133: How to Be a Wizard

[Rodge]

Hey, there's one near my old primary school! I could get into this.

 

[Russ Pitts]

Damn. Now Russ has given me a new hobby. Nice job, jerk.

I didn't plan it. I just thought I'd borrow a GPS, search for some caches to research the story then forget about it. Whoops. Turns out to have been way more fun than I expected.

 

[leeteggs]

Amazing article! I actually found my 100th cache this month. It made me feel warm inside to read about geocaching on a site like this!

 

[aethyrmaster]

Pirate Brahm - Are you referring to Centralia?

 

[Pirate Brahm]

Pirate Brahm - Are you referring to Centralia?

Yes, that's the 'burning town' I was talking about. There's a few caches up that way if you you follow RT. 61.

 

[aethyrmaster]

Yeah, it kind of figures there would be with the history of the place. I live relatively near there, and as soon as I saw what you wrote, had to ask. I hope you found "backwoods Pennsylvania" to be hospitable!

 

[Enemy_Combatant]

Ahoy! I enjoyed seeing the article and was surprised when it first snagged my attention: "What? Geocaching? Who here would be aware of that!?"

I've been involved in 'caching for a few years myself and wanted to share my first experience with y'all. It was a dark and stormy night... Okay, no it was a steamy-hot Georgia day, we were on a camping trip to Lake Conesauga and had hiked 2 miles to a ranger tower. Days prior, at home, we had learned that somewhere atop this rise there was a cache hidden. So...WITH NO GPS RECEIVER yet in our possession we searched the area around the ranger tower - I FOUND THE CACHE! (yay!) Took us about 30 minutes of searching, but we found it. I >ahemsnicker<
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

 

[Zivlok]

Those are some great stories. This has HIGHLY intrigued me.

 

[Grand_Poohbah]

All your articles are a blast =].