E-Mail Response #4
Franimal” says: “I love it, spiders; snakes; and ants. All we need now for a great time is a couple of Coyotes and a bear or two. Not in Chicago I guess. I think it’s like a mini Natural History Museum and tells the story of long ago in Illinois. Quite unusual. I’ve taken pictures of it and posted it on my own caching site.”
E-mail Response #2
On 12/1/09 “Atlantagirl25” writes “Well your instructions are a bit vague, but here's a story...
While my friend Cym and I were hunting in New Mexico, we nearly stepped on a rather large tarantula which was sitting in the middle of the trail. That freaked me right out. I mean I only see those things in pet stores! Needless to say, I gave it a wide berth and walked through the woods on the side of the trail when passing it.
The funniest part about this cache was when we got home and read some of the other logs and found the other people had the same tarantula experience. What made me remember this on my Chicago trip was your box with those fuzzy bug-like (?) creatures.
Well good luck with your project….”
While my friend Cym and I were hunting in New Mexico, we nearly stepped on a rather large tarantula which was sitting in the middle of the trail. That freaked me right out. I mean I only see those things in pet stores! Needless to say, I gave it a wide berth and walked through the woods on the side of the trail when passing it.
The funniest part about this cache was when we got home and read some of the other logs and found the other people had the same tarantula experience. What made me remember this on my Chicago trip was your box with those fuzzy bug-like (?) creatures.
Well good luck with your project….”
Email Response #1:
“Asgarath” writes: “Hello. Well, after a shaky start of cache finding and the 20 months of National Guard call up I have finally gotten well involved. In the past I’ve completed 99 caches. Today was number 100 (can you say cache addict?) Anyway, as you must know there are a number of locations in the Chicago area, many that are easily accessible. Despite that fact, it is only location that makes most valuable and most of the stuff inside is junk. Its been a while since Ive found great loot or gotten to a location that hasn’t been muggled. Your “thing”, whatever it is, it’s the most interesting Ive found in a while. I’m not sure what kind of response you were looking for, I just thought I’d write to find out more about you…”
More about typical Geocaching:
The traditional geocache involved placing a waterproof container containing a log book and trade items then record the cache's coordinates. These coordinates, along with other details of the location, are posted on the Geocaching.com listing site. Other geocachers obtain the coordinates from that listing site and seek out the cache using their GPS handheld receivers. The finding geocachers record their exploits in the logbook and online. Geocachers are free to take objects from the cache in exchange for leaving something of similar or higher value, so there is treasure for the next person to find.
Geocache container sizes range from containers as small as the tip of your little finger ("nanos"), to film canisters (often called "microcaches"), too small to hold anything more than a tiny paper log, to five-gallon buckets or even larger containers.
Here's a pic of my most recent Geocaching adventure, Chicago style (cemetaries are commonly used locals in urban settings).
Typical cache treasures are not usually high in monetary value but may hold personal value to the finder. Common cache contents are unusual coins or currency, small toys, ornamental buttons, CDs, or books. Also common are objects that are moved from cache to cache called "hitchhikers", such as Travel Bugs or Geocoins, whose travels may be logged and followed online. Cachers who initially place a Travel Bug or Geocoin often assign specific goals for their trackable items. Examples of goals are to be placed in a certain cache a long distance from home, or to travel to a certain country, or to travel faster and farther than other hitchhikers in a race. Higher value items are occasionally included in geocaches as a reward for the First to Find (called "FTF"), or in locations which are harder to reach.
Geocache container sizes range from containers as small as the tip of your little finger ("nanos"), to film canisters (often called "microcaches"), too small to hold anything more than a tiny paper log, to five-gallon buckets or even larger containers.
Here's a pic of my most recent Geocaching adventure, Chicago style (cemetaries are commonly used locals in urban settings).
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