Pictures - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's)

[+GeoBain]

If only we could post pictures of cool containers and leave the debates to other threads...

[+geoing nuts]

If only we could post pictures of cool containers and leave the debates to other threads...

That would be nice. I guess with this post I contribute to the problem.

[+Coldgears]

Major rush of nostalgia (is it too early for that?), I found one of those my first week geocaching... Haven't seen another since.

[knowschad]

If only we could post pictures of cool containers and leave the debates to other threads...

 

Hmmm... I wonder how we could do that?

[GOF and Bacall]

Major rush of nostalgia (is it too early for that?), I found one of those my first week geocaching... Haven't seen another since.

 

I don't think you are old enough to use the word "nostalgia".

[+niraD]

I posted a reply in the Discussions - Cool Cache Containers (CCC's) thread.

 

[+Bad Duck]

Here is one that I made for my latest cache GC360V8

[+kunarion]

Here is one that I made for my latest cache GC360V8

A tribble! That is cool. I immediately guessed it was a tribble, or possibly Bill Shatner's hairpiece.

[+Bad Duck]

Tribbles were little furballs. I was thinking more of a Klingon forehead.

[+Rckhnd]

 

Now THAT is evil!

[+power69]

 

Now THAT is evil!

the first ones were. now its the second thing i check after checking the lamp post cover.

[+puczmeloun]

The czech one (Brno, CZ) with TB inside. Thanks to owner berx.cz

 

[+BMndFul]

The czech one (Brno, CZ) with TB inside. Thanks to owner berx.cz

 

 

Very creative, it would be very fun to find. However, I am not sure if I care for screwing the mount into the tree, if I am seeing it correctly.

[+BMndFul]

This another one of my more recents creations based on a hanger Yellow jacket Trap. Hint for the cache is "Courage will not sting you."

 

Edited October 20, 2011 by Russ!

[+ReedKyCacheFinders]

 

Yes. It's a camo'd porta-potty chained to a tree. So this isn't actually a geocache, but I drive by it most days to work (having no idea why it's there) and think it could serve as good inspiration as a cache.

Maybe it's the final to a really crappy multi!

 

Left Something/Took Nothing

[+geoing nuts]

This another one of my more recents creations based on a hanger Yellow jacket Trap. Hint for the cache is "Courage will not sting you."

 

I love this idea. I could see this in some sort of park or wildlife management area with a lot of real decoys along the trail. That way the cacher would typically disregard the actual cache. Love it.

[+power69]

 

Yes. It's a camo'd porta-potty chained to a tree. So this isn't actually a geocache, but I drive by it most days to work (having no idea why it's there) and think it could serve as good inspiration as a cache.

Maybe it's the final to a really crappy multi!

 

Left Something/Took Nothing

HEY! you traded up[well actually down]

[+ReedKyCacheFinders]

I have an altoids thats been out 2+ years and has not a speck of rust on it!

Rare exceptions do not a quality container make.

 

I bet about 30% or more cache containers is 35mm film can's & they sure not water tight. If the container of any type works for a CO then it don't suck by no means. We use altoids tin's on a few of our hides with only one problem, Keeping them in place is our biggest factor.

[knowschad]

I have an altoids thats been out 2+ years and has not a speck of rust on it!

Rare exceptions do not a quality container make.

 

I bet about 30% or more cache containers is 35mm film can's & they sure not water tight. If the container of any type works for a CO then it don't suck by no means. We use altoids tin's on a few of our hides with only one problem, Keeping them in place is our biggest factor.

 

Please take it to the discussions thread: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=283065

[+Two Ton Whale]

Out today on a new halloween themed series. There were a lot of fantastic containers, and here's one of them:

 

 

There was also a rat with a film canister in, a skull with a film canister in and a large container full of plastic spiders with a micro buried inside with the log in.

[+BeatrixCMH]

 

Yes. It's a camo'd porta-potty chained to a tree. So this isn't actually a geocache, but I drive by it most days to work (having no idea why it's there) and think it could serve as good inspiration as a cache.

Maybe it's the final to a really crappy multi!

 

Left Something/Took Nothing

HEY! you traded up[well actually down]

 

...comes with its own log book!

 

[+6NoisyHikers]

A bump - just to keep these great ideas at the top of the reading list...

[+A & J Tooling]

Paint your choice of cammo and place. Takes just a couple minutes. Total cost is just the paint. You can use soda bottles but The larger sport drink bottles are best. I bought bottle preforms and didn't like how they necked down inside. Plus they cost about 50 cents apiece.

