Top 10 Geocaching Acronyms

"Bring Your Own Pen/Pencil". An acronym often used by geocache owners to communicate to other geocachers to bring a writing utensil to sign the geocache logbook.

Cache In Trash Out® is an ongoing environmental initiative supported by the worldwide geocaching community. Since 2002, geocachers have been dedicated to cleaning up parks and other cache-friendly places around the world.

"Did Not Find". An acronym used by geocachers to declare they did not find a cache. DNF logs are hugely helpful to other cachers and the cache owner, as it lets them know the cache may be difficult to find or even missing.

"First to Find". An acronym written by geocachers in physical cache logbooks or online when logging cache finds to denote being the first to find a new geocache.

"Lamp Post Cache". A common type of geocache hidden under an unsecured lamp post base.

"Stuff We All Get." Trade items left in caches by geocachers.

"Travel Bug® is a trackable item that looks like a military dog tag, and has a unique code that is carried from cache to cache (or person to person) in the real world, and its progress can be followed on Geocaching.com. Geocoins are another type of trackable.

"Thanks for the Cache". An acronym written by geocachers in logbooks or online when logging cache finds. Occasionally written as "T4TC". Side note: Please take time to write at least a few sentences when you log your find online. This how you say "thank you" to the cache owner for creating, placing, and maintaining a geocache.

"Took Nothing. Left Nothing". Usually written in geocache logbooks when a geocacher doesn't leave anything in or take anything from a geocache.

"Tools of the Trade". An acronym used for any of the tools that might be used to search for/retrieve/find/log a geocache.