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7 Souvenirs of August
Aug. 5th, 2014 04:19 amLast year in August, Groundspeak had special souvenirs for 31 Days of Geocaching so I was wondering if they were having anything for August this year. Well, this time it's the 7 Souvenirs of August. It's a lot easier this month because you only have to find the various types of geocaches to get all 7 souvenirs. On Saturday, I noticed that I had a regular, multi, and puzzle cache all within the same subdivision in Ambler so that's where I went for the first 3 souvenirs. After that, I hit a bunch of geocaches in Skippack on the way to an earthcache in Salford, for the 4th souvenir. Then I did more geocaches in Zieglersville on the way to a letterbox hybrid in Limerick. So I got 5 souvenirs for the day! The 6th and 7th souvenirs will have to wait for a weekend when there's an event cache.
On Sunday, I returned to Ambler to finish other geocaches in town that I didn't get to on Saturday because of the rush for souvenirs. After that, I also went through Horsham, Warrington, Montgomeryville, New Britain, and Chalfont, generally clearing out the area. Although it was a rainy day, I still got some of the difficult caches. The highest-rated one was "Perplexing Pine Tree", a 5-star difficulty cache near the YMCA in Lower Gwynedd. I met with Handyman17, who'd already been searching for a while, at the cache site. He showed me the decoy caches he'd found. We searched together for a little while and then he had to leave. Wouldn't you know it, not a few minutes after he stepped away from the cache site, I spotted the cache! So I picked it up and quickly took it back to the parking area so he could sign in too before he drove off. It was a rather well-camouflaged cache that wasn't placed where most people would expect to find it, so it is difficult. I'm not sure it really rates 5 stars though because I've found much harder caches at the 5-star level. On the other hand, I never could judge difficulty accurately because there have been a lot of high-rated caches that were actually easy if you've seen those kinds of cache hides before. This particular cache is somewhere in the middle of the difficulty range, although I'd rate it higher just because of the annoyance of searching that particular spot. (a thick pine tree)
( The caches... )
On Sunday, I returned to Ambler to finish other geocaches in town that I didn't get to on Saturday because of the rush for souvenirs. After that, I also went through Horsham, Warrington, Montgomeryville, New Britain, and Chalfont, generally clearing out the area. Although it was a rainy day, I still got some of the difficult caches. The highest-rated one was "Perplexing Pine Tree", a 5-star difficulty cache near the YMCA in Lower Gwynedd. I met with Handyman17, who'd already been searching for a while, at the cache site. He showed me the decoy caches he'd found. We searched together for a little while and then he had to leave. Wouldn't you know it, not a few minutes after he stepped away from the cache site, I spotted the cache! So I picked it up and quickly took it back to the parking area so he could sign in too before he drove off. It was a rather well-camouflaged cache that wasn't placed where most people would expect to find it, so it is difficult. I'm not sure it really rates 5 stars though because I've found much harder caches at the 5-star level. On the other hand, I never could judge difficulty accurately because there have been a lot of high-rated caches that were actually easy if you've seen those kinds of cache hides before. This particular cache is somewhere in the middle of the difficulty range, although I'd rate it higher just because of the annoyance of searching that particular spot. (a thick pine tree)
( The caches... )