First Cache Jitters

[+MaxEntropy]

So, I set my first cache yesterday. To make it interesting, it's a four-stage multi-cache. I double check the coordinates, I double-check the clues and I enter it, it gets approved and now the hard part. I sit around waiting for someone to log it wondering all the while if I messed something up and the first log will be a no-find or worse, a note pointing out an obvious error.

 

Who here has really goofed their first...or any cache? I'd like to know so that just in case, I'll find myself in good company.

 

Mickey

Expectant Cacher

[+Harrald]

Well, As of now (3 mins after your post) It has been found. It seems the finder was pretty happy with your effort.

 

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As always, the above statements are just MHO.

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[+Deadreckoning]

I hid my first cache last spring. 3 cachers found it with in 20 hour of it placement .I have hidden a few since that time and have screwed several of them up by being in a rush . There is one near the top of Mt Bailey Oregon. that I have placed and the cooridinates are wrong. I noted the location of where we hide are bikes and some how deleted the location of the cache.The cache is in a small cave, 15 feet above the trail before you get to the window looking at Mt Theilson ,if any one is interested in doing a cache without cooridnates.

[+briansnat]

I've made two mistakes. Both were typos. One I noticed that it was in the middle of the Atlantic, which indicated to me right away that there was a problem.

 

The other, I keyed in the W coordinates of the cache and the N coordinates of the parking area. I noticed when I looked at the map the next day that the cache wasn't as close to a river as I thought it should be. The bad coordinates had it a half mile off. Thank goodness I corrected it before someone went to look for it.

 

"You can't make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs, but by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" -Max Beerbohm

[BassoonPilot]

Oh, there are some specialists in incorrect/transposed coordinates out there.

 

I've done it twice myself.

 

The cache farthest off the posted coordinates that I was able to find was just over a half mile ... it was a webcam cache along a boardwalk, so I just kept walking until I spotted it.

 

Another time, I couldn't find a virtual cache. By a stroke of good luck, I spotted it quite by accident on my second attempt ... it was .3 mile from the posted coordinates.

 

I've also found a few that were close to 500 feet off the posted coordinates ... I used the clues for a couple of them, and on another couple "cache sense" told me to "look over there" and I lucked out.

[Tahosa and Sons]

These little mistakes make us newbies all over again.

 

I put the wrong GC# on one Cache and instead of sending them to someplace in town, it was for a Cache in Italy. Slightly expensive and quite a ways to go for a Cache.

 

Just did one last week was looking at D°M.MM' and put it where my brain was thinking in D°MM'SS" that put one Cacher on a double try. And even though I EMailed him the correct coordinates he forgot to put in the seconds and wound up meadearing all over the ridge.

 

Sometimes its harder to plant than find.

 

Tahosa - Dweller of the Mountain Tops.

[+Freelens&Mosie]

We placed our first cache Thanksgiving morning. We came home and submitted it for approval at 11:30 A.M. and went out to a movie. When we got home at 4:30 P.M. the cache had already been approved and the first finder had logged it. Quick work. No time to be anxious.

 

 

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

[Brendano]

I was looking for a cache once where the suggested parking spot was about 100 m into the ocean. Didn't take their advice on that one, but found the cache alright.