multi listed as.............................a multi, at stage 1, DOH! A caching friend of mine (and this one really wasn't me, although it easily could have been) spotted a cache on his GPS near where he happened to be. So he went to the coordinates, which conveniently had a park bench there. Hunted high and low, not knowing if he was looking for a film pot or an ammo can. After about half an hour he gave up and checked the cache when he got home only to find it was... ... ... a webcam cache. Quote Link to comment
GerritS Posted March 31, 2010 Share Posted March 31, 2010 Multis listed as Trads have caught me out like this in the past. As for the rake, self-inflicted pain brings the best lessons. We once spent 25 mins looking for a multi listed as.............................a multi, at stage 1, DOH! A caching friend of mine (and this one really wasn't me, although it easily could have been) spotted a cache on his GPS near where he happened to be. So he went to the coordinates, which conveniently had a park bench there. Hunted high and low, not knowing if he was looking for a film pot or an ammo can. After about half an hour he gave up and checked the cache when he got home only to find it was... ... ... a webcam cache. I came back from my travels at sea, was punching in some coordinates at a cache event... No matter how I entered them in the cache was 2000 odd miles away ... I checked and double checked ... Took me about 10 mins to realize, my GPS had not woken up yet and thought it was still of the coast of West Africa Quote Link to comment
+HouseOfDragons Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 I've wasted an inordinate amount of time using the coordinates for one cache alongside the clue/logs for another. The logs for the wrong cache mentioned high nettles so off I went... I take it you cache paperless too, then? I have the shame of doing this more than once on series caches where they all start with the same name (I have a BB Pearl with a small screen). In my defence, it was a puzzle cache so I was flicking between the coordinates (which were a waypoint) and the cache listing. Quote Link to comment
+uncleadolph&angelbex Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 (edited) Just got back from doing a few caches.....looking at my Oregon 300 I couldn't work out, on the map page, why no matter which way I walked I was 90 to 95 feet from one particular cache. Walked halfway up the road one bit and back.....but would the wretched thing budge? Then I realised that whilst it had been in my pocket I'd somehow changed the readout from "distance to destination" to "elevation"..... Edited April 1, 2010 by uncle_adolph_and_angelbex Quote Link to comment
+Just Roger Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Then I realised that whilst it had been in my pocket I'd somehow changed the readout from "distance to destination" to "elevation"..... Been there, done that. Quote Link to comment
+FantasyRaider Posted April 1, 2010 Share Posted April 1, 2010 Just got back from doing a few caches.....looking at my Oregon 300 I couldn't work out, on the map page, why no matter which way I walked I was 90 to 95 feet from one particular cache. Walked halfway up the road one bit and back.....but would the wretched thing budge? Then I realised that whilst it had been in my pocket I'd somehow changed the readout from "distance to destination" to "elevation"..... How many times have i done THAT! Quote Link to comment
Puppy Socks Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Just got back from doing a few caches.....looking at my Oregon 300 I couldn't work out, on the map page, why no matter which way I walked I was 90 to 95 feet from one particular cache. Walked halfway up the road one bit and back.....but would the wretched thing budge? Then I realised that whilst it had been in my pocket I'd somehow changed the readout from "distance to destination" to "elevation"..... How many times have i done THAT! Darn those sensitive touch screens! Screen lock is a sanity saver Quote Link to comment
+metal-bijou Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Once, I ran out the door for a FTF. The cache page had parking coords but I knew better and parked as close to the cahe coords as I could. I searched for ages (in a carpark). It finnally dawned on me that the coords had been switched. Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 I know just the cache you mean MB. They've now been switched back, but I've still not found the cache Quote Link to comment
+burtsbodgers Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 (edited) Well in a FTF dash, i downloaded the info to my oregon checked the position and google earth grabbed a torch and drove the 5 miles to the cache. Then realised my trusty oregon was still at home plugged in to my pc. Luckily i spotted a likely hiding place and found the cache, the log book was even still empty! The touch screen on the oregon has however caused a few problems. i have accidentally reset all the waypoints on the way to one! and done a factory reset while out caching so there were no caches on there! all while the oregon was in my pocket! still love it though Edited April 6, 2010 by burtsbodgers Quote Link to comment
odpdave Posted April 7, 2010 Share Posted April 7, 2010 I already posted this in the chat room but for anyone that missed here it is again so you can laugh at me too Today I spend about 40 minutes looking for a cache before I realised the coords in my GPSr were in fact for the car park not the cache. what a muppet and then as if to confirm my muppet status, when I got home I stood on a rake, cartoon styleee and got it full force in the side of the head This made me smile. Have you never heard the saying, "Better to say nothing at all and be considered a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!" Believe me, you are not alone. Quote Link to comment
+Mark+Karen Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 A caching friend of mine (and this one really wasn't me, although it easily could have been) spotted a cache on his GPS near where he happened to be. So he went to the coordinates, which conveniently had a park bench there. Hunted high and low, not knowing if he was looking for a film pot or an ammo can. After about half an hour he gave up and checked the cache when he got home only to find it was... ... ... a webcam cache. On my recent stag do we all went geocaching, Using a list of caches provided by my wife to be. We spent ages searching around Honister slate mine in the rain, for a cache with no sucess, until when I got back I read the details and it said it was a virtual cache! Quote Link to comment
scooby666 Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 As a novice geocacher I can go one better than you Dan, off we went to find the cache ....park in the pub car park it said ......we could'nt even find the pub nevermind the cache in the woods !!!!! Happy days lol Quote Link to comment
+keehotee Posted April 9, 2010 Share Posted April 9, 2010 A couple of years ago I drove from Exeter all the way up the M5 to the Severn Bridge on the way to the Wye Valley camping event without turning on my pda. I decided to stop at the services to check directions - only to find out the SD card with the caches I'd loaded, and all my memory maps, were still in the card reader plugged into my pc 100 miles away Quote Link to comment
+sonatellas Posted April 11, 2010 Share Posted April 11, 2010 On returning from the Brecon Beacons we thought we would attend the 10 years event at the Blorenge. Sensed something was not right when I realised I was totally alone at GZ. Re-checked the date on getting back to the van to discover I was a month early. How solid am I? Quote Link to comment
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