Now what would you do if you were walking through the woods and found a coffin? Turns out this happened to some folks in Minnesota. It turns out these unsuspecting muggles stumbled on a cache voted on as the Minnesota Cache of the Month by member of the Minnesota Geocaching Association. Now that must have been a cool cache!
As is sometimes the case the police were called and it’s only funny until someone sees a skeleton. The owner of the cache wrote a post about the construction of the geocache
I found the police account even more interesting:
While walking off-trail in Lebanon Park in Eagan, the four friends found a coffin with skeletal remains inside. A phone call was made and Eagan Police and members of the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office Parks, Lakes, and Trails Division also responded to the scene. Three of the four individuals had scattered after making the find, but the remaining member took police to the location of the coffin. A closer look at the coffin revealed the skeletal remains were made of plastic and left there as part of a game called Geocache…
Coffin as Geocache Container
The coffin and its occupant were taken into custody and the new coordinates for locating it would be (44 degrees 44’ 29.70 N by 92 degrees 53’ 09.72 W); for those of you without a GPS unit, that would be the Dakota County Sheriff’s Office. Good luck!
I think the police reaction might of been a bit harsh but maybe they were responding the the park’s authority in removing the cache from the park. Why can’t we all just get along?
Tags: coffin, container, parks, police
Posted in Camouflage, Geocaches |
My main geocaching buddy, Bakers Dozen, is heading out on a road trip this weekend. He’ll be going cross country and geocaching along the way. It strikes me that geocaching would be a great activity if you were a regular RVer. I know that geocaching has taken me to some amazing places. I’m pretty sure if you are tripping across the country your RV that you’d be able to find some great geocaches.
The folks over at RV Resources have gone so far as to add a category to their directory for Geocaching. If that’s not an endorsement that geocaching is something for RVers I don’t know what is!
Do any of you geocache while you are RVing?
Tags: rv, travel
Posted in Places |
Geocaching the Runestone Geocache (Teamvoyager, Bakersdozen, Shadefrog)
Geocaching has something for everyone but this geocache is only for the adventurous. To start with it is in a cave so that prevents anyone with a passing sense of claustrophobia. The caves get VERY narrow so you really need to want to go in there. There is a bit of climbing. The climbing isn’t too difficult but there are a few blind drops which requires a certain confidence in your ability. This is definitely not a kid friendly geocache. Teenagers might love it but the little ones are not likely to enjoy it so much. Dark? I’ve never know this kind of dark. Turn of your lamp and you can’t see a thing, nothing. So if you want to try this cache then I hope you don’t have a fear of the dark.
This was a great geocache. It offers a sense of adventure. Even if you don’t attempt this geocache just seeing the opening will bring you a great spot in Ontario. I’ve hiked the Bruce Trail many times but this section of the trail offered some sights I’d never seen before. The area is a hotspot for rock climbers. We saw two groups of climbers the day we were there.
We were much challenged by this cache not just because of the physical hurdles but the also by the lack of the obvious. There was no a-ha stump, not “geotrail”. Even pictures by previous geocachers weren’t much help. We didn’t get to this cache so to be honest we might have been in the wrong place but there was no way of knowing. There were no outward signs to tell us we were close. We couldn’t even use the GPSr to give us a clue as to distance. We used every clue available to us and were still challenged.
We owe a great deal of gratitude to Bakers Dozen. He was brave enough to go that last little bit and man was that a tight squeeze. Thanks also to Troop6 from a very cool cache!
Here is a link to the Cache page: Runestone (GC1CD2H)
Tags: Bruce Trail, Caving, Geocaching
Posted in Geocaches, Places |
Below you will see a trend chart for the terms “Geocache and Geocaching“. This is a rolling chart so it will be different each time you come back to the site. Can you identify and reasons for the spikes? The spike at the end of December is probably due to the number of GPSr given as Christmas presents.
Is there seasonality to geocaching?
Tags: geocache, statistics
Posted in help |
For me geocaching is the ultimate mix of three elements: technology, outdoors and citizenship. When it comes to the technology what could be cooler than using a hand held device that receives signals from space! The various geocaching websites are pretty cool too. The outdoors is equally easy to understand. Those satelite signals only penetrate so far into buildings, we are forced to go outdoors if we want to Geocache. Citizenship is a little less obvious.
I could have said friendship or even fellowship but there is something about geocaching that makes me think of citizenship. Complete strangers place something they have bought or made at some location that is at least slightly inconvenient for them so that others may enjoy the search. The people that find these containers by-and-large leave them as they find them. If that’s not being a good citizen I don’t know what is.
The fact these geocaching citizens often gather to exchange ideas, swap stories and track down the people that hide those devilishly hard to find geocaches makes attending geocaching events worthwhile. These can be local events or large regional geobashes. All of them tend to be fun if that is your goal.
Here are my five reasons why you should attend geocaching events:
- You will get hints on how to find those tricky geocaches that we all have trouble with form time-to-time.
- You will learn about geocaching etiquette. The only way we can continue to enjoy this activity is if we collectively follow proper protocol and etiquette for placing and finding geocaches.
- You will discover some geocaches that you will enjoy finding.
- You will get tips and advice on gear, techniques, safety and other practical tidbits that will make geocaching more enjoyable.
- You’ll have people to tell your stories to. Just like fisherman have the “one that got away” stories geocachers all have the “I couldn’t find it … until” stories. These are fun to share.
If you think of some reasons I missed then please share them in the comments section below. I look forward to seeing you at a geocaching event sometime!
Tags: Geocaching Events
Posted in Geocaching Events |
