It's hard to believe that the first geocache was placed only in 2000. Now in 2010 there are 1,210,622 active caches. That doesn't count caches that have been archived or deleted. Today, 10/10/10, was declared geocaching day with the purpose of seeing how many different geocachers would log a find today. Woodhick803 and I had to join in the fun and fun we indeed had.
Woodhick803 scored his first FTF (First To Find) with "My Body Needs Some Work, Man." FTFs are hard to get. Congratulations!
Do you see the cache hidden here at the gate leading to Beckley's Rails to Trails? No? It's that bump on the left pole of the gate. Pretty clever, huh? This was placed by a geocacher named Waypoint_Wayne. You'll hear more about him later.
Yes, that's Woodhick803 and yes, he's on the phone, but what's so unusual is that the phone (an old dial phone, at that) was in the middle of the woods. The name of this cache was "Phone a Friend" and Waypoint_Wayne had attached the phone to a huge, gigantic, enormous concrete block (must have been used by the railroad in some way, I guess). You should have seen Woodhick's face when he lifted up the receiver and heard a voice giving us the combination to a lock at the final cache location. This one still makes me outright laugh. Very clever, Waypoint_Wayne.
You sure do see some strange things when you're out geocaching. There are actually fourteen satellites in this guy's yard. Only in West Virginia! LOL!
It was a great day geocaching, with lunch at Campestre and only one DNF (did not find), but, in the words of the immortal Ahnold, "I'll be back."
so, how stations do you suppose they really watch? LOL
ReplyDeleteLillian Gish comes to the farm on the satellite dish
Nice day. I picked up the phone as a joke, when it began to speak to me I had a real "Twilight Zone" moment. Waypoint Wayne does some nice caches.
ReplyDeletedo you think satellite man could lend me one? LOL!!
ReplyDeletesounds like ya'll had a fun day.!!
10-10-10 meant i had to work. :(
joann