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11/03/2009 at 2:49 pm #1729086
I’m curious to know on how the caching teams on here find caches together. When I refer to teams, it could be husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend, a family, or two (or more) geocachers who decide to team up for a day of caching.
So when the team goes out to find a cache and a member of that team finds said cache, that member will do one of the following:
1) “I found it!! It’s right here” and everyone signs the log.
Or
2) He pretends to keep looking as not to give away the cache location and steps aside as a signal to say he found it so other members of the team can continue to look for it and can make the find on their own.
When I found a cache with the Funky Finderz, they did #2. They found it and waited for me to make the find myself. Then when I went with Bartrod and Sweetlife on separate occasions, we did the hootie thing
Those of you geocachers who team on a regular basis, what do you usually do when caching?
11/03/2009 at 3:04 pm #1916305I tend to cache solo, but when I do team up with my kid/s, if i spot the cache first (sometimes the kid has sharper eyes), I will step back a bit and allow others to search it out. this sometimes depends on the size of the container also.
There are those among us that when caching in groups, will like to play games with the others by finding, grabbing and pocketing the container while the rest of us wander around aimlessly searching for something that is no longer there. after a good hearty chuckle or two, they will then produce the container and share it with the rest. Yes, you know who you are 😉
I guess it would depend on the cache mode you and your group are in.
1) numbers run – hootie quickly and move to the next cache
2) out for fun – enjoy the time, give everyone who want to a chance to spot it. especially if it is an interesting hide or container.
3) out for fun in poor weather – pick your poison. depends on how cold it isDisclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.
11/03/2009 at 3:50 pm #1916306When caching with the fam or friends, or group hunts at events, we use the term “Finders Tree” when we find a cache.
Say I find it, I’ll back off a good ten feet, then yell finders tree. That way, everyone can see the general area, but still can make the find on their own.
11/03/2009 at 4:09 pm #1916307When I cache with other people it has always been when you find it let everyone know. I don’t need to find every cache everytime. If my wife finds it before me great. We sign the log and move on.
If I am with a new person or a new team I will ask what there preference is.
11/03/2009 at 4:20 pm #1916308Depends on who I’m caching with.
If it’s jjcool, we find, sign, and head out, unless it’s a really excellent camo job; then he or I let the other one look.
If it’s a large group, and I find it, I back off and let the others look for it. If they want me to point it out, they can ask.
Of course, on Saturday, I had the cache found, signed, and returned before sagasu knew it! But I owed him one! 😉11/03/2009 at 4:27 pm #1916309@TyeDyeSkyGuy wrote:
When caching with the fam or friends, or group hunts at events, we use the term “Finders Tree” when we find a cache.
Say I find it, I’ll back off a good ten feet, then yell finders tree. That way, everyone can see the general area, but still can make the find on their own.
Our daughter’s family and grandkids got us into geocaching and whenever we’re with them we use the “finders tree”. The boys (7 and 10) Have a tendancy to not follow the rules to aggravate their sister, but I guess that’s normal.
11/03/2009 at 4:35 pm #1916310@Mister Greenthumb wrote:
The boys (7 and 10) Have a tendancy to not follow the rules to aggravate their sister, but I guess that’s normal.
Now that is funny. Sounds like something my older brother and sister would have done to me.
11/03/2009 at 5:14 pm #1916311Unless people specifically request it, we hunt and find as a team, which means letting others know when the find was made. For me, the goal is visiting and experiencing the area. Spending additional time fighting through a thicket or crawling through a juniper bush after the cache has been located doesn’t enhance the experience for me.
11/03/2009 at 5:40 pm #191631299.9% of the time our caching “team” is our family, so our experience is pretty straightforward. While walking to the cache, the kids argue about who is going to walk in front. When that is sorted out, the one in front complains about getting sticks kicked on him/her while the one behind accuses the one in front of passing gas (often true).
To divert the tension, we give the older one a GPSr to look at (that’s why we own 2), whereupon she promptly walks off the trail in the wrong direction and then comes back in a huff, exclaiming “I don’t want to do this.”
