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This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

 

Read the logs on that one. Too funny! Well if your not one of the DNF's it is. What a train wreck. How is this cache not archived yet! :anibad:

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I know I've found a few stinkers in years past, but most of them are fading from memory. I'm much more selective about what I hunt now, so I pretty much avoid "really bad" caches. And if one somehow slips through the cracks and winds up in my GPS, I have no problem at all simply driving right on by if I don't like the area where the hide is. I can honestly say I don't know what the worst cache I've hunted for is. When you only shoot for the upper side of the bell curve, the stinkers just don't make the cut. :anibad:

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I have three I can think of right now.

 

The first was one down in Houston. It was hidden in some decorative grass, and this grass was tall, like 6 ft, with 1 in wide leaves, and serrated edges, it was SHARP!!!! And the cache was hidden at the bottom, under the previous years growth, you you had to get all scratched up. I went twice to find that one, then someone emailed me saying to use a broom stick. I never got back to it before I moved.

 

Here on Long Island there was one hidden under a boardwalk and the area was covered with filthy trash, dog poop, bear cans, etc. I didn't find that one either, I didn't want to be sticking my hands where I could possibly catch some kind of disease.

 

There is a puzzle cache here on Long Island as well, I hate it. The puzzle is impossible to solve. I have gotten about five hints from the CO and still cant figure it out.

 

I am very glad I discovered the "ignore" feature, it is a wonderful feature! I put all these kinds of caches on it so that I don't have to see them any more.

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GC#? Impossible puzzles are good for rainy days

 

GC15BQ9

 

Oh boy, if you can figure this one you would be my hero! It has been on my ignore list over six months now, and I hate having caches on my ignore list, I feel like a failure! :anibad:

 

It took me literally HOURS to figure out the first part, more hours to finally give up on the second part.

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There was a cache called Portland Poo that I searched for. At the time I didn't know the title referred to an odd-shaped pile of cement (that we never did find) but search area was strewn with the real stuff which was pretty gross especially as we thought the cache might actually be disguised as some of the same.

 

I'm delighted to see it was subsequently archived.

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There was a cache called Portland Poo that I searched for. At the time I didn't know the title referred to an odd-shaped pile of cement (that we never did find) but search area was strewn with the real stuff which was pretty gross especially as we thought the cache might actually be disguised as some of the same.

 

I'm delighted to see it was subsequently archived.

Portland Cement? Or a reference to the town?

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

 

Read the logs on that one. Too funny! Well if your not one of the DNF's it is. What a train wreck. How is this cache not archived yet! :anibad:

 

well, there certainly has been a precedent set for archiving caches in New Stanton, Pa. that have been deemed "non-functional" by people who never even looked for them, and archived from thousands of miles away. I'm sure this cache is quite functional, but will probably be archived anyways. Such is life, I suppose. B)

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a micro cache hidden in a tree branch. literally inside. the CO carved a large hole into the branch and put the cache inside. unfortunately the tree was still alive and well. you know what trees do to cover up their "wounds", right? the cache was totally embedded in a sticky mess of tree sap :anibad: what made it worse was that neither container nor ziplock bag held up against the sap and it got to the actual log sheet. yikes.

 

I had a cahe like that. My 3rd cache ever..

But it was in perfect shape! He had it in a pill bottled, with ducktap around it, and on the lid he had some type of fake plasic bark that looked JUST like a knot in the tree.

I spent 40mins looking for it and so far its been my FAVORITE cache to find B)

 

 

On topic, so far my worst cache story would be a cache in a brush pile in central texas.

We get HUGE overgrorth and 2 of my 4 DNFs are due to RAPID overgrowrth of trees. One was along a fence on the side of a rual road, weeds and thorns being 4' tall all tangel around a barbed wire fence, no thanks.

Then i had another in the middle of a clover on-ramp section, so it was swampy with 4' tall overgroth... no thorns but some, and after 20mins i gave up...

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Second runner-up: Not just a lamp post skirt, but one with a wasp nest inside. I know the CO didn't put the nest there, but bad is bad.

 

First runner-up: A five-part multi with the final's coordinates about 60 feet off, across the street, inside a house. Read my log entry.

