+thehalibutkid Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 So I was thinking of doing a series based on Bad/Cliche caches. The idea is that the cache would ostensibly be Bad or a Cliche but would be done in a more interesting way. But what are the worst/ most cliched caches out there? I have started a list. 1. The ivy covered tree 2. The really dull area 3. This place is so flytipped we may as well call it landfill 4. What do you mean the co-ordinates are over 100ft out? Oh well find it and tell me the correct co-ordinates. 5. The identical magnetic nano every .1 miles trail. 6. The 'I know there is room for an ammo can here but I just love 35mm film canisters so much.' cache. 7. The multi trunked tree So that's my list. Anyone have any other suggestions? Quote Link to comment
+t.a.folk Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Overlooked by nearby house windows with a hint that is as useful as a chocolate teapot. Quote Link to comment
+eusty Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Ones which have 'under tree' as a hint when it's in a dense forest Or magnetic nanos on a sign next to a busy road... Quote Link to comment
+Happy Humphrey Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 1. The one that looks like a reasonable area on a Wednesday lunchtime, but on Friday evening is a hangout for all the louts of the area. 2. In a nice bit of woodland with good GPS signal...as long as it's January. By July it's a shoulder-high tangle of nettles and brambles and GPS is at least 50 feet inaccurate due to the heavy leaf cover. 3. Just outside the kiddie's playground and half the seekers are middle-aged men on their own. Quote Link to comment
+JUSTHEJOB Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 under rock, when in a big rock pile!! Quote Link to comment
team tisri Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 The ones that have the "stealth required" attribute when you have to climb on something to get the cache and where there's absolutely no possible way anyone who did walk past wouldn't figure you were doing something very unusual indeed. Quote Link to comment
+Silver Horde Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 The ones that have the "stealth required" attribute when you have to climb on something to get the cache and where there's absolutely no possible way anyone who did walk past wouldn't figure you were doing something very unusual indeed. Must have one near a house with barking dogs! Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 The oh so natural "piled up stones" cache and the "how did so many twigs fall from that tree and land on top of each other" spring to mind for cliches... Not bad caches may I add. The "just behind the gents toilets" cache I don't like much either. Quote Link to comment
+drsolly Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 The container that's as watertight as one of my socks. Quote Link to comment
+Afterburned Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 1. The one that looks like a reasonable area on a Wednesday lunchtime, but on Friday evening is a hangout for all the louts of the area. Hmmm, guilty of this one myself, and have found at least one of all the others! Also the T5 film can. Quote Link to comment
Dr. B + Family Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Definitely one for the bad cache: one located in a notorious gay cruise/dogging area where anyone who enters the woodland is immediately followed by numerous leery fellers! (Now, thankfully, disabled). Quote Link to comment
team tisri Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 The oh so natural "piled up stones" cache and the "how did so many twigs fall from that tree and land on top of each other" spring to mind for cliches... Not bad caches may I add. The "just behind the gents toilets" cache I don't like much either. Years ago I found one that was buried under a pile of dry leaves. It was remarkably difficult to rehide it, and I imagine the next time any reasonable wind blew through the leaves would scatter and an ammo can would be left in plain view. Quote Link to comment
team tisri Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 The ones that have the "stealth required" attribute when you have to climb on something to get the cache and where there's absolutely no possible way anyone who did walk past wouldn't figure you were doing something very unusual indeed. Must have one near a house with barking dogs! Or even a location that's almost certainly someone's front gate but no indication which front gate. Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 The oh so natural "piled up stones" cache and the "how did so many twigs fall from that tree and land on top of each other" spring to mind for cliches... Not bad caches may I add. The "just behind the gents toilets" cache I don't like much either. Years ago I found one that was buried under a pile of dry leaves. It was remarkably difficult to rehide it, and I imagine the next time any reasonable wind blew through the leaves would scatter and an ammo can would be left in plain view. Found a couple of them... maybe the CO has a backup lid with leaves glued to a hat to place over the cache when the wind blows? Can see it now, walking in the wind, trying to see through the leaf blizzard ahead, only to come to a pile of leaves despite the hurricane that is blowing... may have to hide one now, in the autumn of course. Quote Link to comment
