Geocaching Glossary

[+Ma & Pa]

Saw this funny list which apparently comes from UK.. I hope it was not posted here before

 

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We often get questions from new cachers about caching terminology. Sometimes the answers are a bit "party line" so I thought I should put together a "real" geocaching glossary.

Ammo Can: mythical cache container rarely used these days, akin to finding the Holy Grail but which the previous finder couldn’t close properly.

Attribute icons: buttons that COs press randomly when creating a cache to get to the submit button as quickly as possible resulting in skidoos being recommended for town centre nanos.

Bison: These shiny metallic caches come with a ring which rusts faster than any other metal known to man. They also mysteriously become ultra-camoed when you drop them in the undergrowth.

Travel Bug: items that have been specifically designed to be slightly larger than the cache they’ve just been placed in.

BoT: this is a very helpful hint that lets you know that you are deep in a forest and that your GPS signal might be a bit dodgy.

BYOP: this means the CO doesn’t live near an IKEA

Challenge Cache: caches that require you to fiddle your stats a bit before signing them.

Dipping: this is what you do with a TB when you planned to drop it off at a cache but forgot to take it with you.

DNF: a log used to let the CO know their coords are off and their hint is useless.

EarthCache: caches to do when you’ve forgotten your pen

Event Cache: a place you go to find out more information about the caches you couldn’t find

FTF: a cache you do in your pyjamas and slippers at 1.30am using a pen torch with a fading battery. The one where you have to find a thorn to stab your thumb in order to sign the log in blood as you didn’t bring a pen but then no one else bothers to find for 2 days.

Hint: used by the CO to perfectly describe a spot 6m from the cache on the other side of the path.

Letterbox: a magical type of cache that has the power to make your fingers turn blue

Magnetic: the GZ will contain all of the following metal fences, fence posts, gates, window frames, drainpipes, lampposts, traffic signs, street signs, shop signs, bollards, air vents, shutters, beer barrels, cars, buses, giant metallic sculptures, grids and the Eiffel tower.

Mega-Event Cache: where you drive 700kms to buy a very expensive new type of cache container you’ve never seen before only to discover that dozens of them have been put out on your local patch while you’ve been away.

Moogled: When there’s a bull between you and the cache

Reviewer: the person who waits for you to get in the bath before publishing a cache right outside your house.

Nano: a cache with similar properties to a tent, when you get it out its damp and smells musty and then it’s impossible to get back in again.

Needs Maintenance: a helpful message to the CO to let them know they need to sharpen the pencil, that one side of the log is now full, and that there’s a slug they need to remove from the outside of the box.

Park n Grab: a roadside cache with handy parking for fly tippers.

Stealth required: this lets the cacher know that the muggle density in the area is so high that’s there’s no point waiting for the GZ to become muggle-free .

Swaps: a golf ball no self-respecting golfer would ever use, a mini 7 of spades, a pink hair band, an earwig, a musty Mcdonalds toy from 2009, 3 woodlice, a used train ticket from Pontefract, a damp moldy card saying Heinrich and Gertrude from Dusseldorf found this cache, a liberal sprinkling of mouse droppings and not forgetting the pencil sharpener complete with non-functioning pen which you try to use anyway but it rips a big hole in the damp log.

TB Hotel: a cache guaranteed not to contain a TB

TFTC: Too Flabbergasted To Comment -The comment cachers leave when the experience of finding the cache, the view at GZ, and the ingenuity of the cache, have all left them utterly speechless, unable to let anyone else know (even by typing) how fantastic the game they love is, particularly this exact piece. This is the most prized of all logs to receive as CO.

Virtual: the other type of cache you do when you’ve forgotten your pen

[ATMouse]

BWAHAHAHAHAA!

 

Priceless!

[+Landsbanki]

That's mine! I posted it on the Geocaching UK Facebook page yesterday.

 

They'll be an updated version on there soonish. I can post it on here as well once it's on there

 

Where did you find it?

 

It originated in Scotland with contributions from a few others. The next version will have contributions from several other UK cachers.

Edited August 6, 2015 by Landsbanki

[+TriciaG]

What's a "fly tipper"?

[+kunarion]

What's a "fly tipper"?

A "tip" is a dumpster or dump. A fly tipper is someone who sneaks their trash into it.

