A Quick Look At Our Favorite Geocaches & Geocaching Experiences in 2017
323 Geocaches found in 2017
We ended the year with 2,055 finds
10 Geocaches Hidden in 2017
Unfortunately, 5 of them had to be removed with the park was closed to the public a few months later. We've had to replace a lot of our older caches this year - some repeatedly, some we moved to make them less likely to need repeatedly replaced.
Milestones:
First Cito
2000th Geocache Found (it took us 11 years!)
Fire Safety - one of WVTim's Smart Gadget Caches
We completed the Smart Gadget Trail WV.
Events Attended: 9
NEPAG 10th Anniversary Event
Oswego Cito (Great group of people, nicely organized, great caches nearby)
Stoned In A Flash Pa (flash mob in conjunction with ASPGB)
ASPGB Bonfire Meet & Greet
Stoned In A Flash (Another ASPGB flash mob)
ASPGB (We attend every few years - love this event - GREAT location!)
I Scream You Scream For Canada (Schulykill Cachers, great group, great location)
Your Kids Won't Be Up Anyway (quick & simple local event )
Fall Fest 2017 (We happened to be in the area - only 2 of us showed up for this)
We missed the Haunted Meto event in New Jersey this year - that's another one of our favorites!
States Cached In: 7
Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Texas West Virginia & that one cache in the Denver Airport. Colorado is the only new state we have a cache in this year, the other states we have gotten before.
Favorite Caches Found in 2017
This one was hysterical. We were traveling, and had not known about this in advance, so we were completely unprepared. No truck, no ladder... but we did have a hot dog stick (for cooking over the campfire) a regular magnetic extender tool in our geobag, a large umbrella and a pair of gloves that functioned as rope to tie things together. (these pics are before we added the umbrella...)
A fun container. This was an urban multi stage cache.
Tricky!
This was a fun one - definitely unique!
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5TREG_the-unnamed-cache
https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC5TREG_the-unnamed-cache
Another great tricky cache.
I love creative field puzzles - this WVTim cache was one of my favorites this year.
Definitely the best fence post cache we've found!
This one is in a park with a nice walking trail. The trail goes through the woods, where the gps accuracy gets a bit... sketchy. The area is covered in a thick layer of leaves. This cap is hidden under the leaves, and the cache under the cap. I still can't believe we found this!
A cache hidden under a four lane highway
Technically this is not a new find in 2017. But it was near our hotel, and I love this one so much that we did it again while in the area.
(Don't worry - we didn't log it a second time - we just played with it!)
Yet another awesome WVTim field puzzle - gadget cache. This comes with a booklet of instructions, and you need to build something to find the coordinates to the next stage.
This was another awesome field puzzle - literally! The first container held a puzzle. Put the puzzle together, and it's a map to the second stage!
(sometimes the cache is nothing spectacular, but the place it took us to is!)
This is in Shamokin PA - I love caches with a bit of history!
A waterfall in WV we'd have never seen if not for the geocache that brought us here. This is at the site of the Battle Of Falling Waters, there is a historical marker at the top of the hill. https://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC6RY78_the-battle-of-falling-waters
This is a lot easier to get to than I expected. Most of the path is a very nice trail. Which leads you to the Eternal Flame waterfall (upstate New York) - a waterfall with a natural gas pocket that allows for a continually burning flame behind the water. I'd love to see this when there is more water! I wrote about our trip to this cache here:
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/05/eternal-flame-waterfall.html
https://fieldsofhether.blogspot.com/2017/05/eternal-flame-waterfall.html
Kinzua Bridge was one of my favorite stops this year - and we had a great year of trips. It's a nice little park, a great walk out the overlook, a small trail, a great visitors center/museum, and a simple easy to find cache nearby, in the woods.
New Toys & Gear:
In September I got a cricut, so now Dan can have all sorts of customized geocaching gear.
This was a shirt I made after we completed the Mary Hyde Challenge.
Some Goals for 2018:
Host An Event
Hide a Night Cache
Finish the Canal Path In Danville
Find a new location for the park series we had to move
Design a pathtag
Publish The Adventures Of Molly Mouse (geocaching book for kids)
Hide an Intercache
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