I found a Geocach that is not listed

[Hobittual]

I had never heard of Geocaching.com until on the 27/7/14 I found in a small car park on the B4407 near Ffestiniog N. Wales a geocach. I opened it, signed the little book with my email address and left a winning lottery scratch card. I was hoping after joining that I might see some feedback from the next person to find this geocach, unfortunately it is not listed at this position.

What has happened here? I did not note the name of the creator other than xxxxxx1972 as I remember.

Now what is to be done about this?

 

Hobittual

[+speakers-corner]

The only Cache on that road is this one - Knights and Bandits (GC2X7D3). It is not directly on the road but on a side road. The Cache you found might not be listed here but listed on another site. Sorry that I cant help you further.

[Hobittual]

The only Cache on that road is this one - Knights and Bandits (GC2X7D3). It is not directly on the road but on a side road. The Cache you found might not be listed here but listed on another site. Sorry that I cant help you further.

Hmm. What other sites are there? I thought it would be this one as the logo etc lead us to this one?

[+T.D.M.22]

Could be on another site (use google) it could be archive (the listing is roved. Out of play so to speak) but not physically removed. Could have been placed but not approved (all geocaches go through a review) Could be the final location to a puzzle, or multi. (Puzzle is just that. As easy as translating from French, to hard enlighten that it may go years before it's solved. Multi is where you go to the location and find another set of co-ords.) or it could be a letterbox(not a geocache but similar) or letter box hybrid(cross between a cache and letterbox)

 

A letterbox, multi, or puzzle will not show the final location on the map, because it would defeat the purpose of those types.

[+The Blorenges]

As the previous poster has explained, there are various reasons why the cache you found may have been put in place but then not listed on this site.

 

Did it appear to be in good condition?

 

Are you likely to be passing that way again so that you could get more details about it?

 

MrsB

[QUANDRAY]

One possibility, and it's a long shot, is that it's GC3MYW6, which is owned by diggles1972, but has gone missing from it's correct location.

[+Graculus]

There are a couple of unpublished caches in that area which won't show up on the website. They are from a few years ago. It's possible you found the container of one of them. Here are the locations on Google maps. Does this match up with where you were? If not, can you find the place on Google maps? Right click the location and select "What's here" and copy the coordinates. Post them here and I can check again.

 

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=52.9762333333,-3.84501666667&ll=52.9762333333,-3.84501666667&spn=20,20&t=k&z=15

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=52.9848833333,-3.82075&ll=52.9848833333,-3.82075&spn=20,20&t=k&z=16

 

Chris

Graculus

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[Hobittual]

One possibility, and it's a long shot, is that it's GC3MYW6, which is owned by diggles1972, but has gone missing from it's correct location.

I have been back and you were 100% correct.

What can I do now? Plenty of folk have been to it recently.

[+Bear and Ragged]

One possibility, and it's a long shot, is that it's GC3MYW6, which is owned by diggles1972, but has gone missing from it's correct location.

I have been back and you were 100% correct.

What can I do now? Plenty of folk have been to it recently.

 

Options:

Post a Needs Maintenance log on the cache page, and state where you found it. Coordinates would be a help.

 

On the cache page, where it says A cache by diggles1972 clicking on the diggles1972 will bring up their profile and you can email the cache owner... However, they haven't logged in since August 2013.

 

And. Your second log should really be a Note log, not a Found log, you can edit the log from the log itself.

(Gets important, if you want your statistics correct in the future!)

Edited August 24, 2014 by Bear and Ragged

[+-=MMT=- Seri & T907]

found an unlisted cache in Thurgaton Nottinghamshire, it's right next to the priory entrance under a stone coffin and is full of clay dogs ! random or what!

[+Bear and Ragged]

found an unlisted cache in Thurgaton Nottinghamshire, it's right next to the priory entrance under a stone coffin and is full of clay dogs ! random or what!

 

Could be listed on anther site.

Could be a final cache for a multi-cache, or Unknown/Puzzle cache.

[+-=MMT=- Seri & T907]

found an unlisted cache in Thurgaton Nottinghamshire, it's right next to the priory entrance under a stone coffin and is full of clay dogs ! random or what!

 

Could be listed on anther site.

Could be a final cache for a multi-cache, or Unknown/Puzzle cache.

it's not, we have checked

[+Gackt]

found an unlisted cache in Thurgaton Nottinghamshire, it's right next to the priory entrance under a stone coffin and is full of clay dogs ! random or what!

 

Could be listed on anther site.

Could be a final cache for a multi-cache, or Unknown/Puzzle cache.

it's not, we have checked

As well as the four other main listing sites and this site, some other groups and organisations hide their own caches. We do a few of our own on our local forum. It could be something like that? I don't know that area of the country though so cannot offer further help on this one.

 

Also on some of the listing sites you can have movable caches, where someone finds it and re-hides it in another location for the next finders. Just another thing to bare in mind when some of these random unexplained finds that cannot be found on gc.com pop up.

[+mrcanoehead224]

found an unlisted cache in Thurgaton Nottinghamshire, it's right next to the priory entrance under a stone coffin and is full of clay dogs ! random or what!

 

Could be listed on anther site.

Could be a final cache for a multi-cache, or Unknown/Puzzle cache.

This punctuates why it's so important to label the cache and logbook with GC code, cache name and contact information.