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Cache Hunters Club (Geocaching)
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I'm going out later, shopping and geocaching :3
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I went searching today and found nothing
Walked a mile to a place with a 1 difficulty cache
The comments all said the coordinates were off, but I was not deterred. I searched high anf low. In bushes and trees (in a parking lot) got splinters everywhere.
I think the cache may have accidentally been brought inside.
The fountain statues on the landmark were all inside a building with their bases sticking up naked from the empty fountain.
The part with the cache may have also been brought inside for winterm
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There was only one entry for the banner contest, so I am considering extending it by a week from the original date (so they would be due 27th). Before I do though, is anyone else interested in entering this or should I just end it now?
How long have you been a cacher?: Since... 30 min ago
Do you prefer hiding, finding or both? Finding
How many caches have you found/hid?: 0. I'll find one tomorrow, there is one in a park near my house
Why do you want to join?: To learn techniques and read funny stories from Geocaching
Password: Find it : )
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Like one I found was attached to a tree. There was a cable around the tree that looked like where the cache was supposed to go, but it wasn't there. Turns out that there was a different wire, better hidden, that held the cache.
And the one I found for Nessy's mini-contest was one that I looked high and low for for over an hour at the right place, was pretty sure it wasn't there anymore, but when I went back to it, I found it right away. (Just didn't know what to look for being a newbie and all)
Right now I have a cache that bothers me. I know it's there, it was checked on recently (after the place that it references was taken completely apart and rebuilt) and was put back into place. But I have no clue where it is after having spent 5 hours looking around for the cache, lol. And nobody has given any hints to it >.<
Also, keep in mind, if the size is marked as Other, it could be just about anything. One of these that I found was literally a duct tape pouch slid into a sign. (There was a frog on it whom I scared and scared me because when I pulled the cache out, it panicked and was going everywhere in that confined space. When I put the cache back, though, I was really careful not to startle the frog again, lol)
56 finds so far and I'm actually developing some geo-instincts.
Also, my mom has tagged along with my cache searching few times while I visited home. Turns out she would be a great geocacher and an awesome cache hider as well. She's totally natural. (Unfortunately, it's kinda embarrassing when your 'never went geocaching before' -mother finds the cache before you do. :I)
I also found my first and only nano cache a while ago... well, actually my mother found it.
Banner Contest Winner
Well, there was only 1 entry, so there's no surprises as to who the winner is...
Navuso!
You have won a mystery bag of items including:
75 nuggets
10,000 pd
1 Splash Plate
100 dp worth of plushies
I am sending your prizes now, please let me know which plushies you would like.
Future Contests
For the few contests we have had so far, there have been hardly any contestants. What I would like to know is what sort of contest you would be interested in entering. Any input would be much appreciated.
I haven't been caching in aaaages, I just haven't had the time because of work. But now that I'm on holiday I plan on doing heaps, and also doing some more stuff for the club.
I have plans, so many plans... [insert maniacal laugh here] :P
I went for a 3 hour and 40 minute walk, and ended up with 4 out of 5 of the caches that were along the way. They were all out in rural areas, so no muggles around to bother me apart from the occasional tractor driving passed.
I did, however, encounter a swarm of bees which was rather daunting for someone who is allergic. It was huge and went right across the road, and I had nowhere to go except right through it. By some miracle the bees avoided me completely and I didn't get stung at all.
The caches themselves were all in order, apart from the one I missed which I think has been muggled. It was a fairly obvious where it was supposed to be, there was a nice little cache-sized indent right where the clue said it would be. :P
So, my experience got me thinking, has anyone else faced any hazards while caching?
New Challenge!
So, I'm testing out an idea for a new series of challenges to add our club. This is, after all, a geocaching club, so I have been thinking of a way to do some cache-hunting right here on Pokeheroes.
So here's how it works. I have taken a small screenshot of part of an image somewhere on Pokeheroes. All you have to do is find out where it comes from.
Once you have found it, send me a PM to tell me the page and general location on the page of the "cache". For example, "It's on the Index Page, part of the Pelippers beak."
There will be a "First To Find" prize of 10,000pd, and every finder after then will get a small, random prize (a few gems, evolution stone etc...).
Please, no spoilers or hints are to be posted in the forum.
If enough people seem to like the idea, and participate, then I will make more of these at varying degrees of difficulty, and new badges will be added.
So, are you ready for your first PH virtual cache? Well, here it is!
Good luck, and happy hunting!
Its a really fun idea but um....
Maybe a hint if no one's found it after 2 days?
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