Winter caching is hard; something I will wrote more about in another entry. But I seem to keep dropping things quite often when I go on caching trips.
In Linköping I dropped my first geocache note book (paper, not computer) somewhere near "Walking the Dog". I have also lost one TB at some cache, probably will turn up when the snow melts.
When I was to Egypt I put two extra batteries in a pocket of my shorts when going to El Gouna. Not a good idea to keep things there. I suppose I should be glad I haven't dropped more stuff.
During the last month this defect seem to have accelerated. At the event in Katrineholm I lost the head set to my phone. During an excursion to Finspång I lost my second note book (and with that some mysterie solutions and other stuff).
Couple of days later I was to Söderköping, and climbed a hill looking for the cache with the same name; I noticed that the strap to the Garmin GPS had somehow disappear. Fortunately it must have broken instead of bringing the GPS with it, so I still had the GPS in the pocket. (During planned weekend trips I usually wear special pants, but now I wore normal ones, so I had not tied the strap to my belt.)
Finally, during an evening trip to Valdemarsvik, I had put a reflection tape around my arm, and I probably got teared away as I tried to go through a forrest. (Bad idea during winter, if only nordic skiers go that way.)
Phew. Wonder what next loss will be? The smart phone or GPS? I guess this is a problem I will have to live with as I do most caching by buss/train, so I will have to carry all the needed equipment around at all times.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Thursday, December 30, 2010
My first 10 hides
After some months running around (mostly on my trusty bike) I started to be interested in placing my own caches. At the same time the oldest physical cache I had found (GC7168 In Between) was needing maintenance, with the log book wet. The cache was found exactly on the day one month after starting, a bit late if you consider the closeness to home, but I thought it was pity that this almost-10 years old cache would degenerate. I contacted Anton Ymer and asked about it. I suggested adopting the cache, as I thought I could do a better job and also to get practice as a cache maintainer. "Fine... ", said Anton, "... and you can take Becquerel as well". Ok, said I and thought of the old proverb, "Think of what you ask as you can get your wish come true". So, that is the reason I own two caches that I have logged, but the logging was done before I adopted them...
With two trads under the belt it was time to go for the next category; why not a mystery? Influenced by mystery fanatics like tor_selden and jacob8h (see entry on Kvarn event) as well as the Summer mystery series by Team Fetchez La Cache I do enjoy mysteries, but I think that they are often to hard. So why not make a mystery series with mostely easier caches? Another good reason to make caches is to use you love and knowledge in other areas. In my case the most natural one was games! Something I have loved since I was a little boy. For example, the first money I earned (by selling Kvällsposten news papers at the doors, don't remember if I had had my 10th birthday yet) was spent on a board game of Risk (Alga's version).
The plan is to continue with the series, and I have ideas to at least double the number. They seem to be appreciated judging by the logs, although I need to improve the hiding spot for one or two of them after the winter ends.
Of course, you can not only put out caches in series, so I added a solitaire one as well, GC2GY6A A Canticle for Leibowitz, which was once more based in an interest I love, namely SF- and Fantasy.
With the mysteries under the belt I turned my attention to multis. I love good multis, more than most it seems. They often give extra knowledge of an area or place, although they can take some time. Doing good multies is a hard task, but I think I did quite nicely with my complementary Garnisonen cache GC2GY5K Minnesstenar på Garnisonen which was just outside my door... It shows interesting memorial stones from the previous military installations there. I would love to have included Livgrenadjärmässen but did not know how. Instead I recommend to visit that place with a good guide, preferably an old officer.
With two trads under the belt it was time to go for the next category; why not a mystery? Influenced by mystery fanatics like tor_selden and jacob8h (see entry on Kvarn event) as well as the Summer mystery series by Team Fetchez La Cache I do enjoy mysteries, but I think that they are often to hard. So why not make a mystery series with mostely easier caches? Another good reason to make caches is to use you love and knowledge in other areas. In my case the most natural one was games! Something I have loved since I was a little boy. For example, the first money I earned (by selling Kvällsposten news papers at the doors, don't remember if I had had my 10th birthday yet) was spent on a board game of Risk (Alga's version).
The mysteries with a game theme can be found in this bookmark list. Of these alla the first 5 are games I have spent loads of time on, especially #1, which I spent 30 years to become a grand m
Of course, you can not only put out caches in series, so I added a solitaire one as well, GC2GY6A A Canticle for Leibowitz, which was once more based in an interest I love, namely SF- and Fantasy.
With the mysteries under the belt I turned my attention to multis. I love good multis, more than most it seems. They often give extra knowledge of an area or place, although they can take some time. Doing good multies is a hard task, but I think I did quite nicely with my complementary Garnisonen cache GC2GY5K Minnesstenar på Garnisonen which was just outside my door... It shows interesting memorial stones from the previous military installations there. I would love to have included Livgrenadjärmässen but did not know how. Instead I recommend to visit that place with a good guide, preferably an old officer.
| Doing good traditionals requires a good place, an interesting building or story, or something similar. Just throwing micros around is just good for the statistics. In my case I had a nice place with a good scenery not very far from the city center. As it is placed just outside the Tinnerö area it is rather unknown. I also choose to place a rather large box to make it suitable as a TB Hotel but the place is not that good at winter... so I might have to reconsider that in the future. The future? My plan is to reach at least 25 hides during 2011. I have even already acquired the 25 Hide geoCoin.... Here is a list of some of my ideas for 2011:
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