Toughest, Most Brutal Cache Ever?

June 1, 2004

I'm just looking for some ideas here. One of these days I'd love to attempt the hardest cache ever made.

So far I've got:

June 1, 2004

I've never found this cache (it's nowhere near me) but reading the logs make it sound like it is one heck of a cache!

June 1, 2004

We have a cache in our area called The Journal. People have said it takes about 10 hours to finish. We're going to try this one in a couple weeks.

June 1, 2004

I'm just looking for some ideas here. One of these days I'd love to attempt the hardest cache ever made.

So far I've got:

Gokyo Ri

That cache looks pretty incredible! :rolleyes:

June 2, 2004

Doesn't Sparky have a pretty awesome one? I forgot the name of it.

Edited June 2, 2004 by PandyBat

June 2, 2004

Nope, it's not Sparky. I can't remember who it was now. Nevermind me....I'm just talking to myself now..lol

June 2, 2004

Ok..I found it....it was Snoogans. Right cache, wrong cacher.

Quantum Leap

I'd like to do this one someday.

Edited June 2, 2004 by PandyBat

8.4k · June 3, 2004

Ok..I found it....it was Snoogans. Right cache, wrong cacher.

Quantum Leap

I'd like to do this one someday.

Mannnn, I was flattered until I saw that you confused me with Sparky.

Anyhoo, there's plenty of other cool caches in the area, so don't make it your ONLY reason for a trip to Houston. Try GQ's Headcase. That's MY favorite cache in the area and only about 12 miles from the first QL DEAD DROP.

NH Moose recently took a 180+ mile detour just to hit Quantum Leap while on a business trip. THAT really impressed the Missouri City Parks Director.

Sn gans

1.5k · June 4, 2004

I'm just looking for some ideas here. One of these days I'd love to attempt the hardest cache ever made.

So far I've got:

Gokyo Ri

Looks to me like you found it... that cache is in it's own league.

June 4, 2004

Quantum Leap intrigues the HECK out of me too! It's actually the only cache I put on my watchlist. The logs are fascinating. It's almost like a story. If I'm ever near there I will HAVE to check that one out!

Bec

June 6, 2004

My friend and I are stationed on a ship in the Coast Guard, we were joking around one day about dropping one about 75 miles off the coast of Maine... what do you guys think?

3.5k · June 7, 2004

My friend and I are stationed on a ship in the Coast Guard, we were joking around one day about dropping one about 75 miles off the coast of Maine... what do you guys think?

Just make sure it is .10 miles away from any other cache. :bad:

Edited June 7, 2004 by EraSeek

1.5k · June 7, 2004

...me thinks you guys'll be rescuing wayward Geocachers in the North Atlantic. :bad:

June 7, 2004

We've heard that this one Myotis 100 (Irish Wilderness) is fantastic. Not that we're even thinking about doing it!

Link isn't working for me tonight - it's GCG4TT

1.9k · June 7, 2004

Quantum Leap

WOW, WOW, WOW

1.1k · June 7, 2004

Ok..I found it....it was Snoogans. Right cache, wrong cacher.

Quantum Leap

I'd like to do this one someday.

Mannnn, I was flattered until I saw that you confused me with Sparky.

Anyhoo, there's plenty of other cool caches in the area, so don't make it your ONLY reason for a trip to Houston. Try GQ's Headcase. That's MY favorite cache in the area and only about 12 miles from the first QL DEAD DROP.

NH Moose recently took a 180+ mile detour just to hit Quantum Leap while on a business trip. THAT really impressed the Missouri City Parks Director.

Sn gans

I would seriously consider flying out to this cache, if I thought I could finish it in one trip. But from the logs it seems like it would involve many trips

Maybe some day.

As for hard caches, Blood & Guts in Virginia (aka Iron & Stone) is the hardest one I've done

dave

38.2k · June 7, 2004

I'm just looking for some ideas here. One of these days I'd love to attempt the hardest cache ever made.

So far I've got:

Gokyo Ri

Looks like it's way overrated in difficulty. "notice the large boulder lying in your way? Take a closer look and you will find a small tupper style box hidden below it." Looks like a 1.5 to me. Ok, terrain is a different story, though in another thread that discussed this cache one person who had been there pre geocaching, said it wasn't all that difficult and likened it to a multi-day backpack in any mountainous area

As for hard caches, Blood & Guts in Virginia (aka Iron & Stone) is the hardest one I've done

I haven't even attempted Blood and Guts, but it does seem to rate with any difficult cache. The first time it was found was by a team of 12 (I think) and supposedly it took them a number of weeks and 500 combined hours of work to post the find. All subsequent finds were also done by teams. I don't think one individual has posted a find on it yet.

