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Originally posted by carleenp:

I scratched up the bumper of my car on the way to a cache and then found the GPS sticker in the cache. I don't like to put stickers on my car, but since it was already marred, it seemed appropriate to put it by the scratch.

 


 

TOO BAD the sticker wasn't quite a bit LARGER!! icon_frown.gif It could have covered the scratch. Sorry about the battle scar! But a least you got your *Medal* soon after the injury. icon_smile.gif

 

Bob ~

This is like deja vu all over again...

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This is what happened to me on my way back from planting this cache. It was a rental car so I figured what the heck I can make it though that puddle! I was quite deep in the woods. Good thing my friend Mike (2snowdogs) was willing to come save me. I gave him my coords and he was there in 15 minutes. Then he went and logged a FTF on my cache.

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I still never hear the end of it. Every time we see a PT Cruiser Mike says 'hey, should I ask him how to put that in 4 wheel drive?'

 

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Because now I am Lost.

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Originally posted by AmishHacker:

I just read about these two pics in http://ubbx.Groundspeak.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=5726007311&f=4016058331&m=77360769. I would like to know if anyone else had vehicle stuck or something happen to a vehicle while geocaching. Please Post Pics if you have them.

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/4d0e4c67-6350-4426-8bc1-e294d4444fe6.jpg http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/67802_200.jpg

 

.-=Amish_Hacker=-.

==Clippy Clop Clippy Clop Bang Bang Clippy Clop==

'=-Amish Drive By-='


Iguess those are some dedicated cachers, willing to "GO EXTREAM CACHING " I guess.
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  • an extreme cache that took one month to complete
  • 5,000 kms of driving
  • deep in the backcountry
  • one wheel in the air with a 500 foot drop off on the other side
  • only way out was to back further over the edge
  • got out safely
  • changed pants
  • got $3,000 first place prize
  • PRICELESS

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[This message was edited by Curious George on November 04, 2003 at 10:44 AM.]

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Originally posted by Curious George:

+ an extreme cache that took one month to complete+ 5,000 kms of driving+ deep in the backcountry+ one wheel in the air with a 500 foot drop off on the other side+ only way out was to back further over the edge+ got out safely+ changed pants+ got $3,000 first place prize+ PRICELESS

http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/log/display/286a2520-d302-468e-973d-cb997bc78a7f.jpg

 

[This message was edited by Curious George on November 04, 2003 at 10:44 AM.]


 

What cache was this? anymore details....sounds intresting!!

 

.-=Amish_Hacker=-.

==Clippy Clop Clippy Clop Bang Bang Clippy Clop==

'=-Amish Drive By-='

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This doens't really count as a geocaching vehicle. Its a picture of a front-end loader that I came across on one of my earlier cache finds (Nature Reserve #1). It was in a bog. Someone told me that they apparently even unsuccessfully tried to get it out with a helicopter! Now its kind of a tourist attraction and they have actually built the raised wooden pathway around it.

 

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I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

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Originally posted by SLCDave:

I got stuck going to a cache in Russia. The military wasn't very happy. Here are the http://ufo_pictures.tripod.com/russia.html icon_wink.gif

 

"I'm 35 Years old, I am divorced, and I live in van down by the river!" - Matt Foley


 

ROFL! But you didn't say whether you survived the autopsy?

 

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. The rest go geocaching.

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Originally posted by seneca:

This doens't really count as a geocaching vehicle. Its a picture of a front-end loader that I came across on one of my earlier cache finds (Nature Reserve #1). It was in a bog. Someone told me that they apparently even unsuccessfully tried to get it out with a helicopter! Now its kind of a tourist attraction and they have actually built the raised wooden pathway around it.


What's even funnier is that the Cat in your photo was the one sent in to rescue the one that you can't see anymore. There's two of them in there!

 

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Gorak

 

I love frogs. They taste like chicken. Yum.

 

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been passionate, rebellious, and immature." --Tom Robbins

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Wow, I have been stuck a few times, not while geocaching, and unfortunatley never had a digital camera available. maybe next time.

 

A friend who owned a jeep once told me that if you have never been stuck, you have never really been off roading. I think he is right on. Every vehicle will get stuck at one time or another. Hats off to those who push the limits.

 

This thread is a good reminder to make sure your caching ride is prepared. I always carry the essentials for myself, and at minimum tow straps, shackles, shovel and other various things for unstucking a truck. Best thing you can have is another vehicle to either go for help, or use the strap to give you a tug in the right direction.

 

Good pictures.

 

Patti and Matthew McKenna, Watsonville California

Garmin 72

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Originally posted by Suspect2:

Here is me scoping an area out the other day...

 

http://www.genuinemind.net/uploads/xcaching1.jpg

 

I wasn't stuck... I was in 4Lo in a very capable off road vehicle.

