Hopsahi Harry Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Last time I went out to search the elusive cache, the temps were in the teens, with a brisk wind blowing. It was chilly, but tolerable. Now that, up here in the Midwest, the temps are in the "Holy buckets" below Zero, and wind chills in the "Oh, my God" below Zero, I thought "Wouldn't it be cool (no pun intended) to bundle up, blast off and seach for a cache that's under a foot of snow!" Maybe at night, too. Let's hear your "extreem geocaching" stories. (There I was, on top of Mt. Everest, a full load of satellite signals, hanging on with my bare toes to reach a cache under a ledge... Well, OK fiction is fun, but...) Quote Link to comment
+The Cheeseheads Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 The most extreme I've ever gotten is traversing a fallen tree about 20 feet over a ravine. There is a cache near me that's under water about 50' offshore. That'll be my next challenge once the ice melts... Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 (edited) It depends on your definition of extreme. A cache that does not require climbing/safety gear, a multi day hike, mountain climbing etc.. does not qualify as extreme in my book. As such I have yet to go extreme geocaching. I hope to approach that this weekend on this cache to mark my 300th find. Everyone is different. Simply geocaching for some people is extreme. Edited January 30, 2004 by JMBella Quote Link to comment
+Jdrummerlax Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 I have a few extreme cache stories. My favorite one is when I was a beginner with my friend Zach. As a beginner - Zach and I would never stay on the paths and would always chose the most direct route. Later I would learn that this was a stupid idea. Anyway, Zach and I were going to go find Richard's Park Cache in Syracuse New York. And.....we took the most direct route from 481 [road.] SOO, firstly, Zach and I had to trudge through literally a swamp of mud and other yucky stuff. Luckily for me, only my shoes got encased in green, icky mud. But Zach's slip on shoe got stuck in the mud and he got his whole foot and sock encased in the grotesque substance. Anyway..we kept on going. AND what do you know we ran into stream [and through all this, Zach has no shoes on, and we are bushwaking through thorns, poison ivy, etc.] So, we have to pull up are pants, and wade through the murky water!!!! Then after this we came to ANOTEHR STEAM. This time the stream was to deep to wade across. Flustered and angry, Zach and I are screaming at each other and insulting each other for what the other should have done. Walking downstream a little, we found a skinny, slippery wooden log. Not knowing anything else to do - Zach and I lightly and slowly went across it. As Zach said, it was like the movies. After this we bushwaked for about 20 more minutes and finally came to the cache. HORRAY!!! I had y cuts all over my legs!! Yeah!! Wait a second....now we gotta go back. To make a long story short, Zach and I went back - and ended up making my mom REALLY REALLY MAD for making her wait so long for us to do this "geo thingy" as she called it. Moral of the story - if you want an extreme adventure - go off the path - and take the direct root to the cache - It's fun Environmental Explorer Make a difference - save the environment Quote Link to comment
+crzycrzy Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 You would think that living on the edge of the wilderness here in So-Cal that I would have alot of stories to tell. But I have no extreme story at all. Weird. Quote Link to comment
+clearpath Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Just wait til July when its 110 F and the ticks, chiggers, and mosquitos cover your body from head to toe. Baby, that is extreme!!! Quote Link to comment
+crzycrzy Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 (edited) Duuuuuude. Where are you from ? Mosquitoes, chicks and tiggers oh my ! (Or was that ticks and chiggers ?) I am fo consused ! One wonderful thing about So.Cal Not too many bugs. Lotsa these though... (But I have yet to run into one while geo-caching...) Edited January 30, 2004 by crzycrzy Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Okeydokey. I will add my story. Actually, I've done quite a few extreme caches, and still have the scars to prove it! But this one's the best. The cache was actually called Extremophile, so it can't get any better than that! Unfortunately, it's gone now. Anyways, it was up in the mountains, so the snow lasts into the summer. My husband and I waited until we could hike to it. The cache was on an island in the middle of a lake. So we hiked about 1.82 miles with 900' elevation gain to get to it. We had a wet suit and a dry suit, but thought, that's not extreme enough! So we thought we'd swim it without. But then I realized that I had forgotten my swimsuit. So we thought, what the heck! So we went for it in the nude. What a bonding experience. We new that there were other hikers about, we had already met a couple. I'm pretty sure the water was in the low 50's, and it was about 100' to the island. Part way across I started to lose the ability to breathe or move. But I made it. On the way down, we met a couple other groups on the way up. To this day, I don't really know if anyone saw us or not. That will definiately go down as my favorite cache. Wish there were more of 'em. Quote Link to comment
+Klondike Mike Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 We have a local ( or would that be loco j/k) that was out ,the other day,in minus 35C, that is MINUS 31 FAHRENHEIT !!!!! He was the FTF on this one Quote Link to comment
+astheravenflies Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Duuuuuude.Where are you from ? Mosquitoes, chicks and tiggers oh my ! (Or was that ticks and chiggers ?) I am fo consused ! One wonderful thing about So.Cal Not too many bugs. Lotsa these though... (But I have yet to run into one while geo-caching...) I killed and ate one those. Tastes just like chicken. Quote Link to comment
Hopsahi Harry Posted January 30, 2004 Author Share Posted January 30, 2004 Duuuuuude.Where are you from ? Mosquitoes, chicks and tiggers oh my ! (Or was that ticks and chiggers ?) I am fo consused ! One wonderful thing about So.Cal Not too many bugs. Lotsa these though... (But I have yet to run into one while geo-caching...) West Central Wisconsin. We have a few of those critters that "rattle your nerves", too in the bluff area near the Mississippi River. Haven't seen one, yet, though. Great stories. This is so much fun! Quote Link to comment