Edited June 7, 2004 by briansnat

June 10, 2004

I mentioned this one in a similiar thread the other day. Makes for a nice read:

Erta Ale Volcano

Getting there is half the fun!

June 10, 2004

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...B4&Submit6=Find

Found by just one group, who had to do a fly-over in an F-15 to decide which was the best way in. I've been in some area like this, and this is the sort of territory where a body can lie for 40+ years without being discovered by more than a rattlesnake.

merkin4

June 17, 2004

I've never found this cache (it's nowhere near me) but reading the logs make it sound like it is one heck of a cache!

Tube Torcher

I live in Knoxville and have been looking at that cache for a long time.

July 7, 2004

Okay guys and gals! I just saw the one in Tibet and most of us will never get to go to that one (but it would be awesome.) Tube Torcher in NC is an awesome cache. Took me, Knight Rider, and Askani'Son about 5-6 hours to complete. It was a very well thought out, entertaining cache. We had a ball! If you are nearby, say within a couple of hundred miles, do try it. There aren't very many 5/5's around here. I was just proud to finish it and be able to log a 5/5. Believe me it was a true 5/5! I actually dropped the terrain difficulty on one of my caches after this one.

July 13, 2004

If you're in New Hampshire, I have a cache at Owl's Head. It may not be Tibet but read the description and the logs and see if you think its tough.

July 25, 2004

There's a pretty wicked cache here in Northern California that has intrigued me, though I doubt I'll ever be seriously in a position to find it!

It's the DeLorme Challenge in Northern California.

It looks like finding the cache itself is very easy once you have the coordinates... but from looking at what you have to do to get the coordinates, I think it makes this cache arguably the hardest one to bag in northern CA and probably the entire state as well. (It hasn't been found yet-- it involves MONTHS of planning and terrain ranging from rainforests to forbidding peaks to cities to desert.)

The DeLorme Challenge might not be quite in the spirit of some of the AMAZING caches posted on this thread (i.e. the 5/5's) but it's still a very interesting one.

-mig, aka GoonyGooGoo

Edited July 25, 2004 by GoonyGooGoo

July 25, 2004

What do you think of having your travel bug placed in that cache in Tibet?

38.2k · July 29, 2004

If you're in New Hampshire, I have a cache at Owl's Head. It may not be Tibet but read the description and the logs and see if you think its tough.

Looks like a great hike. Seems to be overated on the difficulty side tho. A 5 star difficulty shouldn't be "found easily". More like a 1/5 or at most a 2/5.

July 30, 2004

Ok..I found it....it was Snoogans. Right cache, wrong cacher.

Quantum Leap

I'd like to do this one someday.

All I can say is: "Why don't I live in Texas!!!!????". That truely does sound like the Holy Grail of caches. I'm in the process of planning and constructing a grand caching hunt myself, but it will be inferior to that cache. But it did give me a few ideas.

August 4, 2004

I think this might qualify for one of the toughest caches to get.

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...c2-ff9da6252004

Ken

2.7k · August 5, 2004

Ok..I found it....it was Snoogans. Right cache, wrong cacher.

Quantum Leap

I'd like to do this one someday.

Mannnn, I was flattered until I saw that you confused me with Sparky.

Anyhoo, there's plenty of other cool caches in the area, so don't make it your ONLY reason for a trip to Houston. Try GQ's Headcase. That's MY favorite cache in the area and only about 12 miles from the first QL DEAD DROP.

NH Moose recently took a 180+ mile detour just to hit Quantum Leap while on a business trip. THAT really impressed the Missouri City Parks Director.

Sn gans

wish I lived in Texas!

This looks like a hum-diddely-dinger!

So How long did it take to set this up?

Do you set up a special hunt for each hunter?

8.4k · August 6, 2004

Ok..I found it....it was Snoogans. Right cache, wrong cacher.

Quantum Leap

I'd like to do this one someday.

wish I lived in Texas!

This looks like a hum-diddely-dinger!

