Do you remeber the first item you took from a cache?

March 7, 2002

Well, It took me a while to research the question, but the first item I took from a cache was a Vassar lanyard from a cache hidden by tecmnage, the originator of this topic. And in an interesting twist, the gold dollar taken by tecmage was left in a central Iowa cache by myself in my first find ever. Kinda lets you know that there weren't many of us in the game in central Iowa back them. The situation has certainly changed.

It's nice to know that while I probably won't log 127 finds for a while, the gold dollar I left in my first find has visited, in a way, all those caches

March 7, 2002

I actually remember the hike more than the object we took. Hiking with a buddy in january in the woods of wisconsin! It was a blast and hooked us both for life. Actually I believe we took a plastic furbie-like doll for the grandkids and left a majic wallet.

March 7, 2002

It wasn't that long ago, but I took a 25 cent pack of Wrigles spearmint gum. For some reason my breath was really kickin that day, and the gum seemed to calm thing down a bit..

1.3k · March 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by tecmage:
What was your first item?

Richard

Oh my, it was so long ago... I forgot and had to look it up.

I took a flattened penny.

March 7, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Markwell:

Going on my caching anniversary next Wednesday, if the weather holds.

Markwell

Non omnes vagi perditi sunt

Happy Anniversary (early of course)! We hope to get over your way next weekend to find a few caches in Illinois.

March 7, 2002

The first item I took from a cache was at the fourth find of my first day of caching. I was in a group of four, and I spotted it first, and we were the first finders. I took a dollar store pool table game (the kind with the spring-loaded pool cues.)

March 7, 2002

The first item I took from a cache was at the fourth find of my first day of caching. I was in a group of four, and I spotted it first, and we were the first finders. I took a dollar store pool table game (the kind with the spring-loaded pool cues.)

March 7, 2002

I remember my first cache hunt. It was to "Wilson," the first cache in Louisiana. I left empty-handed... I guess that's why I have such a problem with that now. I got ate up by mosquitoes, and had bites for weeks. The second time I went, I wasn't playing, I brought a friend, a can of bug spray, and a machete. We hacked for like an hour, got rained on, and finally found the trail about 10 feet from the cache (on the way OUT). I got a mini-skateboard type Mc-toy. I can still remember everybody laughing... you got WHAT? I'm still hooked.

~RBDupuy.

March 7, 2002

I remember my first cache hunt. It was to "Wilson," the first cache in Louisiana. I left empty-handed... I guess that's why I have such a problem with that now. I got ate up by mosquitoes, and had bites for weeks. The second time I went, I wasn't playing, I brought a friend, a can of bug spray, and a machete. We hacked for like an hour, got rained on, and finally found the trail about 10 feet from the cache (on the way OUT). I got a mini-skateboard type Mc-toy. I can still remember everybody laughing... you got WHAT? I'm still hooked.

~RBDupuy.

March 7, 2002

I took an eraser from my first find. It still sits on my desk.

Weezer

March 7, 2002

I remember the hike, the cache, and who I was with, but I don't remember a thing about the trinkets.

March 7, 2002

I've only done 3 caches (my wife is making me wait on her for the others). I remember not taking a path, and just following the GPS .. walking through stickers and crud like that ... finally finding a trail .. then walking around like my dog trying to find a place to do her business ... I spotted the green matte finished box ... I undid the latch .. and .. DOH! I didn't know how to open an ammo can (it's been a while since boy scouts) ... after much pulling and tugging, I moved the latch a little bit .. and it popped right open. I signed the logbook, signed GoDZirra ... re-hid it ... got to the car ... and realized I didn't even look at what was there and forgot to put what I had brought with me into the cache .. Poor Chris Jericho action figure is now in the Boy Scout Camp cache ...

It is late, and I'm rambling. So, long story short, I remember the journey .. and I didn't take anything. I'm not sure I ever will .. unless something really sweet pops up. I'm waiting on my mini-Godzirras to come in the mail so that I can start placing them in caches, and putting a little serial number on them with my E-mail address to track it, kinda like a travel bug. Only I guess it would be a travel lizard. And, hopefully, one of the mini-Godzirra's make it to Tokyo.

