Cache Titles: What's The Best You've Seen?

December 3, 2003

One of the things Mrs. CC and I have come to love about caching is the titles of the caches we are about to find. We really enjoy when someone takes the time to come up with a cleaver or devious title.

What are some of your favorites? We've found that cache titles like Root Canal and Tired of Mircos?, where the title is a kind of play on words or hint about the cache, tends to be our favorite.

How bout yours?

Edited December 3, 2003 by CacheCreatures

2.6k · December 3, 2003

In the Ballpark is ingenious name for that multicache. There's a sports park nearby, but it's not related to the cache. 'Ball' is a direct English translation of the Finnish name of the composer mentioned in the cache description. (Other translations could be pellet, shot, bullet or even marble. )

Shhh! Don't tell that to the Finnish cachers who haven't found the cache yet.

Edit: typo

Edited December 3, 2003 by Divine

38.2k · December 3, 2003

I have The Best Cache in New Jersey. It's a relatively ordinary, single stage 2/2.5 cache. Since nobody else took the name, I thought I would.

Some other ones that I have that may, or may not be interesting, or funny to others are:

The Clams Claw

Moose Gills

Neither has anything to do with animals.

Rocky Horror

Because if you approach from the most obvious direction it's a difficult rock scramble. Approach from another direction and it's a piece of cake.

Lame Roadside Cache

I have several of these, so named because they are lame.

That's about it. All the rest are pretty much named for the area where they are hidden, or have something to do with the cache itself.

Edited December 3, 2003 by briansnat

2.3k · December 3, 2003

I liked this one, This Cache Rocks. It was hidden in the dunes of a Long Island beach.

4.8k · December 3, 2003

I enjoy the cache names that are a pun of some sort. Two that come to mind in our area are:

X Marks the Spot A fairly difficult great circle problem of two intersecting great circles (hence the X), but also another X appears to the observant cacher when they actually get to the cache site.

Moose View. I didn't realize the significance of the name until I got to the cache. Overlooks a Moose Lodge. Like Duh! I drive by the lodge nearly every day

3.5k · December 3, 2003

The really good ones I can think about would all require me to give the surprise away. Just let it be said that there are some very creative cachers out there who really work hard at naming their caches.

Bret

1.4k · December 3, 2003

Higher Education in Michigan is a good one for the name here in Michigan. It's not what you expect.

(actually it's one of my favorites overall... Dinoprophet is probably getting tired of me bragging this one up.)

Edited December 3, 2003 by trippy1976

2.3k · December 3, 2003

No one had used the: Worlds Easiest Cache. I placed it right next to Edge of Insanity, a Level 4 urban micro. It's the consolation prize for those who can't find the Edge.

2.7k · December 3, 2003

Found one that was called Hidden Park, you would never know a park was there unless it was for caching. I put one all the way on top of Crosier Mountain hence the name Bishops Staff. Then on the Drake (Garden Gate) trailhead there is one known as Drake's Dilemma. And I've used my son's name Corey in several of them. And I know there are lots more of them out their with some very creative names. One that I want to look for is Wintersteen Should be a Beer After I adopted a cache and renamed it Cameron's Rocky Mountain High then I really knew the true intrinsic meaning of that cache's name.

Edited December 3, 2003 by Tahosa and Sons

December 3, 2003

I personally like this one I did on my 40th birthday. "Life's Rocky - Get Over It!" It describes how I felt, but also describes the cache area and gives some hints to it. A rocky outcropping and you find the cache by getting over it!

December 3, 2003

Allow me to offer a shameless plug for The Lair of Bob the Bear.

In the non-shameless-plug category we have Enduring Freedom, 1938, Friends and Heroes, and Radio Waves.

Note that two of these are bad evil nasty awful virts that never should have been approved. Both were great to find.

Edited December 3, 2003 by Team Og Rof A Klaw

December 3, 2003

I love these threads that allow us to shamelessly advertise our own caches:

G(eocacher) C(acher) Phone Home

Wanna know what's 'best' about it? Go seek it!

Edited December 3, 2003 by bug&snake

4.8k · December 3, 2003

After I adopted a cache and renamed it Cameron's Rocky Mountain High then I really knew the true intrinsic meaning of that cache's name.

I was just about to mention Cameron's Rocky Mountain High! The cache logs explain the story.

December 3, 2003

I think trippy1976 has is right (Higher Learning)(MI).....i knew just from the name where it was but I would love to watch somebody try to find this one. I pass by it every single day on my way to class and have yet to get lucky. A very fun and interesting hide. A must if your in the area.

3.9k · December 3, 2003

I placed this one <-----HELL IS JUST AHEAD with help of other members of the evil horde to celebrate the 100th find of 2 cachers. While we were placing this we were trying to think of a name for it when we saw these carvings on some trees near the river. The carvings were dated in the early 60's and one had <----HELL IS JUST AHEAD carved on it. Now being El Diablo, how could I pass on that?

I have often wondered why it was carved there in the first place? I would love to here the story behind it.

El Diablo

Edited December 3, 2003 by El Diablo

1.3k · December 3, 2003

I placed a cache with a friend and fellow cacher called "Name this Cache" near some mysterious doors in an unexpected location. We want to know what the ddors are for, and the first cacher that finds the cache, and can convince us they know the purpose, gets to name the cache themselves.

3.1k · December 4, 2003

I like the title of this cache I own... Worlds Worst Cache but I feel the most clever of names is Go Ahead, Knock On Their Door which you have to do to appreciate the title.

3.1k · December 4, 2003

Dinoprophet is probably getting tired of me bragging this one up.

Nonsense, I can't hear enough of it, thanks! I've given a lot of thought to all my cache names. A good name always gets me more excited about doing a cache.