 

The winner: Hidden in a crumbling rock wall in a historic area. Searching for the cache pretty much forces cachers to take the wall apart. The damage to the old wall is half of the problem; the other half is the risk of having a 20-pound rock land on your foot.

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We're a lot better at avoiding lame caches than we used to be. But sometimes we fall into the trap, especially if there's not a whole lot of info on the cache page. Some of our worst finds would have to include:

 

-One in Texas that was located inside a church's abandoned outhouse. We DNF'd that one without going inside.

 

-In Florida, where the CO lists the trailhead into the woods, but doesn't mention the homeless camp you have to pass through along the way.

 

-A cache in New York, located about ten feet off a jogging trail 'rest stop'. The CO could have posted a hint of 'follow the urine smell, GZ marked by soiled tissues'.

 

-For the worst one it's back to Texas, I had a TB that I needed to drop off. As it turned out it was near a polluted stream behind a low-rent housing district. At first I thought the stench was from the stream, but the little brown piles hinted to a different source. It was my last day there and I had to drop that TB off.

 

The things I do sometimes. :anibad:

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Garrett's Cache

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November 30, 2008 by Clan Riffster (1338 found)

 

This cache is a disaster. It was hidden in July 05, and was leaky by August 05. It's had 5 NM's since then, and the cache is still a waterlogged baggie full of soggy stuff. Who would honestly think a ziplock baggie would make a good cache container? (OK, rant mode off) Seriously folks, I've never posted an NA log before, and I hope I never have to again, but this thing ain't getting any better. I was actually joking with Mark one day about this cache, calling it the worst one I've ever seen. It hasn't changed! The same unclosable ziplock is still sitting out there, and the owners aren't responding.

(sigh)

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

Even worse than the cache are the losers posting notes on the cache page. Talk about epic fail. They're too pathetic to post their idiotic insults under their real accounts, so they bombard the page with sock puppets? So very sad.

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

Even worse than the cache are the losers posting notes on the cache page. Talk about epic fail. They're too pathetic to post their idiotic insults under their real accounts, so they bombard the page with sock puppets? So very sad.

 

Even Sock Puppets that were created specifically for posting notes to that cache!! Clicking on the nearby listings in the Greater Greensburg area is quite interesting, by the way. It's not like that wasn't predicted by a certain banned cacher. In like 2005, I might add. :ph34r:

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

Even worse than the cache are the losers posting notes on the cache page. Talk about epic fail. They're too pathetic to post their idiotic insults under their real accounts, so they bombard the page with sock puppets? So very sad.

 

Even Sock Puppets that were created specifically for posting notes to that cache!! Clicking on the nearby listings in the Greater Greensburg area is quite interesting, by the way. It's not like that wasn't predicted by a certain banned cacher. In like 2005, I might add. :D

 

There is a puzzle that I was going to call shenanigans on. I had reason to believe that there was no solution, and the person that hid it only had a few finds. After a week, someone mentions a SBA, and then a bunch of people find it. :)

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...ea-41e70367cbfd

 

Then a second puzzle pops up by the same person and nobody has found it yet after a month, but there is one solver on the other coast, which is very odd. :)

 

Now a 3rd one has just popped up. They don't even look like puzzles. :ph34r:

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...=y&decrypt=

Even worse than the cache are the losers posting notes on the cache page. Talk about epic fail. They're too pathetic to post their idiotic insults under their real accounts, so they bombard the page with sock puppets? So very sad.

Rattrak DNFed? Maybe....

Nah, I still wont say it doesn't exist.

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Wow, this is a very timely subject. I'm in an area that has a geocaching "clique", as I'm sure most areas do. It's all about numbers. Anyhoo, lately I've had a situation develop with a key member of the aforementioned "clique". He loves to throw out the micro's and park-n-grabs, you know, the matchstick holder hanging in a spruce tree, nanos stuck on a bolt on a roadsign, logsheet stuck between the sign and the post, magnet stuck on a bridge guardrail, and my favorite, a magnetic nano stuck on a sewer manhole in an undeveloped industrial park. Now, that's fine, I look for them, I find them, no problem, just not very unimaginitive. So we go out of state and find some really cool caches, mentioning and thanking the cache owners for the good hides, that they were not at all like what we mostly have back home. A while later I get a nasty, snippy e-mail from the dude stating if I don't like his caches, don't look for them. I never once singled out him or any of his caches. Now, he is specifically hiding his caches close to my home to bait me. Unfortunately, some of his caches are being muggled, and he is not so subtly hinting in his logs that he thinks I am responsible. I've noticed he's taken some digs at me in several of his logs in caches he has archived. So Jeffy, I know you're reading this, and I don't know what you're problem is, but you take this game just a little too seriously. My kids and I really enjoy this game, but really anal people take all the fun out of it. Oh, and I didn't mess with your caches, and I'm not going to, a good Christian doesn't hold grudges.

