"Extreme" event caches

[+Eclectic Penguin]

I'm just wondering if anyone could give some feedback about experiences they've had with regards to slightly extreme or remote event caches they've organised or been to.

 

I'm currently in the advanced stages of setting up an event cache for early next year, set in a hostel in central Wales' rural mountainous terrain (Wales, United Kingdom) roughly an hour away from "civilisation". No electricity, no phone signal and with the time of the event, the evening will be lit by gaslight and and heated by an open hearth fire. All refreshments are brought by (and possibly cooked by) visitors. It would be easy to visit the location as a day visitor without paying the extremely modest fee of £10 ($17) for an overnight stay - and I've checked that it doesn't break any rules for event caches.

 

The location is the Dolgoch hostel, featured here: http://www.elenydd-hostels.co.uk/

 

I've already had enough positive feedback from local cachers that this is going to be popular - many already wanting to spend the night in this location that has no technology, no electricity and quite often, no running water too!

 

So - it would be interesting to hear what other people's experiences are in ... erm, more unusual event caches!

Edited November 20, 2009 by Eclectic Penguin

[+Annie & PB]

Sounds like a fantastic event! We'd come ..... if we didn't live half a world away. .

 

Anyhow, just wanted to say that, and I've got no useful comments on extreme events as we've only been to a couple of events.

 

Mind you this one:Easter Event is held at a remote camping ground. We camped overnight before and after as did a number of the other attendees.

 

Annie

[+Eclectic Penguin]

If anyone's wondering what the second language being used on that web site is, it's Welsh, the native celtic language of Wales, and traditionally known around here as "the language of heaven"!

 

If you haven't come across this language previously, you can see me (and some of my Geocaching colleagues) doing a presentation about Geocaching for a Welsh language television company (with English language surtitles) here:

- I'm the bloke with the laptop at the beginning of the piece - I'm happy to report that I've lost a bit of weight since then !

[Clan Riffster]

It sounds like your average Clan Riffster camping trip.

(AKA: Sounds like fun!)

 

Edit to add: I don't know if this would qualify as extreme, but I hosted an event that escorted a group on a 7 hour bushwhack through a swamp. Total mileage was only 4.5 miles, but the terrain was so extreme that it took us 7 hours to complete. Every single step you were going over, under, around or through something, dodging venomous snakes along the way.

 

It was a hoot!

Edited November 20, 2009 by Clan Riffster

[+Annie & PB]

If anyone's wondering what the second language being used on that web site is, it's Welsh, the native celtic language of Wales, and traditionally known around here as "the language of heaven"!

 

If you haven't come across this language previously, you can see me (and some of my Geocaching colleagues) doing a presentation about Geocaching for a Welsh language television company (with English language surtitles) here:

- I'm the bloke with the laptop at the beginning of the piece - I'm happy to report that I've lost a bit of weight since then !

 

Very cool!! I can see that you Welsh geocachers are going to have to get together and figure out what the Welsh language word for GPS and travel bug (and a few other things?) would be!!!

 

Annie

[Mr.Yuck]

I'm just wondering if anyone could give some feedback about experiences they've had with regards to slightly extreme or remote event caches they've organised or been to.

 

I'm currently in the advanced stages of setting up an event cache for early next year, set in a hostel in central Wales' rural mountainous terrain (Wales, United Kingdom) roughly an hour away from "civilisation". No electricity, no phone signal and with the time of the event, the evening will be lit by gaslight and and heated by an open hearth fire. All refreshments are brought by (and possibly cooked by) visitors. It would be easy to visit the location as a day visitor without paying the extremely modest fee of £10 ($17) for an overnight stay - and I've checked that it doesn't break any rules for event caches.

 

The location is the Dolgoch hostel, featured here: http://www.elenydd-hostels.co.uk/

 

I've already had enough positive feedback from local cachers that this is going to be popular - many already wanting to spend the night in this location that has no technology, no electricity and quite often, no running water too!

 

So - it would be interesting to hear what other people's experiences are in ... erm, more unusual event caches!

 

I didn't attend, but here's a 5/5 event that occured in Canada last year.

[AZcachemeister]

All I can say is it sounds rather better than many events I have attended!

Perhaps I should consider hosting an 'extreme event'?

[+Touchstone]

We did a relatively remote CITO Event in the Yosemite backcountry as part of a special project to count folks heading up the cables of Half Dome. One person dayhiked in for the first day of counting, while the rest of us camped at Little Yosemite for the weekend:

 

Yosemite Fall CITO/VIP Backcountry Weekend

 

I think there turned out about a dozen folks in all, but it was a blast even with a relatively small group. We also helped out with some wood splitting at the backpack campsite in Little Yosemite, and every year we go back for the annual CITO in The Valley, the VIP Coordinator likes to remind me that there's still some wood left up there to work on

[+Ladybug Kids]

Local cacher FrostG1anT is the master of extreme events:

 

Return to the Table: 13-mile hike

 

6 Miles Down: Class IV and V Whitewater

 

Scotch, On the Rocks: Rappelling off a Cliff to this cache

 

But the one that takes the prize and may never be replicated is Springtime in Alaska, It's -40 Below

which started as an overnight snow camping trip, but ended as a retreat from the valley during an ashfall after Mt. Redoubt erupted.

Edited November 20, 2009 by Ladybug Kids

[+Eclectic Penguin]

 

Very cool!! I can see that you Welsh geocachers are going to have to get together and figure out what the Welsh language word for GPS and travel bug (and a few other things?) would be!!!

 

Annie

 

There probably are correct words in Welsh - it's just that many Welsh speakers tend to revert to English when the word isn't immediate

 

My spoken welsh, although fluent is very colloquial and contains a lot of english words - they actually did a very good job of editing many of the English words out of the first section!

 

In fact, the entire programme came about while I was contracting for the TV company last year. I was in the process of developing the 2009 South Wales Geocachers coin (featured in the programme) and wanted a good translation of "Geocaching" in Welsh to be used on the coin - the person I spoke to is the reporter in the piece who took an interest in what Geocaching was as a result.

 

The translation is Geogelcio, by the way. "Geo" was acceptable as it's cross lingual and Celc is "cache" with the C mutating to a G when pronounced together with "Geo".

 

Travel Bug would literally translate as something like "Pryf crwydrio".

[+Isonzo Karst]

G.A, Step 4.5 It'll Be A Lu Lu! an event in the Everglades, 15 miles paddling, 8 attendees

 

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Edited November 20, 2009 by Isonzo Karst

[+Car54]

Travel Bug would literally translate as something like "Pryf crwydrio".

 

Now that's cool! I may have to work that into some of our logs.

 

"The pryf crwydrio was not in the cache."

 

"Dropped off a pryf crwydrio."

 

 

Mrs. Car54

[+Cav Scout]

I could do those

 

Local cacher FrostG1anT is the master of extreme events:

 

Return to the Table: 13-mile hike

 

6 Miles Down: Class IV and V Whitewater

 

Scotch, On the Rocks: Rappelling off a Cliff to this cache

 

But the one that takes the prize and may never be replicated is Springtime in Alaska, It's -40 Below

which started as an overnight snow camping trip, but ended as a retreat from the valley during an ashfall after Mt. Redoubt erupted.