Kudos to Clever Caches
Finding a geocache is fine, but scoring a clever cache can make the day. You probably have those few caches in mind. You know the ones. These are the geocaches you remember as the best you’ve found. We have a few of those. By the way, these geocachers deserve props for making geocaching fun. Thank you.
A True Puzzle Cache
We usually don’t do puzzle caches. I’d rather just get to the finding than try to break a code. Just a personal preference. The other day when we were out doing some rare winter geocaching, one found us in a rather unexpected way.
The cache was located on a rail-to-trail path we’ve often walked, but not this far west from our home. The day turned out to be colder than we thought. A winter wind across the open prairie is the coldest thing you’ll ever encounter. We decided to grab one more before we turned around.
The last log on the cache said this was the cacher’s hardest cache to log. Using our smartphones, we honed in on ground zero quickly. We looked at each other in disbelief when we found it behind a boulder. What could be so hard about this cache, other than the walk out to get it? Then, we opened it up.
The cache consisted of two pieces of wood, locked together with bolts and screws. My husband swore for about the next five minutes as he worked the boards loose with the tools provided. The cache was a film canister in a recess carved into the wood pieces. High marks for clever on this one! I love it when geocachers go that extra mile for a good find.