So How long did it take to set this up?

Do you set up a special hunt for each hunter?

I really don't remember how long it took. There was months of planning involved to get started. Some aspect of this cache is always in the planning stage.

I had to get a very important permission grant for the cache from another fairly well known cacher who wishes to remain nameless (or blameless as the case may be) and then I had to quietly recruit a virtual army of GeoMinions to help maintain waypoints that I couldn't properly maintain otherwise.

There is a personalized envelope and list of supplies for most of the cachers that I have met more than once and a few for cachers that I have never really met in person. (There's One in there for Mystery Woman, but all that is in it is a map to my house and the only required supplies needed are a handcuff key and some altoids. )The rest of the envelopes are generic with an enigmatic title, (I.E. The Megabrantis Cluster, When Pigs Fly, Banjo Music aka Why is Daddy Crying?, The Monkey's OTHER Paw, etc.) and list of required supplies, so anyone else can decide their own brand of torture. I'm fairly well known for devious hides but, some of these are horrifying even for me. Last time I checked there were 37 envelopes left and most of them were generic. I have another 20 that I am working on, but I got sick while on vacation, and didn't get all the waypoints that I wanted to complete them.

September 7, 2004

I just placed this 5/5. I think it will be a problem for anyone to find, but if you happen to live elsewhere and want to send me the coordinates if you figure them out, I would be awfully impressed.

The Dreaded Pirate Geisel the Fierce

September 8, 2004

I just placed this 5/5. I think it will be a problem for anyone to find, but if you happen to live elsewhere and want to send me the coordinates if you figure them out, I would be awfully impressed.
The Dreaded Pirate Geisel the Fierce

Either I think I'm 'brighter' than most, or your 5 on the difficulty is overrated. See my email, but I have the solution.

Unfortunately theres no way I'm can go 1670 Miles to check how difficult the terrain is.

Ok... now its probably a bit harder, since you modified it due to my feedback... but 5/5?? - - -time will tell.

Edited September 8, 2004 by Abby's Family

2.1k · September 8, 2004

Hi,

Rupert's Cash Cache is a ***** difficulty / ***1/2 terrain in the Adirondack Park in New York State. There is a crisp $100 bill for the first finder, and 40 watchers as of this date.

nfa

1.6k · September 9, 2004

Ok..I found it....it was Snoogans. Right cache, wrong cacher.

Quantum Leap

I'd like to do this one someday.

wish I lived in Texas!

This looks like a hum-diddely-dinger!

So How long did it take to set this up?

Do you set up a special hunt for each hunter?

I really don't remember how long it took. There was months of planning involved to get started. Some aspect of this cache is always in the planning stage.

I had to get a very important permission grant for the cache from another fairly well known cacher who wishes to remain nameless (or blameless as the case may be) and then I had to quietly recruit a virtual army of GeoMinions to help maintain waypoints that I couldn't properly maintain otherwise.

There is a personalized envelope and list of supplies for most of the cachers that I have met more than once and a few for cachers that I have never really met in person. (There's One in there for Mystery Woman, but all that is in it is a map to my house and the only required supplies needed are a handcuff key and some altoids. )The rest of the envelopes are generic with an enigmatic title, (I.E. The Megabrantis Cluster, When Pigs Fly, Banjo Music aka Why is Daddy Crying?, The Monkey's OTHER Paw, etc.) and list of required supplies, so anyone else can decide their own brand of torture. I'm fairly well known for devious hides but, some of these are horrifying even for me. Last time I checked there were 37 envelopes left and most of them were generic. I have another 20 that I am working on, but I got sick while on vacation, and didn't get all the waypoints that I wanted to complete them.

Snoogans!

2.7k · September 28, 2004

If you're in New Hampshire, I have a cache at Owl's Head. It may not be Tibet but read the description and the logs and see if you think its tough.

Looks like a great hike. Seems to be overated on the difficulty side tho. A 5 star difficulty shouldn't be "found easily". More like a 1/5 or at most a 2/5.

I'm on the west side of the country, but man that's a cache I've gotta do someday!

My Dream cache is pretty tough too:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...23-069de6abf486

Criminal was first finder of this one and has written a good story at the geo magazine site.

