How did you come up with your caching name?

[+PACSGUY]

I work on medical imaging computer systems called Picture Archiving and Communication Sytems and Im a guy....

[+CominInHot]

As I approach a cache...im so ready, so able, so prepared...so I'm CominInHot

 

[+onthegomom]

I am a Stay at home mom to 4 and we are hardly ever home and always on the go, so onthegomom

[+Shanghai Joe]

I was working in Shanghai when I signed up, and Joe just seemed to fit. Otherwise my name is;

 

Gareth

[+BamberLeslie]

our's (my wife and I Geocache together) is a nickname my parents gave us as a couple, Ben & Amber = Bamber, Leslie is our last name, simple as that. I created our account and wanted it be something we could both identify with. My brothers who are also married have similar merged nicknames.

[PrincessUnicorn]

It's a nickname from my fiance

 

All Princess need a pet Unicorn!

[+AddHam]

My real name is ADHAMH. I pronounce it the same as "Adam" and it's the old Scottish Gaelic spelling...pronounced entirely different. The most common MISpronunciation of it is Add-ham and one day my friend wrote it as +Ham. The nickname stuck and you couldn't use the + in a geocaching name back in the day so I spelled it out like it is now. I respond to Ham around most of my friends. My now-wife joined the "team" and we both cache under this name.

Edited June 5, 2013 by AddHam

[+rockey_f_squirrell]

Long ago in a galaxy far far away.....

 

No just kidding, umm about 10 years ago, I had a pickup truck with a CB Radio. I had a friend who was a hunter, and gave me a squirrel tail. I didn't know anything else to do until I saw an old Disney cartoon about a race car (from the 80's)and it had a raccoon tail on it, so I set the squirrel tail on the top of my, already tall, CB antenna. As I would drive down the interstate the truckers would often comment on it. Look at that flying squirrel going down the road.

 

My first thought was Rocky and Bullwinkle. So I had my handle as 'Rocky the Flying Squirrel'. when I set up the username in yahoo, I shortened flying for 'f' but the name was taken so I added an extra 'L', and put an 'e' in rocky, by accident, so some people think it is a female name, but nope.

[+GTTTM]

Dull as ditchwater I'm afraid, There's G I(that's me) T,T and T (my 3 boys) and M - our surname initial........

[DannyCaffeine]

Well the Danny part is obvious.

 

I like to brew my own coffee. Ironically I don't consume much caffeine anymore.

[+RocTheCacheBox]

Rock the Casbah was on the radio one day when we were cashing with our original name. I started singing "Rock the cache box, Rock the cache box" and it stuck. Had to try a couple of variations before RocTheCacheBox was available. Last month we signed a log with ROCK_the_CacheBox 2 below our log!

[+sisters4]

Rock the Casbah was on the radio one day when we were cashing with our original name. I started singing "Rock the cache box, Rock the cache box" and it stuck. Had to try a couple of variations before RocTheCacheBox was available. Last month we signed a log with ROCK_the_CacheBox 2 below our log!

[+sisters4]

4 sisters that geocache = sisters4

[+SchuckTales]

When I was in high school I taught myself how to write HTML, and a small webpage developed into a site with 35k+ images and other personal files I was sharing with anyone who was interest. After a few years I decided that the old geocities web address needed to go so my wife and I came up withe SchuckTales. Schuck being our last name, and the Tales portion a rip off from the old Disney cartoon Duck Tales. The webpage was mostly about our tales about what we were up to. The webpage is long gone, but the name has stuck over the years. As geocaching logs are our new way to communicate out travels and adventures with others, the name seemed to fit.

[+Kissyfurs]

Growing up, I LOVED the cartoon Kissyfur, despite the fact that it only ran two seasons. My dad started calling me Kissyfurs after the cartoon and it just stuck. Now, no one, and I mean NO ONE remembers the cartoon.

[RovingTriker]

I've had a couple of ridiculous names on other forums, so I thought this time I would go for something a little more normal. I ride a recumbent trike as my only way of exercise, and that's what I plan to use to get to most caches. The trike is a model called Rover, thus RovingTriker.

[mud plodders]

I had originally picked a different name, but when I started going with my daughters so I asked what they wanted our name to be, my 4 year old quickly said Mud Plodders, so that's what we are It probably helps that we had just "plodded" through a ton of mud to find a cache.

[+Woodie729]

Woodie is a corruption of my last name that gets stuck on every single one of us and July 29 is my birthday.

[RagnoJr]

RagnoJr is a sort of abbreviation of my name:

Richard Allen Golino, Jr.

[+BeatrixCMH]

A few years ago I wrote a poem about a witch that lives in Los Angeles named Beatrix Harting. I liked the name so much I made it my username for geocaching, Twitter, etc. CMH is the airport code for my hometown. I've eventually changed my username for other places, but kept it for geocaching.

[+Anansi Joy]

Anansi is a trickster figure in West African mythology who often takes spider form. I like spiders A LOT. And, my first name really is Joy.

[+Markwell]

I looked on my driver's license

[+Cave Clan]

Our name comes from the first initial of each of my kids in birth order...no it wasn't planned. lol

 

Cory Anthony Victoria Erik

 

So that makes me, Mom of the CAVE clan.

