Hey everyone! I'm the Lost Coast Ninja. In mid-November, I started seeking caches, and since them it's been a non-stop hobby: every trip to another part of town ends up with another find under my belt. A few weeks after beginning the game, I started hiding caches in and around my current home town of Fields Landing, and also in Eureka proper. Here's a list:
Whalers Dry Dock GC38377
Bayside Hide-Out GC38HAK
Bayside Hide-out Extreme GC38XJC
All Zipped Up GC38T2H
Hoagie Hijinks GC387CE

Also, I recently adopted TFJ's "Got Change/ T-1800" series of caches around the Bayshore Mall, and also The Landing TB motel in Fields Landing. All of the Bayshore-area sites have been updated with Rite in the Rain, and the TB motel will soon be one of 4 new ammo cans I picked up today

Hope to meet some of y'all soon.

The Ninja of the Lost Coast

Some quick tips for caching supplies:

Picky Picky Surplus- Ammo cans/Decons/First Aids/ Any other type of container you could want except micro, Dry packs, Hiking gear, assorted surplus items, Rain gear, etc.

Adventures Edge- Rite in the Rain paper, Hiking/outdoor supply

CVS/Wallgreens- micro Caches, plus Michaels next door has magnets, hot glue, paint, and velcro

Ace/ Piersons- Caching hardware, supplies for custom containers.

I'll be at one of your caches tomorrow...after I pick up a tree climber.

edit: You mentioned Picky Picky Surplus. Just don't buy the ammo can with a logbook inside.

Also, I'll put it out there that I have 3 more ammo cans to hide, so if someone has a great spot PM me and we can take a day to place a cache or two. I'm already thinking Samoa Rec area could use another ammo can hide...

How big does a cache have to be to be considered large? they sold some pretty big pelican cases/ammo cans at the surplus shop I was at earlier...

edit: The cache was the first one I picked up- I was like, "Whoa, I don't even need to order a sticker for this one!" hahaha

You might find this explanation helpful.

According to that, I have one can that should become the closest "large" cache to the Humboldt Bay.

Not sure on the exact size, it's a 800- 5.56mm size can, about twice the size of a .30 cal box. the others I have are 2 .30's and a .50.

Edit: the big ammo can is a S.A.W. ammo can, volume is approximately 11 liters. Measures 7x8x12"

Well then,

The Landing-TB hotel has undergone renovations and is now a .30 cal ammo can hide... watch out for the Hotel Security (Stinging Nettles!)

I hide a new cache down in the Samoa rec area today. Have fun with this easy one

New Cache today!! GC39H62 Stinky Pier (HXC-2)

I found the spot yesterday on a romantic evening with my girlfriend...what a cool little spot. Have fun, and there is NO reason to go off or hang over the edge of the pier, folks!

Well, my new cache has been placed too close to a puzzle cache...

Ninja



**edited for spoilers

It shouldn't be hard to find...after all, "X" marks the spot!

Thankfully, I have the coords I need and have figured out exactly what must happen. This cache will live on, and is about to get extremely dirty! Luckily, that was the plan all along...

I have a feeling that this will be a polarizing cache: People will either love it or hate it...

Ninja

Got to tell ya:

For me it is about going somewhere, seeing something or somewhere awesome. Don't mind goober caches if they are related to something denoted above.

GEO-TORTURE ... not so much fun.

Indeed, I avoid some hides because I am not into GEO-TORTURE. That is the beauty of this silly activity ... something for everyone.

But for some of us (e.g. HF) just trying to get a cache published is geotorture!

We agree wholeheartedly with HF. Our most enjoyable caching experiences have brought us to amazing places we've never visited before, or allowed us to look at familiar places with a whole new perspective. And the really great caches challenge us not just physically (though that's always fun) but by testing our perceptions and producing that "Ah-ha!" moment.
We want to send out a big Christmas THANK YOU to the entire caching community for the fun, the physical and mental exercise and the reason the team's not welded to the couch playing video games. Looking forward to more great caching in 2012!

Amen to that:

Merry Christmas to all.

I come from a variety of outdoor thrill-seeking activities, and I think my cache hides reflect that fact. In no way would I be ashamed to admit it However, they're not all made for the extreme sports junkie: a bunch of them are quite accessible by the average person.