September 29, 2004

any cache in portage lakes such as this one http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...bd-a2ec92d0cd89 well I guess that is just us I don't think we have found one there yet but I do know that I'm never going back there

Edited September 29, 2004 by Shoobie & the Sand Crabs

September 29, 2004

Well, if you include caching contests not listed at geocaching.com then this 20 step multi cache in the deserts around Moab, Utah would rank right up near the top.

http://www.vigps.com/index.php?option=cont...id=48&Itemid=28

Here is a story of our epic 6 week adventure in completing the challenge.

http://www.cachunuts.com/dcommand/finalstory1.htm

http://www.cachunuts.com/dcommand/finalstory2.htm

All stages of the contest are still in place for any of you thrill seekers. It would be quite a bit easier now with the cooler fall weather.

January 30, 2005

As for hard caches, Blood & Guts in Virginia (aka Iron & Stone) is the hardest one I've done

I haven't even attempted Blood and Guts, but it does seem to rate with any difficult cache. The first time it was found was by a team of 12 (I think) and supposedly it took them a number of weeks and 500 combined hours of work to post the find. All subsequent finds were also done by teams. I don't think one individual has posted a find on it yet.

Blood & Guts in Virginia (aka Iron & Stone) succumbed, today, to a challenge mounted by another team: The Blind Squirrel Squad. B&G is tough, but the satisfaction when it's vanquished is enormous.

January 31, 2005

Okay I challenge you all to find my Robert Service Poetry Cache. It is on an island in a lake in the Yukon Territory in Canada. It is an island with great history. does anyone have the courage to try?

February 1, 2005

This one took us 9½ hours on ATVs, numerous winchings

and frequent use of chain saw to clear the trail

and plenty of muddy experiences

to do the 30km round trip just to find a rusty old coffee can that no one had touched for 2 years in the middle of nowhere.

Edited February 1, 2005 by Geofellas

February 3, 2005

The three-man team that snagged FTF Honors on The Legendary Race put in somewhere around 42 man-hours before staggering up to the final cache (I was lurking nearby when two of the three arrived). :rolleyes: :anicute: :unsure:

Edited February 3, 2005 by Chance Encounter

7.3k · February 3, 2005

I understand this one Elusive Coelacanth takes some serious doing. And that's after you figure out where it is.

February 7, 2005

I found TUBE TORCHER this weekend, and I've posted some pictures and a synopsis on my blog.

IF YOU EVER PLAN ON DOING TUBE TORCHER, YOU MAY NOT WANT TO LOOK. CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

tube torcher rundown

Edited February 7, 2005 by nervous

February 7, 2005

Has anyone mentioned Cone Z cache in Antarctica? The FTF prize has been claimed.

February 11, 2005

Tube Torcher is awesome, another tough one nearby is High Water. Our Team did the both in a day.

February 15, 2005

Hi,

Rupert's Cash Cache is a ***** difficulty / ***1/2 terrain in the Adirondack Park in New York State. There is a crisp $100 bill for the first finder, and 40 watchers as of this date.

nfa

That wasn't so hard.

February 15, 2005

Oh, and there were over 200 watchers when it peaked.

March 26, 2006

Okay I challenge you all to find my Robert Service Poetry Cache. It is on an island in a lake in the Yukon Territory in Canada. It is an island with great history. does anyone have the courage to try?

I'll be going right by that island in June, but won't have a boat with me. I'll have to go back again sometime in the winter when travel will be a bit easier!

March 26, 2006

The Hardest Cache You’ll Ever Do by ohjoy!

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...a8-6bc6ca66ba4d

The logs are great! I can't wait to go after this once its reactivated.

3.9k · March 27, 2006

I'm just looking for some ideas here. One of these days I'd love to attempt the hardest cache ever made.

So far I've got:

Gokyo Ri

Well, Gokyo Ri has been missing in action for about a year now, so I suggest that you do not go looking for it until and unless the container has been replaced!

3.9k · March 27, 2006

Well, I have done at least two of the caches nominated in this thread, which were

Blood & Guts in Virginia

and

Quantum Leap

and I can testify that both were very quirky, very tough, very worthwhile and very rewarding.

And, well, if you want to get really grossed out and face your worst nightmares, then you may with to check out our newest Psycho Urban Cache, which is Psycho Urban Cache #9 - Hot Glowing Tribulations -- over 54 cachers have watchlisted this cache in the period of fewer than two months since it was published.

Edited March 27, 2006 by Vinny & Sue Team

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