All in Michigan:

Superdad's Get Smart - Tequila Mockingbird takes its name from a Get Smart episode.

Soy-Based Biodegradable Pixie Dust by umc and VictoryMike.

The Omnivorous Bookworm and The Friendly Woodchipper by Ikenspike.

A favorite name I've only read about is Zartimus and Tripper's ince of Walcs (full name is actaully "Kevin was here(ince of Walcs)". The picture on the cache page explains it.

1.8k · December 4, 2003

I've got two... A cache that involves remembering a little math from high school called "Gee! I'm a Tree" (Geometry? Get it? Oh nevermind...)

I've also got the paradoxically named "Do Not Find This Cache"

December 4, 2003

I like to come up with (hopefully) humorous titles for my caches. If it gives the finder a clue, so be it.

Some of my favorite titles (so far) (spoilers ahead)...:

Push Me, Mom! -- the first clue to this multi-cache is on a tire swing

Read All About It -- the micro is hidden perilously close to a newspaper vending machine (Now what do you actually call those machines where you insert 50 cents, open the door and take out a paper?)

B R P(ee) -- this cache is very close to the entrance of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and is in a rest area

Dead Ends -- this multi-cache uses information taken from tombstones in small cemeteries

I Want My ATV! -- hidden in an ATV/hiking/biking/horseback riding park

OzGuff

3k · December 4, 2003

Geez, I can't believe my fellow local cachers forgot about the best named caches in MI. Since they forgot, here ya go, in order.

umc's 1st cache

umc's 2nd cache

umc's 3rd cache

umc's 4th cache

umc's 5th cache and

umc's 6th cache

Those are good names.

Yeah, you can call me original and creative.

4.5k · December 4, 2003

Horsefeathers a word coined I believe by Groucho Marx. I used it for my cache placed near a horse trail. I was thinking about something more profane, but changed it in keeping with the family nature of our hobby.

Alan

December 4, 2003

I have a "Read all about it too" - it's a book exchange and I'm a journalist...

But I really like:

"Forte dux in aro..."

A cheesey Latin joke - but it works. Say it, and that's what you'll see a lot of at the cache site... Another local name I like is "What-A-Cache"... It's a good cache too - and not mine... See, it's not all about shameless self cache promotion...

1.5k · December 4, 2003

It...Has You and Fundamental Flaw. The first because it literally does until you figure out the answers and have them verified. The first cacher to find it was literally up for 2 straight days watching the movie to figure out the clues, which were very hard to spot and a few were almost impossible if you didn't have the DVD and a semi-clear TV. Others have greatly enjoyed finding the answers and going out to find the pills.

Fundamental Flaw is a play on words used by the Architect in Matrix: Reloaded. As with the first cache, a choice must be made. There is also a more subtle item I snuck into the cache page, and I eagerly await someone who can figure out what that item is. For anyone interested in figuring it out, the listed cache page author has a great deal to do with something else on the page.

My teammate and I are looking at a massive multi-cache that will be played out much like those Choose Your Adventure books. I shudder at the thought of the monumental amount of work involved in creating it, but it will be one of the most enjoyable challenges I'll have faced in a long time.

3.8k · December 4, 2003

The Joke's on You, Mr. President, about a prank played on a US president, and Thank you, Mr. Carnegie, a library cache with links to a great philanthropist (both my own), are my favorite titles.

December 4, 2003

I liked Hoop There It Is. And I'm a bit partial to Resevoir Dogs myself.

4.1k · December 4, 2003

Two names we like are Funny Bone and Hounds of Hell.

The first is our cache that is placed in 'Elbow Canyon' and the second is one we found. We drove on 'Devil Dog' road to get there. An excelent cache.

John

1.8k · December 4, 2003

Note to future cache hiders: note that the word "Stumped" isn't in any of the cache names listed above. There's a reason for that. It's the most overused cache name pun in use today.

And now, a brief plug for my "ASCII no questions, I'll Hex you no lies" cache, and my much shorter named "MisLED" cache. I like those names

1.8k · December 4, 2003

Note to future cache hiders: note that the word "Stumped" isn't in any of the cache names listed above. There's a reason for that. It's the most overused cache name pun in use today.

There's also the the use of the word "cache" as well...

Cache me if you can

Cache you later

Johnny Cache

Cache as cache can

etc...

1.7k · December 4, 2003

This is a cache I placed called A Place to "P". I placed this during an event cache and their was a lot of debate about what the P refernce was. Its actually one of several trees in the park that have the letter P on them which was used to mark the orginal boundries of the park

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=93663

2.3k · December 4, 2003

Geez, I can't believe my fellow local cachers forgot about the best named caches in MI. Since they forgot, here ya go, in order.

umc's 1st cache

umc's 2nd cache

umc's 3rd cache

umc's 4th cache

umc's 5th cache and

umc's 6th cache

Those are good names.

Yeah, you can call me original and creative.

You don't mean THE umc's 1st cache, do you???

Edited December 4, 2003 by Doc-Dean

9.1k · December 4, 2003

22 of The Leprechauns' hidden caches have the word "Elves" in the title somewhere (two others were adopted). Sometimes it's a clever play on words, sometimes it's a clue for finding the cache and often the reason for the title is not evident until you've done the cache. Some of my favorites:

The Elves Magnify a Microcache - you use a viewer (the type found at scenic overlooks) and a compass bearing to spot the object where the microcache is hidden.

The Elves are Inclined to be Evil - micro located at observation platform at the top of an inclined railroad.

The Elves Go Directly to Jail - hidden along a rails-to-trails path that ends at the County Jail.

The Elves Launch a Rocket to the Moon - the cache is hidden in a (repainted) mortar tube at Moon Township Community Park.

You get the idea.

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