Geocaching Cliches

[+blindleader]

Seems strange that a game less than four years old should have cliches already.

Feel free to add your own nominations to the categories below or to add your own categories.

 

I'll start out by trying to cherry pick some of the oldest.

 

Journalism: High-tech treasure hunt

Encrypted Hints: Don't get stumped

Hides: Any large rottten stump in the Pacific Northwest (see hints)

Upandcoming cliche hides: Fake rocks.

Lame puzzle steps: variations on "Subtract 1138 from the date on the plaque and fill in the blanks"

Not so unique cache names: Anything containing the phrase "road to nowhere" (14 of them at this writing)

 

I'm not sure where it fits in, but there must be a category for the parallel sticks rule.

[+The Cheeseheads]

I count 166 cache names that have "stump" or "stumped" or "stumper" in them...

[+Halden]

Finding Nemo caches

 

TNLNSL

[+Sissy-n-CR]

"Walk in the Park" in the title.

[+Bull Moose]

Not so unique cache names: Anything containing the phrase "road to nowhere" (14 of them at this writing)

15 now. (But one is disabled)

[+rusty_tlc]

From log entries:

"Nice spot for a cache!"

 

From cache page:

A hint with some variation of,"It's in the rocks." (Since 90% of the state is covered with rock piles this is a particularly helpfull hint, not!)

 

Main Entry: cli·ché

Variant(s): also cli·che /klE-'shA, 'klE-", kli-'/

Function: noun

Etymology: French, literally, printer's stereotype, from past participle of clicher to stereotype, of imitative origin

Date: 1892

1 : a trite phrase or expression; also : the idea expressed by it

2 : a hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation

3 : something (as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace

- cliché adjective

[+Bloencustoms]

It's almost as if cachers have developed their own language. Everything gets prefixed with "geo".

[+The Cheeseheads]

It's almost as if cachers have developed their own language. Everything gets prefixed with "geo".

Geowhat the geoheck are you geotalking about?

[+beatnik]

Journalism: High-tech treasure hunt / scavenger hunt / hide 'n seek / etc.

 

Encrypted Hints: It's easy, you don't need a hint (Oh yea! then why in the @#%@#$%#%#$ did I just decode it!)

 

Hides: Green Decon container hung in a Cedar (often erroneously called a pine on the page or in the logs) and the ever popular pile o' barkoflauge

 

Not so unique cache names: Walk in the Park (78 records)

[+Gazza&Girls]

Unnatural Piles Markwell (my first)

Although to follow the barkoflage, why not stickoflage?

 

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[+Team DaSH]

Log entry:

Some version of: I would have never known this place existed...!