+FantasyRaider Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 The container that's as watertight as one of my socks. Which reminded me of: Caches wrapped in socks! Almost every one of the 21 cache trail I found on Sunday was wrapped in a disgusting wet, snail ridden, stinky sock. What is that all about .... haven't they heard of Camo bags in Shifnal? I must add though that the walk was lovely. Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 The container that's as watertight as one of my socks. Which reminded me of: Caches wrapped in socks! Almost every one of the 21 cache trail I found on Sunday was wrapped in a disgusting wet, snail ridden, stinky sock. What is that all about .... haven't they heard of Camo bags in Shifnal? I must add though that the walk was lovely. Not had the "pleasure" of one of these yet... please somebody collate these so I can ignore them! Quote Link to comment
cleverdogs Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Definitely one for the bad cache: one located in a notorious gay cruise/dogging area where anyone who enters the woodland is immediately followed by numerous leery fellers! (Now, thankfully, disabled). The fellers or the cache? Quote Link to comment
Dr. B + Family Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Definitely one for the bad cache: one located in a notorious gay cruise/dogging area where anyone who enters the woodland is immediately followed by numerous leery fellers! (Now, thankfully, disabled). The fellers or the cache? Ha, never thought of it like that. Well I suppose it everyone's entitled to fun... Quote Link to comment
+rickardclan Posted June 27, 2011 Share Posted June 27, 2011 Step forward Birdman-of-Liskertraz; Just another pointless micro - Scrapyard Just another pointless micro - Industrial Estate Just another pointless micro - A38 Bridge The best one so far has to have been A38 Bridge.... Quote Link to comment
I! Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Make sure that the listing is appropriately low-quality, too. Poor spelling & grammar are a must. Cache size "not chosen". D/T wildly misleading. A long hint that essentially says, "no hint required". Have a friend (if you've any left after this exercise) post NM: respond on the cache page with sarcasm, post a 0.0m coord change log, but no OM (to leave the NM attribute set). Quote Link to comment
+drsolly Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Don't use a GPS to get the coords. Or a smartphone. Just use Google Earth and a bit of luck, and invite anyone who finds it to post better coords. Quote Link to comment
+currykev Posted July 2, 2011 Share Posted July 2, 2011 Just got back from such a series. I actually gave up about a 1/3rd of the way round. I just lost interest. The nettles just added to the fun. Quote Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted July 3, 2011 Share Posted July 3, 2011 The one which hasn't actually been placed before it's been published. Quote Link to comment
ron9516 Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Of course the cache near a dog pooh bin, disguised to look like a bag of dog pooh shouldn’t be left off this list. Quote Link to comment
+thehalibutkid Posted July 5, 2011 Author Share Posted July 5, 2011 Of course the cache near a dog pooh bin, disguised to look like a bag of dog pooh shouldn’t be left off this list. I've never had the 'pleasure' of that kind of find. Do they real exist or are they just a part of caching folklaw? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 5, 2011 Share Posted July 5, 2011 Of course the cache near a dog pooh bin, disguised to look like a bag of dog pooh shouldn’t be left off this list. I've never had the 'pleasure' of that kind of find. Do they real exist or are they just a part of caching folklaw? Well I've seen caches near dog pooh bins; and I've found a cache disguised as a dog pooh bag hanging in a bush; but I haven't found a cache in a dog pooh bag near a dog pooh bin. Quote Link to comment
+Primitive Person Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Use a perfectly adequately waterproof container, but wrap it up in a carrier bag that will soon fill up with water completely, and spill all over you when you find the cache. This is a pet peeve of mine - caches don't need to be in bags! Lee Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Use a perfectly adequately waterproof container, but wrap it up in a carrier bag that will soon fill up with water completely, and spill all over you when you find the cache. Ah yes but a soggy placcy bag does make a nice Slug Motel, so will help to keep up Dr Solly's numbers Quote Link to comment
+Alice Band Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 A manky former tictac container under a park bench where the local tramp normally lives...experienced this in London I must admit containers such as those are a peeve of mine - have found several now, that or breath strip containers, split and leaking take-away containers full of water and snails, and people who put a tiny container inside a large binbag then hide it in a wood...WHY??! Quote Link to comment
