+bflentje Posted August 12, 2020 Posted August 12, 2020 23 hours ago, Team Dennis said: I have sort of an odd fascination with old, archived caches and have searched for a half dozen (or so) of them over the years. On 7/24/2020, I scored what will probably go down as my most epic FTF ever on this cache hidden 15 years and 3 days before we found its remains along with the travel bug that was inside. So, to answer the OP's question...we find them by going out and finding them. HAHA Knowschad fanboy. Isn't his latest hobby woodworking? 2 Quote
+hzoi Posted August 13, 2020 Posted August 13, 2020 16 hours ago, bflentje said: On 8/11/2020 at 3:43 PM, Team Dennis said: I have sort of an odd fascination with old, archived caches and have searched for a half dozen (or so) of them over the years. On 7/24/2020, I scored what will probably go down as my most epic FTF ever on this cache hidden 15 years and 3 days before we found its remains along with the travel bug that was inside. So, to answer the OP's question...we find them by going out and finding them. HAHA Knowschad fanboy. Isn't his latest hobby woodworking? Ha! It's been so long since I looked at the broken forum titles, it took me a bit to figure out how you knew they were a Knowschad fanboy. Quote
+NYPaddleCacher Posted August 13, 2020 Posted August 13, 2020 On 8/12/2020 at 2:45 PM, bflentje said: HAHA Knowschad fanboy. Isn't his latest hobby woodworking? That's one of them and he does some impressive work. Quote
+Team Dennis Posted August 14, 2020 Posted August 14, 2020 On 8/12/2020 at 1:45 PM, bflentje said: HAHA Knowschad fanboy. Isn't his latest hobby woodworking? He's doing a lot of metal detecting and probably hunting edible mushrooms as well. Quote
+thebruce0 Posted August 20, 2020 Posted August 20, 2020 On 8/11/2020 at 3:43 PM, Team Dennis said: I have sort of an odd fascination with old, archived caches and have searched for a half dozen (or so) of them over the years. On 7/24/2020, I scored what will probably go down as my most epic FTF ever on this cache hidden 15 years and 3 days before we found its remains along with the travel bug that was inside. AND, is that a rescued travelbug in the photo? Or one you had 'visit' the cache? That's definitely an epic find on an archived cache! Glad for you it wasn't locked. Quote
+Max and 99 Posted August 20, 2020 Posted August 20, 2020 (edited) About 1% chance we'll find it. That is epic! ? Edited August 20, 2020 by Max and 99 Quote
+lee737 Posted August 20, 2020 Posted August 20, 2020 On 8/12/2020 at 5:43 AM, Team Dennis said: I have sort of an odd fascination with old, archived caches and have searched for a half dozen (or so) of them over the years. On 7/24/2020, I scored what will probably go down as my most epic FTF ever on this cache hidden 15 years and 3 days before we found its remains along with the travel bug that was inside. So, to answer the OP's question...we find them by going out and finding them. That's a great story.... Quote
+Trekks Posted August 21, 2020 Posted August 21, 2020 I have a stack of paper printouts for caches that I haven't logged - some going back to 2001 when there was no paperless caching. I have notes on them about the caching trip and dates including who, if anyone, was with me. I am bad at logging. I actually made a "resolution" that I would log some during this pandemic since I'm home, but I bought an off grid cabin instead and have been spending my time fixing that up. If I don't log when I arrive home, chances are I won't log. Now, I have notebooks with the info. Ugh, someday. Quote
+Team Dennis Posted August 21, 2020 Posted August 21, 2020 On 8/19/2020 at 10:13 PM, thebruce0 said: AND, is that a rescued travelbug in the photo? Or one you had 'visit' the cache? That's definitely an epic find on an archived cache! Glad for you it wasn't locked. That TB in my photo is the TB that was on the mountain for 15 years before we found it. After having a nice phone conversation with the CO, he suggested I keep the TB in my possession and take it on as many mountain climbing trips as I could. Quote
+NanCycle Posted August 21, 2020 Posted August 21, 2020 On 8/11/2020 at 1:43 PM, Team Dennis said: I have sort of an odd fascination with old, archived caches and have searched for a half dozen (or so) of them over the years. On 7/24/2020, I scored what will probably go down as my most epic FTF ever on this cache hidden 15 years and 3 days before we found its remains along with the travel bug that was inside. So, to answer the OP's question...we find them by going out and finding them. So much for the "wilderness rangers" removing them from the wilderness. Quote