I've rambled long enough.

Godzirra (roar)

March 7, 2002

I've only done 3 caches (my wife is making me wait on her for the others). I remember not taking a path, and just following the GPS .. walking through stickers and crud like that ... finally finding a trail .. then walking around like my dog trying to find a place to do her business ... I spotted the green matte finished box ... I undid the latch .. and .. DOH! I didn't know how to open an ammo can (it's been a while since boy scouts) ... after much pulling and tugging, I moved the latch a little bit .. and it popped right open. I signed the logbook, signed GoDZirra ... re-hid it ... got to the car ... and realized I didn't even look at what was there and forgot to put what I had brought with me into the cache .. Poor Chris Jericho action figure is now in the Boy Scout Camp cache ...

It is late, and I'm rambling. So, long story short, I remember the journey .. and I didn't take anything. I'm not sure I ever will .. unless something really sweet pops up. I'm waiting on my mini-Godzirras to come in the mail so that I can start placing them in caches, and putting a little serial number on them with my E-mail address to track it, kinda like a travel bug. Only I guess it would be a travel lizard. And, hopefully, one of the mini-Godzirra's make it to Tokyo.

I've rambled long enough.

Godzirra (roar)

March 7, 2002

The first cache I ever found was fairly easy...I had my daughter and nephew...so they made the trades. She took a whistle (and drove me insane all the way home) and my nephew took a U.S. Navy lanyard.

Shybabe924

March 8, 2002

A pair of pliers

March 8, 2002

A kazoo

After I read in the paper about Geocaching, I looked up the close ones,(doesn't everybody?) found on 3 miles from work and found it the next day. Left a toy carabiner. I was the first finder. Is that called a first/first?

March 8, 2002

A backpack clip with a puppy dog and a fire engine, kids loved both. They still have them proudly displayed.

1.2k · March 8, 2002

Our first item was a small brown fuzzy Teddy Bear from the Texas Star cache at the San Jacinto Battlefield park in Deer Park, Texas. We went and found our second cache that same day in the State Park in Huntsville, and found a small crystal teddy bear in that one, so we have a teddy bear kind of day...LOL. This truly hooked the kids on Geocaching, as I was already.

1.2k · March 8, 2002

Our first item was a small brown fuzzy Teddy Bear from the Texas Star cache at the San Jacinto Battlefield park in Deer Park, Texas. We went and found our second cache that same day in the State Park in Huntsville, and found a small crystal teddy bear in that one, so we have a teddy bear kind of day...LOL. This truly hooked the kids on Geocaching, as I was already.

March 8, 2002

A Dreamcatcher. We still have that one. Nearly everything else gets placed into another cache.

--- Mikel & ErinsWeb

March 8, 2002

It was a Under Dog pin I was so happy about my first cache I wore it all day at work

March 9, 2002

Ahh! This one is easy. The Cache was The San Juan Hill, and the item was a green bendable Gumby....and as the say the rest was history!

Jeff and Sherrie

March 9, 2002

Yes, I remember even if it was Sept 2000. I took pictures and left foot prints. I wasn't sure what kind of "treasures" were in geocaches, so I wanted to look in one before doing trades. The cache (with it's two digit id) is still active. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=33

March 9, 2002

I honestly don't remember the first item I got from a cache, but I remember the hunt like it was yesterday.

I had my Mag 315 for a few years and found it be a fun and sometimes very useful item. I used it probably three or four times a year and always wished I had more uses for it.

When I heard about geocaching I new I'd have to try it. I picked the closest cache to me (DuckWalk Cache By Elwood) and headed out. The cache was in our city park that I had been to many times but that day felt very different. I got to the general location and searched for probably twenty minutes because thick tree cover kept moving the location around a small area. Obviously I didn't have my caching skills honed.

When I finally found that little jug, I WAS HOOKED!! The thrill of being able to go to a spot anywhere on the earth and find something specific with my little 'gaget' was an instant rush. I bagged one more that day and three the next!

I have been hooked ever since. Getting deeper and deeper involved in a hobby/sport that has shown me areas in my own neck of the woods that I have never seen and people that I am proud to associate with. Frankly, my faith in my fellow human being had been getting a bit hard.

