What do you do if you find a cache that is … Cache rituals

[Team Northwoods]

Are there any quirks you like to do when you find a cache a certain way.

We find quite a few wet geocaches around so we bought little cheap plastic ducks and put them in the cache; like we did at this one “Moisture inside so we took nothing but left a duck. TFTC!.” http://coord.info/GCKWH5

Do you have any rituals when finding a cache? People that do a cache dance must note it, so I can stay far away from them. 😆

***Opinions expressed are mine alone and will change based upon new information. ***

[huffinpuffin2]

@Team Northwoods wrote:

People that do a cache dance must note it, so I can stay far away from them. 😆

Then stand back, Sir!

Let it be duly noted here, that such an activity has been known to occur at various cache sites.

Furthermore, vigorous tail-wagging can be observed, upon occasion, around a computer, when a particularly gnarly puzzle yields its secrets, as confirmed following a shaky ‘Geo-check’ pounding of the keyboard!

8) 8)

[Walkingadventure]

On many of my caches I had printed up a small laminated token and/or asked that the FTFer do the “FTF dance” with mention in the log. Sadly, few have ever complied.

After finding a difficult cache I have been known to spike the cache in celebration. 😯

😈 🙄

Following the signals from space.

[Team Black-Cat]

I throw a handful of leaves at it for extra cammo. Even guardrails get that same attention.

[CodeJunkie]

I have a tradition of actually signing the log. 😉

I have done a few solo FTF dances (but never for a WA cache). I’ve also been known to mumble a few #*&(#$ under my breath while thinking to myself that the hide was pretty clever.

[The Pirate Monkies]

During WWII when British fighter pilots would spot enemy planes they would call out “Tally Ho! I see the bloody Huns” to let the others in their squadron know where the enemy was… If I spot the cache first when I’m caching with others, being a pilot myself, I call out “Tally Ho! I’ve got the bloody cache”…

[Smashing Ground]

At cache GC1JB10 I yelled I F…’N found it,cuz I was in disbelief.
other then that No dancing maybe just some eye rolling if it was a easy one and I over looked it several times.
1 occasion I hate to admit but I was just really bummed out about finding 5 micro caches in a row that had frozen logs “I just simply added snow into the cache container on the 6th frozen log cache” I know not the most class act thing I did,but I was really bumming out. and I promise that was the only cache destruction I did.

[CacheARRRS]

As soon as I find it…I have this desire to walk 5-10 feet away before open it. It’s a natural “hoarding” instinct or something, that I don’t want anyone else to see where I got it from…even if I am alone!

It’s weird, I know.

FTF’s are even worse, since I am convinced that every snapped twig I hear or every car in sight is swarming with hordes of cachers that will pour out like a clown car to steal my precious new FTF!!

Maybe I need a shrink for that one…

[Smashing Ground]

@CacheARRRS wrote:

FTF’s are even worse, since I am convinced that every snapped twig I hear or every car in sight is swarming with hordes of cachers that will pour out like a clown car to steal my precious new FTF!!

Bilbo: …it’s mine… my own… my precious…
Gandalf: Precious? It’s been called that before, but not by you.
Bilbo: Oh, what business is it of yours what I do with my own FTF?
Gandalf: I think you’ve had that cache quite long enough.
Bilbo: You want it for yourself!
Gandalf: BILBO BAGGINS! Do not take me for some conjuror of cheap tricks! I am not trying to rob you of your FTF. I’m trying to help you sign the log

[BeccaDay]

@smashing ground wrote:

@CacheARRRS wrote:

FTF’s are even worse, since I am convinced that every snapped twig I hear or every car in sight is swarming with hordes of cachers that will pour out like a clown car to steal my precious new FTF!!

Bilbo: …it’s mine… my own… my precious…
Gandalf: Precious? It’s been called that before, but not by you.
Bilbo: Oh, what business is it of yours what I do with my own FTF?
Gandalf: I think you’ve had that cache quite long enough.
Bilbo: You want it for yourself!
Gandalf: BILBO BAGGINS! Do not take me for some conjuror of cheap tricks! I am not trying to rob you of your FTF. I’m trying to help you sign the log

Excellent! 😆

Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien

[CacheARRRS]

@smashing ground wrote:

@CacheARRRS wrote:

FTF’s are even worse, since I am convinced that every snapped twig I hear or every car in sight is swarming with hordes of cachers that will pour out like a clown car to steal my precious new FTF!!

Bilbo: …it’s mine… my own… my precious…
Gandalf: Precious? It’s been called that before, but not by you.
Bilbo: Oh, what business is it of yours what I do with my own FTF?
Gandalf: I think you’ve had that cache quite long enough.
Bilbo: You want it for yourself!
Gandalf: BILBO BAGGINS! Do not take me for some conjuror of cheap tricks! I am not trying to rob you of your FTF. I’m trying to help you sign the log

Well done! And yes, it goes something like that.

[hack1of2]

A ritual of ours is that we almost always take a picture of every cache and waypoint before opening the cache. We’ll normally take both a spoiler and a non-spoiler picture. The non-spoiler picture(s) we can post when we log the find online; the spoiler picture is for current and future reference only. Sometimes if time allows we’ll take a picture of the contents of the cache if it will make a good story. When we first started caching, before we had a decent GPSr with the capability of saving our finds via field notes, we had two main choices for recording our field notes: write them down in a notebook, or take a picture so we could refer to them later when logging online. Now we save the finds as field notes on the Garmin but still have to do one of the other two methods if using the iPhone. No matter which of the two GPSr’s we use we still try to keep up the habit of taking a picture. It sometimes reminds us of details to mention when posting finds, and comes in handy sometimes when we get a PAF call.

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