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Groundspeak's Lost and Found

Groundspeak's Lost & Found promotion celebrated 10 years of geocaching. From May 2010-December 2010, members of the geocaching community and Groundspeak hosted events to mark the milestone.

Geocachers also marked the occasion by telling us about their best geocaching adventures. You can read through the stories below, or watch the stories that were filmed for the Lost & Found video series.

Stories & Photos

stickandbrycebryce RE: How has geocaching changed your life?

Post Date: 2012-02-28T22:15:08Z

Geocaching changed my life about a year ago when I was diagnosed with an eating disorder. I had no outlet for stress and anxiety. Geocaching let me get out and do something. It gave me something else to focus on and when my boyfriend found out about it he was excited to try and we have both started enjoying it and have since planted our own cache and sent out a travel bug.

Dede1596 RE: What's your favorite cache and why?

Post Date: 2012-02-04T00:13:56Z

My favourite cache would be the multicache "itsy bitsy spider all grown up!" It took us forever to find, but it was worth it! It is one of the most creative caches I have ever found or heard of. So much thought and detail went into both stages and we had a blast figuring out how to retrieve the final container.

xedion RE: How has geocaching changed your life?

Post Date: 2012-01-02T07:22:17Z

How it changed my life? Answer: it keeps me sane of mind and healthy. Its 10 Years ago that I was diagnosed with a incurable disease and my life changed. For years i stayed indoors never went out. Until a few years ago I discovered GeoCaching, it gave me a purpose to go out en enjoy life again.(within my restrictions) And everyday I move my boundaries.

xedion RE: What has geocaching taught you?

Post Date: 2012-01-02T07:10:32Z

The one thing Geocaching has learned me, is, (almost)never give up searching and with patience a solution to the unsolvable will present itself. But as always there are some exceptions to the rules, in case of human error or the destructive nature of mankind.

carsonvalleyfab RE: Other

Post Date: 2011-10-06T01:36:25Z

We sent our kids on a Hike while on the Rubicon Trail to go find "cool stuff" and they came back with one:) It was pretty cool they were super excited!! Amanda Carson Valley Fabrication

alexqp RE: What's your favorite cache and why?

Post Date: 2011-09-26T21:04:04Z

My favorite caches are Cliff Hanger in Lawrence KS and Mag Park in Seattle, WA

njmedic2535 RE: Who have you met through geocaching that you'll never forget? Related Url

Post Date: 2011-05-26T11:59:18Z

First FTF. First time getting stuck. First meeting with a new friend!

Dulce-Joy RE: Other Related Url

Post Date: 2011-04-08T08:16:59Z

The attached URL has a log that I thought was very inspired and I thought other would enjoy it as well.

Spider+Spidi RE: Other Related Url

Post Date: 2011-04-06T19:10:20Z

Hello Gc.com team After long investigations and thorough preparation time, it was limited on the 29th of November, 2009 so far. We could reactivate proudly this legendary point again. This point reminds of the first Cache laid in Austria "Austria's first" on the 30th of June, 2001 published and on the 2nd of February, 2004, unfortunately, it was put into archives. Meanwhile there are in Austria approx. 21000 active Caches. Not to let fall into oblivion this historical point, became here p...

EquipoUNO RE: What's the most "extreme" geocache you've ever found?

Post Date: 2011-03-07T16:46:55Z

Sin duda el primero. Fue muy especial porque además no era de los sencillos, y estaba en un buen lugar y bastante interesante de contenido.

Cpt. Morgan's Crew RE: What's the most "extreme" geocache you've ever found? Related Url

Post Date: 2011-03-01T19:14:37Z

Aaaarrgh! Ahoy there ye' land lovers! This here be "A Pirates Tale Adventure" fer' sure. It began as I'd set me course heading fer' this treasure in these boonies of Wrightsville, Ga. I was without me hardy crew fer' some searchin' on me own. I dropped anchor here and headed into the moors. I had only me latern to light me way and used a staff to find me path. I'd no more than just entered when the solid ground beneath me boots gave way. The ground was bewitched! Water as black as the night, was trying to...

BarrelOfMonkeys_2010 RE: Tell us about your funniest geocaching moment. Related Url

Post Date: 2011-02-27T18:10:18Z

I thought this would be a simple PnG. I'll let you decide: I got alerted to this at a SWAG event. I noticed all of the FTF hounds didn't immediately leave, so I took off. :). I figured this was on the way home so I would give it a shot. I left the main road and was greeted by what I'm sure is an old horse and buggy trail due to it's sad state of disrepair. As I made it to the end of this road, I saw that another car was here! Darnit! It appeared to be Cougarzlair car. I got out and headed towards the cac...

ruggedswordfish RE: What's the most "extreme" geocache you've ever found?

Post Date: 2011-02-24T17:32:50Z

The UK mega series.... 126 caches, 35 miles..... and all within a day... enough said :)

Arkanada110 RE: How has geocaching changed your life?

Post Date: 2011-02-24T12:09:11Z

I bought a Travel tag and attached a small guardian angel to it. I gave it to one of my Geocaching friends (Rocka Rolla) to be moved. Rocka Rolla then gave it to Catlady2 (Rocka or Rolla's mum) who took it to New Zealand, more specifically, Christchurch. With the earthquake, there was a lot of damage and people missing, injured, or dead. But Catlady2 remained safe, with only minor damage to the home that she was staying in. Rocka Rolla had just heard from Catlady2 a couple of days previously. Even with no w...

