+DNStephens Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 Here is the beginning of my list of basic rules for Geocaching. 1. You're always on the wrong side of the river or stream 2. You're always on the wrong side of the fence. 3. It will always take you longer to find than you expect. 4. Quote Link to comment
kingsmen26 Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 4 - There's always too much month at the end of the cache! Quote Link to comment
+PDOP's Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 ... You'll always find it the last place you look. PDOP's GPS Pages Quote Link to comment
+Couparangus Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 If you go caching with someone else, the person with the least expensive GPS and lowest number of cache finds will find it first. Quote Link to comment
+DocMagoo Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 5. The batteries will die when you're within 100 metres. The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being -- The Message Quote Link to comment
+Solar Max Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 6. If you cache with a rookie, they always make the find. 7. When you return the Fourth time after three no-finds, it's in the place you looked FIRST, on your first try. How much intelligence does it take to sneak up on a piece of tupperware? Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 8. You will be home later than you said you would be. Quote Link to comment
peetz Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 9. The clues always make more sense after you have found it Quote Link to comment
boreal jeff & sons Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 10. If you post a "no find", the next finder will delight in logging how easy it was to find the cache. How do they get moose to cross at those yellow road signs? Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 11. You spend 4-5 hours deciphering a virtual puzzle cache, only to be greeted by another virtual puzzle. And when you're finally done with that, there is yet even one more (geodetic) puzzle, with some uncommon distances listed in another language. Quote Link to comment
+GPComd Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 12. The 10-line clue you decipher in the rain at the cache area will either be for a Chili recipe, or directions on where to park. GPComd Contents under pressure, do not puncture. Quote Link to comment
+DocMagoo Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 13. The caches that seemed like a snap when you previewed them at home are the same caches that require topo maps, and you left them at home. The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being -- The Message Quote Link to comment
+GroundClutter Posted August 10, 2003 Share Posted August 10, 2003 14)You go home and log the cache and find a new hide really close to the one you just did. 15) You forgot to waypoint the car. AND you left the clue and goody bag in it. 16) (can I do three?) You decided to take the nice long trail to an awesome cache. After 30 minutes of hiking, your batteries die. Spares are in the car - (that you forgot to waypoint) "You are cleared for geocaching." Quote Link to comment
SombreHippie Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by canadazuuk:11. You spend 4-5 hours deciphering a virtual puzzle cache, only to be greeted by another virtual puzzle. And when you're finally done with that, there is yet even one more (geodetic) puzzle, with some uncommon distances listed in another language. *laughs* That's what google is for, dear Quote Link to comment
+yorelken Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 12. When you drop your GPSr, it will land on a rock. Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 13. You spend quite some time solving a puzzle cache online, and then just before you go to actually find it, and sign the logbook, the moody cache owner changes it to a simple goto Quote Link to comment
+eroyd Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 Giving up after spending an hour searching every bug infested nook, behind every thorn bush, you decide to take a leak before heading back to the car. . . Ta Daa! found it! (sorry bought that) Quote Link to comment
+balloonatic Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 15. Stay on the #$@^'in PATH! "You should learn from the mistakes of others as you won't live long enough to make them all yourself." Quote Link to comment
+TheGertridgeExplorers Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 16. When you come to a fork in the trail you never pick the correct (shortest) direction. -Donna G Quote Link to comment
gm100guy Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 17. The dog always find something foul to roll in just before you get back to the car. gm100guy http://members.rogers.com/gm100guy/cachepage.htm Ontario geocachers http://groups.msn.com/GeocachinginOntario/homepage Quote Link to comment
