Searching for Old Caches

[Troutonthebrain]

Just out of curiosity, and I am pretty sure there is not, but is there a way to search an area for a long archived cache? The story is of the very first geocache we found back in 2003. We found one cache in the park and then that was it. In 2008 we got reintroduced to caching and that is where we took off from. My question is, is it possible to find the listing from the old cache? It would be very difficult to search through older cachers' find records since there are not all that many cachers still around from then and most of those that still are have many thousands and thousands of finds. No bother if there isn't a way, just curious.

 

Thanks for any and all help,

Troutonthebrain

[Pup Patrol]

Did you post an online "found it" log? If you did, then it would be in the list of your finds.

 

Other than that, you would need to know the cache owner's username, or the username of someone that found it and search through their lists of caches.

 

 

B.

[Troutonthebrain]

No, we did not post a find. We were wondering if there was a gsak program or something like that to search by coords.

[savant9]

Find a close by cache that is still active and that was active at that time. Scroll back to the approximate date. Look at the finders from around that time frame, then scroll through their finds looking at archived ones near their find of your reference cache. Its even easier if the cacher is no longer around, less to scroll through.

[+BlueDeuce]

I would look for a local ol' timey cacher and check their finds. It works.

 

Or ask them if they remember.

[+BlueDeuce]

Find a close by cache that is still active and that was active at that time. Scroll back to the approximate date. Look at the finders from around that time frame, then scroll through their finds looking at archived ones near their find of your reference cache. Its even easier if the cacher is no longer around, less to scroll through.

 

Even better.

 

 

 

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Edited August 26, 2012 by BlueDeuce

[Keystone]

Post the name of the park and what town / city it is in. Or, give the GC Code for a newer cache in the same park.

 

Volunteer cache reviewers can "see" archived caches in search results, for obvious reasons. One of us would be happy to help, since this will be a great story if you can go back and log your early find from way back then.

[Troutonthebrain]

The caches (I remember now that there were multiple) were in Moris T. Baker Regional Park in Maple Plain, MN. None of the 2003 original caches still exist. The oldest active caches were published in 2007 and have no connections to the 2003 caches. The caches we found were near the currently active cache GC169WZ. Thanks for any help you can give.

 

Edited to add a link.

Edited August 26, 2012 by Troutonthebrain

[+Sapience Trek]

Could it be GCA022 ?

[Troutonthebrain]

That cache could very well be it. GC27AB could also be it. If they are in fact the caches, I do not think that our friends that brought us along logged it. None of the profiles of the people that found it seem to fit. I'll dig a little deeper.