Accidentally Found Geocache that is not listed.

[woodedbeardsman90]

So, this actually happened in 2013, but I just never thought to actually get on here and look it up at the time. I was aware of geocaching, but I wasn't actively engaged in the activity. But now that I am actually sort of getting into it, I thought I would look more into it. Basically, sometime in 2013, I was randomly hiking off-trail, up a random mountain, and I came across a glass jar sitting on some rocks, at approximately the following coordinates:

 

39.670014, -105.648315

 

I signed and dated the paper, which had a list of names/dates going back several years. Then put it back where it was.

Anyway - I'm just curious if I could find any more insight about it. Maybe it was a functioning cache at one point, but no longer exists? Any ideas? If anyone goes to that area, maybe you could check if it's still there?
 

Edited July 9, 2022 by woodedbeardsman90
typo

[Keystone]

According to the Geocaching.com database, there has never been a cache container registered at or near those coordinates -- whether published or unpublished, active or archived, hidden waypoint or visible waypoint.  The closest cache is .79 miles away -- West Chicago Creek, GC1W03F, which is still active.

 

 

[geoawareUSA9]

My guess is, summit register or trail log.

Edited July 9, 2022 by geoawareUSA9

[+TeamRabbitRun]

On 7/9/2022 at 12:51 PM, geoawareUSA9 said:

My guess is, summit register or trail log.

 

In a glass jar?

[geoawareUSA9]

2 hours ago, TeamRabbitRun said:

On 7/9/2022 at 12:51 PM, geoawareUSA9 said:

My guess is, summit register or trail log.

 

In a glass jar?

 

I didn't say it was a GOOD summit register or trail log. But, yeah. I believe I've found a summit register in a Mason jar before.

 

I've found geocaches that were glass jars before as well.

[+cerberus1]

53 minutes ago, geoawareUSA9 said:

I didn't say it was a GOOD summit register or trail log. But, yeah. I believe I've found a summit register in a Mason jar before.

 

I've found geocaches that were glass jars before as well.

 

Yep, my first summit register found was a Chock-full-of-Nuts tin in the 80s.   

When we first started, a few caches were glass.  Our first "under the bench" found was a glass jar with the lid epoxied to the cement underneath.

A cacher broke it in early Winter, and the other 2/3rds went out there with a razor to peel the carp off, as the "CO" was long gone.

This was the same time where metal cookie tins wrapped in black plastic trash bags was a thing too...

[+captnemo]

It's happened twice to me.  First time was on a off road trip, way out in the middle of no where, when one of the group said isn't this one of those geocaches you find,  It was a container marked geocache no GC#.  Signed the log noted the cordinates but could not find it on the web site.  Finally contacted GC headquarters who confirmed it was not a cache.

The 2nd time I was placing a cache and stumbled across a container that had geocacing written on it along with a geocacher name, in poor shape.  Contacted GC again and there was no cacher by that name or cache at that location.  

2 finds no smilely.

[+Gill & Tony]

2 hours ago, captnemo said:

It's happened twice to me.  First time was on a off road trip, way out in the middle of no where, when one of the group said isn't this one of those geocaches you find,  It was a container marked geocache no GC#.  Signed the log noted the cordinates but could not find it on the web site.  Finally contacted GC headquarters who confirmed it was not a cache.

The 2nd time I was placing a cache and stumbled across a container that had geocacing written on it along with a geocacher name, in poor shape.  Contacted GC again and there was no cacher by that name or cache at that location.  

2 finds no smilely.

There are other listing sites.  Maybe they were caches, but listed only on another site,

[+captnemo]

First one may have been on another site.  Second one had "Geocaching.com" written on it.