+eroyd Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 quote:Originally posted by gm100guy:17. The dog always find something foul to roll in just before you get back to the car. Oop's, sorry about that. Quote Link to comment
KimAndMollie Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 18? You go for a nice 7 km round trip hike, only to discover that you could have done it in 1.5km! Real cachers don't smell like Fleecy. Quote Link to comment
+redgreen Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 19. I always think I know were it is but when I get there it isn't there. Quote Link to comment
+Zaboombafoo33 Posted August 11, 2003 Share Posted August 11, 2003 20. Hard in Easy out... except when geo caching with Redgreen Hard in Easy Out [] Quote Link to comment
+fizbot Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 21. Extra bugs come out of the woodwork to attack just when you are trying to sign the log. Quote Link to comment
+fizbot Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 22. The day you forget your pencil is the day you come across all the caches that are missing them. Quote Link to comment
SombreHippie Posted August 12, 2003 Share Posted August 12, 2003 quote:Originally posted by canadazuuk:13. You spend quite some time solving a puzzle cache online, and then just before you go to actually find it, and sign the logbook, the moody cache owner changes it to a simple goto Darn tootin'! Doing a spur of the moment cache while you're in the area with nothing but the coordinate, realizing it wasn't quite as go-to as you had originally thought, being stubborn enough to continue the hike alone at 5:30am, get to the general vicinity of the cache, realizing that the noises you thought you were hearing WAS a bear after all, then see a large sign that says DANGER, TRAIL CLOSED PAST THIS POINT, and hightailing it back to the car, only to be informed when you log a no find that you were standing about 5 feet from the cache. Quote Link to comment
+Hard Oiler Posted August 13, 2003 Share Posted August 13, 2003 23. You can't even figure out how to get to the coordinates of the recommended parking spot! Happened to me last weekend "If you don't know where you are going, then it doesn't much matter where you are." - Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking Glass Quote Link to comment
+DocMagoo Posted August 13, 2003 Share Posted August 13, 2003 24. Just when you think you're prepared for the "West Nile Bandits", by wearing plenty of mosquito repellent with DEET, you accidentally handle your GPS and it becomes a gooey, molten mess. The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being -- The Message Quote Link to comment
+DocMagoo Posted August 16, 2003 Share Posted August 16, 2003 25. The week that the most new caches are released and posted will ultimately be the week that you have a vasectomy (or substitute with an alternate operation)..... _____ Quote Link to comment
+Pat Patterson Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 quote:Originally posted by SombreHippie & Puppy Dawg: quote:Originally posted by canadazuuk:11. You spend 4-5 hours deciphering a virtual puzzle cache, only to be greeted by another virtual puzzle. And when you're finally done with that, there is yet even one more (geodetic) puzzle, with some uncommon distances listed in another language. *laughs* That's what google is for, dear After pealing off all the clothes that got wet deciphering the usles clue and looging in to log a dnf finding a post telling you to use the interenet to solve the clue. Pat Patterson Garmin 12XL 82CJ7 & 79F250 Herd of Turtles 4x4 club Quote Link to comment
white_owl Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 quote:Originally posted by DaveStephens:1. You're always on the wrong side of the river or stream 26. Then once you've crossed in a foot of water, you realize that you were on the right side in the first place. 27. After you cross back, you find a nice home made bridge just 100 metres down stream. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Anyone can go to a Tupperware party but it takes a special skill to hunt plastic containers in the wild. Quote Link to comment
+GroundClutter Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 28. You spend 30 minutes searching all over high heaven, knowing that you are in the right spot and that you must be blind because the cache HAS to be right here. You later find you WERE in the right spot, but the cache wasn't, because some dear soul had moved it (hidden it better - taken it upon themselves to find a "nicer" hiding spot etc...) "You are cleared for geocaching." Quote Link to comment
Ting Posted August 29, 2003 Share Posted August 29, 2003 29. You wake up EARLY on the weekend to beat the anticipated crowds, and the area you want to go to is packed with people, already Quote Link to comment
+Insp Gadget Posted September 3, 2003 Share Posted September 3, 2003 You loaned yuor GPS to a friend who went out of town only to have a new Geoache pop up within a few km of your home! Quote Link to comment
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