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On our geocaching podcast today, we have some stories of odd things found while geocaching (not related to the cache!). We also share a big update to Earthcache guidelines just released, tips for being First to Find (some practical, some humorous), an event story from Stockholm Sweden (involving the king and queen!) and much more.
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The Geocaching Challenge with GeoGuessr - LIMITED TIME
New hiding guidance for EarthCaches
Earthcache I - a simple geology tour of Wasp Head - Australia
Megan's Geo-Diary
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Hi there!
I’m a little behind on listening to the podcasts, but I’m catching up quickly and I haven’t skipped a single episode. I’ve listened to every podcast from episode 1 up to this one.
There’s something I’ve been wondering about regarding things you find near geocaches. Quite often I come across empty liquor bottles. What puzzles me is that many of these caches are deep in the woods. I’ll hike for several kilometers, cross huge muddy puddles, scramble over fallen tree trunks, and eventually reach a cache that’s hidden beside a log. Then I wonder: how did those empty bottles end up right next to the cache?
Are there really that many geocachers who finish off a bottle of liquor when they reach the cache? Or are there somehow lots of muggles hanging around that exact spot in the middle of the forest? It happens so often that I find it quite a mystery.
And one more thing. Every now and then I also find a paving stone deep in the woods near a geocache. Sometimes it’s just lying on the forest floor. Did the cache owner bring it there at some point? How did it get there? That’s another mystery to me. You’d expect to find a paving stone in a city, on a sidewalk. But why is there a single paving stone several kilometers into a forest? I’ve come across this quite a few times.
I’m curious whether people in other parts of the world have noticed the same thing.