WP-Cache easily ranks among the top five of my most-used (and most critical!) WordPress plugins (static site performance with dynamic site behavior, and all that jazz). But last week, heard about another kind of WP-Cache — developer Ryan Boren planted a couple of ammo cans full of WordPress t-shirts in the middle of Almaden Quicksilver Park — and didn’t list them on geocaching.com. In other words, a little insider training :)
Don’t generally like to drive much for a geocache (it kind of taints the enviro aspect), but made an exception today – this just sounded like too much fun. A huge and beautiful park, and plenty of traditional caches in the area too. Made the trip with Miles this morning and ended up spending almost the entire day hiking.
Tracked down the shirts mid-day and there’s still a ton of ’em. No extra-smalls, so had to drape him in a small. The find was extra special because this was, coincidentally, our 100th find! Happy birthday to us, or something.
Stopped to eat Bunny Grahams and drink the last of the water (when will I learn?). Splashed each other in a creek. Found an entire deer skeleton (and brought the skull home in the bag my WP shirt came in). Dropped off some of the travel bugs we picked up in Minnesota. Ate peanut butter and honey sandwiches in the middle of the woods. Hiked our butts off (Miles did five full miles today!) Amazing views, very few people, great father-son day. Life is good.
Scot, you’re really getting me in the frame of mind to drop some cash on a GPS unit and hit the trail.
I’m surprised that more people aren’t talking about orienteering.
Get naked. Go analogue.
http://www.us.orienteering.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienteering
Gilbert, you raise a good point. I think part of the appeal of geocaching is the geek aspect – an opportunity to play with tech gadgets and get outdoors at the same time. There is a contingent of cachers who prefer to go analog (though the tools on the web site all assume you can download data files into handheld units, etc.). It’s crossed my mind a few times that I really have no orienteering skills per se’ outside of the GPS – scary to think I could develop a dependence like that and then run out of batteries someday :)