Back to the trail and the chorus of “Are we getting closer?” queries begins, to which I usually respond, “No, I thought we’d walk in the opposite direction of the cache today.”
Eventually, the adults with the GPSrs get to GZ and call back the children who have charged 100′ down the trail in their quest to be first. They come back and “look” for the cache, meaning that if it is not a 50 cal ammo can sitting on top of a stump, daughter-cacher declares “it’s not here” and son-cacher goes off to stomp bugs or look for bright shiny objects.
When the cache is found (usually by Mrs. gotta run), a literal “Hoot!” call is made, whereupon the children rush over and commence arguing about, you guessed it, who gets to look in the cache for swag first. Then it’s back to the trail for the choruses of “How many more of these are we going to do?” to begin.
At least that’s how it works in our team.
On the Left Side of the Road...11/03/2009 at 7:38 pm #1916313@gotta run wrote:
99.9% of the time our caching “team” is our family, so our experience is pretty straightforward. While walking to the cache, the kids argue about who is going to walk in front. When that is sorted out, the one in front complains about getting sticks kicked on him/her while the one behind accuses the one in front of passing gas (often true).
To divert the tension, we give the older one a GPSr to look at (that’s why we own 2), whereupon she promptly walks off the trail in the wrong direction and then comes back in a huff, exclaiming “I don’t want to do this.”
Back to the trail and the chorus of “Are we getting closer?” queries begins, to which I usually respond, “No, I thought we’d walk in the opposite direction of the cache today.”
Eventually, the adults with the GPSrs get to GZ and call back the children who have charged 100′ down the trail in their quest to be first. They come back and “look” for the cache, meaning that if it is not a 50 cal ammo can sitting on top of a stump, daughter-cacher declares “it’s not here” and son-cacher goes off to stomp bugs or look for bright shiny objects.
When the cache is found (usually by Mrs. gotta run), a literal “Hoot!” call is made, whereupon the children rush over and commence arguing about, you guessed it, who gets to look in the cache for swag first. Then it’s back to the trail for the choruses of “How many more of these are we going to do?” to begin.
At least that’s how it works in our team.
Yup. That’s exactly what its like for my family too. We’ve found we are able to avoid most of the trouble by hunting the micros as part of the Battleship series. No swag = No Arguing, yet everybody still has plenty of fun.
11/03/2009 at 7:45 pm #1916314When I group cache (either with the family or with other cachers), everyone walks in the direction of the GPSr arrow, starts the search, and whomever finds it hollers “Hootie” and we all go over to where it’s hidden. We sign the log, place it back, in its spot and move on to the next one.
What I like about this method, is that its more fun when you find it in a spot someone else had just looked. Sometimes repeatedly!!
11/03/2009 at 7:51 pm #1916315My son has gotten very good at hiding the fact that he has found the cache. He’s now taken to removing the container and hiding it as well to extend my hunt. I think Sagasu taught him that.
He had me going for well over 10 minutes at a cache this summer.
And of course he’s almost always the one who HAS TO find it.
We’ve never really yelled (or hooted) unless it’s something cool we haven’t seen before or it was a really tough hunt.
11/03/2009 at 8:23 pm #1916316@Team Deejay wrote:
Unless people specifically request it, we hunt and find as a team, which means letting others know when the find was made. For me, the goal is visiting and experiencing the area. Spending additional time fighting through a thicket or crawling through a juniper bush after the cache has been located doesn’t enhance the experience for me.
Pretty much our practice, unless there is something unusual or outstanding that the others should experience. Then we play warm and cold.
11/03/2009 at 10:07 pm #1916317“Finders Tree” unless it has taken sooooo long to find it that we’re just glad someone managed to find it.
11/04/2009 at 12:02 am #1916318I am usually caching with my wife, when either of us find it, we just say “bingo” then back off to let the other person retrieve it. But, whenever possible I pocket the cache if she is looking away. We then look and look and look together, all the while we are “wondering” why we can’t find it, then I un-pocket the hootie. She then gives me that look where she is wondering why she puts up with me. Occasionally she returns the favor when she finds it first.
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