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Well, you asked so here it goes. In a town about 30 miles from us there is a huge park that runs for several miles along the Columbia River. The cache was located among a bunch of trees and bushes probably covering half an acre or so. The brush was so thick you had to crawl and walk bent over along a amze of trails. I was leading and my wife and son were following. I came to a rather large opening near the center of the bushes and there was a lot of homosexual pornography and a lot of litter laying around. Come to find out, this was a favorite hiding place for homeless and creapy men to hang out. I dont know if there really ever was a cache in there or not. I notified the cache owner and demand he remove it. He did and not too long after, the bushes were removed. My son never saw what I saw so I'm glad I was leading. Be aware of your surroundings and never assume just because there is supposed to be a cache there that it's a family friendly place. This was in 2003 so it's just a distant (bad) memory at this point.

 

Happy caching

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We stopped Geocaching for many years. We found that people were so insistant on hiding a cache that we would find a useless box of crap in an area that was worthless to go to. Caching is about taking you to a unique or nice place and perhaps showing someone something they havent seen before. An ammo can full of dirty old playing cards and McD toy laying behind a bush in the ditch just doesnt cut it.

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One cache I tried last week really made me reconsider this hobby for a split second. It was a multicache hidden in the outdoor park of a large museum nearby. Each step was a task where you were to find some exhibit in the outdoor museum and from that find a number that once you had all would give you final coordinates. Problem was that oalmost all the tasks had several solutions depending on what the cache owner intended. For instance, one task was to count the number of windows on an old house. There were 5 traditional windows, but also 2 that could be considered windows though there was no glass, just a mesh in front of them. That meant that depending on what the cache owner intended, the answer could be 5 or 7. ANother task was to count the number of staircases in a street. Problem was, there was a double staircase, so the answer could either be 8 or 9. Another one was to count the number of gates leading out from X, where X was a word that wasn't even in the dictionary and there was no way of knowing exactly where the border was meant to be for what was counted and what was not. In the end we had so many multi-answer possibilities that there was no way to know where the cache was, and since the possibilities were very far apart we just gave up.

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

 

Read the logs on that one. Too funny! Well if your not one of the DNF's it is. What a train wreck. How is this cache not archived yet! :)

 

this cache is ridiculous.... we have searched for this quite a few amount of times and we are the ones that put the needs archived on it... also we notified the reviewer and still nothing.... sad part we offered to go with the C/O to get good coords and they said "no we are good"..... what does that tell ya? :D

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

 

Read the logs on that one. Too funny! Well if your not one of the DNF's it is. What a train wreck. How is this cache not archived yet! :)

 

this cache is ridiculous.... we have searched for this quite a few amount of times and we are the ones that put the needs archived on it... also we notified the reviewer and still nothing.... sad part we offered to go with the C/O to get good coords and they said "no we are good"..... what does that tell ya? :D

 

Some of the posters to that page need to learn to use the ignore option.

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

 

Read the logs on that one. Too funny! Well if your not one of the DNF's it is. What a train wreck. How is this cache not archived yet! :)

 

this cache is ridiculous.... we have searched for this quite a few amount of times and we are the ones that put the needs archived on it... also we notified the reviewer and still nothing.... sad part we offered to go with the C/O to get good coords and they said "no we are good"..... what does that tell ya? :D

 

Oh great. Now we have people from the forums creating sock puppets to post derogitory notes to the cache page. To answer your question, "Balloon Boy", since I know you'll see this, no, a sock puppet is still a sock puppet if they have 1 find. Sock puppet is not a Geocaching term. I was using it on usenet when I was dialing into Compuserve with a 1,200 baud modem in like 1996. Google is your friend. :)

 

And since when are people allowed to create sock puppets [insert username here] Sux? What's up with that?