That being said, my new cache (which was delayed a day due to weather) is definitely not going to be easy. It will probably involve a bit of torture, in one way or another- but what most cachers would call torture, I would probably call a fun, adventurous, and memorable experience and/or a well-hidden cache. To each their own, in my book- but I'll try to hide a wide variety of different styles of caches, just like the best of them do

Ninja

We are looking forward to your hides with great anticipation.

Hello all. Wow, what an adventurous day! I've completed the placement of my newest cache. I'm writing this note as a bit of a cautionary tale:if and when you attempt this fourthcoming new cache, please be over-prepared, and bring a standard compass (know how to use it!), water, and (especially this time of the year) 2 flashlights. Uf you are unfamiliar with the area bring a buddy.

I've spent a decent portion of my life in the woods, and no matter how experienced I get, I always prepare for worst-case scenarios, like today: coco ran off after I hid the cache, and as we were in an area with few trails if any, I ended up losing my bearings on the way back. By the time I made it out it was dark and coco magically appeared in the parking lot...but if not for the supplies I had on me, I may have ended up spending the night there...

Feel free to take my story lightly, but don't blame me if you get lost. Good luck and be careful out there.

Lost (coast) Ninja

I hope that coco is a dog, and not your nephew or something.

Yes, she is my Canine Companion

Here it is! GC39KGR Old Gregg's Cache

New cache on the way soon: http://coord.info/GC39VJB

Yes, it appears LCCF members have an advantage when it comes to my caches...you find out they exist before they're published!

Ninja

Except that only you can see them until they're published.

Hey Ninja, are you trying to beat my record over turned down caches???

The advanced notice must be at least a little helpful...

HF: I was just gonna say, what was that you were saying about running up against reviewers? I'm pulling my hair out over this one. I know they just do their best to make sure the listings are properly completed, but jeez...I think the guy has disabled the new listing about 3 or 4 times now, for different reasons each time.

Also, that thing about not using previously placed caches as precedents for your current listing...it's true. These things are much harder to place nowadays..

Ninja

On a similar note, what's to stop someone from just sidestepping the whole process and listing the coords on, say, this site?? hahaha

Okay, email me the coords and I'll approve the cache.

I feel your pain Ninja

AAND here is my next cache: http://coord.info/GC39VJB Humboldt Hill Overlook. Coords take you close to a few objects. good luck all! FTF has been taken by Bruhn already...congrats!! I think you've been FTF on a vast majority of mine so far, along with Jasper...

Ninja

Updated List: Includes my caches, plus two that I made major changes to; Does not include caches I've adopted and kept the same.

The Landing (5-star TB Hotel Series) GC1MF1C
Cheese Hideout (5-Star TB Hotel Series) GC1PA2A

Bayside Hide-out X (HXC-1) GC38XJC
Stinky Pier (HXC-2) GC39H62
Old Gregg's Cache (HXC-3) GC39KGR

Whalers' Dry Dock GC38377
Bayside Hide-Out GC38HAK
All Zipped Up GC38T2H
Hoagie Hijinks GC387CE
Humboldt Hill Overlook GC39VJB
Monster In The Dunes GC39900

As of 1-4-2012, Please Do Not leave TB's in the Fields Landing-area caches. 5 TB's marked as missing today; My apologies to the owners. One or more of the caches may need archiving after this...we shall see what turns up. Please contact me with any info on the missing trackables' whereabouts.

/Ninja

I'm glad to see that the 2 that I dropped off in The Landing have turned up. As for the ones from Whalers' Dry Dock, did you check the logbook? Sometimes you can figure out who took a trackable by seeing if someone signed the log but didn't log the cache online. Or someone who logged the cache online may have forgotten to log the trackable, or may be a new cacher who doesn't know how to log it. In either case, a polite email asking them if they took it may be helpful.

Unfortunately, some trackables, especially geocoins, do get stolen by people who don't sign the log or log the cache online. There's not much we can do about that.

Has everyone checked their pant's pockets?
coord.info/GL2BYCD6

Travel items: (Bugs, Tags, Coins)

Unfortunately, a poorly understood subset of our game.

Casual visitors to the game unfortunately treat the items as routine swag.

Hopefully your items have been picked up by folks who understand the T.I. aspect of the game and are just a bit late in logging. ( The 101 corridor does see Snow and Rainbirds ... Once at their destinations perhaps they will perform their tasks ).

One can only hope nefariousness is not a factor.

I went to Picky Picky Picky yesterday to look for decon containers, but I couldn't find any and the clerk had never heard of them.

Does anyone know of another local source for them?

Sarge's Army Surplus in Ukiah had some when I was there last