Geocaching changed that and has kept me interested and active. My wife, my brother, my sister are all converts after seeing what it does for me and I cache with them often.

Long answer to a short question. I guess the short answer is:

I was going to say I don't care, but I guess the real answer is 'All of the above' is what I got from my first cache.

[This message was edited by Ranz on March 09, 2002 at 03:03 PM.]

March 9, 2002

I took a picture...of my son holding our first find. Didn't take anything out of the cache.

The picture is worth more than anything we could have traded for.

[This message was edited by S Sac Al on March 09, 2002 at 11:24 PM.]

March 9, 2002

I took a picture...of my son holding our first find. Didn't take anything out of the cache.

The picture is worth more than anything we could have traded for.

[This message was edited by S Sac Al on March 09, 2002 at 11:24 PM.]

March 9, 2002

We still don't have our GPSR, but we went out to two Letterbox/Geocache combos today. First item I took was a travel bug so we drove her 20 miles west to another more well travelled cache.

This is going to be way fun.

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Opus P

Crathvaf Ehyr

Visit my Buddhist Reading Room.

[This message was edited by Opus P on March 09, 2002 at 11:33 PM.]

March 9, 2002

We still don't have our GPSR, but we went out to two Letterbox/Geocache combos today. First item I took was a travel bug so we drove her 20 miles west to another more well travelled cache.

This is going to be way fun.

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Opus P

Crathvaf Ehyr

Visit my Buddhist Reading Room.

[This message was edited by Opus P on March 09, 2002 at 11:33 PM.]

March 9, 2002

I still have the first item I found -- a dayglow orange tapemeasure. I have a large cigar box in which I keep EVERY thing I've taken from a cache. (I tend to take small items like keychains, coins, plastic toys, etc.)

My plan is to celebrate my 50th Cache (coming up soon) by placing all my Treasure items in ONE special cache.

Jolly R. Blackburn

Editor/Creator, Knights of the Dinner Table

March 9, 2002

quote:
Originally posted by Team CacheCows of Wisconsin:
What? Remember just the first one? We have kept every single one we have taken and have them on display!

We decided not to keep them, mostly, but to take pictures of them and keep those instead. In fact I'm planning a page for one of our web sites to display the pictures.

We took our camera to both caches today, but forgot to photograph the actual cache or us at them. So we just photographed the items when we got them home.

Next time we'll remember to take pictures AT the cache.

By the way, here is the Travel Bug we moved today:

Might log another one in the morning.

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Opus P

Crathvaf Ehyr

Visit my Buddhist Reading Room.

[This message was edited by Opus P on March 09, 2002 at 11:33 PM.]

March 10, 2002

The first thing I ever took from a cache was a copy of "Life's Little Instruction Book, Volume II" from the Teton Pass Cache last fall.

I still have it, and like others I actually still have most of the things I've traded for.

March 10, 2002

quote:

What was your first item?

A RangaTang fishing lure. I left an army surplus can openner.

March 10, 2002

It was a Geocaching.com keychain.

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Kent

Shenandoah Valley, Virginia USA

"Is this cool, or WHAT?!"

2.7k · March 10, 2002

Yes we can remember here is a copy of the log.

Oct 3 2001 0900

Corey(my 9 year old son)and I found your cache! Swapped a key chain and Compass thermometer, now he has his first compass. Left of water bottle, key chain with a special key, and a treasure map.

In several weeks @ aprox 340 deg and 2.5 mi. there will be a multi cache.

Joe & Corey

The "Bushwhacker"

2.7k · March 10, 2002

Yes we can remember here is a copy of the log.

Oct 3 2001 0900

Corey(my 9 year old son)and I found your cache! Swapped a key chain and Compass thermometer, now he has his first compass. Left of water bottle, key chain with a special key, and a treasure map.

In several weeks @ aprox 340 deg and 2.5 mi. there will be a multi cache.

Joe & Corey

The "Bushwhacker"

March 10, 2002

My first find was a stubby screwdriver. Still have it. Left a ceramic sturgeon.

Mike (The DirtMan) Pellerin

aka Badger

dirtman@iname.com

March 10, 2002

My first find was a stubby screwdriver. Still have it. Left a ceramic sturgeon.