 

I don't agree with it, but I'm sure Drunkin Monkeys whom I'm quoting (nice avatar, by the way) aren't one of the sock puppets, as they at least posted the SBA under their own name. QUESTION FOR YOU: What the heck are "Jaggers"? I'm guessing thorns, and it's SWPA slang. :blink:

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GC1FPDK

 

Cache is hidden among the rotting deer carcasses.

 

Not far from my house, thanks for the heads up.

 

It's actually a cool area with a great legend. I had a cache not far from this. In defense of the CO I think the dear carcasses were added after he hid the cache.

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Wow, this is a very timely subject. I'm in an area that has a geocaching "clique", as I'm sure most areas do. It's all about numbers. Anyhoo, lately I've had a situation develop with a key member of the aforementioned "clique". He loves to throw out the micro's and park-n-grabs, you know, the matchstick holder hanging in a spruce tree, nanos stuck on a bolt on a roadsign, logsheet stuck between the sign and the post, magnet stuck on a bridge guardrail, and my favorite, a magnetic nano stuck on a sewer manhole in an undeveloped industrial park. Now, that's fine, I look for them, I find them, no problem, just not very unimaginitive. So we go out of state and find some really cool caches, mentioning and thanking the cache owners for the good hides, that they were not at all like what we mostly have back home. A while later I get a nasty, snippy e-mail from the dude stating if I don't like his caches, don't look for them. I never once singled out him or any of his caches. Now, he is specifically hiding his caches close to my home to bait me. Unfortunately, some of his caches are being muggled, and he is not so subtly hinting in his logs that he thinks I am responsible. I've noticed he's taken some digs at me in several of his logs in caches he has archived. So Jeffy, I know you're reading this, and I don't know what you're problem is, but you take this game just a little too seriously. My kids and I really enjoy this game, but really anal people take all the fun out of it. Oh, and I didn't mess with your caches, and I'm not going to, a good Christian doesn't hold grudges.

 

Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry this is happening to you :) What a bummer and a half. Have you talked to TPTB at all?

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GC1FPDK

 

Cache is hidden among the rotting deer carcasses.

 

Not far from my house, thanks for the heads up.

 

It's actually a cool area with a great legend. I had a cache not far from this. In defense of the CO I think the dear carcasses were added after he hid the cache.

 

Yes, stuff happens. Kid's built a "love shack" clubhouse in the woods literally 10 feet from one of my caches. Of course that wasn't as natural of an occurance as the demise of a deer. :)

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Here is a log I left for a DNF it was actually the first cache I ever looked for. I was desparate to find at least one though.

 

Didn't find the cache but found some cash and a lot of trash. I didn't find it but didn't stay long either. Not a nice place to go nosing around. I found a deer with it's leg ripped off and laying about 3 feet from the rest of the corpse. The body of another unidentified animal and what looked like a dead dog in a bucket right on the road. So I will pass on looking anymore.
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Found one the other day that was about 5 feet from several garbage bins near a Chinese restaurant. What made this the worst cache I've searched for was that I'm getting real close to my 1000th find and I found that cache just so I could get to the 1000 finds milestone. It made me feel dirty because that's not the kind of geocaching that I want to do.

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GC23NN8

 

This is the most annoying one I have looked for. The CO only had two "supposed" finds before he hid this one and even admits to using a cell phone to get the coordinates when he hid it. And he's absolutely no help when asked for hints/help. Supposedly it has been found twice but I don't believe it.

 

Read the logs on that one. Too funny! Well if your not one of the DNF's it is. What a train wreck. How is this cache not archived yet! :)

Yikes!!! Trainwreck indeed. Curious the FTFr didn't log.

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GC#? Impossible puzzles are good for rainy days

 

GC15BQ9

 

Oh boy, if you can figure this one you would be my hero! It has been on my ignore list over six months now, and I hate having caches on my ignore list, I feel like a failure! :)

 

It took me literally HOURS to figure out the first part, more hours to finally give up on the second part.

 

It can't be impossible if 17 people have solved it. It seems to be highly praised by those that did.