[+CV Kurt]

drive-by cache: a cache you just have to drive by to record a found it.

power trail: a series of drive-by caches.

[+Landsbanki]

What's a "fly tipper"?

Small businesses who don't want to pay disposal fees go to quiet spots in the countryside to dump garbage. A huge problem in the UK.

[+TriciaG]

OK, thanks. That's less obscene than what I was guessing.

[+J Grouchy]

What's a "fly tipper"?

Small businesses who don't want to pay disposal fees go to quiet spots in the countryside to dump garbage. A huge problem in the UK.

 

Smaller and weaker than a cow-tipper.

[+J Grouchy]

BYOP: this means the CO doesnt live near an IKEA

 

 

Careful. Word gets out and IKEA could get in on the geocaching game and start selling their little pencils or geocache kits...

 

GEÖKKASS

 

Edited August 6, 2015 by J Grouchy

[+Landsbanki]

Here's the updated version with the acknowledgements attached.

 

The Real Geocaching Glossary

Ammo Can: mythical cache container rarely used these days, akin to finding the Holy Grail but which the previous finder couldn’t close properly.

Attribute icons: buttons that COs press randomly when creating a cache to get to the submit button as quickly as possible resulting in skidoos being recommended for town centre nanos.

Bison: These shiny metallic caches come with a ring which rusts faster than any other metal known to man. They also mysteriously become ultra-camoed when you drop them in the undergrowth.

Travel Bug: items that have been specifically designed to be slightly larger than the cache they’ve just been placed in.

BoT: this is a very helpful hint that lets you know that you are deep in a forest and that your GPS signal might be a bit dodgy.

BYOP: this means the CO doesn’t live near an IKEA

Challenge Cache: caches that require you to fiddle your stats a bit before signing them.

Dipping: this is what you do with a TB when you planned to drop it off at a cache but forgot to take it with you.

D/T rating: a scale from 1-5 which a some COs must think runs from 5-1.

DNF: a log used to let the CO know their coords are off and their hint is useless.

EarthCache: caches to do when you’ve forgotten your pen

Event: a place you go to find out more information about the caches you couldn’t find

FTF: a cache you do in your pyjamas and slippers at 1.30am using a pen torch with a fading battery. The one where you have to find a thorn to stab your thumb in order to sign the log in blood as you didn’t bring a pen but then no one else bothers to find it for 2 days.

Hint: used by the CO to perfectly describe a spot 6m from the cache on the other side of the path.

Lab cache: a cache recommended for dogs

Letterbox: a magical type of cache that has the power to make your fingers turn blue

Magnetic: the GZ will contain all of the following: metal fences and posts, wrought iron gates, drainpipes, lampposts, traffic signs, street signs, shop signs, bollards, a dog poo bin, an overfilled regular bin, two of those grey box thingies that you think might be something to do with phone lines or broadband but which no one ever seems to open, beer barrels, bus stops, giant metallic sculptures, cattle grids, drain covers, a huge black anchor and the Eiffel tower. The cache will have lost its magnetic and is now in tree.

Mega-Event: where you drive 700kms to buy a very expensive new type of cache container you’ve never seen before only to discover that dozens of them have been put out on your local patch while you’ve been away.

Mega-Event caching: this is where you do 50 caches without ever looking for or signing any of them. The key is to quickly determine which of the dozens of people at each GZ is the current log guardian and then shout your username at them louder than anyone else.

Moogled: When there’s a bull between you and the cache

Personal log stamps: very popular at caches placed for events where these titanic devices are used to print caching names in font size 72 in a perpendicular fashion across 20 lines of the log thus rewarding the CO with a NM log within minutes of a cache being published.

Multi: a cache where the CO requires you to adopt the travel plans of a party leader the day before a general election before rewarding you with a nano on a hawthorn covered road sign 3m from the starting coords.

Nano: a cache with similar properties to a tent, when you get it out its damp and smells musty and then it’s impossible to get back in again.

Needs Archived: you use this log when you’ve failed to find a cache three times and you want the green box to be removed from you map.

Needs Maintenance: a helpful message to the CO to let them know they need to sharpen the pencil, that one side of the log is now full, and that there’s a slug they need to remove from the outside of the box.

Park n Grab: a roadside cache with handy parking for fly tippers.

Pocket Query: this is where you pat yourself down wondering where you put your pen after signing the last cache?