Mike (The DirtMan) Pellerin

aka Badger

dirtman@iname.com

March 10, 2002

A very compact stubby screwdriver set. there were cordless screwdriver bits and an extension in the handle. the whole thing is about the size of a golf ball. I left a $5 scrimshaw locking folding knife in its place.

I chose that particular cache to be my first because it was placed on my birthday.

March 10, 2002

My first item was a small red glass bottle... I made sure I took something that could sit on my desk at work.

> Martin (Magellan 330)

Don't have time to program and record your shows while geocaching? Get a TiVo!

March 12, 2002

Yes, I remember. It was a BigFig cache. He placed some high quality caches! (you still out there BF?) Turns out he was into the lapidary thing and we took an uncut blue lapis stone. We were first finders. My wife wanted the stone and I the cigar. Course you know who won that argument. We went on to find his others and ended up with some rose quartz ear rings, and genuine emralds etc.. etc.. quality caches all. Hats off to you BF!

March 12, 2002

Ddog choose a Boba Fett figure, you cant go wrong with Star Wars.

March 12, 2002

Ddog choose a Boba Fett figure, you cant go wrong with Star Wars.

March 13, 2002

I tried to remember what my first prize was but I can't. This worries me because it was only a month ago and I only have 8 finds under my belt so far. I guess old age is catching up to me. I do remember how excited I was that I actually found it and that I felt a little guilty taking something (even though I left something in return). I will probably never forget that feeling or where it was located.

P.S. I am going directly to the log on that cache to see what I exchanged.

March 13, 2002

My first item was a stuffed Pillsbury Doughboy. I think you can see him in the picture I have with my profile. (He's sitting on top of the cache)

March 13, 2002

It's been almost one year ago that on a cool 50 degree day in Michigan I swam across a small pond while my wife laughed at me and found "Rabbit Island" It contained a Douglas Adam's book that I wanted but since the water was about 8 foot deep and I was soaked I took nothing left nothing. I was hooked and that is still one of my favorite caches because of the challenge I had being the first one to it.

Rusty...

Rusty & Libby's Geocache Page

March 13, 2002

The first item I found was a yellow monster finger puppet in a cache in Indy. I sill have it. I like those cute monster type things.

March 14, 2002

My first cache item was also at the first cache in the area. Meach lake pressure cooker. This was an early spring walk trough the bush with still lot's of snow.After sweating it out to the mountain top and a great experience me and my son tooked a tin container full of mints and a energie bar.

1.4k · March 14, 2002

Here's what Mike Teague wrote about the very first trade:

quote:
Here's what I remember about the "first cache":

a can of Western Family brand beans -- I think kidney beans or "chili beans".. . I do remember the brand name, not the particular type of bean . Western Family is a local (generic) brand up here in the NW. -- I just spoke to my brother, he thinks they were black-eyed peas, but he is not sure either.

a slingshot (just the frame, no rubber tubing)

some version of TopoUSA for PC..

Ross Perot's book (i forget the title, it's his well-known book though) in paperback form.

I think there was also a burned cdrom of various SW Washington DRG's...

$2 cash

The only thing missing was the tape recorder which Mr Ulmer had taken out to fix so people could record messages on it.. I never saw that..

If I remember correctly, my brother took the $2 and we left a bunch of cigarettes. (we didn't have any guidelines then )

March 14, 2002

being an avid reader, the item I took from my first cache was a copy of "Catcher in the Rye". And now that I've finished it, I will be placing it in a future cache (along with a Lego Geo-Cacher) so some one else can read it... kind of a non-TB'd Literary TB...

"You will kneel before her in her altar in the trees" - Tara MacLean, Let Her Feel The Rain

March 14, 2002

being an avid reader, the item I took from my first cache was a copy of "Catcher in the Rye". And now that I've finished it, I will be placing it in a future cache (along with a Lego Geo-Cacher) so some one else can read it... kind of a non-TB'd Literary TB...

"You will kneel before her in her altar in the trees" - Tara MacLean, Let Her Feel The Rain

Do you remeber the first item you took from a cache?

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