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12/21/2007 at 3:29 am #1725843
So it may not be on par with a lot of the achievements I have read on here but for me it is outstanding…
I found my first cache!!
This was a cache I spent a few days looking for (I only had an hour each day at lunch to look) and today was the lucky day! When I was digging in the snow and caught a glimpse of green metal my heart started pounding and my hands shook. Luckily I was in the middle of the woods because I think I actually yelled out “Holy %&$# I found it!” It was simply amazing. What a rush! I hardly remember the walk back.
So my question is…was it like this for all of you the first time, or am I just a little freaky?
🙂
12/21/2007 at 3:44 am #1882498Congratulations! Welcome to the obsession!
12/21/2007 at 3:45 am #1882499@sunski wrote:
So it may not be on par with a lot of the achievements I have read on here but for me it is outstanding…
I found my first cache!!
This was a cache I spent a few days looking for (I only had an hour each day at lunch to look) and today was the lucky day! When I was digging in the snow and caught a glimpse of green metal my heart started pounding and my hands shook. Luckily I was in the middle of the woods because I think I actually yelled out “Holy %&$# I found it!” It was simply amazing. What a rush! I hardly remember the walk back.
So my question is…was it like this for all of you the first time, or am I just a little freaky?
🙂
LOL!!! 😆 😆 Yup! That’s about it. Now you are DOOMED!! 😯 😯 It will slowly take over your brain. Just wait till you get your 1st First to Find! Congrats on your first find!! Hope you get many more. You have more than enough up there to keep you goiing for a very , very long time.
12/21/2007 at 3:45 am #1882500Yeah your a freak…ROFLAMO
Welcome to the club…
Our first was a small tupperware container in the middle of a tree. My little guy was so excited. I was like this is great I came home and wrote down more cord’s then when the wife got home we went out and found our second..
12/21/2007 at 3:47 am #1882501Your life, as you knew it, has changed forever. There is NOOOOO going back now.
12/21/2007 at 3:55 am #1882502Congrats! My first was a film canister, but that was a big rush too. Now you’re part of the cult. At least we don’t do human sacrafices anymore. At least not since people started hiding things to keep us distracted.
12/21/2007 at 4:19 am #1882503MY first was a 3 difficulty nano type bison tube very cleverly hidden. But without spoiling that hide for you I will talk about the enjoyment that I had when I found my first cache.
I went there and looked for quite a while in the very cold weather. of course I was not dressed properly for it but I was determined to find it. Well my first find turned out to be my first DNF. The next day I needed to get that one. But I got an email from the owner and he told me to find a bit of an easier one to start with but it was the closest to home. The next day I went back with the whole family because I needed help. So here I am trying to tell them that we are looking for something. When they asked I said “I don’t know what it is but it is here.” After combing over the entire area I was about to leave when alas the last place I looked.
Waaaahooooo, I found it. It was the exact same excitement as you have just described. I remember as vividly as the day I found it and it has now been 2 years.
Welcome you are now officially a member of the exclusive club.
12/21/2007 at 4:43 am #1882504@sunski wrote:
So my question is…was it like this for all of you the first time, or am I just a little freaky?
🙂
Yeah, it was like that the first time. In fact, it is like that everytime.
In fact, I was looking for one of my own caches today, and got to GZ, and realized that I didnt remember where I hid it. After not finding 2 of my own caches yesterday, I started to wonder if I would have to DNF my own cache. Anyway, I thought, now where would zuma hide an ammo can here? Then I saw a hollow log, and thought, oh, yeah, I bet I put it in that hollow log, cuz I jus love the ol hollow log trick.
Got a lil buzz when I looked inside, and there it was.
zuma
12/21/2007 at 5:08 am #1882505Congratulations!
Reflecting back on our first cache….
It was a large container and I finally knew just enough how to use the GPSr. My son and I went looking for the cache which was on the Eau Claire River Trail near our house. I insisted on using the map view while my son said we should use the Numerical “distance to cache” view. We kept switching it back and forth. We’d go left 20 feet and then right 18 feet and then back the other way as we discovered the arrow would change as we stood still and moved again and again…. After 15-20 minutes “near” GZ we found the cache and certainly got excited. Just as we found the cache it started to snow (it was March).
