You know it was a successful cache hunt when...

[Guest kbraband]

My wife and I thought of this thread as we walked back to our vehicle tonight in the dark after a cache hunt. Our contribution:

 

You know it was a successful cache hunt when... you approach your car and there are no red flashing lights next to it.

[Guest brokenwing]

you walk back to your car and it's actually where you remember!

 

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you walk back to your car and it's still there!

 

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[Guest EraSeek]

You know it is a successful cache hunt when...you come away with an unusual story to tell:

come across a very playful sea otter playing with a with some people, even crawling up on their lap while they float in inner tubes;

 

come across the ashes of someone in a wooden box on a mountaintop;

 

come across a Buddist lady praying in the woods;

 

come across a deer in a downtown nieghborhood;

 

crawl around in a sea cave, no cache but what a cool place;

 

see cougar prints while looking for the cache; etc

 

[Guest navdog]

You know it was a successful cache hunt when...

 

You get back in the car and you are even more excited to head off to the next one. And if it was the only one for the day, then you spend the whole trip home with your body infused with the sights, sounds, and smells of the days adventure. Remember, it is the journey that matters in the end.

[Guest bunkerdave]

You scratch the h**l out of the paint on your new car, ruin your tires, lose a nice PDA stylus you forgot to replace after decoding the hint in you PDA, find only 10 of 14 caches sought for the day, and put a gash in your knee requiring 5 stitches....

 

and before you even get back home you can't wait to go out and hunt the next day.

[Guest Mopar]

You know it was a successful cache hunt when...

I get to spend time in the great outdoors, be it alone, or with friends or family. Doesn't really matter if I even find the cache. ok, maybe it matters just a little! Like Navdog said, it's the journey that matters.

[Guest Show Me The Cache]

e info sheets from geocaching.com...

 

The excitement increases as I plot my route on MapSend...

 

The anticipation causes me to wake up for the trip earlier than I planned on leaving...

 

My senses seem to become keener when I get out of the car at the site...

 

My heart rate quickens as I approach the cache...

 

I slap an imaginary internal high-five when I find it...

 

I think about it a few minutes on the way back to the car before my attention turns to the next one on down the road.

 

If most of this transpires, and I have picked up enough trash along the way to feel that I am improving the area...IT IS A SUCCESS!

[Guest kbraband]

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Originally posted by bunkerdave:

You scratch the h**l out of the paint on your new car, ruin your tires, lose a nice PDA stylus you forgot to replace after decoding the hint in you PDA, find only 10 of 14 caches sought for the day, and put a gash in your knee requiring 5 stitches....

 

and before you even get back home you can't wait to go out and hunt the next day.

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Good one, bunkerdave. I was kinda hoping for humorous responses like this one, but all are welcomed.

[Guest logscaler]

....for the Oregon wet side, you can cover all the blackberry vine scratches with only one box of band-aids.

 

.... for the Oregon dry side, you only have to throw away one pair of socks and one set of shoe laces because you could not get the cheat grass out.

[Guest Choberiba]

Kbraband was: kinda hoping for humorous responses like [bunker Daves]

 

Sadly, my impulse post was much the same as Daves.

 

You know it was successful when you return to your car to find a smashed window, glass everywhere, and a nice crisp day to drive home in.

 

In spite of all this (on your birthday no less) you can't wait for the next excuse to hunt/place a cache.

 

I fele pretty dang successful in my find when I stumbled across the beast with two backs on a recent hunt. Had me snickering for the better part of an hour, that.

[Guest Rich in NEPA]

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You know it was a successful cache hunt when ...

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... you get back to your car and find that it wasn't mauled by a bear looking for food!

 

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~Rich in NEPA~

 

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[Guest infosponge]

A bad day geocaching is still better than a good day at work...

[Guest infosponge]

A bad day geocaching is still better than a good day at work...

[Guest glenn95630]

I'm trying to figure out what an unsuccessful cache hunt is.

[Guest mcb]

Standing in the middle of the woods and just.... ...sigh.

[Guest yrium]

... at one point in your cache hunt you were sliding down a slippery slope towards a precipice with your only hope of stopping being a full grown cactus...

 

... and then stopping gracefully I must say.

 

It happened here http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=7454

 

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[Guest jbmccarthy69]

You know it was a successful cache hunt when...

 

you have the constant reminder...

the poison oak you pick up.

 

[Guest ClayJar]

...you weigh as much coming back as you did going out. (Thorns for skin, mud for sweat, burrs for threads...)

 

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Originally posted by glenn95630:

I'm trying to figure out what an unsuccessful cache hunt is.

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Being turned back by active cemetaries or US government property makes for an unsuccessful cache hunt. (Experience speaks.)

[Guest bunkerdave]

 

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[Guest bunkerdave]

 

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[Guest McIrish]

Getting within 500ft of a cache and realizing that you took the wrong path and it is 500ft straight above you.....so your son (part mountain goat) heads straight up instead of backtracking and you stupidly follow.....and you have an insulin reaction on the way up....and you didn't bring water (even though it is 108 degrees outside) because the GPS said it was only 500 feet away....so your son has to run to the car to get water for you while your 78 year old father fans you to keep you from passing out......and you get food and water and you find the cache and the view is breathtaking!!!! Now that is a successful day of caching!

