Was finally able to find GC1X53G which had me falling out of a tree at the first stage as per my previous blog post. The final stage was a lot easier.
Found
10 years of geocaching.
Well I’ve not personally done 10 years of caching, although I did hear about it some time before I started geocaching. Initially I wasn’t sure whether it would be much fun as I wasn’t sure how accurate gps’s would be. Finally I bumped into someone (Hi David!) who had done geocaching in Canada, showed me his GPS and I knew it would be something I would be interested in. I signed up Nov 28, 2003 and we came over to Dublin, OH for Christmas and I ordered a Magellan Sportrak from Amazon for an early Christmas present and my first cache was found in Dublin a few days later on Dec 3, 2003. This gave me a good start when it came to statistics of miles covered whilst caching as most of my caches were then found back in the UK!
Anyway, Sunday is Geocaching’s 10 year anniversary and lots of events are being planned for this weekend (and this year). The event is Washington (home of the first geocache and Groundspeak) is expected to have over 500 people attend. Here in Ohio, I’ll be attending the 10 Years Columbus event A bonus feature of attending this event will be another new icon for the collection as all 10 year events get a new icon for the cache page.
More information and a place to find the nearest 10 year cache event to you can be found at http://www.geocaching.com/lostandfound
Along with the CacheInTrashOut cache I did earlier this month where we pulled many bags of rubbish by the river front, it’s been a busy month. As usual April has been my most product month of geocaching – It’s a good time of year – not too hot, not too cold. I’m going to try and get every day in May filled next month.
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
Jan | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 40 | |||||||||||||||||
Feb | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | X | X | 26 | |||||||||||||||||||
Mar | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 82 | |||||||||||||
Apr | 21 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | X | 164 | ||||||||
May | 2 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 77 | |||||||||
Jun | 11 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | X | 102 | ||||||||||||
Jul | 1 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 70 | ||||||||||||||
Aug | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||
Sep | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | X | 57 | |||||||||||||||||
Oct | 1 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 55 | |||||||||||||||||||
Nov | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | X | 66 | ||||||||||||
Dec | 16 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 48 | |||||||||||||||||||
24 | 11 | 45 | 36 | 52 | 10 | 28 | 35 | 11 | 32 | 26 | 34 | 32 | 45 | 17 | 28 | 38 | 64 | 9 | 28 | 25 | 26 | 11 | 19 | 25 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 22 | 17 | 6 |
Another 11 caches in North Carolina
The weather today was meant to be overcast and cloudy today so I was hoping to get out and do some caching without overheating. An early start this morning meant I was able to get out and do another 10 11 caches in North Carolina. All caches were pretty unique with interesting hides or hikes to the cache. There were a couple of caches I was unable to do – one was due to the fact there were about 10 people crabbing right at the geocache spot but all was not lost as I was able to take some photos of an Osprey on the nest and another Osprey tearing into a fish – sounds gruesome but was cool and none graphic photos at the extreme end of the zoom are uploaded to flickr and tagged with the geocache code GC1RMWR. I also got two geocoins, two DNF’s and two notes as I was unable to search due to people in the vicinity of the cache.
700th cache milestone – Jockeys Ridge.
I finally got around to my 700th geocache today – an earthcache at Jockeys Ridge. I uploaded some photos from the cache to the cache webpage and a couple of others to my flickr account under the cache name, GC13F27
In order to log this cache I had to climb to the top of a huge sand dune that is roughly the height of a four story building (apparently). Thankfully it was slightly overcast today, but still hot (the car registered 82 degrees) and I think I suffered from mild heatstroke as I really did not feel well after I got back to the car. Thanks to Kristen for taking care of me!
There were two reasons I wanted to make this cache my 700th – one was due to it being at Jockey’s Ridge – this is the site of my hang gliding lesson in 2001 which I thoroughly enjoyed (but again got heatstroke – will I ever learn?) and so I uploaded a picture of me gliding as part of the cache log for GC13F27.
The other reason I wanted to do this cache is that it’s an earthcache. From the geocaching website :-
An EarthCache is a special place that people can visit to learn about a unique geoscience feature or aspect of our Earth. EarthCaches include a set of educational notes and the details about where to find the location (latitude and longitude). Visitors to EarthCaches can see how our planet has been shaped by geological processes, how we manage the resources and how scientists gather evidence to learn about the Earth. For more information about EarthCaches, visit http://www.earthcache.org/.
These caches are pretty rare and are also pretty neat. So far I’ve found 4 in three states – OH,NC and NY which means I need to find 2 more AND place an earthcache and then I’ll be a Silver EarthCache Master (ooh-er). I’m not sure how likely that is to happen, as these geological processes are not very common, but we’ll see.