The funny side of the find was looking at our tracks onscreen since my son, SirCumference, had turned on the tracking feature. What a riot to look at! I often wish to this day that I had saved the tracks from that first cache and compare it to the ones we have today to see the advancement that we’ve made. (OK Bandits, OPS and Blick and… NO COMMENTS!!!!!!) Enjoy the sport and the places it takes you.
12/21/2007 at 5:09 am #1882506@sunski wrote:
So my question is…was it like this for all of you the first time, or am I just a little freaky?
We are all a little “freaky” welcome to the club
12/21/2007 at 1:46 pm #1882507@Team Bear Bear wrote:
@sunski wrote:
So my question is…was it like this for all of you the first time, or am I just a little freaky?
We are all a little “freaky” welcome to the club
yes, welcome to the club, we have jackets…
My first was a mag keyholder on a guard rail..I made 2 trips to it and I was shaking when I finally found it… was so excited I forgot to sign the log!
After reading so much about having to be stealthy (ask TBB, I can’t be stealthy) I was in the middle of the city and trying to be sneaky..what a laugh that must have been.
12/21/2007 at 1:56 pm #1882508My first find was an Ammo-can halfway up a sheer 50 foot cliff. Needless to say I thought it was the coolest thing ever. After 1,300 finds some of the newness has worn off but as the hides are always evolving and some are so truly unique, there is plenty to still have you coming away with a “Wow.”
“Oh the Places You Will Go”
-Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)12/21/2007 at 3:44 pm #1882509Well I am happy to see that I’m not the only one who gets a little excited about finding a cache. 🙂
Some of you mentioned having “joined the club” and you know it really is kind of like that. I find it amazing that I now know about this little hidden treasure that the majority of the world has no clue about! In fact driving in to work this morning I was looking at people in their cars wondering if any of them were geocachers and thusly in on the secret. I know before I came upon this sport I had no clue something like this existed. To me it is very cool to know that all around us are these caches just waiting to be found. It’s like a whole other world is going on in front of our eyes and yet only certain people see it.
12/21/2007 at 3:44 pm #1882510Zuma – man you crack me up 😆 😆 😆 It wouldn’t be so darn funny if it had not happened to me too, could not find one of mine either – 🙄
Yes, you are now among the leagues of people who will look at any container and think, “I could make a great geocache out of that with a little camo duct tape…” Nobody’s pills will be safe (those bottles work great). You will get extremely excited if you get invited to a Tupperware party and no one will know why. You find yourself drinking 12 cups of coffee a day just so you can have the can… etc… etc… it is an obsession.
Yes, every find is as good as the first. But wait, you will only get more addicted once you figure out you can start to collect stuff – yep. Like keychains – I am nuts for them. We even have a holiday tree this year with all of them on it. My kids think I have lost my mind but that went a long time ago. Welcome to this fun, healthy and addictive sport. Hope to meet you at an event. You will surely find me, I’ll be the one drinking all the coffee waiting for the can 😯
12/21/2007 at 3:56 pm #1882511My first was in Georgia. Received a GPSr and Geocaching.com FAQ sheet for my birthday and then the next day had to travel to Georgia on business. Checked out nearest caches to my location on my hotel wireless and there was one right behind the office building where I was training at in a business park! It was a regular along a wooded trail with no hint. Could not locate it at lunch time. Went back out after the days worth of training and made the find. It was a regular sized tupperware in the base of a tree. I proceeded to find a bunch more ammo cans and other regular sized caches down there. Brought home a very cool Geocoin as well. Tried my hand at a couple micros in parking lots and could not find them. Did not really know what a “micro” was at the time so I did not know what I was looking for or the common hides used. I am sure they were both in the base of lamp posts…
Then I came back home and couldn’t wait to research what was in store for me in the Fox Valley 🙂 and you guessed it, Puzzles Puzzles and more Puzzles…
Ahh the memories. Enjoy the addiction and keep your eye on the road when you travel!
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