The Beginning
Exactly 528 feet from
this spot is where it all began. rlecour (as Geo
ROCKS!
used to call himself) found his first cache over there by the
Creekside one year ago. He "
Didn't
see a logbook, so couldn't sign in..." even though the
picture he took at the time shows the large, colorful log book
laying
right on top of cache!. (Ah, he was such a
rookie way back then!) Directions to his next milestone are in
that logbook on the page he should have used.
Early Days
A short drive and just a
walk in the park away is the site of Geo
ROCKS!'s
100th
find which he did on his birthday. In celebration he released
the
Richard,
the Jedi Knight travel bug which has no stated goal, yet
has already managed to travel an impressive distance. (Not
unlike it's namesake?) The cache isn't there anymore but at
bearing 280 you will find a pole. The least number on the pole
is
a. The greatest is
b. The number of numbers
on the pole is
c.
Active Hunter
37º 14.ac0 121º 48.0bc
By the time
he lead an urban assault on his
200th
find, interrupting his daily travels for a cache had become
routine for Geo
ROCKS! The increasing presences of
micros, such as this one, made it likely that no matter where
he went a cache would be close at hand and he was now finding
them about 3 times a day. There's a patented pole at this
site. The last digit of the patent is
d. The first
digit in the phone number is
e. The number of nearby
yellow poles is
f.
Mellowing Out
37º 13.da6 121º 4f.e6c
Having had
enough of the micro explosion for a little while,
Geo
ROCKS! started to slow down and ended up relaxing
down on the farm for his
300th
find. By now
R had developed a practiced caching eye
and could often approach an area, just stick out his hand and
touch the hidden container. He came to refer to this as his
''caching karma''. It's a useful ability to have, particularly
when you're a grown man often seen hanging around the bushes
in playgrounds and parks. A bit behind this piece of equipment
is the pole Davey inspected. The year in which Davey completed
his inspection is
ghjk (Note: None of the numbers in
the date repeat.).
The Wider Field
37º gh.20j 121º 5j.h21
By the time
he found his
400th
cache Geo
ROCKS! had considerably increased his search
area. He'd developed a program that would show him only the
caches along his travel route. No more 50-mile-radius bubbles,
just a 2-mile-wide corridor of caches! And for this milestone
he traveled far outside the local area to a point past
Sacramento on Auburn Rd. The middle of the most prominent
number at this Auburn location is
u. The value of
w is, of course, twice as much.
The Legend?
37º au.gab 12uº gw.00j
427
Traditional, 25 Virtual, 26 Multi, 14 Locationless, 4 Unknown,
2 Event, 1 Webcam and 365 days later, Geo
ROCKS! is now
poised for his latest milestone:
#500!
It can be found at a place he might find interesting and even
familiar, though he found nothing at all there before. While
searching for another cache a minor mistake in calculating the
distance between two points led him to look for it in this
spot, a place nearly 12 miles from the correct location. At
least, when he did find that cache, he remembered to sign the
logbook!
Original contents:
- logbook
- geo-instruction sheet
- pen
- Jaguar XK180
- Mongrel Racer
- a starting whistle
- Caesar III game CD
- pack of Sharpie permanent pens
- "mood" ruler
- Hawkman
- Hit the Road Jack! Travel Bug
- Say Aaahhh Travel Bug
- and a very special pole for the First To Find this one. (And,
yes, GeoROCKS! received a copy of this description as soon
as it was posted. Hey, it is in his honor. (And who
knew it would take our overworked admins so long to get this
approved?))
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