 

I've solved a puzzle which took over a month, work a little at a time almost every day, to finally solve.

 

Since this one is rated a 4.5 for difficulty, it *should* take many hours to solve it.

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What's the worst cache you've searched for? It doesn't matter if you actually found it or not. I'm talking about the cache that made you say to yourself "If all caches were like this, I would never geocache again."

It was one of my own caches. I just wanted to check if everything is okay. But I didn't find it. It was gone!

 

So, clearly if all caches were like this - gone. I would never geocache again.

 

GermanSailor

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<snip> Curious the FTFr didn't log.

He can't. He's at Banned Camp.

 

QUESTION FOR YOU: What the heck are "Jaggers"? I'm guessing thorns, and it's SWPA slang. :)

What, no jagger bushes in NY?

 

Thanks, although I really wanted to talk to that guy, with that cool name and avatar. :D

 

Yep, I just didn't know enough to Google the "bushes" part, as in Jagger Bushes. First thing that comes up says it's "A Pittsburgh thing". Although I think the 3rd definition is pretty funny. Jagger Bush definition

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It took me a while to remember, but the worst cache I've ever done was in a beautiful little sea-side town, surrounded by 6 kinds of natural beauty and history. Cache was stuffed in a bush beside a dumpster, behind a dingey looking restaurant. I still to this day can't believe that was the best spot anyone could think of to put a cache.

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Grrr.... just yesterday. One of the rare "perfect days" in New England that we get about 10 of, all between April 15 and October 31. Looking for a nice walk with a cache at the end... Since I've found most of the local caches, I need to drive a bit if I want to find something special.

 

"A nature preserve... see lots of animals... a nano..." Rated 3/2. I look at the map. There's some kind of wooded park with a stream running through it. OK, I think a nice walk and a challenging find. The dog and I hop in the car and drive 1/2 an hour to get there.

 

Son of a...

 

I pull to the side of the busy road and park not more than 20 feet from GZ, walk over perfectly flat ground to the most obvious location (a bench with a sign in front of it) and take the barely hidden pill bottle that was magnetically attached to the base of the large sign.

 

This was a 1/1 and a crappy 1/1 at best. And why would anyone think that a 1,000 aspirin pill bottle wrapped in electrical tape was a nano? Or think that it would be hard to find, stuck to a brown post?

 

Almost an hour wasted... and the poor puppy wondered why we drove and drove got out of the car got back in a minute later and drove and drove some more. Hey, don't get me wrong. I like an LPC as much as the next guy - or maybe more, from what I read here ;-) But for heaven's sake... 3/2?

 

Still irate.

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This was a 1/1 and a crappy 1/1 at best.

The last time I experienced a cache like that, it was a throw down. Someone went in search of a very challenging hide, failed to locate it, and couldn't tolerate having a DNF on their record so they plopped out a prescription medicine bottle in an obvious location. My hunt for this cache took three trips before I scored a find. When I took some friends back to it so they could see such neat camo, we saw the pill bottle before we ever got out of the car.

 

Check the past logs. If the tone changes from words to the effect of, "Wow! What a challenging hide!" to words to the effect of "Easy find", this may be the case.

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...it was a throw down...

 

a throw down?

 

Please tell me that's an urban myth, or some thing you guys talk about here as a joke on us newbies, like the "tunnel" the native cape codders talk about, just to goof on the tourists.

 

I don't think I can go geocaching again if the people who do it can regularly resort to that kind of behavior.

 

Why not just not log it? What does it do for anyone, including the throw-downer?

 

Good god. I almost forgot why I don't like people.

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Grrr.... just yesterday. One of the rare "perfect days" in New England that we get about 10 of, all between April 15 and October 31. Looking for a nice walk with a cache at the end... Since I've found most of the local caches, I need to drive a bit if I want to find something special.

 

"A nature preserve... see lots of animals... a nano..." Rated 3/2. I look at the map. There's some kind of wooded park with a stream running through it. OK, I think a nice walk and a challenging find. The dog and I hop in the car and drive 1/2 an hour to get there.

 

Son of a...

 

I pull to the side of the busy road and park not more than 20 feet from GZ, walk over perfectly flat ground to the most obvious location (a bench with a sign in front of it) and take the barely hidden pill bottle that was magnetically attached to the base of the large sign.

