A Day In Hiding
It wasn’t all that long ago that a fellow geocacher contacted me and told me that they had found all of the caches I had hidden.
I responded in a joking manner, saying that only meant I needed to get busy and hide a few more.
Well, maybe it was not really all that much of a joke as today I hid three new geocaches in the form of micros.
Wanting to get out into the world with my 18-month-old, I loaded her up into the car and took off adventuring.
Just so happens that I had three micro hides tucked away in a pocket of my jacket at the time.
Our journey began with a visit to the historic train station in downtown Staunton.
It was here that I wanted the first of the micros to be placed as “Benchmark 2 Cache @ the Train Station” — second to be hidden as part of my “Benchmark 2 Cache” series.
As a fan of benchmark hunting, I wanted to find a way to help educate others about benchmarks as so often we walk past them everyday and never even realize they are there.
This series helps with that.
For this one, the person uses the posted coordinates to find a benchmark that exists at the Staunton Train Station — a historic location well worth visiting.
Once they find it, they stand in front of the benchmark and look around, remembering the clues given in the cache description.
Of the three caches placed, this one is definitely a favorite.
For the second one, all I knew is that I wanted to expand my “Beware The Muggles” as well as hide it somewhere in Waynesboro.
The “Beware The Muggles” series offers a selection of caches hidden in more public places. Some are easier to get to than others, but all help teach the use of stealth when hunting geocaches so as not to arouse the suspicions of surrounding muggles (aka. those who are clueless to the world of geocaching).
Parking on a street in Waynesboro, my daughter and I went for a walk along a few of the streets in the area.
She rode in the stroller as I pushed.
Although we did not find a place on that journey for this cache, we did find a place a few blocks away as we were about to leave the area.
Now named ““Beware The Muggles” while stuck @ Fishburne,” this cache places the seeker at a small lot on a downtown corner just off a busy road.
Located just downhill from the very visible Fishburne Military School, there is a historical marker (which I have since submitted as a Waymark) at the location that explains a bit of the school’s history.
I tricky hide, this one will definitely test the skills of the hunter in not only stealth, but in being aware of their surroundings.
After leaving Waynesboro, it seemed a good time to take little Abi to the play area located inside the Staunton Mall.
There she burned off a great deal of energy while sliding down slides and leading me around by the finger.
Only after I was sure she had had enough fun did we leave to go find the final hiding place.
Located at the city limits of Staunton over on the Woodrow Wilson Parkway, this one is part of “The Outer Limits” series and is appropriately named “Up A Tree @ “The Outer Limits”.”
This series takes the adventurer to locations and hides placed adjacent to a boundary such as a city limits or county line.
All three caches were submitted last night for approval by Geocaching.com, and two of the three have already been approved and activated.
The only one left waiting is “Benchmark 2 Cache @ the Train Station,” which I hope to hear something about tonight.
Of the two already approved, both were found first by ColoLvr.
Let me end by quoting what they had to say about the cache at Fishburne . . .
“FTF again 2nite! I looked all around and then I looked some more. Found it and laughed. I had seen a picture of these. Loved the cache and the name! Signed log @ 10:11 p.m.“
