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I've recently taken up a new hobby/interest/activity/whatever you're in the mood to call it, and that is Geocaching. For those of you who don't know the details (and basics, for that matter), Geocaching is a worldwide scavenger-hunt type game where people leave hidden "Caches" around the globe. Your job is to find these Caches, and when you have, to log the date and your screen name on the paper log inside the cache, and leave more in-depth comments on the website affiliated with the game when you get back home. The interesting part is the trading. Often the cache is big enough to include a few trinkets or small items, and you can take one out only if you replace it with something of equal or greater value. All in all, it's a great way to get rid of stuff you don't want, find stuff you may want, and it lets you see a lot more of the world than you would have if you didn't do it. It's also addictive. The more you do it, the more fun it seems to be. Yeah, I like it. What's wrong with that? -CM
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For the weekend I ended finding a multi-cache and a mystery cache. I also discovered two trackables and I located one benchmark. The multi-cache I originally tried to find with my brother but, the first stage was missing. When I found the final stage I was rewarded with a travel bug. I was going to take it to move along but it was too big to put in my pocket. I ended up writing down the tracking number for later. I also stopped at a multi-cache I found previously to discover a geocoin that is currently in it. I also found the nearby benchmark which is located in an abandoned city park. On Sunday I found a mystery cache. I originally did all the work for it, walking around recording some info in the park it's located in and doing some simple math, about a week earlier. By the time I got to the final location I ended up getting rained on though so I didn't find it then. Coming back yesterday I had a much easier time making the find. Yeah, so now I'm at 120 found. I'm going up to my grandparents cabin this weekend for Labor Day so I'll probably find a few while I'm there.
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I found my 75th Geocache yesterday. It was pretty exciting. The 75th on was a multicache that someone I know hid. It ends with a hollowed out book in the reference section of the local library. It is probably one of my favorite hids. I will probably find number 100 sometime over the next week while I'm on vacation.
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For lack of a better entry. Yesterday I hid my first geocache. One of the caches I found recently was an interesting cache, instead of regular swag it contained premade micro caches made with 35mm film canister and camo ducktape. I took one and have hid it. It was published early this morning and I waiting to see who will be the First To Find. I personal don't like the 35mm cache containers because they aren't very water proof. Diabetic test strip containers work a whole lot better, at least until they get wore out. I filled up a sink with water and held a closed one underwater. It didn't leak. (Just to note, I'm not a diabetic but someone I know is and he gave me some of his empty containers.) I still need camo ducktape though. None of the stores I've been too have any. Wal-Mart had just about every other color of ducktape except camo. I'm going to have to make a trip to a hardware store to get some.
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The batteries on my GPS have finally died. This is the first time I will have had to change them since I bought my GPS last October. On that note is rather a bad time for them to go dead. A geocache near my house that had been missing for a while was repaired yesterday and now I can't look for it. I also had a cache that I wanted to find on the way to or from my piano lesson but that also had to be scratched. I'm currently at 27 caches found. I introduced my younger cousins to geocaching over the weekend. The only things near their house were micro caches so they weren't to impressed. If they're up at my grand parents cabin the same time I am we'll find a couple of larger caches.
