Geocaching
Thursday 28th December
I haven’t been out Geocaching for ages and ages and ages - since the first couple of days in June to be precise. But there are a couple of things I love about Geocaching.
Firstly, there are those caches which are in such completely inaccessible places that they only ever attract one or two visitors per year, if at all. Caches like Ambitious Snorkeller which is on the bottom of Lake Ontario somewhere, or El Conquistador’s Treasure which requires a 10-hour round trek through the wilds of Greenland.
The other thing I love is when a member of the public chances across a cache completely by accident. The caching guidelines state that there should be an information sheet in the cache pointing accidental finders to the website so they can log their find and join in if they so desire. Often they do. Sometimes their log says something like: “Found this thing by accident, now off out to buy a GPS unit and find the rest!”
So… what prompted this blog? A ‘find’ report which came in this morning, combining the two.
The cache in question is Cone_Z, 12,000 feet up an active volcano in Antarctica. The find was by a group of scientists from the volcano observatory. How cool is that? (Don’t say “well below freezing, it is Antarctica”) .
What are the chances, eh?
Cool! Me and C found our 1st cache yesterday, not by accident as we remembered it was in the area. Fortunately I had my GPS and the location was still in the GPS memory, so while noone was around we looked for it and C found it! Resolution for 2007, get out walking more and find more caches!
UKCodeMonkey
28 Dec 06 at 12:14 pm
Wow, what a place for a cache!
JG
28 Dec 06 at 12:19 pm
Coolest Geocache, EVAR
Kouros
28 Dec 06 at 12:28 pm
Cool find!
I once switched on my GPS in Holland (after I had downloaded 100 before we went) and found we were sitting on top of one, literally, in Den Haag.
There are caches in Iraq and Afghanistan that have never been found (and probably never will)
lordhutton
28 Dec 06 at 4:42 pm
And reading down the logs, someone had cleaned it out! In Antarctica! Bizarre
lordhutton
28 Dec 06 at 4:45 pm
Yeah… I found that funny, too. (Not haha… just noteworthy funny)
stu
28 Dec 06 at 4:50 pm
The dark cacher strikes again?
Max
28 Dec 06 at 7:15 pm
I haven’t cached for ages and ages. Only been about 3 times.
Rob
30 Dec 06 at 1:16 pm