 

Thanks alot! Now I'm finding these everywhere!

[+Bahaoth]

Thats my first Cache

 

 

 

 

[+power69]

Paint your choice of cammo and place. Takes just a couple minutes. Total cost is just the paint. You can use soda bottles but The larger sport drink bottles are best. I bought bottle preforms and didn't like how they necked down inside. Plus they cost about 50 cents apiece.

 

Thanks alot! Now I'm finding these everywhere!

those haven't made it to az yet.

[Clan Riffster]

Paint your choice of cammo and place. Takes just a couple minutes. Total cost is just the paint. You can use soda bottles but The larger sport drink bottles are best. I bought bottle preforms and didn't like how they necked down inside. Plus they cost about 50 cents apiece.

 

Thanks alot! Now I'm finding these everywhere!

Look at the bright side. Your area could be infected with film cans.

Instead, you've got a bunch of mostly waterproof containers.

That's gotta be a good thing, right?

[+NYPaddleCacher]

Paint your choice of cammo and place. Takes just a couple minutes. Total cost is just the paint. You can use soda bottles but The larger sport drink bottles are best. I bought bottle preforms and didn't like how they necked down inside. Plus they cost about 50 cents apiece.

 

Thanks alot! Now I'm finding these everywhere!

Look at the bright side. Your area could be infected with film cans.

Instead, you've got a bunch of mostly waterproof containers.

That's gotta be a good thing, right?

 

It's gotta be better than knowing they're out there and not finding them.

[The_Hypnotoad]

Here's one I plan on putting in my cemetery cache. People have complained that the cache container is a micro, so this should hopefully keep em happy.

 

The cemetery isn't active anymore and has a bunch of spots that are wooded. It should blend right in perfectly. I copied the idea from a post that was on page 29 of this thread.

 

[knowschad]

Here's one I plan on putting in my cemetery cache. People have complained that the cache container is a micro, so this should hopefully keep em happy.

 

The cemetery isn't active anymore and has a bunch of spots that are wooded. It should blend right in perfectly. I copied the idea from a post that was on page 29 of this thread.

 

 

Nice. How did you do the embossed text look? Light and dark paint, offsetting the stencil in between?

[+EscapeFromFlatland]

I still haven't placed the skull cache I developed last year about this time. The location I had last year was in a search area for a kid's body (still not found) so I delayed putting it out so as not to complicate an already horrible situation. This fall I couldn't put in another area as I am moving in a few months, but I hope to put the skull cache out in a new place, and with a literary theme.

 

[+Cache on the spot]

I'm impressed that you had a backup fish tail lying around the house. How many people can say that?

 

Thanks for the laugh of my day...can't stop laughing.

 

Cache on the spot

[The_Hypnotoad]

Here's one I plan on putting in my cemetery cache. People have complained that the cache container is a micro, so this should hopefully keep em happy.

 

The cemetery isn't active anymore and has a bunch of spots that are wooded. It should blend right in perfectly. I copied the idea from a post that was on page 29 of this thread.

 

 

Nice. How did you do the embossed text look? Light and dark paint, offsetting the stencil in between?

That's exactly how I did it, using flat paint.

 

I just placed it today.

 

[+BCandMsKitty]

Here's my most recent creation. I still have to find just the right spot.

Gonna call it "Tap Into Your GeoSense"

 

Sort of an ugly tap, but I made it out of scrap I had laying around. It should pass for anyone other than a cacher

4' piece of 1/2 pipe in the ground for stability.

 

Cap half off the cache.

 

Cap removed.

 

Cache log in the cache. (Tweezers will be helpful)

 

Cache log slid into 1/2" copper to keep it compact in the cache.

[Clan Riffster]

Cache log slid into 1/2" copper to keep it compact in the cache.

Brilliant! I recommend something similar to cache owners who insist on using jars with mouths considerably smaller than the container, though instead of copper I suggest a section of PVC pipe that is long enough that it won't fall over inside the container.

[+TeamShiney]

 

Found this one in the locker room at work, TNLN, SL, TFTC

[knowschad]

Found this one in the locker room at work, TNLN, SL, TFTC

[Clan Riffster]

Found this one in the locker room at work, TNLN, SL, TFTC

I had heard rumors of some kooky folks using plastic cache containers to store food in.

