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Upper Bucks County
Jun. 3rd, 2014 02:13 amIt was a fine weekend to close out May and begin June. Both days, I went geocaching around Franconia, Salford, Perkasie, Sellersville, and Quakertown in Upper Bucks County. On Saturday, I finished off the suburban and urban geocaches and on Sunday, I hiked the parks and state gamelands for a more rustic experience. It was an interesting two days. There were creative geocaches, weird found objects, and unusual sculptures. I was surprised that the Perkasie locals knew about geocaches around town. I talked to two of them and they said they'd seen other geocachers find those. They also told me about the history of the trolley tunnel and Liberty Bell trolley line near the "Slow Train" cache site.
"Perkasie in Plane Sight" was the real treat on Sunday. It's a Wherigo, a kind of outdoor adventure game. Some GPS models support Wherigo directly but I just use an app on my phone. Basically, there is a story in the game and you have to complete various tasks by navigating to specific coordinates, picking up and dropping virtual items, making decisions, and answering questions. What's nice about this particular Wherigo is it integrates the other 8 geocaches in Markey Park, so including the Wherigo cache itself, it's essentially a 9-geocache loop hike of the park! As a bonus, during this hike, I was finally able to find "Art's Imports", a geocache that I could not find 10 years ago. It's not the original cache container though. I read the cache logs over the past decade and saw that it had been replaced a few times and relocated once. In fact, I now know that the reason I could not find it previously was it was actually missing that day. Closure is beautiful!
( The caches... )
"Perkasie in Plane Sight" was the real treat on Sunday. It's a Wherigo, a kind of outdoor adventure game. Some GPS models support Wherigo directly but I just use an app on my phone. Basically, there is a story in the game and you have to complete various tasks by navigating to specific coordinates, picking up and dropping virtual items, making decisions, and answering questions. What's nice about this particular Wherigo is it integrates the other 8 geocaches in Markey Park, so including the Wherigo cache itself, it's essentially a 9-geocache loop hike of the park! As a bonus, during this hike, I was finally able to find "Art's Imports", a geocache that I could not find 10 years ago. It's not the original cache container though. I read the cache logs over the past decade and saw that it had been replaced a few times and relocated once. In fact, I now know that the reason I could not find it previously was it was actually missing that day. Closure is beautiful!
( The caches... )