Missing Cache Owner

[+R&R Wanderers]

We need to find the owner of a cache (cache is no longer listed on website). We found this cache yesterday and the property owner came out (cache had been placed on private land without permission). We were told to 'take the cache'. Any suggestions on locating the owner?

[+RichardMoore]

Do you have the waypoint of the cache? Or some other way that you can get to the cache page, even though it's been archived? Or the cache owner's name?

Any of these will allow you to send an e-mail through GC.com to the cache owner.

 

If the owner doesn't respond to your e-mail: Congratulations! You now have a cache container complete with trinkets and a logbook that you can place somewhere else.

[+welch]

We need to find the owner of a cache (cache is no longer listed on website). We found this cache yesterday and the property owner came out (cache had been placed on private land without permission). We were told to 'take the cache'. Any suggestions on locating the owner?

was it ever listed on this website?

[+R&R Wanderers]

The cache was listed on the website (it is no longer listed - searched by coordinates/name of cache and cannot locate it).

[+welch]

The cache was listed on the website (it is no longer listed - searched by coordinates/name of cache and cannot locate it).

do you know what the name was?

or what city / park was it in?

 

Besides trying to find on a map, you could look up caches owned by the owner, or caches found by a previous finder. If you know the gc number of url you could look it up too... unless the cache was archived without allowing viewing, then its not going to let view it.

[rescue557]

If the owner doesn't respond to your e-mail: Congratulations! You now have a cache container complete with trinkets and a logbook that you can place somewhere else.

Finders keepers is what I say to this!

[+RichardMoore]

If everything that has been suggested fails, try this:

I see that you have hidden several caches. While logged on to the site, look at the bottom of your cache pages. The person who approved them is shown there. Check all of your caches. The approver who approved most of your caches is probably the one for your area. E-mail that approver with all of the information that you have and dump the problem in his lap. Approvers have powers and abilities far beyond the capabilities of ordinary cachers, he can probably find it easily.

[+Renegade Knight]

An approver or admin should be able to see archived caches relative to a given coordiante. They could probably tell you which cache it was if you took coords.

[+R&R Wanderers]

Thanks for all the help. I've tried locating this by using: cache owner/coords/cache name/zip code and can't find it. I'm now going to turn the problem over to an administrator/approver for our area. Thanks again to all of you who offered suggestions.

[+planetrobert]

did you look in the logbook for an owner/cache name?

[+R&R Wanderers]

Thanks to all for suggestions on finding the owner of this cache. We contacted an administrator - he contacted the owner - the owner contacted the administrator - the administrator contacted us: we are to keep the container and distribute the contents to other caches we visit or place the cache in a new location with us as the owners. Thanks again for helping.

[+Smitherington]

That is marvelous. I love a happy ending.