Best Items Found While Geocaching

[MRC1925T]

Out of curiosity, what are some of the best items you found while geocaching?  To clarify, these are not items in a cache or swag items but items that were near where you parked your car, on the sidewalk/in the gutter while walking to a geocache, etc.

 

I found $10 today and on a different occasion, I found a gift card with money on it (can't remember the exact amount but around $7).

[+kunarion]

51 minutes ago, MRC1925T said:

Out of curiosity, what are some of the best items you found while geocaching?  To clarify, these are not items in a cache or swag items but items that were near where you parked your car, on the sidewalk/in the gutter while walking to a geocache, etc.

 

I found $10 today and on a different occasion, I found a gift card with money on it (can't remember the exact amount but around $7).

 

Most were cool old soda bottles or interesting glass bottles, and I log those as CITO.  And occasionally, beverage glasses and flatware and silverware.  I found a beanie baby sized stuffed animal, which was filthy but cleaned up great, and now it's a TB.  I found a pocket knife once.  I found a movie on VHS tape, and placed that into my nearby ammo box cache as Swag.  Plus lots of cool bits and pieces that may become Swag or TBs or cache camo.

[+funkymunkyzone]

I found a stash of heroin. I didn't take it and left the area pretty quickly after finding that and realizing that there was a drug deal currently underway in the vicinity of GZ.

[+dealfarms1]

We have found lots of change in parking lots, large amounts of scrap metal that I recycle, a pocket knife, a sledgehammer and a pretty nice pair of binoculars.  Like Kunarion, we hve found various cutlery and old soda bottles, the coolest being a Sprite bottle embossed Zion National Park on the bottom.

[+MNTA]

Numerous amazing places and views that otherwise would never have stopped for or even known about. Caves, Hot Springs, Views

 

One favorite that comes to mind One Heckuva Ride https://coord.info/GCYNWZ Cache was in the glove compartment. Definitely don't want to keep it though.

 

 

 

Though in the spirit of the question. I found a persons iphone in ~6 feet of water at the end of a pier on Lake Tahoe where there is a virtual cache. We were enjoying the summer day on the water. Fortunately they are in fact somewhat water resistant the owner was still debating if it was worth them getting wet.

 

Worst things to find. Hunters abandoning the remains of their kills.

 

 

[+Viajero Perdido]

• Found $10 in a parking lot doing CITO.
• Found a cellphone (cheap, deactivated) in a schoolyard/park doing another CITO.  It resisted my best attempts to identify the owner, or even to recycle it as a "new" phone after a factory reset.  Sigh, into the e-waste it went.
• Found a handgun doing yet another CITO.  Police said it was a replica, but it was a convincing one: made of metal and heavy.
• Found previous cachers' sunglasses beside the cache on two occasions, one of which was months after they were dropped.  Returned both to owners.  Found a third pair of sunglasses in my living room a month ago and just finally caught up with that cacher to return them.
• Found a nice hiking pole beside a lonely cache.  Contacted previous cacher who lives out of town; they said, keep it.  Are you sure?  I already have poles.  Still haven't used it.
• Found some items from a wallet at the edge of a melting snowbank while walking between caches; any remainder was likely to melt out in a week or so.  Only ID I had was a nickname and city, so I posted a note on the cache pages.  Probably didn't help.  Internet search on the name came up blank.
• Found a secret ski cabin deep in the backcountry, just a few minutes before reaching a very remote cache.  Well stocked and unlocked; I could've moved in.
• Under a bridge, found a large jar half-full of grain.  Geo-buddy said, throw in a scrap of paper and publish it.
• In a suburban parklet close to a cache, found a whole pile of birch tree trunk pieces cut to firewood length.  One man's junk is another man's firewood, and I have splitting tools.  But how much wood can a Miata carry?

 

Edited July 11 by Viajero Perdido
Remembered more

[+Jayeffel]

I cannot remember what I may have found, but I lost maybe four pair of reading glasses and a ring while caching.

[+ThatDevRaven]

Late reply? No clue 

 

One of the cooler things I've found myself is this trackable ( il edit this post if I find a photo ) it was a German mother's day Tb cool find I sent it on its way months ago probably a year now. 

[+colleda]

Found a solitary Morris B Series engine block by a canal a long way from nowhere.

It had a small cache hidden in it. I wondered how the CO found it as it was well off the tow path.

Edited July 11 by colleda
extra info I remembered.

[+Joe_L]

Found 20 golf balls that had been teed off from a backyard into a park down below.  Donated them to a group that provides golf equipment to military deployed overseas.  

[+niraD]

3 hours ago, Joe_L said:

Found 20 golf balls that had been teed off from a backyard into a park down below.  Donated them to a group that provides golf equipment to military deployed overseas.  