 

This was a 1/1 and a crappy 1/1 at best. And why would anyone think that a 1,000 aspirin pill bottle wrapped in electrical tape was a nano? Or think that it would be hard to find, stuck to a brown post?

 

Almost an hour wasted... and the poor puppy wondered why we drove and drove got out of the car got back in a minute later and drove and drove some more. Hey, don't get me wrong. I like an LPC as much as the next guy - or maybe more, from what I read here ;-) But for heaven's sake... 3/2?

 

Still irate.

 

This type of find makes me REALLY MAD too. Like you, I will search for a 1/1, or and LPC, but I want to know that it's an LPC before I go there... if I go expecting a nice walk and a challenging find, that's what I want to get!

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Grrr.... just yesterday. One of the rare "perfect days" in New England that we get about 10 of, all between April 15 and October 31. Looking for a nice walk with a cache at the end... Since I've found most of the local caches, I need to drive a bit if I want to find something special.

 

"A nature preserve... see lots of animals... a nano..." Rated 3/2. I look at the map. There's some kind of wooded park with a stream running through it. OK, I think a nice walk and a challenging find. The dog and I hop in the car and drive 1/2 an hour to get there.

 

Son of a...

 

I pull to the side of the busy road and park not more than 20 feet from GZ, walk over perfectly flat ground to the most obvious location (a bench with a sign in front of it) and take the barely hidden pill bottle that was magnetically attached to the base of the large sign.

 

This was a 1/1 and a crappy 1/1 at best. And why would anyone think that a 1,000 aspirin pill bottle wrapped in electrical tape was a nano? Or think that it would be hard to find, stuck to a brown post?

 

Almost an hour wasted... and the poor puppy wondered why we drove and drove got out of the car got back in a minute later and drove and drove some more. Hey, don't get me wrong. I like an LPC as much as the next guy - or maybe more, from what I read here ;-) But for heaven's sake... 3/2?

 

Still irate.

 

Did you go for a nice walk after you signed the log? It look like there is some park land there about.

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...it was a throw down...

 

a throw down?

 

Please tell me that's an urban myth

Nope. No myth. I've seen it myself. Were you talking about the cache called "Don't Harass Us!"? Looking at past logs, early finders mention needing tweezers, which is consistent with a nano. Later on, someone else mentioned finding a red herring. Sometimes cache owners toss down a decoy. Something real easy to find, on a cache with a high difficulty rating. Maybe that's what happened here? Or, some one tossed down a crappy free container rather than get a DNF. I don't see any mention of the cache owner replacing the nano with a pill bottle. Judging by the cache page I would guess it should've been a nano stuck behind a sign warning against harassing geese? :)

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I have to say there's one near me that I just couldn't find even after 3 tries. I had taken my kids to look for it and they couldn't find it either. This one weighed heavily on me because it was supposedly a 1.5/1.5 and had several finds. Finally I went back and discovered it was in a hole that the CO had dug with posthole diggers, placed an OPEN jar inside and covered with two trash bags and sticks to make it flush with the ground. It was also about 30' off GZ. I really hated that one...

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Were you talking about the cache called "Don't Harass Us!"? Looking at past logs, early finders mention needing tweezers, which is consistent with a nano. Later on, someone else mentioned finding a red herring. Sometimes cache owners toss down a decoy. Something real easy to find, on a cache with a high difficulty rating. Maybe that's what happened here? Or, some one tossed down a crappy free container rather than get a DNF. I don't see any mention of the cache owner replacing the nano with a pill bottle. Judging by the cache page I would guess it should've been a nano stuck behind a sign warning against harassing geese? :)

Yeah, that's it. And it was in that very spot. I don't think it was a red herring; the log had a ton of signatures... Maybe someone switched out the container, but a nano stuck to that post would still have been no more than a 1.5. (Ah, who knows maybe the original was amazing camo?) But, nonetheless, the spot is obvious, 25 feet from the road, with a park bench in front of it... it is literally wheel chair accessible.

 

But why throw down a container? Why not just not log it? Who is keeping score besides the cacher, and how can he live with a "find" like that? He still knows he didn't find it.

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