Sep 07 2009
Trilogy Cache
My cache adventures for this week were two caches in the same neigborhood, just up the street from where I work. With these urban caches, half the battle of locating them is finding out what street or park they are located on and then trying to navigate around the city looking for them, and finding a place to park. School started up this week, thus there was extra traffic due to the kids getting out at noon.
The two caches were named after the Star Wars Trilogy and were themed accordingly with the tradeable contents, at least one of the caches, the other was just a log book. The first cache to locate after finding parking was a ‘gas saver’ cache, which was located in a guard rail on the entrance to the park – the trick here is try to grab it discretly. I just sat on the guard rail post and prentended to tie my shoe while reaching up and grabbing the little monster from its hidey hole. Then I dropped my pen and reached down to pick the pen while slipping the cache back into its hole – off to the next.
The second cache was just a short walk down the path from the ‘gas saver’ cache. The trick here is, and the warning was issued in the web site listing, was that the GPS was useless once you you got near it – the GPS was not able to receive a good quality signal and you had to use your ‘geocaching sense’ and search the area. There were muggles in the nearby play area and so we had to search and be ‘quiet’ so as to not get the ‘muggles’ restless and have them coming into the woods to seek out what was going on. After criss crossing the forest in the general area outlined by the GPS, it finally became a ‘find’!
Geocaching is full of fun and excitement as you figure out how to find the caches and how to keep the ‘muggles’ at bay while doing the search. Happy Geocaching!
