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Saturday I went caching with two friends - within five minutes of our meeting at the park, we saw a guy get his bicycle stolen as he went into the restroom - when he came out, he raced after them, screaming and surprisingly, he almost caught them (both on bikes, peddling sedately away). At that point the words my wife uttered the day before started to haunt me, "Ewww. That's not a good area." and I just laughed it off. On the way to the first cache, we saw clothing, trash and what looked like several campsites and lots of graffiti too. I was wondering why anyone in their right mind would hide a cache there, but understood after I saw the view of the city below the hill. The next "find" was hilarious, when my friend Ohgr literally "stepped in it" - "it" being a huge pile of what may have been human crap, possibly Bigfoot - yes, it was that big and a bright red (not blood, possibly berries). After I left (found two caches) my friends Ohgr and Maria went to find a third cache and came across a porn stash and what looked like another campsite - they logged it as a DNF when they realized the crackheads in the park were watching them. Ain't caching just one adventure after another?
That my friend with the berries in it was Black Bear poop. D'oh!
Sorry, I didn't mean to shout. :-)
Icemannwt.
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Saturday I went caching with two friends - within five minutes of our meeting at the park, we saw a guy get his bicycle stolen as he went into the restroom - when he came out, he raced after them, screaming and surprisingly, he almost caught them (both on bikes, peddling sedately away). At that point the words my wife uttered the day before started to haunt me, "Ewww. That's not a good area." and I just laughed it off. On the way to the first cache, we saw clothing, trash and what looked like several campsites and lots of graffiti too. I was wondering why anyone in their right mind would hide a cache there, but understood after I saw the view of the city below the hill. The next "find" was hilarious, when my friend Ohgr literally "stepped in it" - "it" being a huge pile of what may have been human crap, possibly Bigfoot - yes, it was that big and a bright red (not blood, possibly berries). After I left (found two caches) my friends Ohgr and Maria went to find a third cache and came across a porn stash and what looked like another campsite - they logged it as a DNF when they realized the crackheads in the park were watching them. Ain't caching just one adventure after another?
That my friend with the berries in it was Black Bear poop. D'oh!
Is Geocaching Fading?
in General geocaching topics
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A few thoughts. When the European Galileo GPS system comes on line in a year or two, with accuracy to within a foot, it may sound the death knell of geocaching. After all, isn't geocaching all about the hunt, not the actual find. Seems to me, the GPSrs already in existence make it pretty darn easy today. My prediction, traditional caches will fade; micros, non physical and extreme cache types will flourish.
Personally, judging by the amount of junk and kid's stuff I currently find in caches, I think the game is at its height of popularity, it's peak. When every kid on the block has a GPSr, it will be pointless to hide anything within a 20 mile radius of any urban area. Kids will be standing behind you waiting to log your cache, before you've even hidden it.
On the bright side, in the near future, geocaching will go the way of CB radios and 8 tracks, then there will only be a few dedicated, extreme cachers left. Geocaching will return to its roots. Hopefully it may evolve into something interesting and challenging again.
Icemannwt.