[Guest Plus one]

You Know its a successful cache when plus one comes around. Aye McIrish

[Guest Rich in NEPA]

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Originally posted by bunkerdave:

Looks like we are both sporting the Outback.

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BD, how'd it happen? Looks kinda like a tree sideswiped you. ;-)

 

In my case, I was parked in a little pull-off on a desolate rural road while engaged in a Geocache hunt. I was gone for a couple of hours. When I returned that is what I saw: my right front fender pushed in, fur and large muddy paw marks around it, and bear tracks on the wet ground as well. I had some snacks in the car that it must have smelled and thought it could easily get at. My Subaru dealer is really great and he had the fender replaced in 2 days. The cost was covered under my comprehensive except for the deductible. Guess it could've been worse. Cheers ...

 

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[Guest bunkerdave]

I am actually a little embarrassed to say, but I was going up a road to a cache, and there was this pickup with a horse trailer (hunting season) parked square in the middle of the road (one lane) essentially completely blocking the road. After assessing the situation, I determined the only thing to do (other than turning back - as IF) was to go around on the slight uphill. This worked fine, until I was almost past the trailer, and then I started to slide down hill ever so slightly, until there was just a few inches between my door and the back of the trailer. I tried to keep away, but there ultimately was nothing to do but to go on through and hope for the best. What I ended up with was actually a lot better than I had dared hope at that point. I was sure I was going to have nasty scrapes all down the rear end of my Outback. Some of what you see, indeed, probably most, is dirt, so it looks worse than it is. This was en route to my second cache of the day (out of 14 attempted) during one of my "wife-is-out-of-town" trips that tend to make me go more than a little nuts. I was quite upset about the whole thing for about 45 minutes, or as long as it took me to find the next cache, and then I was having fun again, and while it bugged me, I was pleased that my stupidity had not been more costly in this instance. Anyway, that is the story. Not quite as "fun" as a BEAR. (and much more embarrassing) Lesson learned.

 

On another note, you should SEE some of the places I have taken this thing. Once I finally got rid of those crappy factory Firestones, my enjoyment increased considerably.

 

Anyway, here's to many more Outback adventures!

[Guest bunkerdave]

I am actually a little embarrassed to say, but I was going up a road to a cache, and there was this pickup with a horse trailer (hunting season) parked square in the middle of the road (one lane) essentially completely blocking the road. After assessing the situation, I determined the only thing to do (other than turning back - as IF) was to go around on the slight uphill. This worked fine, until I was almost past the trailer, and then I started to slide down hill ever so slightly, until there was just a few inches between my door and the back of the trailer. I tried to keep away, but there ultimately was nothing to do but to go on through and hope for the best. What I ended up with was actually a lot better than I had dared hope at that point. I was sure I was going to have nasty scrapes all down the rear end of my Outback. Some of what you see, indeed, probably most, is dirt, so it looks worse than it is. This was en route to my second cache of the day (out of 14 attempted) during one of my "wife-is-out-of-town" trips that tend to make me go more than a little nuts. I was quite upset about the whole thing for about 45 minutes, or as long as it took me to find the next cache, and then I was having fun again, and while it bugged me, I was pleased that my stupidity had not been more costly in this instance. Anyway, that is the story. Not quite as "fun" as a BEAR. (and much more embarrassing) Lesson learned.

 

On another note, you should SEE some of the places I have taken this thing. Once I finally got rid of those crappy factory Firestones, my enjoyment increased considerably.

 

Anyway, here's to many more Outback adventures!

[Guest Rich in NEPA]

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Originally posted by bunkerdave:

Once I finally got rid of those crappy factory Firestones, my enjoyment increased considerably.

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BD, I agree about the tires. My '97 Outback had Michelin MX4's and they were great in the rain and snow. The Firestones are a bit disappointing. I'm due for new tires and was considering either a new vehicle or a set of Goodyear Eagle RS-A's. If you don't mind my asking, what is your Outback wearing for shoes these days, and how do they seem to perform? Cheers ...

 

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~Rich in NEPA~

 

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[Guest McIrish]

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Originally posted by Plus one:

You Know its a successful cache when plus one comes around. Aye McIrish

 

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Ahh, and it is a fine day when plus one comes around. Good to see you on your own now plus one....

[Guest bunkerdave]

be. Quiet, smooth, no squeal in hard corners, and a dream in the snow. I wouldn't put anything else on my Outback.

 

I checked - the tires are Big O Legacy Tour Plus. You will be able to identify them easily by the twin rain grooves (similar to the "aquatred" line from Goodyear.)

 

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[Guest web-ling]

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Originally posted by kbraband:

You know it was a successful cache hunt when...

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...you've spent the day dragging a 3 year old and a 5 year old through rain, mud, weeds, and thorns, and all they can talk about on the way home is "When can we go geocaching again?"

 

Web-ling