Recycled containers: as cachers we like to do our bit for the environment so don’t spend a couple of quid on a water-proof clip lock box when there’s a free Lidl coleslaw container in your recycling box.

Replaced as Found: a code used in a found it log to let the CO know that you put the cache back on top of the dog poo bin you found it on but you suspect the previous finder forgot to put it back where it belongs after signing.

Reviewer: the person who waits for you to get in the bath before publishing a cache right outside your house.

Stealth required: this lets the cacher know that the muggle density in the area is so high that’s there’s no point waiting for the GZ to become muggle-free before starting your search.

Swaps: all caches should contain the following items: a golf ball no self-respecting golfer would ever use, a mini 7 of spades, a pink hair band, an earwig, a musty Mcdonalds toy from 2009, 3 woodlice, a used train ticket from Pontefract, a damp moldy card saying Heinrich and Gertrude from Dusseldorf found this cache, a liberal sprinkling of mouse droppings and not forgetting the pencil sharpener complete with non-functioning pen which you try to use anyway but it rips a big hole in the damp log.

TB Hotel: a cache guaranteed not to contain a TB

TFTC: Too Flabbergasted To Comment - the comment left when the experience of finding the cache, the view at GZ, the ingenuity of the container and the cleverness of the hide have rendered the finder utterly speechless, even by typing. This is the most prized of all logs to receive as CO.

Throw down: Where you help the CO by replacing a cache before it gets muggled with the added bonus that future finders have a choice of two

Tweezers Required: this is where the CO suggests you mash your biro nib into the end of the cache until you've left enough black streaks on the log to count as signing

Virtual: another type of cache you do when you’ve forgotten your pen

Write Note: a log used by those special cachers who never have a DNF.

 

Andre Gilburn (Landsbanki) with many thanks to Chris Clegg, Stephen Buxton, Stuart Clark, Dave Walsh, Dave Martin, Neil Bell, Rich Lisa Fenton and Rachel Salmon for their contributions.

[+The A-Team]

Trackable (see also Geocoin and Travel Bug): An endangered species now typically spotted only at events

Challenge cache: An exercise in number-crunching, data-massaging, and other tedious computer work that takes longer than it does to actually find the qualifying caches

BYOP: The cache owner is too lazy/cheap to hide a cache larger than a micro

Hint: The spot on a cache listing where you put something useless like "No hint required"

Puzzle cache (also known as Unknown cache or Mystery cache): A cache where the owner has derived an incomprehensible cipher that only they understand to prevent others from finding it

[+Ma & Pa]

Trackable (see also Geocoin and Travel Bug): An endangered species now typically spotted only at events

Challenge cache: An exercise in number-crunching, data-massaging, and other tedious computer work that takes longer than it does to actually find the qualifying caches

BYOP: The cache owner is too lazy/cheap to hide a cache larger than a micro

Hint: The spot on a cache listing where you put something useless like "No hint required"

Puzzle cache (also known as Unknown cache or Mystery cache): A cache where the owner has derived an incomprehensible cipher that only they understand to prevent others from finding it

 

A typical forum rant. Not funny

[+Ma & Pa]

That's mine! I posted it on the Geocaching UK Facebook page yesterday.

 

They'll be an updated version on there soonish. I can post it on here as well once it's on there

 

Where did you find it?

 

It originated in Scotland with contributions from a few others. The next version will have contributions from several other UK cachers.

 

Found it on a local facebook geocaching page. Someone spotted it on the Geocaching UK facebook page and shared it. Being facebook, I did not see the geocaching name. Nice to find out who it is

 

PAul

[Pup Patrol]

A typical forum rant. Not funny

 

+1

 

B.

[+jellis]

The one I've seen more lately is

Owner Maintenance: When CO wants to appear they did maintenance but didn't.

Edited August 7, 2015 by jellis

[+The A-Team]

A typical forum rant. Not funny

 

+1

 

B.

Wow, tough crowd...

 

I'm not sure how mine are any different than the majority of the ones in the above lists, but what are you gonna do...

[+Ralfcoder]

Nano - a tiny form of cache, sometimes so small that they can be measured only by using angstroms as a unit of measure. The larger ones make excellent ammunition for slingshots.

[+Ant89]

Wherigo: the act of deciding what area to go caching in.