[+farseer]

I never did anything without a plan, and always have a plan for anything, looking and thinking three or four steps ahead of what may happen for outcomes. I am normally ready for it when it happens. My friends always said I saw it coming or looked far into the future. Then one night someone called me Farseer and it stuck. I also have an uncanny sixth sense to detect my in-laws coming at twenty miles....

[+LoonVT]

When I first signed up I used my usual annonimous name, Loonwatcher. But after my first day of caching I quickly decided I needed a shorter name to sign on those micro logs; hence my curret name.

[Mrs_Gunny]

My husband is in a drum and bugle corps based out of Albany/Troy NY. His nickname is Gunny and since I'm married to him, Mrs_Gunny just fit

[+Geeky Gal]

My friend and I decided to do one account for the two of us. We started out as Team GCG for GeoCaching Goddesses. But my brother and son started to join us, so we felt we needed a name change. I bought a date stamp and it had cool sayings to go with it (I got it for my Smash Book)one of the options was Hot Mess...so now we are Hot Mess.

[+Ma & Pa]

MA & PA were the trail names we used when we did a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail in 1999. After our hike, we stayed in touch with many hikers and they always referred to us by our trail names. When we started caching in 2003, we were pleased to see that the name was still available.

 

The name comes from our real names Marielle and Paul

 

PAul

[+Roman!]

MA & PA were the trail names we used when we did a thru hike of the Appalachian Trail in 1999. After our hike, we stayed in touch with many hikers and they always referred to us by our trail names. When we started caching in 2003, we were pleased to see that the name was still available.

 

The name comes from our real names Marielle and Paul

 

PAul

 

I had many nicknames in high school so I use my real name as I get called that rarely.

 

How long did the hike take you and how long did the planning take? I have been enthralled with the Pacific Crest trail, just don't know if I'll ever have the time off to do it.

[+aed8656]

My name is actually from my license plate (AED8656), but there is a story behind that. I worked for the DMV at the time (long ago, in a galaxy far away), and asked a downstate office to send that set to us from their inventory. AEDdon was my newborn grandson at the time (now almost 16, and caches under cryptomancer), 86 was the year of my Mercedes Benz, and 56 - some other significant year. My husband goes by estral, but doesn't have an account, so we cache as a team.

[+GeoBain]

I'm not very creative. I'm a geocacher from Bainbridge.

[+Riverview CacheAways]

My dear wife Theresa named us the Riverview CacheAways because we live in Riverview Florida (a pretty part of Hillsborough County -- near Tampa) and because we always had a bit of that castaway spirit about our time here. She named our geocaches, and in fact, if we had to name anything, she thought of all the names.

[+Uncle Alaska]

When I started geocaching in 2001 I had just become an Uncle for the first time...and I was also just about to move up to Alaska.

[+2tall1s]

I'm 6'9", and my wife is 6'4"... which is why we hate digging through low shrubs... lol

[+hufflepuff_mandy]

Since geocachers use the word muggles and I'm a huge Harry Potter fan I decided to take Hufflepuff. Because I always knew I was an Hufflepuff (which is btw one of the 4 houses in HP) and pottermore.com finally gave me proof

Mandy is my real name and the "_" is to combine and seperate them in some way

[+sholomar]

stock terms... short, long, margin...

[+Yno]

I've been known to have a glass or three....

When I signed up for a camping forum years ago I needed a screen name. The site owner was named Dean, and used Dno (like Dean Martin's nickname shortened) and I just decided on Yno, because it sounds better than drunk or lush. And no one cane pronounce oenophile.

[+Johnnyhotcakes]

When Mrs. Johnnyhotcakes stayed over at my apartment for the first time I made her breakfast in the morning. I made bacon, pancakes and coffee. When she came to the breakfast table, she called my Johnnyhotcakes. I have been Johnnyhotcakes ever since.

[+jwmoe1973]

I stopped feeling the need to be anonymous years ago. Never felt quite right anyway, especially with e-mails between employers and such. Jeremy W Moe, born in 1973. Boring, simple, and easy for me to remember.

[+Gill & Tony]

She who must be obeyed and I have been Gill & Tony for 44 years so it just seemed appropriate.

[+BAMBOOZLE]

Bamboozle was a nickname I gave my oldest daughter. When I first signed up it just came to mind and I used it temporarily....caps lock must have been on because it went in all caps.....been that way ever sense.

[+alaninwales]

Ermmm.... Cos my names's alan and I live in Wales!! Lol!!

[+Snoogans]

 

"Zaphod Beeblebrox" would have been cool too....just a bit wordy on cache logs

 

If I had typed it in I would have gotten a taken by another user message. The ZB account predates mine.

 

It was one of Bassonpilot's many sock puppet accounts.

Well there's a name from the distant past... I wish I remembered all of my sock puppet accounts.... Soylent Green is the only one I remember well...

[+Rayvan43]

I used to be into CHAT in the late 90s and early 2000s and used my name along with the city I live in and my age. So it was easy when I started caching to use Ray + Vancouver + 43 my age at the time.

RAYVAN43

[+origami cacher]

Simple combination of two hobbies in one.

[+Rhode Trippers]

We love to travel and live in Rhode Island, so our family caching name is the Rhode Trippers. We don't have individual caching names yet.

[+michellepluseight]

It's my Instagram name. Because I'm Michelle, and I have 8 kids. Originally both my Instagram and Geocaching usernames were just my first and last name, but I wanted something more interesting.