team tisri Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Make sure that the listing is appropriately low-quality, too. Poor spelling & grammar are a must. Cache size "not chosen". D/T wildly misleading. A long hint that essentially says, "no hint required". Have a friend (if you've any left after this exercise) post NM: respond on the cache page with sarcasm, post a 0.0m coord change log, but no OM (to leave the NM attribute set). Or better yet make the hint so long and convoluted that it doesn't make sense, and even after you've found the cache (by pure luck if nothing else) the clue still doesn't make any sense. Quote Link to comment
+FOX 661L Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 I Like doing the ones where the co-ordinates are in the middle of a river... and obviously so if you look on the satellite view But my favourite was a cache hidden in the hollow tube of a fence post... the fence was around a Middle School... and overlooked by the houses on the other side of the road. Just the place that a single mid 40's bloke wants to go caching Oh and I really hate soggy, muddy camo bags... why bother with bags at all ? Quote Link to comment
+FantasyRaider Posted July 8, 2011 Share Posted July 8, 2011 Use a perfectly adequately waterproof container, but wrap it up in a carrier bag that will soon fill up with water completely, and spill all over you when you find the cache. This is a pet peeve of mine - caches don't need to be in bags! Lee Did I ever mention caches in socks? Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Found an ice cream tub/tesco bag combo the other day... Wonderful on all counts! Quote Link to comment
+barraseaclaid Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Found an ice cream tub/tesco bag combo the other day... Wonderful on all counts! you weren't caching around passage west in cork by anychance now? Quote Link to comment
+NattyBooshka Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Found an ice cream tub/tesco bag combo the other day... Wonderful on all counts! you weren't caching around passage west in cork by anychance now? I wish! Had I been anywhere near Cork, there would have been that much Murphys in my bloodstream that walking would have been impossible and I'd have been saved from the pleasure of this cache! Beats me how you get any work done over there Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 But my favourite was a cache hidden in the hollow tube of a fence post... the fence was around a Middle School... and overlooked by the houses on the other side of the road. Just the place that a single mid 40's bloke wants to go caching Went to look for one in Tadley on the way to the pub yesterday evening. Arrived at GZ to find it was a children's play area... swings, round-s-bout, the lot!! There were a number of kids playing there so we moved on without stopping. Being arrested as a suspected terrorist I could probably cope with but being arrested as a suspected paedophile might well give me some serious stress. Quote Link to comment
+picona Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Where do all the 35ml film cases come from. I have not used 35ml for years is there a stock pile the goverment keep. The clue the other week in in a tree root ok but there are 1500 trees and my gps can not get a signal whymaybe becuse there are 1500 trees. The cache in weymouth in the train station car park next to the taxi rank by the seats and right next to the busy road in holiday seasons whilr they are doing road works for 2012 games stealth needed we would have to be invisable Quote Link to comment
+Primitive Person Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Use a perfectly adequately waterproof container, but wrap it up in a carrier bag that will soon fill up with water completely, and spill all over you when you find the cache. This is a pet peeve of mine - caches don't need to be in bags! Lee Did I ever mention caches in socks? Socks!!! Good grief. I think people completely fail to realise just how much wear and tear a cache takes out in the wild, especially in an exposed location. Even though plastic won't rot or rust, and a lot of containers are completely waterproof, they can take quite a hammering and sustain damage quite easily. Just what a sock is supposed to do to protect a cache, I can't possibly imagine! All things like this do is attract animals, water, mould, dirt etc. and make the cache potentially very unpleasant. A sturdy lock and lock box, with the contents INSIDE bagged nicely (no bags outside!) does the job just fine. Most 35mm canisters don't fare too well in exposed spots either. Lee Quote Link to comment
+Primitive Person Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 Where do all the 35ml film cases come from. I have not used 35ml for years is there a stock pile the goverment keep. If you go and ask at a photo developing shop, they'll be happy to give you literally thousands of them. Lee Quote Link to comment
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