I used to work in an office near a golf course. One of my coworkers would turn found golf balls into juggling balls by tying a monkey's fist knot around them. They were really easy to juggle too: the rope he used was soft and made them easy to grab, and the golf ball inside gave them a good heft.

 

I've turned golf balls into a ladder golf set before, when I had access to a drill press. I suppose a monkey's fist knot could be used to secure the balls to the ends of the rope, but I've never seen ladder golf sets made that way before.

[+TeamRabbitRun]

16 hours ago, Viajero Perdido said:

• Found $10 in a parking lot doing CITO.
• Found a cellphone (cheap, deactivated) in a schoolyard/park doing another CITO.  It resisted my best attempts to identify the owner, or even to recycle it as a "new" phone after a factory reset.  Sigh, into the e-waste it went.
• Found a handgun doing yet another CITO.  Police said it was a replica, but it was a convincing one: made of metal and heavy.
• Found previous cachers' sunglasses beside the cache on two occasions, one of which was months after they were dropped.  Returned both to owners.  Found a third pair of sunglasses in my living room a month ago and just finally caught up with that cacher to return them.
• Found a nice hiking pole beside a lonely cache.  Contacted previous cacher who lives out of town; they said, keep it.  Are you sure?  I already have poles.  Still haven't used it.
• Found some items from a wallet at the edge of a melting snowbank while walking between caches; any remainder was likely to melt out in a week or so.  Only ID I had was a nickname and city, so I posted a note on the cache pages.  Probably didn't help.  Internet search on the name came up blank.
• Found a secret ski cabin deep in the backcountry, just a few minutes before reaching a very remote cache.  Well stocked and unlocked; I could've moved in.
• Under a bridge, found a large jar half-full of grain.  Geo-buddy said, throw in a scrap of paper and publish it.
• In a suburban parklet close to a cache, found a whole pile of birch tree trunk pieces cut to firewood length.  One man's junk is another man's firewood, and I have splitting tools.  But how much wood can a Miata carry?

 

 

Isn't that only half the saying?

[+Viajero Perdido]

...'bout as much wood as a Miata would carry, if a Miata could carry wood.

 

(Not my picture, but it sums up the problem...)

 

[+terratin]

Mostly nice rocks. My current pet rock is a very nice piece of serpentinite. My favourite caches are ECs. Go figure.

[+Harry Dolphin]

2 hours ago, terratin said:

Mostly nice rocks. My current pet rock is a very nice piece of serpentinite. My favourite caches are ECs. Go figure.

 

A bit north of here, there is a lot of purple puddingstone.

[+MNTA]

2 hours ago, terratin said:

Mostly nice rocks. My current pet rock is a very nice piece of serpentinite. My favourite caches are ECs. Go figure.

I forgot about my sunstones

 

[+Harry Dolphin]

Found this today.

 

[+dealfarms1]

I forgot about rocks, we find a large amount of petrified wood in our general area.  It’s possibly one of my favorite rocks,  so I pick up a lot when caching in areas where collecting is allowed.

[+terratin]

9 hours ago, Harry Dolphin said:

 

A bit north of here, there is a lot of purple puddingstone.

Looks delicious!

[+Rustynails]

I once found a naked woman laying a few feet from a cache. She was a bit deflated and wrinkled, vinyl isn't my type so I left her there. I did search and find the cache..  

[+funkymunkyzone]

53 minutes ago, Rustynails said:

I once found a naked woman laying a few feet from a cache. She was a bit deflated and wrinkled, vinyl isn't my type so I left her there. I did search and find the cache..  

 

I found the toy she was playing with... 

 

[+Sottiwotti]

Found this very pretty painted rock near a cache. Apparently they are called happy stones. They are meant to travel around, so unfortunately I couldn't keep it.

[+Viajero Perdido]

Close to a cache and also to a river:

 

 

I spotted it (check this out); Jazzhiker took the picture.

[+PlantAKiss]

Not a good find, but I found 2 crack pipes (first time I've ever seen one in person) and DNFed the cache to boot (turned out it was missing

--my most hated DNFs).  I found another cacher's hikey-pokey pole and was able to locate the owner.  But the best thing I ever found, going for 14 caches, was/is an isolated mostly unknown state forest I have been playing in almost every other week ever since for the last 10 years. The BEST caching find ever (caches in there were good too).
 

[+TeamRabbitRun]

13 hours ago, PlantAKiss said:

Not a good find, but I found 2 crack pipes (first time I've ever seen one in person) and DNFed the cache to boot (turned out it was missing

--my most hated DNFs).  I found another cacher's hikey-pokey pole and was able to locate the owner.  But the best thing I ever found, going for 14 caches, was/is an isolated mostly unknown state forest I have been playing in almost every other week ever since for the last 10 years. The BEST caching find ever (caches in there were good too).
 

 

Well, that's kinda the POINT, right?

"Take me places I never woulda seen..."

Congratulations.