Green Dragon Riders RE: Other Related Url

Post Date: 2011-02-20T18:02:34Z

Geocaching before geocaching.com. Back in the mid 1990's before the Selective Availability was turned off on May 1, 2000. I was playing with the concept of using a Garmin 45 GPS to find a treasure. Our church group was camping at Beverly Beach State Park on the Oregon Coast. I would take a "treasure" out into the bush somewhere near the campground and then mark a waypoint on the GPS. I would then give the GPS to another camper in the group and challenge them to find the treasure, usually a quarter. I...

SirFsup RE: How has geocaching changed your life? Related Url

Post Date: 2011-02-19T00:37:30Z

My dad got me into Geocaching when we moved back up from California. I trundled around with him on a couple of trips and decided that this was a good time. I made a screen name (SirFsup) and off we went. During the 2008 Mt. Hood Challenge, I took my 2yo daughter with us and she made her first find. Since we had our camera, we snapped a few pictures and I created a screenname for her (Demonseed) and posted the picture (see URL and log entry July 26, 2008). Amazingly, the photo was one of the top 10 nomi...

ssphoto RE: What's your favorite cache and why? Related Url

Post Date: 2011-02-18T21:06:39Z

I often remember how much fun I had at this cache. It was a multi, involved some pretty strenuous climbing (later found it could have been easier) and had a cool abandoned railroad tunnel as it's focal point. The fall color, a walk through the tunnel, the climb up a steep "cliff" and then a fast paced uphill scramble to the cache area, THEN the trip back down, was fantastic. Just the way a geocache should be!

Papirtucsok RE: How has geocaching changed your life?

Post Date: 2011-02-13T22:05:00Z

It was our first cache in the first day. It gave us a big self-confident to find other ones.

geocacheruk RE: What's your favorite cache and why?

Post Date: 2011-02-10T21:28:50Z

Cache : GC262A5 This Cache was Disabled as people did not find it and the owner can not get there to replace cache at the time. So I walk up there amd spent a while searching the vacinity of the cache site which was a Ammo Box. But I found a other Cache which I was told it was a original container which I never seen before as it was good to find thing for the Owner and The cache is again up and running which a Happy Ending. Also there is a series of 70 caches consists of an assortment of small...

O2J nominated a log by sofuca for GC1C203

Post Date: 2011-02-01T18:46:43Z

This has to be one of the greatest Untold stories of a cachers visit.

Tromboon nominated a log by SAATPRINS for GC18NNJ

Post Date: 2011-02-01T17:34:33Z

Samen met mijn zwager deze schitterende route gelopen. Zoals mijn zwager reeds opmerkte: het water stond hoog en de wind was ijskoud. Het was mijn eerste geocachtocht, dus er viel voor hem heel wat te coachen. Maar ik genoot!! En eh, inderdaad koude handen en snotneuzen. Helaas was er geen café open in deze wereldstad.

Samen met mijn zwager deze schitterende route gelopen. Zegenwerp is mij goed bekend maar de andere kant van de Dommel is zeker zo mooi. Het water stond hoog en de wind was ijskoud. Dus koude handen en snotneuzen. We gaan tijdens de zomermaanden nog eens een kijkje nemen omdat de natuur dan wellicht nog mooier zal zijn . Ik ga zeker een punt uitbrengen aan deze cache. TFTC 1xout en 1xin

L0ne R nominated a log by Cryptosporidium-623 for GC2MRGG

Post Date: 2011-02-01T17:31:55Z

Hilarious. I was spell bound by this alien adventure.

Bwah ha ha ha ha! Your inverted bolita collector was no match for the mighty Cryptosporidium-623 from planet FURON! As my clone, 507, our K-9 Mark III unit and myself approached the location of your diabolical device, we happened upon a Hooman attempting to use his primate neurons to reassemble the unit. He ran from the scene, waving his arms and screaming something about being unable to solve the "reverse puzzle." As we were more interested in a conquest of technology than another boring rectal probi...

juliadream nominated a log by blueboots for GC1ZD3Z

Post Date: 2011-02-01T15:58:39Z

Delighted with this log as it shows the true spirit of adventure intended for this cache. Go out, get muddy, and discover something you didn't know in wonderful countryside. Geocaching is not just about clicking up the numbers, and if a good day out only results in one log, it is worth making it in to a story.

Parked as suggested and gathered the required information. We had come prepared for a rainy day today but the sun was shining as we made our way to Hollow Holly. It was still shining when we reached Big Beech. I’m using beech leaves at home just now to make what I hope to be a very tasty liqueur. Information gathered and sum calculated we made our way towards Studley Castle. This was fun leaping streams and finding firm footing. We felt somewhat saddened as we approached the target tree as we thought...

9Key nominated a log by PastorIke for GC1XPEQ

Post Date: 2011-02-01T14:41:53Z

This is such a great first log from a newbie cacher!

This was mine and my son's first geocaching attempt and it was great. Noah (my 4 yr old) actually was the one to spot it first and we were so excited. We are going to call our outings "Treasure Hunting". We took a green pathtag and a yellow banana silly band and we left a red dinosaur and "The Thing" toy from McDonalds. I believe this is another way for us to get out and enjoy the outdoors and to make lasting memories that we will both carry with us forever!!! This entry was edited by PastorIke on Tu...

naturalcachers nominated a log by naturalcachers for GC134YR

Post Date: 2011-02-01T05:19:23Z

This cache was placed in honor of an avid geocacher who also helped build an amazing festival in our community. The log explains the importance of both his loves.

I swear I must have looked here twenty times during the last riverfest and didn't spot it. Walked straight up to it today. Riverfest has a important place in our hearts. On Memorial Day weekend in 1994 we came to Little Rock for a job interview. We knew nothing about Arkansas or LR. We stayed at the Holiday Inn downtown on Broadway (now its another hotel) and while looking for entertainment, they suggested Riverfest. We were so impressed that this city would put on such a fabulous family event that we decid...

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