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with GPS receivers go on high tech treasure hunts
to seek out tupperware hiding in the bushes. Check out our
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Hidden near where we lived in Altadena, Another Way was our first cache hide
located along the El Prieto Trail. We had originally planned to place
a cache near the site of Owen Brown's grave,
a neat discovery made while dog walking in the area, but we learned that it
was private property and settled on a spot with a cool trail sign. Sadly,
both the sign and the cache disappeared in the next year.
While travelling in Tibet,
we couldn't resist placing what might be the highest
cache in the world. It's located on the 8km stretch between
Everest Base Camp and Rongphu Monastery, a common route taken by
tourists. Hidden on October 6, 2002, it was first found on April 4, 2005.
Hidden while working at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
on the Pearl River Delta air quality study.
This cache was inspired by the existence of several extra tupperware
containers not needed by the project, the awesome views at HKUST,
and the low density of caches existing
in Hong Kong. This was the first cache placed in the New Territories.
This is one of our nicest cache hides. Located on a regularly
deserted strip of beach in Ventura County, we always find this
a relaxing spot to touch the ocean and play with the dogs.
A month after getting into geocaching, I
wanted to place a micro cache on the Caltech campus where I work.
I picked out the perfect spot but didn't have a container ready.
Work took me to Hong Kong for two months,
and by the time I returned, a fellow geocacher had hidden another cache
in the exact spot I had chosen for mine. Still wanting a cache I could
see almost everyday, I chose a spot in the now defunct Baxter Museum
Sculpture garden. I archived the cache when I retired from Caltech
in 2004.
Sculpture
Before geocaching, we never made it more than half way up the Mount
Wilson Toll road, though we often hiked part way up and turned around.
Finally, thanks to geocaching, we got all the way up to Henninger and
commemorated the better shape we're in with a cache hide. This is another
fairly private spot where deer can sometimes be seen.
John and Mav
A simple multi-cache, mainly intended to introduce people to the
world's first frisbee golf course in Hahamongna watershed park.
Contents
Having spent a few hours puzzling over codes to find other
caches, we wanted to make a code-breaker of our own. There have
been several finders, but few noticed the connection
between the cache name and its fake coordinates. The original contents
also tied into the cache theme.
After moving to New York, it took nearly a year to get settled in a house
in Chappaqua. This simple hide in Hardscrabble Wilderness is about a
mile away from where we now live and takes people on a nice walk in the woods.
I planned this one back in California, but had to wait until I found
"the perfect spot." It's near a trail where I run/walk the dogs regularly.
The puzzle isn't really that vexing, unless people make it harder than
it really is.
This cache was hidden on the longest day of the year in a small preserve
in Millwood. It's a short, 1.3 mile loop walk with an easy find.
A bit bittersweet for us, this was Maveric's
last cache before he died a week later. We had made some exploratory
treks during the winter looking for the perfect spot
for a cache, and knowing how much Mav loved the water, chose this spot over
looking the pond.
We frequent this wonderful wooded preserve near home and decided it could
use a second cache. Our other cache is located near the highest point,
this one is a bit lower near a swamp and can be part of a nice loop hike.
This cache began as an introductory example of of multi-cache for a
Sawmill Audubon Program on May 20, 2007. It's meant to be family
friendly, and I enjoyed placing it enough to turn it into an official
geocache.
We became aware of a small park near home and decided to share
with the geocaching community. Being "the salmons" we naturally
like fishy themed items, and started this cache off with plenty of
fish related goodies. Near the cache site is a a dam over the Pocantico
River and the remains of an old pump works and what was probably a
house for the dam worker. Inside the pump house were a lot of abandoned
data sheets from 1963 carefully detailing flow rates and other details
of the river/dam.
Home Coordinates
Caches we have hidden:
Our first hidden cache
Another Way (GC6C93)
on July 4, 2002:
7/4/2002 
12/1/2002 
Roof of the World Cache (GC9A9E) on October 6, 2002:
HKUST Cache (GC8875) on September 2, 2002:
9/2/2002 
Mumu's Mr. Magu (GCA968) on November 16, 2002:
Art or Jungle Gym cache (GCD63D) on February 16, 2003:
Contents 
Henninger Ridge (GCD6D3) on February 17, 2003:
Location 
Contents 
HaHa Mumu (GCECDD) on March 26, 2003:
3 weeks later 
Winona Code (GCGX6R) on September 15, 2003:
Easy Scrabble (GCR1Z3) on October 21, 2005:
A Vexing Puzzle (GCVCGB) on April 12, 2006:
Short Walk on a Long Day (GCWPR4) on June 21, 2006:
Whippoorwill (GC11BT9) on March 10, 2007:
Hard Scrabble 5.6.7 (GC12PJ1) on May 6, 2007:
Pruyn Swamp (GC132KN) on May 21, 2007:
Fish You Were Here (GC14Y5M) on August 5, 2007:
Our travel bugs:
GC4D19
GC1A8F on 2/14/2003.
GC7A1
More information about the Leatherman can be found at
this link
and also here and
even more info.
This was his 365 mile route.
Hidden on 11/19/2000, this is one of the oldest nearby caches
that we hadn't yet found. We found a couple of other caches from the
early years while marking this milestone.
One of a number of creative puzzles caches hidden by Lostboy1966.
One of the oldest caches around, still going strong after six years.
A cute puzzle with a blaa final location in a parking lot. This makes 100 finds in 101 days, or
200 finds in 197 days so I seem to have a cache a day pace lately.
GC6435 
GC646E 
Our 100th find on Mt. Lowe:
Our 200th find
at
Vasquez Rocks:
on 6/21/2003
What a difference a year makes (30 lbs less):
June 2002
June 2003 
Feb 2003 
Our 300th find:
Las Flores on 12/13/2003.
Our 400th find:
Angel's View of the City of Angels on 3/27/2004.
Our 500th find:
Bug Eyed on 8/27/2004.
Our 600th find:
Leave it... 'cause you can't take it on 4/16/2005.
Our 700th find:
The falls at Amawalk River on 12/31/2005.
Our 800th find:
Leatherman's Circuit - Helicker's Cave on 5/10/2006.
Our 900th find:
Rested Here on 10/9/2006.
Our 1,000th find:
Boston Cache on 1/21/2007.
Our 1,100th find:
Indiana Geones and the Horde of Odin on 5/29/2007.
Our 1,200th find:
Ninham Mountain MUA on 9/2/2007.
Our 1,300th find:
Koala Kache Redux on 12/12/2007.
OUR COMPLETE LIST OF FINDS
MILESTONES
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