Found on accident?

[-cheeto-]

In fact, there was just a big hubub on the letterboxing boards about the merits of specifically NOT asking permission.

No comment…

[GRAMACINDY]

YUP! While out caching for a series of Hayward Cheezehead’s we parked the car, got out and noticed a great Geo-Beacon. Checked it out and lo-and behold, an unpublished cache. I can still remember the name…”Orange you glad I didn’t say Banana?” I can only imagine where he is planning on going with this one! Funny thing also, several people had found it before us and logged in the cache log. One couple even found it twice, after Cheezehead moved it!

[gkrone]

We were walking in the area where I found the letterbox mentioned earlier in this thread. As we walked by I checked and it was still there. It had been hidden a little better than when I found it the first time. It is no longer visible from the trail.

[JimandLinda]

OOOPS!! Found a letterbox today, by accident. First one, by accident, along with 3 cache finds, by accident. 😯

[Vegas Gamblers]

We have a cache that we placed and did not know that there was a letter box on the other side of the deck. People have found both and have commented on a double find.

[Vegas Gamblers]

@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.

I remember someone posting this on the WGA forums. I searched but did not find it.

[kc9gbo]

Seems we found another cache this past week on accident while vacationing up north. Doing paperless and didn’t have a description of what we were seeking with, get near the location and gps was having trouble locking in, so we start scouting. Spotted a tree that had some logs laying against it, so off we went find the cache and away we go, although we were wondering why nothing matched up, but figured oh well, that’s a typical been moved cache. Get back to the campsite, manage to log in to geocaching to log the cache and find out it was an ammo box we were supposed to find! Not what we found!

[gotta run]

@-cheeto- wrote:

In fact, there was just a big hubub on the letterboxing boards about the merits of specifically NOT asking permission.

No comment…

Man this topic keeps coming up over there. Very interesting. Letterboxers (meaning letterboxers “only”) first off seem to operate under the impression that every geocacher is out to destroy their box and every parks manager is out to pull it.

So the main objective is to try to find ways to make letterboxes difficult to find–not difficult to find in the field, just difficult to find where they ARE. So unless you’re a local yokel, you have no chance of figuring out where some of these places are.

Then to throw the parks managers off the scent, the best things to do are 1) not name the park; 2) give the wrong name of the park or city; 3) spell the name of the park backwards…etc etc.

I suggested that if parks people were pulling their boxes with questions and for permission issues, perhaps it might be simpler just to talk to the parks managers at said parks for permission. At which juncture I was told I obviously don’t know what I’m talking about because I have obviously never dealt with a parks manager. 🙄 “Better to ask forgiveness than permission,” I am told.

The level of vitriol on the letterboxing boards toward geocachers is amazing at times. Combine that with a nose-in-the-air snobbery about “quality” of boxes versus caches…oh man.

I’m glad we don’t spend all our time complaining about letterboxers. That gives us more time to discuss more important issues like multi-logging, temp cache logging, the state of the WGA logo on cache pages….

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[jerrys dad]

@gotta run wrote:

the state of the WGA logo on cache pages….

Somebody has to do it for you… when are they going to make that update?

[The Happy Hodag!]

Kinda sounds like a hobby I wouldn’t enjoy then. You know there are still letterboxes out at UWGB? Talk about permission issues, considering all the caches were yanked. Makes me want to go find them all and yank them myself.

-The Happy Hodag!

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[odysseyuwrf]

I also found a letterbox in Door County on accident. My dad actually thought it was the cache we were looking for. I had to explain that there is another game out there. Still it was interesting to come across something like this unexpected.

[gotta run]

@The Happy Hodag wrote:

Makes me want to go find them all and yank them myself.

Please don’t!

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