Found on accident?

[Miata]

I found the final of a 13 part multi cache once, and yes I logged it. 😉

[RJ McKenzie]

Now that I think of it I found 2 Letterbox caches. One in Omro and that other on the Wiowash Trail. So that makes 2 Letterboxes and 2 mystery Geocaches for me.

[Team Black-Cat]

Found one of Mathman’s series a couple days before being published. I don’t think he was too happy with me…

[gotta run]

Never happened, at least not yet. We have a hard enough time finding caches AFTER they’ve been published.

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[kansas64]

We have found two letterboxes on accident, the caches we were searching for were less then 10 feet away (the leterboxes were both on letterboxing.com). In Iowa Roxy (aka Eagle Eyes) spot a cache that had been a urban hide that was never published or removed, it had proximity issues.
We have found one legitimate cache, The Hive, we placed temps at the Latham Peak event last year and thought gee this looks like a good spot for the cache, obviously we were not alone. We placed the temp elsewhere. The hive is a puzzle cache that we had solved a few days earlier and had intended to hunt it at the event, but not quite this way

[Team B Squared]

While caching in Appleton with Marc & Benny I spotted an unpublished geocache a few hundred feet from one of Marc’s hides. That one never did get published.

About a month ago in Lansing, MI I was walking back to the car from a cache along a trail and saw a hollowed out stump that I thought to myself would be a good place for a cache hide. I was looking at it as I was walking by when I noticed that there was something hidden there. It was a mystery letterbox I found out later.

I also found a letterbox last year while in Perrysburg, OH. It was almost exactly where the coordinates pointed for the nearby geocache. A LOT of cachers had signed the logbox in this box. We never did find the geocache.

[-cheeto-]

Oh yeah, Team B Squared’s story reminded me of another unpublished cache I had found. Was hunting a new one in Kaukauna trying to be FTF in the winter along a trail. Managed to get the FTF and then went on to hunt a series of GizFinder caches on the trail. On the exact same tree as one of Giz’s was another cache container almost identical to the one I had just been FTF on. I posted a note about it on the cache I found. Talk about proximity issues 😀

[gotta run]

I’m really surprised at all the letterbox hides people find by accident. I wonder if it’s because there are more letterboxes in other parts of the state.

Oh by the way (and this is for Deejay), on the letterbox forums they complain about geocachers putting caches right on top of letterboxes…perception is reality…

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[TyeDyeSkyGuy]

The first cache we found, which was many years before we started caching, we stumbled upon while hiking the nature preserve behind our place. It was a clear peanut butter jar, just lying on the ground. I believe I did the hider a service by placing it a log just a few feet away.

I came home from the hike and looked up GC.com. At the time it looked like a waste of time to me, but years later we saw Vince on Fox6 and bought our first GPS days later. I wish I had looked into the sport better way back then. We missed out on the founding years of geocaching.

[seldom|seen]

I’ve found a couple, but only unpublished one’s and typically when I’m out scouting and I do a fair bit of that.

Makes you wonder how many pre-published caches are out there that never get published and stay in the field. I was just informed by Jay Vosters of High Cliff that he located a couple caches he didn’t have forms for. I checked the locations and they are not published, even though there’s nothing close to them. They weren’t Temps from the Campout either. I’ll be checking those soon.

I’ve found one letterbox and know many who’ve found them by accident. And I think the Geocaching community does not re-hide caches as well as they should! It is telling when 2 recent letterboxes by a new hider have come up missing. You’d think people who take time to carve stamps would make darn sure their hiding spots are as good as they can be, but even the one in Pierce Park was essentially right out in the open. Perhaps that’s because their clues are so vague you have to spot the cache from a 1/10 mile away to make the find…

[gotta run]

@seldom|seen wrote:

Perhaps that’s because their clues are so vague

Pot, meet kettle… 😈

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[kansas64]

Just today up in Green Bay we are hunting a multi that had been changed from a 3 part multi to a 2 part multi.

After struggling and finally finding WP1 off we go to the final, and we get about 500 feet from WP1 when my wife announces she found another cache. I pop the top of the film canister and pull out the log to see what she found and just start laughing. The canister contained the same coordinates as what we found in the cache at WP1. She found the former WP2 from when this was a 3 parter

[peach107]

while searching olde stone quarry park in door county last year for a place to hide a cache, I found the perfect rock for the hide. as i looked under this large rock i found a 4 inch piece of pvc pipe about 3 feet long with end caps. as i opened this “tube”, i realized that it was a geocache that was not listed on gc.com. inside i found trinkets (swag) and a note from a hotel in sturgeon bay stating that this was placed there for their overnight visitors to find. i replaced the cache and moved on. being in a dnr park (which needs approval) and not listed on gc.com, is this legal? not that it really matters, but i was just wondering.

[RJ McKenzie]

@peach107 wrote:

while searching olde stone quarry park in door county last year for a place to hide a cache, I found the perfect rock for the hide. as i looked under this large rock i found a 4 inch piece of pvc pipe about 3 feet long with end caps. as i opened this “tube”, i realized that it was a geocache that was not listed on gc.com. inside i found trinkets (swag) and a note from a hotel in sturgeon bay stating that this was placed there for their overnight visitors to find. i replaced the cache and moved on. being in a dnr park (which needs approval) and not listed on gc.com, is this legal? not that it really matters, but i was just wondering.

Well it might be from a different game other then geocaching. They may not have the same rules for placing and getting permission as GroundSpeak.

[gotta run]

@peach107 wrote:

being in a dnr park (which needs approval) and not listed on gc.com, is this legal?

Might be against the DNR rules but who knows? The only reason geocaching gets singled out is because it’s the big game in town so it got on the DNR radar.

Most other stash games don’t have the review process of geocaching.com. In fact, none that I’m aware of. Neither does letterboxing (though it obviously was not a letterbox you found).

Unlike gc.com, most stash games run under the premise of “better to ask forgiveness than permission.”

In fact, there was just a big hubub on the letterboxing boards about the merits of specifically NOT asking permission. Lots of…uh…interesting viewpoints in the letterboxing world about geocaching 🙄

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