Geocache Fanatic » geocache event http://geocachefanatic.com Treasure hunting around the world Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:19:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= en hourly 1 We are in the Black Mountain Geocache Hall of Fame http://geocachefanatic.com/black-mountain-geocache-hall-of-fame/ http://geocachefanatic.com/black-mountain-geocache-hall-of-fame/#comments Mon, 07 Jun 2010 04:47:25 +0000 lucy http://geocachefanatic.com/?p=715 This week has been quite an adventure for our geocaching! We managed to get our 1000th geocache AND finished the Black Mountain Hall of Fame geocache series!

Bangers & Mash enter the Black Mountain Hall of Fame

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The ones that are not smiley faces are actually not active or are geocaches we have placed….so this is the complete Black Mountain Series.

It started a couple of months back when FlagMan set out  challenge for people to complete all the geocaches that were located in a certain area. Lots of beautiful mountains and trails in San Diego, with thousands of geocaches on those trails. So why not set the geocaching hike adventure challenge to find them all…

This was a nice challenge, but Bangers & Mash were only at ~800 geocaches and no way or time to go and get the remaining ~2000 on the complete list. This would be more of a goal in 2 years than in 2 months.

But last week we then got passed the M.A.S.H geocache event details….on June 6th there was an awards ceremony for all the geocachers that had completed one or more of the Hall of Fame series in their geocaching hike adventures.

We checked out the names and saw Black Mountain. A local for us that we had done many geoccahes – indeed even had placed a few there. With 8 days to go to the geocache event we needed 20 more. But this included 4 puzzle geocaches and 2 multi-caches.

We looked at each other and our calender for the week (which included hosting a goodbye party, a race in Mount Laguna, and my birthday, and some deadlines at work) and just shook our heads. Absolutely no chance to squeeze in a hike adventure to make the Black Mountain Hall of Fame.

But then we just kept saying…”if we get up at 5am and do 2 hours before work”. “The sunset is at 7:30pm so we could get a few in the last hour before this on Friday….”

And off the last week of geocaching hike adventure began….

  • Sunday - 5 hours on the mountain trekking and bushwhacking including #1000
  • Monday – 1 sneaky puzzle geocache before work
  • Tuesday – 2 hours at 5am for the multi-cache
  • Friday - 2 hours of sunset geocaching to get the puzzles
  • Sun June 6th (day of M.A.S.H geocache event) – 4 hours of geocaching 4 different areas of the mountain to pick up the last one in each area.

WOO-HOO!! We made it to the Black Mountain Hall of Fame! And got an award at the M.A.S.H award ceremony. The M.A.S.H reference is to the old tv series and was also a costume event, so double fun.

If you are interested in going to Black Mountain – here is a link to the trail map.

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]]> http://geocachefanatic.com/black-mountain-geocache-hall-of-fame/feed/ 2 Geocache Event – The hike for the Hardest 5/5 Geocache http://geocachefanatic.com/geocache-event-hike-55-geocache/ http://geocachefanatic.com/geocache-event-hike-55-geocache/#comments Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:00:51 +0000 lucy http://geocachefanatic.com/?p=505 A group of geocachers were starting to email each other in November about getting the hardest geocache that is rated on the scale as a 5/5 geocache. This geocache blog post shares out attempt…

A 5/5/ geocache is one that is Level 5 difficulty and Level 5 terrain. The scale is from 1-5 so it is the hardest one out there. I’m not sure how many exist but in the San Diego area I think you are looking at maybe 10 of these.

The email crew decided to make it a geocache event and hike together to the location. We scheduled it for Jan 2nd to welcome in the new year and to start getting those extra holiday cookies off our bodies.

I’m not sure what I expected, the reviews suggested it was quite a difficult hike, but I’m young and reasonably athletic, so no problem, right?

Well, this ended up as a 9 hour hike in the attempt to get the 5/5 geocache El Capitan GCDAO6

Alas, it was not to be today – but the geocaching crew that went did get loads of caches on the way up – and are determined to go up again in a few weeks.

Happy New Year – this was a great 14 mile hike – great way to start the year!!

el cajon


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]]> http://geocachefanatic.com/geocache-event-hike-55-geocache/feed/ 2 Meeting Fellow Geocachers at the WWFM V Geocache Event http://geocachefanatic.com/geocacher-event/ http://geocachefanatic.com/geocacher-event/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:46:24 +0000 lucy http://geocachefanatic.com/?p=249 This geocache blog post is about our first ever flash mob event….

I enjoy geocaching as a couple – and always wondered about other geocachers – but never really went to the next step of meeting others.

Well, the weekly email update from Geocache provides a list of events that are local and was seeing this event called “World Wide Flash Mob Event V – San Diego Old Town” over time and it just drew my curiosity. As the time grew closer – I decided to go and attend the event.

The event sounded so interesting – in 15 minutes you would:

  • Meet other geocachers
  • Trade items
  • Sign the geocache log
  • Do a bit of CITO (Cache in Trash Out)
  • Eat with fellow geocachers (or should I say “kiss” them)
  • Leave in a organized fashion and carry on with your day leaving the people around you dazed and confused…

We both attended the event and it was really fun!!! Met someone that works at the same place too – small world indeed!

 

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