+SylvrStorm Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Time for something irrelevant and trivial, unlike other threads here. We all know (or wish we knew) the thrill of being FTF a new cache. But what about LTF (last to find)? I've got 36 finds, but if you don't count the 3 virts, that's 33. Out of those, 3 have been removed by the owners for various reasons, shortly after I found them. So I'm LTF for those three caches. Three doesn't sound like much, but that's about 9% of my physical cache finds! Anybody else notice (or care) how many LTFs they have? SylvrStorm *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. *** Quote Link to comment
Dru Morgan Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 So *you're* the guy eating the caches! Ha Ha. I know the feeling. I have many that I was the LTF on. I feel terrible like it is my fault if it gets plundered after I find it. Ever notice how anyone that caches more than you do is a maniac, while anyone that caches less than you do is an idiot? -Dru Morgan Quote Link to comment
+Divine Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I have at least one LTF. Just when I was driving off the cache site after the find, I noticed a fellow cacher going up after it, and as I later on read in the logs, he never found it. After his second try he actually called me for a hint and he didn't find it even after I gave one. Finally I agreed to go back to the site again and check if the container was still there. It wasn't. Like, did it vanish during the 3 minutes between me leaving the area and the next cacher arriving there? Well, the owner placed a new cache soon after that, and since then the cache has been found several times. I am still sometimes afraid that I find the original container in my backpack... - I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory. - Quote Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 We have both FTF and LTF on this cache. What do we win? Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I guess officially this cache should be a LTF by me, but for some reason it didn't work out that way. Quote Link to comment
+GatoRx Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I'm not sure if this qualifys as a LTF, but with mine, the cache had been plundered quite badly - contents spread all over the place, many items had been partially burned (I guess it takes more than a lighter or matches to torch Rubbermaid!) I collected the container and contents, and e-mailed the owner about it, who then archived it. I was the last person to find it, but for a good reason. ---- When in doubt, poke it with a stick. Quote Link to comment
+Kite and Hawkeye Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I don't think we've ever been last to find a cache that subsequently went missing, but we've been first to NOT find a missing cache quite a few times. Once, we passed a team that was hunting for a cache, and by the time we returned from a different cache, 45 minutes later, the first cache was gone! (And no, the team before us didn't steal it. They were, I'm sure, fine, upstanding cachers. Who were apparently observed.) We also recently found a vandalized cache -- contents scattered around on the ground in the middle of some, um, human waste. Ugh. Once, we had to take a cache with us because we couldn't put it back stealthily (we returned the next day), but I still think that's better than being the dreaded Last to Find. I mean, isn't there always this dark cloud of "didn't I hide it well enough? was someone watching me?" hanging over you when something goes missing shortly after your find? Quote Link to comment
+Bull Moose Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 It's funny this came up today, because I think I may be last to find this cache. I know it's not from poor re-hiding, though, as it was just hanging in a tree and was re-hung from the same branch. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I'm an LTF on at least two. One I rather destroyed a cache(long story), which in turned spawned a couple of other caches poking fun at me for doing that. The other I was both FTF and LTF. Ok the LTF isn't the entire truth. But the squirrel that took off with the cache and tried to eat it doesn't have an account to log his find. The cache owner replaced it with a new cache and a new cache page. A couple of days later the squirell dropped the cache near where he had stolen it. I'm not sure about LFT on other caches. ===================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+SylvrStorm Posted June 6, 2003 Author Share Posted June 6, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Kite & Hawkeye:I mean, isn't there always this dark cloud of "didn't I hide it well enough? was someone watching me?" hanging over you when something goes missing shortly after your find? True, there would be. I worry about that anyway, and am always careful when I rehide a cache. Fortunately for me, the three I mentioned at the start of this thread were all archived for other reasons, and as far as I know were in good condition when the hider decided to pull them. SylvrStorm *** Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and they laugh at you. *** Quote Link to comment
+TeamJiffy Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Fy and I always worry about that, and feel horrible when a cache goes missing after we find it. Of the 471 we’ve found, we’ve been LTF on, oh, about 110.. I figure that’s about average so I don’t feel too bad. JUST KIDDING! Seriously - it’s 3 out of 471 - so something around 1 out of 157. (We keep a database of caches, including if they were found after we found them). We feel awful for the three that were lost after us. What’s interesting is this: all three were within our first 150 finds... the next 320 don’t have a single “lost after us” among them - so we think we are getting better at re-hiding the caches. -J Quote Link to comment
+Web-ling Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 I have been the LTF on a couple caches, because all I found were the plundered remains... I hate the thought of being the LTF due to someone seeing me, then plundering the cache after I left. As far as I know, it hasn't happened to me yet. And I was the ONLY finder on a "first-finder-take-all" cache once. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted June 6, 2003 Share Posted June 6, 2003 Great topic! Not a single LTF! I subscribe to the hide it as good or better camp and do quite a bit of night cachin, so I have the stealthy thing going as well. Sngans The greatest labor saving invention of today is tomorrow.... Quote Link to comment
claypigeon58 Posted June 8, 2003 Share Posted June 8, 2003 I know of at least one I was the last to find, and that's without having looked at the cache page for about 2 months now. You can read about my adventure here. Quote Link to comment
+Ed & Julie Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 I was the LTF at my own cache! I took my 3 nephews on a trial run as an introduction to GeoCaching. I took 'em to my cache I-5 PIT stop, and they were noisy about finding it. Lots of people observed us (it's at a rest stop). 2 days later, the next cacher couldn't find it, so I checked it...ammo can and contents long gone! Quote Link to comment
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