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caching and stuff
Jun. 15th, 2012 10:51 pmMy friend Moreach has been trying to get into geocaching for a while (she's rather like ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fayanora in that she's mostly interested because a friend is).
In Moreach's case, things are complicated in that it's an online friend n Europe.
The triggering event for this was that there was a "pizza meeting" of local cachers tonight, about halfway between us.I'd have gone anyway, and Fay was going to go with me, but it was a good chance to get Moreach started.
Since she was willing to pick me up, I directed us to a rather cute cache a couple miles away that was only a little out of the way. So her first find was a fun & unusual cache.
Then we headed over to check out some caches in the neighborhood near the Pizza parlor. First was a puzzle cache that I was pretty sure I figured out from the description. It said you needed a liter bottle of water. Sure enough, when we got to the location, we found a suspicious plastic pipe fasten to a post. Pour in the water (fast, because there's a small hole at the bottom to let water escape) and the cache container floats to the top of the tube.
Next cache was a bit harder. At first I ignore what I thought was some trash, but Moreach looked closer. It *was* the cache which someone had opened and dumped out. We gathered up everything and signed the log. We also hid it a bit better at a spot that was more likely the proper location.
Didn't have any luck at the next two spots. Then it was time to hit the Pizza place, which gave her her 4th cache. We met Fay there, and talked a fair bit.
Afterwards we were going to try for one a few hundred feet from the Pizza place, but there were too many "muggles" around. So Moreach drove us to the location of a cache near her place she'd had no luck finding. And found it. Then she took us to her place for a bit. She and her SO had moved there a few years back, but I'd not been to it before. And, of course, neither had Fay since this was the first time she'd met Moreach.
When she drove Fay and I home, she insisted on swinging by the first cache because she'd forgotten her camera and hadn't realized my phone had one. She wanted pics for her friend (I'd taken picks at the other caches).
I got home and got the pics off my phone and (after fighting the connection some, got the pics sent to her along with some cache info.
Oh yeah, that cache near her place had the co-ords to another cache near her, so she's got sonething else to look for.
So Moreach got her first 5 caches, I got my total up to 240 (only 10 more for my second milestone!) and fay added 3 to her total.
Moreach enjoyed it so we'll likely do it again sometime.
fayanora in that she's mostly interested because a friend is).In Moreach's case, things are complicated in that it's an online friend n Europe.
The triggering event for this was that there was a "pizza meeting" of local cachers tonight, about halfway between us.I'd have gone anyway, and Fay was going to go with me, but it was a good chance to get Moreach started.
Since she was willing to pick me up, I directed us to a rather cute cache a couple miles away that was only a little out of the way. So her first find was a fun & unusual cache.
Then we headed over to check out some caches in the neighborhood near the Pizza parlor. First was a puzzle cache that I was pretty sure I figured out from the description. It said you needed a liter bottle of water. Sure enough, when we got to the location, we found a suspicious plastic pipe fasten to a post. Pour in the water (fast, because there's a small hole at the bottom to let water escape) and the cache container floats to the top of the tube.
Next cache was a bit harder. At first I ignore what I thought was some trash, but Moreach looked closer. It *was* the cache which someone had opened and dumped out. We gathered up everything and signed the log. We also hid it a bit better at a spot that was more likely the proper location.
Didn't have any luck at the next two spots. Then it was time to hit the Pizza place, which gave her her 4th cache. We met Fay there, and talked a fair bit.
Afterwards we were going to try for one a few hundred feet from the Pizza place, but there were too many "muggles" around. So Moreach drove us to the location of a cache near her place she'd had no luck finding. And found it. Then she took us to her place for a bit. She and her SO had moved there a few years back, but I'd not been to it before. And, of course, neither had Fay since this was the first time she'd met Moreach.
When she drove Fay and I home, she insisted on swinging by the first cache because she'd forgotten her camera and hadn't realized my phone had one. She wanted pics for her friend (I'd taken picks at the other caches).
I got home and got the pics off my phone and (after fighting the connection some, got the pics sent to her along with some cache info.
Oh yeah, that cache near her place had the co-ords to another cache near her, so she's got sonething else to look for.
So Moreach got her first 5 caches, I got my total up to 240 (only 10 more for my second milestone!) and fay added 3 to her total.
Moreach enjoyed it so we'll likely do it again sometime.