Hopsahi Harry Posted January 30, 2004 Author Share Posted January 30, 2004 (edited) It depends on your definition of extreme. I figure extreme is in the eye of the beholder. If it's extreme to you, then it's extreme to me, too! I'd love to hear about any and all. Edited January 30, 2004 by Hopsahi Harry Quote Link to comment
+Dagg Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Team Phoenix just finished an extreme cache, It took us over a week (most caches we do take a month) We had to visit 11 locations spanning 2000 miles. The final location was at a plane wreck 7000' up a mountain we won 5k Quote Link to comment
+JMBella Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 It depends on your definition of extreme. I figure extreme is in the eye of the beholder. If it's extreme to you, then it's extreme to me, too! I'd love to hear about any and all. OK. That's fair. Quote Link to comment
Northern-Lights Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 I agree that extreme can be in the eye of the beholder.....but, there is a cacher here in michigan (gunner226) that now has a cache named after him (are you gunner enough) because this guy stripped, and swam a river in november (in Michigan) just to be the first finder at a new cache! Now, I ask ya.....are YOU gunner enough!!? Quote Link to comment
+Dagg Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 I agree that extreme can be in the eye of the beholder.....but, there is a cacher here in michigan (gunner226) that now has a cache named after him (are you gunner enough) because this guy stripped, and swam a river in november (in Michigan) just to be the first finder at a new cache! Now, I ask ya.....are YOU gunner enough!!? ahh brrr Can you say shrinkage? Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 I thought "Wouldn't it be cool (no pun intended) to bundle up, blast off and seach for a cache that's under a foot of snow!" I am planning to do just that tomorrow. I thought I should get in at least one good snow caching experience after the 15 inches of snow we got earlier in the week. Quote Link to comment
+Dagg Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 mmm caching in the snow... Quote Link to comment
+Gazza&Girls Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Now that, up here in the Midwest, the temps are in the "Holy buckets" below Zero, and wind chills in the "Oh, my God" below Zero, I thought "Wouldn't it be cool (no pun intended) to bundle up, blast off and seach for a cache that's under a foot of snow!" Maybe at night, too. Not an extreme caching story but I was thinking the same thing as I was coming into the house last night. The sky was clear and with the half moon bright and high I could see everything within a 100 meters or so quite easily, other than the color shift. The wind wasn't that bad either. It actually was very nice out. If we get a night like that this weekend, I'm gone. I miss being out when its so cold my beard gets ice encrusted and my eyelashes frost up. G. Quote Link to comment
the 5 little bears Posted January 31, 2004 Share Posted January 31, 2004 I once got bit by a mosquito while caching.I swear if it happens again im done! Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 I thought "Wouldn't it be cool (no pun intended) to bundle up, blast off and seach for a cache that's under a foot of snow!" I am planning to do just that tomorrow. I thought I should get in at least one good snow caching experience after the 15 inches of snow we got earlier in the week. Well, I wouldn't call it extreme by any means, but I did get out in the snow today and found this cache. What I liked about it was that it was on a golf course and someone had obviously been cross country skiing there. I had been wondering where I could recreationally snow shoe if I bought some and outside of a few rural bike trails or a drive to local rural parks, was coming up blank. Now I realize that golf courses could work! Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 I placed my Gar Creek Cache yesterday when it was about 13 degrees and wind chills of 5 to 10 below....not too extreme, but what do you expect from a wet cat? Quote Link to comment
+Team DaSH Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 On my way to a nearby park to find the elusive 1/1 that's been on top of my closest cache list for quite a while, I ate some Doritos Extreme and washed them down with a PIBB X-tra. Quote Link to comment
+9Key Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 Unfortunately I can't find the larger version of this image: The blackness is water, not outer space. The cache is stuck in the wall of an old limestone quarry that is now full of cold spring water. The worst that could happen is falling in the water. Still challenging in its own right though. Quote Link to comment
+SBPhishy Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 One time i was caching with my friend, and we took a wrong trail, and started bushwacking a little bit. Then, we looked down and we were covered in ticks. Not really extreme, but not fun at all... We charged out of the brush and started looking all over trying to find them. Quote Link to comment
+Sparky-Watts Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 Unfortunately I can't find the larger version of this image: The blackness is water, not outer space. The cache is stuck in the wall of an old limestone quarry that is now full of cold spring water. The worst that could happen is falling in the water. Still challenging in its own right though. Cool pic! I thought it was one of those Mars pics at first!! Quote Link to comment
+boulist44 Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 Once got some dust in my left eye, could only read the right side of the GPS, went round in circles. Quote Link to comment
+clearpath Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 Once got some dust in my left eye, could only read the right side of the GPS, went round in circles. hehehe, okay which one are you ... Curley, Moe or Larry ? Quote Link to comment
+maleki Posted February 1, 2004 Share Posted February 1, 2004 mmm caching in the snow... Where was this pic taken? What cache? Looks great! Quote Link to comment
+Dagg Posted February 2, 2004 Share Posted February 2, 2004 Vancouver Island, near Parksville. Cache is not listed on GC.com Quote Link to comment
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