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Cache Hiding
We have recently been on a 770 km round trip part, of which was to do some cache finding.
This, and other recent events, has got me pondering about the many and varied types and techniques of cache hiders.
On one hand we have the original concept of large (5 litre plus) containers that often take some tramping through dense bush or up mountain sides, or both, to find. They are almost invariably hidden in very thorny, brambly thickets, but when you stumble across them they stick out like sore thumbs. Also, they are very well loaded with stash. These are often in places that you wouldn’t think twice about going to otherwise. What fun!
On the other hand we have the “Drive By” s that are often micros. At a number of these you can park, peer out through the vehicle window and say “I’ll bet it’s under that little pile of rocks”. A quick grab and sign without even taking your GPSr with you.
Now I am not advocating, or knocking, any particular style after all they all get us “out there” and we love it. The only limits are the “Rules” and those of imagination. We would all want there to be something out there for everyone. Almost without exception a cache is placed at a place the hider wants us to visit.
What I have a great admiration for, however, are the efforts made by some cache hiders to be imaginative in what and how they place and to write up their description pages with well researched material.
If you follow the links given below you will find two very good examples that, in my opinion, illustrate these to be applauded dimensions of geocache hiding.
GC2TNGP The Prune (Dunedin, Otago)
GC2V913 Old Stones, First Phones (Central Otago)