+The Jester Posted August 22, 2020 Posted August 22, 2020 8 hours ago, NanCycle said: So much for the "wilderness rangers" removing them from the wilderness. Maybe they DNF'd it? 2 Quote
+Gill & Tony Posted September 3, 2020 Posted September 3, 2020 I was on a tour of Europe (Venice to Budapest vis Dubrovnik) which included a day in Montenegro. Our tour guide knew all about my caching obsession and he told me that he could show me one. He took me to the location where I searched and found a container. It had a logbook with just a few names, so I signed and replaced it. Then I tried to find which cache it was - nothing showed up on the map. After enquiring here, someone gave me a GC code. It turned out to be a throwdown on an archived cache. The CO did the right thing, archived it and removed it. Someone else couldn't find it and placed a "replacement". I didn't claim the find but, fortunately, it wasn't my only cache that day, so I do have one Montenegrin cache. 1 Quote
+STNolan Posted September 5, 2020 Posted September 5, 2020 Personally one of my favorite archived cache "solves" involved some internet sleuthing as several of the multi beacons had been removed: https://coord.info/GLVDJVWR Sometimes when I'm bored I'll look at the Project GC map and see which ones were archived for reasons that indicate they're still there (parts of a multi trail are gone, or owner didn't respond to a NM regarding a wet log or something trivial like that) and I add them to a bookmark. If I'm in the area, I'll search for one. 1 Quote
+Team Dennis Posted September 9, 2020 Posted September 9, 2020 Got another one last week! https://coord.info/GC11ZTW Short story is this puzzle cache is now impossible to solve because the web pages needed no longer exist, but I didn't let that stop me. Not only did I score the find, but it was 4+ years lonely as well. I also CITO'd the container...a sweet ammo can. Thus far, the CO has not requested it back. 1 Quote
+STNolan Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 14 hours ago, Team Dennis said: Got another one last week! https://coord.info/GC11ZTW Short story is this puzzle cache is now impossible to solve because the web pages needed no longer exist, but I didn't let that stop me. Not only did I score the find, but it was 4+ years lonely as well. I also CITO'd the container...a sweet ammo can. Thus far, the CO has not requested it back. I'm assuming you had to battleship the coordinates for a puzzle like that where the links are gone and there's not much else to go on (combined with some good guesswork et al). Quote
+Tungstène Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 12 minutes ago, STNolan said: the links are gone and there's not much else to go on If you're lucky, they could have been archived with the Internet wayback machine. I already solved mystery caches where the needed website was no longer online, but the wayback machine had a backup. TBH, I own a geocache which relies partly exactly on this. No battleship needed. Quote
+Team Dennis Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 7 hours ago, STNolan said: I'm assuming you had to battleship the coordinates for a puzzle like that where the links are gone and there's not much else to go on (combined with some good guesswork et al). Nope! I looked at a few old pics in the gallery and found one with some metadata. Bingo, bango, boingo I had the coords. I've solved a few difficult puzzle caches with this method as well. 2 Quote
+STNolan Posted September 10, 2020 Posted September 10, 2020 20 minutes ago, Team Dennis said: Nope! I looked at a few old pics in the gallery and found one with some metadata. Bingo, bango, boingo I had the coords. I've solved a few difficult puzzle caches with this method as well. Aha! Spent a few minutes searching and now I too have those coords... for a cache that's no longer there... I may need to find better ways to spend my time. This quarantine... 2 Quote
+ecanderson Posted September 11, 2020 Posted September 11, 2020 How the heck did you get quarantined in Virginia? Contact issues? Quote
+STNolan Posted September 11, 2020 Posted September 11, 2020 44 minutes ago, ecanderson said: How the heck did you get quarantined in Virginia? Contact issues? I work on a ship. We had about 40 cases out of a crew of 70 so.... quarantine life. 1 Quote
+ecanderson Posted September 11, 2020 Posted September 11, 2020 Bummer. Well, it'll be a great time for sitting and solving puzzles for when you can get out and find them again. Be well. 1 1 Quote
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