Favorite caches

[trail cachers]

Some of our all time favorites are:
The Singing Skeleton (GCHKFC)
Yuma Arizona

Goblin Climbing House (GCN2EX)
In Goblin Valley state park in Utah.
We done it before there were coordinates on which gulley to go up so it was really a challenge.
http://www.americansouthwest.net/utah/g ... raphs.html


These were really fun but our all time favorite was a multi night cache on the south rim of the Grand canyon.

Caching the Night Away (GCJ82F) It took 6 of us with 6 flashlights almost 3 hours to get it. Those woods were really dark!!

[mmgestes]

One of our favorite out of state caches is in the Black Hills, SD. It has been archived since we found it but has been replaced by several Letterbox Hybrids in its place. The cache was called Hell Canyon GCW53K by Acid Rain. The cache was on the Hell Canyon Trailhead and was originally about a half mile or so in. We found it on a warm, sunny, windy mid-September day. The canyon had been hard hit by the Jasper Fire many years earlier and we could still hear tree branches falling and breaking in the wind. It was really creepy. Just the sound of the wind blowing through the canyon was eery. Plus, for those of you who have seen the movie and are familiar, I wanted to yell out, "Dances With Wolves, Don't you know that you will always be my friend?" The area reminded me of that in the movie, but, which was actually filmed in nearby Spearfish Canyon.... Anyway, it was a beautiful hike in an scenic location. Plus, the cache was hidden very well...took us 30 minutes or more to find the cache. This original cache has been archived and replaced with a Letterbox Hybrid. There are now four Letterbox caches on this trail. You can park at the Hell Canyon Trailhead and walk in, a 5.5 mile loop that starts at the west edge of the parking lot and will return at the north edge of the lot. If you have never done a Letterbox Hybrid cache, they are a lot of fun. You can do a search under Acid Rain or Hell Canyon Trail for the new GCID for the new caches.

[RonGerth]

The boys and I went after Hell's Canyon one hot July afternoon when we were new to caching. We were on a trip to RC to meet my parents there and decided to stop off on a couple of cache. We went to the cave site, parked there and began the trek into the cache area. Like I said we were new to caching and learned a very very valuable lesson that day, bring water and if possible do not go for long cache hikes with very little kids. We turned around after the canyon was declared to be as hot as hell.

It is still talked about today.

Ron

[mmgestes]

Yes Ron...We too did the cache without taking water...not advisable. We were new to caching ourselves. Probably didn't have 25 under our belt yet. This was another one of those caches where daddy carried a "young-un" on his shoulders. At least we weren't climbing up a mountain this time! I will also add that with the exception of the wind and the breaking branches, the canyon was dead quiet! Made us think that we were the only people left on the planet. There is a reason they call it Hell Canyon. Really a neat caching experience!

[RonGerth]

Same here, and we were down in the Canyon so the road sounds and all were not there either. Was a pretty eery walk. We never did go back to that cache but I do think about it when ever we go past there.

[dblrngr]

My all time favorite cache was found in Nashville, TN. It is called "the Maze"... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=6f49788f-76f6-4053-a979-e3cbca9bbde2

It is an old Mansion and in the front of the mansion is a maze made of bushes about chest high. We had to make our way to the cache and get out through the maze. It did take us quite a time to actually get close to the cache...but finally Victory.

This is one of my all time favorite caching pictures also ...
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=12886c81-6a2a-4555-961d-6dcef4601825&IID=ed16a01a-b60f-4893-b030-f2cc5676bf7b

[RonGerth]

My all time favorite cache is a cache in North Dakota called Meadowlark (GCQ14Z). I went back to this cache to hunt for it every time I went up there on a business trip and finally on about the 3rd time I found it, totally by accident. I remember the feeling of finding it, the awe at the hide method and how nice the park was that it was hidden in. It has been disabled due to a local kid's destructive urges but it is my favorite cache so far of the almost 400 that we have found. I hope that the kid leaves town or grows up so that he can bring it back on line again. I know that the hide method is becoming more common but it was the first time that I ever found a cache in which the hide method should be and could be classified as mean, evil, rotton and nasty..................... all in a good way.

Ron

[Team SCR]

My all time favorite cache was in Salem, Va (GCBE9A) http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCBE9A not that it was hard to find, it was a virtual and I saw it from a half mile away. But for what it stood for. It was some of the beams off the WTC in New York, and this welding company had erected them up in front of there shop and put a plaque up remembering 9-11. Standing there knowing that if those beams could talk the stories they would tell.

Thinking about it standing there gave me the chills!!!

[kingtiger]

We just found one of the funnest caches so far. Spider Cache (GC1AMQK) it took a little bit of trying to figure this one out. The area isn't much to look at but was a fun and trying cache.