Geo-caching!
Today Kim and I went Geo-caching. If you don’t know what it that is, I suggest you go to Geocaching.com. Basically, it’s treasure hunting. You look up coordinates for hidden caches in your area then using maps, compasses, and or GPS trackers hunt down these caches of wacky items, take something, leave something, and sign it’s log book. You’d be surprised how many hidden caches are in your area, we found one right on campus that hundreds of students must walk by everyday with no idea it’s there. I made a short picture journal of our hunt: so if you’re ready grab your adventuring hat, your leather coat, compass, GPS Tracker, coordinate book, bag o’ swag and
Our first stop was a rock formation not far from my apartment. The lot in which the rock pile occupied was ill kept and a tough place to search. However it did have some great views when we climbed to the top.
Ultimately, we weren’t able to find the cache at the rock pile, but it didn’t discourage us. Kim and I decided to head to the next spot: Books Park.
Interestingly enough as far as it seemed from my apartment, we got a great view of my building from the peak in Brooks Park. The salmon/brown colored building on the far left is mine!
This was a tough search too, but we refused to give up.
Finally Kim spotted the cache between a tree and a small stone wall. You can see the corner of the lid poking out at the bottom left part of the stones. They don’t make these things easy to find!
The Treasure! We signed the log book with our names and the date and wished the next hunter a happy labor day. We took the medal as a commemoration of our very first find. We left in it’s place a plastic skull ring. After some congratulatory high fives, we re-hid the cache and we were off to the next set of coordinates at SF State.
The coordinates led us to a stone bench near the quad. This one was much easier to spot. Still, we were excited to find it! The Tupperware cache was wrapped in green tape making it blend in with the surrounding ivy and impossible to spot from the front. Luckily I was tromping through the bushes around the back of the bench.
The items in this cache were mostly school themed. We took an old faded ID card from a high school teacher named Mr. McMillan; keeping with the school theme, we left behind a calculator from our bag ‘o swag. Next we visited Stern Grove, unfortunately we were unable to get a good satellite reading, that coupled with the rampant underbrush and uneven terrain forced us to give up on the cache and head to Golden Gate Park.
This was a interesting cache indeed! It was right off the path in a small thicket in front of the bison enclosure. Apparently whoever hid this cache drilled a hole into this rock and secured a mason jar into the bottom of it. Kim made me open it though, because of the slugs all around it.
The jar was mostly filled with small rubber toys. We took that Pegasus looking toy and left behind a little rubber alien bookmarker. The pen in the cache was out of ink, so I had to run back to the car to get a pen in order to sign the log book. Again wishing future hunters a happy labor day we put it all back together.
We decided to call it a day and crash one of the labor day picnics going on in the park, but fearing being discovered as interlopers, we instead went to Burger King.
So that’s it. We’ll definitely be doing this again in the future, and we even plan on setting up our own cache for hunters to find. I highly recommend this activity, it’s cheap, you get a lot of weird junk, and you visit places you otherwise may never have seen.
Our first stop was a rock formation not far from my apartment. The lot in which the rock pile occupied was ill kept and a tough place to search. However it did have some great views when we climbed to the top.
Ultimately, we weren’t able to find the cache at the rock pile, but it didn’t discourage us. Kim and I decided to head to the next spot: Books Park.
Interestingly enough as far as it seemed from my apartment, we got a great view of my building from the peak in Brooks Park. The salmon/brown colored building on the far left is mine!
This was a tough search too, but we refused to give up.
Finally Kim spotted the cache between a tree and a small stone wall. You can see the corner of the lid poking out at the bottom left part of the stones. They don’t make these things easy to find!
The Treasure! We signed the log book with our names and the date and wished the next hunter a happy labor day. We took the medal as a commemoration of our very first find. We left in it’s place a plastic skull ring. After some congratulatory high fives, we re-hid the cache and we were off to the next set of coordinates at SF State.
The coordinates led us to a stone bench near the quad. This one was much easier to spot. Still, we were excited to find it! The Tupperware cache was wrapped in green tape making it blend in with the surrounding ivy and impossible to spot from the front. Luckily I was tromping through the bushes around the back of the bench.
The items in this cache were mostly school themed. We took an old faded ID card from a high school teacher named Mr. McMillan; keeping with the school theme, we left behind a calculator from our bag ‘o swag. Next we visited Stern Grove, unfortunately we were unable to get a good satellite reading, that coupled with the rampant underbrush and uneven terrain forced us to give up on the cache and head to Golden Gate Park.
This was a interesting cache indeed! It was right off the path in a small thicket in front of the bison enclosure. Apparently whoever hid this cache drilled a hole into this rock and secured a mason jar into the bottom of it. Kim made me open it though, because of the slugs all around it.
The jar was mostly filled with small rubber toys. We took that Pegasus looking toy and left behind a little rubber alien bookmarker. The pen in the cache was out of ink, so I had to run back to the car to get a pen in order to sign the log book. Again wishing future hunters a happy labor day we put it all back together.
We decided to call it a day and crash one of the labor day picnics going on in the park, but fearing being discovered as interlopers, we instead went to Burger King.
So that’s it. We’ll definitely be doing this again in the future, and we even plan on setting up our own cache for hunters to find. I highly recommend this activity, it’s cheap, you get a lot of weird junk, and you visit places you otherwise may never have seen.