Has Anybody Ever Flown To A Cache?

[FanMan]

Has anybody else ever flown to a cache? I don't mean taking an airline flight and then looking for a cache, I mean flying to it. If not then I guess I can claim a first: we flew to a cache in powered paragliders. Click here to see the log and photos. Now of I could only find some more that are accessible from the air...

 

-Dana aka FanMan

[+IV_Warrior]

I'm not positive, but I think someone has beaten you to "Fly to the cache". I'm pretty sure I remember hearing about someone taking a helicopter to reach a very isolated, remote cache.

[+sept1c_tank]

Very cool, FanMan.

BTW, I fly to caches all the time (in my dreams)!

[+PandyBat]

Cool FanMan! That looks so awesome! Was it your buddy that took the pic?

Paragliding is too scary for me to try. I'm not necessarily afraid of heights, I'm afraid of falling.

[+TeamK-9]

There was definately a cache that I remember reading about that the owner claimed that you could probably drive to it, but that he had flown in on helicopter. He said it was in the desert or something..

[+IV_Warrior]

Paragliding is too scary for me to try. I'm not necessarily afraid of heights, I'm afraid of falling.

Falling isn't so bad, it's that darn sudden stop at the end that's killer

 

Oh, and not that I'd likely find caches that way, but that powered paragliding does look kinda cool......

[+RichardMoore]

Does a virtual count?

Check out this one:Cormorant's Roost

[Cholo]

Has anybody else ever flown to a cache?

Yes....boy, were my arms tired!!

[+WeightMan]

I haven't, but several have on this virt that requires some kind of aircraft.

[+Etrex Pirate]

I was recently on a private flight on a Cesna and saw a reverse cache when we were landing at a local airport to refuel. Water Towers are not usual in SO-Cal since most are located on hills and stilts are not needed. I took a photo as we landed and later returned for the GPS photo and the coords.

 

The Tower

[+hedberg]

Yes, the Swedish 70+ y/o geocacher "IT-gubben" flew to an island and landed on the water with a seaplane (correct name?) and logged the cache on the beach.

 

Here is his log, with photos also:

 

His log

[AZcachemeister]

I'm not positive, but I think someone has beaten you to "Fly to the cache". I'm pretty sure I remember hearing about someone taking a helicopter to reach a very isolated, remote cache.

Bronco Butte might be the cache you're thinking of, GCC7A! It was placed via helicopter near a mountaintop antenna installation. Only eleven found logs since 6/15/2001. It's a fairly rough 6 hour round trip hike from the nearest road. You probably wouldn't want to try to land anything with wheels up there though.

[FanMan]

Oh, well, I should have figured that with over 33,000 registered users somebody would've beaten me to it! First with a paraglider anyway.

 

IV_Warrior, yes it is pretty cool, even (dare I say it here?) more fun than geocaching! But yes, not too practical for finding most caches.

 

PandyBat, yes, my buddy took the picture, a couple weeks earlier. He took these the day we landed there:

 

Here's our machines on the ground on Cedar Island:

 

Here's me starting the takeoff run from the island (my buddy took off first):

 

-Dana

Edited May 16, 2004 by FanMan

[+DavidMac]

Sounds like alot of fun. Can't say I've ever flown to a cache but I can admit that I have scouted for cache sites while on a flight- spotted them out the window while on approach and driven to them later. I've resisted the urge to log several locationless out the window while sitting in an airplane...

 

I've always thought it would be neat to hide a virt only accessible from the air, say something like a high shool's mascot made out of colored rocks on the roof of the gymnasium.

[vagabond]

Never flew to one, But i did fly from one. About 25 feet straight down when the branch broke, luckly there was about 3 feet of leaves and mulch all around

[Micqn]

Everytime.