My First! and a question.

[furfool]

The other cool thing that I couldn’t wait for was getting all the neat icons for the different types of caches and of course for all of the different coins.

[Lostby7]

@-cheeto- wrote:

….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…

LMAO…I think if that were me I would have thrown in the towel right there…….Silly puzzle cache placers (oh wait I have 8 of those too 😈 ).

[3 Hawks]

The level of “freakiness” will grow logarithmically as the obsession takes over higher functionality of your brain.

[gotta run]

So my question is…was it like this for all of you the first time, or am I just a little freaky?

Our first cache was finding the final stage of a two-stage multi after missing the first stage because we couldn’t figure out how to run the GPSr and just stumbled upon it. Come to think of it, that pretty much describes about half our finds. 😕 But the thrill of finding, especially after a long an arduous search, continues to be a rush. And like Zuma we do also get the thrill of “discovering” our own caches on maintenance runs, usually when their hiding spot has been “improved” by other cachers. 😯

The thrill of the find is why people who don’t play the game will look at you with bewilderment as you try to explain the allure of using billion-dollar satellites to hunt tupperware in shrubbery.

Then your next addiction will be the forums. Spend some time here and ultimately you will be compelled to check in regularly rather than spending your time figuring out puzzle caches, planning cache runs, coming up with new ideas for cache placements…did I forget anything…like work? No, who needs to work. 😆

Did I miss any emoticons? Here are a few more… 😀 😳 😮

On the Left Side of the Road...

[Timberline Echoes]

Our first was a tackle box, not quite as sastisfying clunk as the metal ammo box but very exciting. Then we found out about travel bugs, geocoins and teams of people with the same addiction. It is a happy place.
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[jenhen1]

Yup, I remember our first find like it was yesterday. the “rush” you speak of sounds really familiar and it’s the rush I remember that keeps us coming back for more! I know I simply could NOT wait to find my second! Although the high isn’t as powerful, everytime I look in “the right spot” that feeling of accomplishment and “woohoo! I found it!” is always there, it never goes away. I guess that’s the addiction part! Congrats on your first find I’ll bet you’re already planning your second!

[benny7210]

Congratulations on your first find. I am sure their will be many more to come. Like it has been said before “Welcome to the obsession”
As long as every one else is telling of their first cache story. I will share mine with the rest of the world.

Geocaching- My First Find

Some one once said that geocaching was like a box of chocolates you never know what you’re going to get. Well I couldn’t agree more.

The geocaching bug bit me on a Friday after reading an article in a magazine and thinking that this sounds like a lot of fun. So the next day found me on my way over to the local Wal-Mart to purchase my first GPSr. After getting home and opening the box and reading through instruction manual my first thoughts were, lets load in some coordinates and go hunting. Now the big question came up.

Which cache will be my first find? Well, after much reading and a lot of thought I knew the decision was very simple. I’ll do the one in an area that I knew the best. This past summer I had spent many hours fishing for blue gills at a small lake. So Gass Lake (GCNW8X) was to be my first find.

The December afternoon had clear blue skies, but cool temperatures. When I arrived at the top of the hill leading down to the boat landing the anticipation was unreal. My heart raced as I walked down the hill with the GPSr in my hand, I did not know where this container would be hid. All I knew for sure was that it was supposed to be a regular. The difficulty and terrain ratings were two stars each. As I walked following the directions on the GPSr, seeing the numbers getting less and less, then going around a fallen tree, and looking under the roots, Bang there it was. My first cache! The plastic jar was all mine. I unscrewed the top to examine the bootie. I made my first trade. The swap was a rubberstamp for a toy plastic cow. I took a few minutes to read and sign the logbook. Then I returned the cache back to it’s secluded hiding place. The person that hid this cache had the coordinates right on the money. In my hurry to get back home to tell my better half and record my find. I didn’t notice the piece of barbed wire sticking out of the ground. Wouldn’t you know it I ripped my pants leg. Oh well I couldn’t care less. I just found my first cache. I didn’t know it then, but I was hooked just like the blue gills that I had caught here at Gass Lake this past summer fishing.

[lagrac]

Hello there! Even to this day, finding metal boxes in the woods makes me happy, but I can think of two instances where my excitement overcame my usual reserved attitude.

The first time was the infamous Delorme pg. 104 cache, Superior Falls. After stressing out about this cache for probably 3 months, because at the time, it was the only cache on the entire page (so I had to find it). So, after driving north from Park Falls and coming up with the find. I let loose with the loudest expletive in my entire life. An expletive of Happiness.

The second time was this past Saturday. I was caching in Menominie, and I found myself finding cache after cache that Zuma! got the ftf on. So as I approached ‘Giant Chair’ I really thought it’d be no different, till I looked at the log book and it was totally blank. Getting a FTF in Zuma’s backyard equals the second loudest expletive of my life.
An expletive of Happiness.
😀

[furfool]

I don’t know about the rest of you, but every now and then I have to throw a benchmark in to try to find as well. I try to go after ones that haven’t been found by cachers. It’s a pretty good rush finding something that hasn’t been found in 30 years.

[sunski]

Benchmark? Well now I am going to have to research what that is. If they haven’t been found in 30 years – and I am a HUGE history buff -then those sound like something pretty cool.

Also, another question if I can (should probably pose this in the newbie forum). I am heading to the Cities for the holidays and want to try for Find #2 while I am there. I came across a puzzle cache while researching the area. I have read many references on this site to puzzle caches and understand them somewhat. My big question is if they have gps coordinates listed, then what is the puzzle about? Will I not find the cache if I follow the coords? What does the puzzle portion of it do?

[Lostby7]

Each puzzle is different but by definition:

“The only commonality of this cache type is that the coordinates listed are not of the actual cache location but a general reference point, such as a nearby parking location.”

You need to solve the puzzle to get the real coords or hints as to the caches location.

I normally put the coords for my puzzle caches smack dab in the middle of a lake so that new cachers are less tempted to go to the actual listed coords. I still have people email me saying they drove around the whole lake and couldn’t find the road that lead to the center of it.

A Benchmark is a survey disc….they are located all over the place but many are in fact under several inches of dirt…some are on the sides of buildings or even water towers….

[sunski]

Hmm…puzzle caches seem to be something from the “Dark Side”. I think Master Yoda said it best when he uttered, “Coordinates falsely given are coordinates not.”

But then again it might be fun. 🙂

I think I may have to give this puzzle cache thing a try.

My wife is going to think I am bonkers by the way. Any advice on that?

And lastly…this is one of the funniest things I have ever read…

“…the allure of using billion-dollar satellites to hunt tupperware in shrubbery…” by gotta run

That should go on a t-shirt!

[cheezehead]

@sunski wrote:

I think Master Yoda said it best when he uttered, “Coordinates falsely given are coordinates not.”

Now that’s funny and the truth

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

@cheezehead wrote:

@sunski wrote:

I think Master Yoda said it best when he uttered, “Coordinates falsely given are coordinates not.”

Now that’s funny and the truth

Did you read it in your Yoda voice?

I think it is on a t shirt.

[cheezehead]

@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

@cheezehead wrote:

@sunski wrote:

I think Master Yoda said it best when he uttered, “Coordinates falsely given are coordinates not.”

Now that’s funny and the truth

Did you read it in your Yoda voice?

I think it is on a t shirt.

Why yes….yes I did.

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