I didn't really believe it... Not sure I do now... Photoshop? Maybe?

[GOF and Bacall]

Not even gonna ask why you are taking pictures in a locker room.

[+zodiac73]

 

Found this one in the locker room at work, TNLN, SL, TFTC

 

LOL

 

Found this one in the locker room at work, TNLN, SL, TFTC

I had heard rumors of some kooky folks using plastic cache containers to store food in.

I didn't really believe it... Not sure I do now... Photoshop? Maybe?

 

lol

 

Not even gonna ask why you are taking pictures in a locker room.

 

er..... lol

[+JJnTJ]

 

I just placed it today.

 

 

That was a great one! I was wondering why it smelled so fresh, and here I see you just placed it. Man, I have great timing.

Edited November 3, 2011 by JJnTJ

[+power69]

Found this one in the locker room at work, TNLN, SL, TFTC

I had heard rumors of some kooky folks using plastic cache containers to store food in.

I didn't really believe it... Not sure I do now... Photoshop? Maybe?

food in plastic container???????????

[+aviatik]

Some caches which i found:

[Team CJ3]

Bump

[+The_Incredibles_]

Adding some of my own:

 

Fence post cache. Long plastic tube fits inside the fence post. Cap goes on top. Little rock contains coordinates to this final cache (nano glued to bottom of rock)

 

 

Fake green pepper (styrofoam) with hole made to fit match container. Used gorrila glue to attach. Made an apple like this too, looked awesome.

 

Edited November 14, 2011 by The_Incredibles_

[+BMndFul]

Adding some of my own:

 

Fake green pepper (styrofoam) with hole made to fit match container. Used gorrila glue to attach. Made an apple like this too, looked awesome.

 

 

Very nicely done....I played with forming styrofoam. However I was concerned with Styrofoam breaking down with weather, moisture, UV and heat and just becoming a glob of goo. Did you find something to treat the items for preservation?

Edited November 14, 2011 by Russ!

[+The_Incredibles_]

Adding some of my own:

 

Fake green pepper (styrofoam) with hole made to fit match container. Used gorrila glue to attach. Made an apple like this too, looked awesome.

 

 

Very nicely done....I played with forming styrofoam. However I was concerned with Styrofoam breaking down with weather, moisture, UV and heat and just becoming a glob of goo. Did you find something to treat the items for preservation?

 

It's not just styrofam, there's a thick waxy coating on the outside. Have I treated it? No. We'll have to see what happens. Currently it's keeping some ivy company.

[knowschad]

Adding some of my own:

 

Fake green pepper (styrofoam) with hole made to fit match container. Used gorrila glue to attach. Made an apple like this too, looked awesome.

 

 

Very nicely done....I played with forming styrofoam. However I was concerned with Styrofoam breaking down with weather, moisture, UV and heat and just becoming a glob of goo. Did you find something to treat the items for preservation?

 

I believe that is a commercial fake pepper like you can get at Walmart or craft stores. They are styrofoam on the inside with a thick plastic "skin" on the outside.

[+Dgwphotos]

This is a bit of a spoiler for PNW cachers...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The final for one of my multicaches:

 

The cache container:

 

One of two waypoints:

 

The Bison tube which holds the coordinates for the next step:

 

And the cache's inspiration, a wild rabbit that lives in the park behind our house and frequently visits our backyard to munch on our grass. We consider it almost a pet.

Peter Cottontail by dgwphotos, on Flickr

Edited November 15, 2011 by Dgwphotos

[+$$tracker]

This is a bit of a spoiler for PNW cachers...

 

I LOVE IT!! That would be very fun to find.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The final for one of my multicaches:

 

The cache container:

 

One of two waypoints:

 

The Bison tube which holds the coordinates for the next step:

 

And the cache's inspiration, a wild rabbit that lives in the park behind our house and frequently visits our backyard to munch on our grass. We consider it almost a pet.

Peter Cottontail by dgwphotos, on Flickr

Edited November 15, 2011 by $$tracker

[+NYPaddleCacher]

This is a bit of a spoiler for PNW cachers...

 

[photos snipped]

 

 

I have a similar container for one of my caches but it looks much more realistic, and the spot in which it's hidden looks very much like a place you might expect a rabbit hutch to be. It was originally hidden on Easter a couple of years ago and I used a golden plastic egg as an inner container. The cache is located behind a business (with explicit permission) with a name (also the name of the cache) that follows the overall theme.