My favorite log on any of my caches so far

[stokstad]

I got this log this weekend on one of my caches:

September 6 by Weatherking (146 found)
Went on the hunt with little sis and friend. Super, super cache. I have been slacking on geocaching lately due to disappointing caches. This one restored my faith! TFTC

on my cache:

GC1DCEQ

This makes me feel good about placing it and makes placing geocaches worthwhile. Its also amazing that its a backyard cache. Hehe 😀

[Lostby7]

@stokstad wrote:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=07af079f-60b2-438c-928e-35669ee845ad

Sorry dont know how to shrink it down to just the cache number.

This makes me feel good about placing it and makes placing geocaches worthwhile. Its also amazing that its a backyard cache. Hehe 😀

All you need to do is post the GC# and the website will hotlink it automatically.

I do so love a good log on one of my caches as well.

[stokstad]

Thanks thats a good thing to know.

[GetMeOutdoors]

That is encouraging. I think my favorite log (or series of logs) are the ones Zuma posted on my Frost’s Forest Series (GC16JQE). Especially since this series was my first set of hides.

Here’s what he wrote on the final:
Awesome completion to an awesome series. Certainly one of the funnest series that I have done in awhile. Good combination of a great place to put it, inventive, but not impossible hides and just a bit of cleverness sprinkled over the top, makes for a great series, with an interesting theme.

Thanks for the cache, the Great Series, and Keep On Cachin In The Free World.

[Trekkin and Birdin]

Actually, quite of few of our Hixon Forest logs this summer have dealt with the issue of unusual wildlife, but this one’s my favorite, from wisundevil….

Didn’t get a chance find it, came from the Bicentenial Cache, which is near here. Wait a minute, what’s that I see, a hairy back, It can’t be a deer it would jumped an ran away. OH MY GOSH, A BEAR! I stop in my tracks. What do I do, it’s between me and the way out. I don’t want to climb to the top of the bluff and hitch a ride home. I call a friend, he says make a lot of noise. Have you ever tried to whistle when your mouth just dried up like the sands of the Sahara desert and your heart is pounding like buck fever? He looks my way, he’s big, then he slowly walks away from me, but towards my way out. So I get enough spit in my mouth and “Whistle while you work” all the way out of the woods looking behind every tree and behind me every step of the way. Maybe he had a travel bug around his neck, but where would you sign the log, his ear, or maybe a bison tube stuck someplace

This was on our cache “Lyin’ Among Friends”
GC1BWP4

[Team Black-Cat]

All the logs on this cache are great, so it’s hard to pick a favorite. Here’s the most recent one on GC18WMQ.

Wow!!!! What an adventure!!! Indiana Jones had nothing on this . When this first came out I was completely puzzled and couldn’t figure out what was needed, apart from a boat, which I didn’t have at the time. Fast forward a couple of months and I had acquired the needed boat. Clearly it was time to at least attempt this cache.

The first stage was nice and simple – or was it? It was kind of like walking into brick wall and finding out you were not going anywhere!! After days of trying to decipher the information I had, I finally hit upon a solution. Brilliant and I was sure I was correct – except I wasn’t. Back to the drawing board and I finally had the brainwave I needed late last night. I couldn’t wait to test my theory out this morning and was delighted to have finally struck gold.

The journey to stage 2 had to wait a while due to that thing called work that is now irritatingly cutting into my cache time . I collected the things needed for stage 2 and headed home to plan my next move… telling my husband I was off out for a little fun!

I wasn’t sure how much time I would have as the sun was already starting to go down but I figured I could at least get a little further into this adventure. Like all good Indiana Jones movies you know you are going to have that jungle thing going on and this stage did not disappoint. Nor did the cache!!!!

I finally had the information I needed to find the final but did I have the time to get it before it got really dark? I arrived at the next place and actually turned around and drove off because I thought I wouldn’t be able to make it, but then common sense (??? or lack of it!!)prevailed and I thought, hang on a minute… I am sure Indy didn’t wimp out over a little thing like dark so off I went. It was kind of a sprint paddle to the docking point and I had some issues getting out of the kayak but safely made it to land. A fishing boat then went by and asked if I was camping for the night… Ummm, no, but they knew about geocaching so all was good!

Another jungle/ swamp trek later and I finally found the perfect spot for buried treasure. Except there didn’t appear to be any… but we all know appearances can be deceptive and, after a bit of undercover work, I finally found the treasure at just after 8pm (although I signed the log as 8:38pm… strange considering I got back to the dock at 8:25pm?? Dark forces at work out there?? Or I just can’t read my watch properly!). Certainly a very fitting spot for such a hide. Stole all the treasure, signed the log, and replaced it so nothing would be left for the next person to find !!

My adventure was almost complete – I managed to find my kayak again but had some issues getting back into it. Luckily I managed to avoid a late evening dip and enjoyed a slightly more leisurely paddle back to the dock with only a tiny bit of light left.

This was a fantastic cache from start to finish – thankyou so much TBC for setting this up. I had a blast and I am sure many others will do the same.

p.s. felt guilty and returned the treasure before leaving

[GetMeOutdoors]

Just wanted to point out that the author of TBS’s mentioned log (BaileyHK) always has great comments and a funny story to tell. Here’s a kudos to her and all those other log authors that make reading these posts so much fun! Thanks for putting the effort into it. No “TNLNSL” posts here!

[Ry and Ny]

I find my logs to correspond directly to the effort and value I find in the cache itself. I’ve left longer DNFs in some cases than I have found logs. Please don’t think it means I don’t appreciate the caches that I leave short logs for — I’ve enjoyed finding every cache I’ve found. There are just some that are easily found in the crook of a tree and there are some that have required much thought and effort to find — and in most cases, my logs will reflect all of this. Of course, sometimes I’m just tired when I log.

Just to put a perspective on it, most people posting here seem to place value on a cache based on where it takes them — I do not. I enjoy the hunt, not the view. If you make the hunt new and interesting and/or different in any way, I respect that. You can put a bison tube in a pine tree right off the Grand Canyon and I won’t appreciate it at all. Again, that’s just me and I don’t expect anyone to agree with it, just as I don’t expect anyone else to agree with my distaste for a “subtract 930 from the year of foundation to get ABCD” offset puzzles.

I love all of ’em, but I don’t love all of ’em equally and my logs usually reflect that, even if my standards of enjoyment are a little different than anyone else’s.

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