My first recollection of a geocaching Lost and Found was on 2 November 2007, after the hunt for GC16TVZ Rainbow Frog By Bear_Left (better known to most as theUMP, I returned to the geoChallenger, wrote up the find in my cachers notebook, then went to put the gpsr in it's cradle and realised I didn't have it.

The cache had been hidden under a heavy rock, as Bear_Left wrote two months later, after the cache had been muggled, "It was a large rock, but not too large for some annoying person to move and take the cache". I had placed the gpsr down on another rock to free both hands to move the rock, and it remained there while I recovered from the exertion, wrote in the log book, replaced the big rock, recovered again from the exertion, returned to the geoChallenger, and finally returned to look for it. I thought I'd mentioned that part of the adventure in my log, but I see now that I didn't, so I won't claim that Lost and Found for this cache.

The next significant Lost and Found event I recalled, which I will claim, was logged by me as follows:
[Begin Quote] WanderingAus wandered by on 25 July 2009, day 52 of a "climatic refugee" trip and made a quick and easy GAFF 1 find to claim the FTF on GC1WA65 Palm Creek By Groboz at Holmes Jungle in sunny Darwin NT.

I was so excited by the FTF that I forgot to pick up my backpack. Luckily it was discovered only minutes later by the next FTF chaser, NTSTROM, who phoned me to ask "Have you lost something?". By then I was deep in the jungle hunting down GC1R8V6 The Jungle Eyeplex by gibbo003, so I arranged to meet him at the geoChallenger, which was parked at the Picnic Area/Exit intersection. Those in the know will be aware that the intersection is NOT the ideal place from which to approach The Jungle Eyeplex, but being a seasoned Vietnam Veteran, and having heard the sound of small arms fire nearby, I'm wary of travelling on tracks (due to the danger of mines and booby traps) and prefer to "jungle bash". [End Quote]
The sound of small arms fire was from the Mickett Creek Shooting Complex. The Stop Butt is about 800 metres East of GC1WA65 Palm Creek, and at it's nearest point GC1R8V6 The Jungle Eyeplex is 1200 metres WestNorthWest of the 500 metre firing point.

One might think that a backpack was no great loss, but that particular backpack, at the time of the almost loss, contained something like this:
Between 5 and 8 Assorted Geocoins and Travel Bugs, the property of various other geocachers;
Large extendable magnetic pickup tool with built-in LED light;
80cm extendable inspection mirror, 75mm x 50mm mirror, bought on 2 November 2007, for the hunt of GC16TVZ Rainbow Frog By Bear_Left;
400mm additional extension for the mirror;
Two piece barbed wire fence crossing equipment;
Small two piece entrenching tool;
Small first aid kit;
Leather gardening gloves;
Rubber gardening gloves;
8 rechargeable AA batteries and 4 rechargeable AAA batteries;
Two hand towels and two "sham wow" cloths;
Large quantity ziplock bags in 6 sizes;
Assorted blank log books in six sizes, including spare nano logs;
Several dozen each of pens, pencils and pencil sharpeners;
A dozen or more cache containers from 500ml down to mint tins and nanos; and
Five Kg of assorted swaps.

I'm glad I got the call from NTSTROM, replacing my stuff would have cost a lot, and the travellers were irreplaceable.

*Overall Experience: 2*

T4TC Trailrunning, and thanks for clarifying the cache conditions.
Keith

Rated: for Overall Experience.