I lost my cellphone back in May while geocaching near Lake Allatoona. Packer and Yoyo Man picked it up last weekend a few feet from a geocache, see the logs here:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=...74-954e-fa04eae0c26c

I had joked that if anyone tried to call me, a squirrel might answer. The phone lay on the ground in the woods for 6 weeks and still came on when Packer hit the button. Not bad for a cheap Virgin Mobile phone. It seems to work fine. The best thing about getting the phone back was having all the numbers I had entered over months of use.

I think the pocket on my pack came partially unzipped at the bottom and the phone fell out when I put the pack back on. I am careful now to pull the two zippers to the top of the pocket.

Live and learn.

Glad you got the phone back, Charlie. I lost one in the woods on the way to Long Distance Call - Southern Style back in November. Ironically, it was the phone I used to get the coordinates from a pay phone in Florida.

The first time I tried to find Forbidden Forest II I lost my cell phone and didn't find the geocache. But at the time Cingular had sent me a notice that I could get a free phone. So I got one. Then awhile later Robert and went to try to find the geocache again. We didn't go in the same, way but he found my old phone. But when I lost it, it had a leather case, when he found it the case was gone and the phone had phone teeth marks on it and the antenna was chewed off.

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Originally posted by CharlieP:
I am careful now to pull the two zippers to the top of the pocket.

I guess I have always done that, daypack or backpack. Zipping to the top of the pocket on a pack does minimize the chance of stuff falling out of the hole that can form. I even zip suitcases all the way around to one end to give only one zipper the chance to move as it is handled.

I wish I had been so lucky when I lost my PalmOS Treo while doing the Guana Quest in Florida on Christmas Eve 2004:

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=...4785e&log=y&decrypt=

That one slpped out when I was riding a bike and darkness and rain called off the search. I still give myself a dope-slap about that day.