Bad Cache Locations

[+Squirrel N Turtle]

 

as weird as it may sound, i like looking for the needle in the haystack, i do eventually get frustrated, but until i do to me its therapeutic, helps me take my mind off any worries i may have

 

 

I agree with the needle in haystacks being therapeutic. When i am stressed out I take a ride and do some caches to forget about things going on in my life.

Some NIH are frustrating and I might give up, but it gives me something to go back for and tackle again sometimes with Turtle, sometimes without.

[+roziecakes]

What's with the face in the garbage??!!??

 

LOL you found Waldo... or what's left of him after strolling through Compton, CA.

Looks more like Elvis to me.

 

Edit to add: I never met a cache I didn't like. I do like some less than others, though.

 

No.. its Jimmy H. Elvis is still alive and living in Las Vegas.

 

HA!!! That's my vote as well. I always wondered...

[+pamlicojack]

I know it's been said already but.....

 

ROCK PILES

 

 

This.

 

I went looking for one a few weeks ago and I knew it was going to be a pile of rocks, I just did know how many. After 30 minutes in a ditch filled with rip-rap, probably moving 300 stones with no results, I wandered across the road hoping the co-ords were off and found it it in 30 seconds soaked though and impossible to write on. The next morning I could hardly get out of bed due to my aching back...

[+power69]

My least favorite locations include parking lots, most guard rails, those big green electrical transformers, landscaping, dumpsters, most street signs, porto-lets, urban outdoorsman encampments, near houses, near businesses... Basically, given a choice, I'll avoid any cache that exists where Momma Nature is not welcome.

Porto-lets? someone ACTUALLY hid a cache on a portable toilet? YUCK!

[+Chokecherry]

I would totally ignore any cache attached to a biffy. My least favorite place is a house or business basically. We tattooed folk already have enough trouble with looking suspicious. Throw in searching around someone's private property and yeah. Not cute. Any thing that requires trodding through landscaped areas get ignored as well.

 

I have ignored a couple geocaches around where homeless people lived out of respect for the people that are living there as well.

[+Mike & Jess]

Worst cache locations have to be;

Residential/business properties

Micros or Nanos that require a 4x4 to access

Any location that require tweezers to retreive

 

I am not a big fan if urban caches, but for those less able, it still allows them to get out and geocache.

Edited August 23, 2010 by Mike & Jess

[+BulldogBlitz]

Here are a few I don't like:

 

1. Caches behind businesses.

 

2. Caches at private homes.

 

3. Caches at playgrounds.

 

Basically, I don't like any location where my searching is going to make someone else uncomfortable.

 

it isn't the location that is making people uncomfortable... if you'd stop caching in the nude people might be more receptive.

[+KirkOz]

I hate caches that are hidden under light-pole hoods. These lack creativity and sometimes get in the way of other good hiding spots because of the 528 foot rule, or whatever it is. These caches are just lame.

[+Team Dromomania]

Hides in front of secrity cameras.

 

Private property - Even if the owners approve it is the neighbors who call the police.

 

OP's "No traffic - ok to park in road" when it's a very bad idea in almost every case.

 

Most ivy and bush hides - give it a few weeks and the place will be torn up.

 

Pull outs with "NO Parking or Emergency Parking Only signs"

 

Any location where there isn't a "reason" to place a cache (drop and run). Please find some point of interest in your hide location!

[+power69]

Hides in front of secrity cameras.

I found one of those about a year ago, very secluded spot with tall bushes.

it was one of those little ones. was startled when security said "come out of there"

they watched me go in there on the camera.

[+pissedfish]

Here are a few I don't like:

 

1. Caches behind businesses.

 

2. Caches at private homes.

 

3. Caches at playgrounds.

 

Basically, I don't like any location where my searching is going to make someone else uncomfortable.

 

it isn't the location that is making people uncomfortable... if you'd stop caching in the nude people might be more receptive.

 

If it would ever cool down here I could wear some clothes!!

[GOF and Bacall]

I know it's been said already but.....

 

ROCK PILES

 

 

This.

 

I went looking for one a few weeks ago and I knew it was going to be a pile of rocks, I just did know how many. After 30 minutes in a ditch filled with rip-rap, probably moving 300 stones with no results, I wandered across the road hoping the co-ords were off and found it it in 30 seconds soaked though and impossible to write on. The next morning I could hardly get out of bed due to my aching back...

 

Folks, sometime you just have to know when to say "What's the point?" If you aren't having fun walk away.

[+simplyred]

Lots of these can be helped if people used hints more and actually had a hint. In a big rock pile and saying under a rock is not a hint. Or when they say no hint needed, unless it's pretty obvious where it will be when you get to the GZ, a hint is needed. I did one where the CO even stated the GPS will act up because of cover/location, but then gives no hint. I think they should all have a hint that tells you basicly where it is, so if you looked for an hour without the hint, you can use the hint to finally find it. I really like caching for the cool locations I would of otherwise never seen, and if I have to spend so much time looking for the actual cache, I have less time to enjoy the beauty of the area and to get pics.

[+LightHouseSeekers]

trash piles

[+Team Canda]

Personally, I hate caches in cemeteries unless they are old, historical cemeteries. There's just something about rooting around on the ground with my GPS enjoying my hobby while people are or may be mourning nearby that feels...off. And disrespectful. IMHO.

 

I also really, really really really REALLY dislike caches hidden anywhere near poison ivy. I read a cache description the other day where the CO was basically making fun of "wimpy" cachers who didn't like caching in thorns, mud and poison ivy. Like, you're not a "real" or "hardcore" cacher if you don't like romping around in poison ivy. Sorry, I adore the sport, but when I break out in oozing blisters on my arms and legs, and my face swells up so I can't see and I need to go on steroids, (happened last year after caching), I'm not having fun anymore. I wish COs would be a little more careful when placing caches, and either not place them near these things or make the warnings NOTICEABLE. Ugh, I still have nightmares.

 

I actually rather enjoy urban caching, especially during tick season when the threat of Lyme's is raging in the warmer months (which my caching partner caught this year after caching). But I like urban caching that is clever, concealed and creative...not a nano on a lamppost. It's clever containers that make me smile, and it's when the hunt is hard because of the container (not because of the needle in a haystack approach) that I really enjoy it.

 

But hey, to each their own.