 

HOWEVER... today I got stuck in mud bad! See this thread for the human stuckage today. http://ubbx.Groundspeak.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=5726007311&f=6216058331&m=56960999

 

Hey Suspect,

 

Good to see another XOC'er on GC.com. See Avatar.

 

Jason

 

SO THAT ONE MAY WALK IN PEACE.......

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This is what happened to me on my way back from planting <A HREF="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=95529" TARGET=_blank>this cache.</A> It was a rental car so I figured what the heck I can make it though that puddle! I was quite deep in the woods. Good thing my friend Mike (2snowdogs) was willing to come save me. I gave him my coords and he was there in 15 minutes. Then he went and logged a FTF on my cache.<BR><IMG SRC="http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/95529_200.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://img.Groundspeak.com/cache/95529_300.jpg"> <BR>I still never hear the end of it. Every time we see a PT Cruiser Mike says 'hey, should I ask him how to put that in 4 wheel drive?' <BR><BR>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-<BR>I took the one less traveled by,<BR>And that has made all the difference. <BR>Because now I am Lost.

So, did you wash the car before you took it back to the rental agency?

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I spent 6 hours one night stuck at this cache, Iced Tea 14 Lights Up My Life (GC3F30), log from July 8th, 2003. It was 9PM, just getting dark and I stuck my nose into the beginning of the trail to see if it was still really muddy, it was, and I lost my nose. Called a friend to give me a hand and he grabbed his camera, but did not want to go to the front of my truck. Where I drove in was not all that bad, except this one rut that was filled in with mud, I sunk into it right to the frame. Bad combination, worn tires, sand, clay, regular dirt and a little water mixed in.

 

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Here I am asking to not have my picture taken around 11PM after trying to jack the front end up and digging, there is a shovel in the truck now.

 

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Ended up with a flat tire, sand in the bead.

 

I ended up getting a dump truck that was delivering asphalt for the highway nearby to give me a yank out sideways (explains the sand in my tire) at 3AM after several attempts to get a tow truck, they did not want to go in after me. Gotta get myself a winch, and some new tires!

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The only trouble I have had with a vehicle while Geocaching happened on the last day of our vacation in Hawaii. I went hunting early expecting to be back long before check out time. The cache was on a beautiful beach on Hawaii's Kona coast about 12 miles from our condo. I parked the rental, grabbed the GPSr and locked the keys in the trunk with my cell phone. Needless to say it was a long day. I did log the cache. I did pick up my family sitting in the street in front of the condo. I did make the 6 hour flight home. What an adventure! :)

Sorry no pics.

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Jason that Avatar looks too familiar.

 

Dude- you missed out on a few of the caches we got on the last Xcursion. On one of them, Smuggler's Cave, we kind of took the scenic route. Our vehicles didn't get stuck but we made a few hiking mistakes on the way. We didn't bring water or any hand held radios. After making a few bad decisions following a trail left by illegal immigrants we never really got any closer to the cache. But eventually we made it to the cache in 45 minutes. We found the real trail back to hte trucks and it only took 10 minutes.

 

Dave

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:)

 

. Gotta get myself a winch, and some new tires!

 

Yup, then you can get stuck further off road.......LOL. Best off to get two winches, one for your truck and one for your buddy as sometimes that is the ONLY way to get out.

 

Helps to be real inventive too, carry lots of ropes, pulleys, and even a good folding anchor, as well as at least one Jack-all. One thing that really helped was to mount the winch on a trailer reciever so that you can mount it either in the front or the back of the truck. If you drive into something and get stuck the front mounted winch is not so helpful in getting you BACK out, if you want to return to where you were not stuck......

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If my scanner was working, I'd have a picture or two of my cousin's truck. We went hunting in Colorado just over a year ago. We drove his 82 Blazer 4x4 with a winch. We got stuck in a wash that he thought his truck was short enough to make. The winch bumper proved to shorten the approach angle just enough...

Not only was the bumper stuck in the dirt, it had gone over and got hung up on the root of some sagebrush. We dug out enough underneath for the winch cable, but he had already dug the tires in too deep.

After a long walk back to camp (including hitching a ride with some other hunters on ATV's) we called a tow truck. On the way back to the Blazer, the tow truck driver got stuck! We had to dig him out (at least he had shovels with him) before rescuing our truck. On top of that, we still had to pay him around $350 to get our truck unstuck.

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I helped my buddy install a winch on his Ford 4x4. Front mounted, with a piece of U-channel running the length of the frame underneath. The winch hook was attached to the back bumper so that we had winching ability both front and back. Saved our butts a couple of times, including once when he made it through ahead of me and I got stuck. He couldn't turn around, but was able to winch me out anyway with that cool little setup.

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