Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Geocache

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This morning I found a really innovative geocache in the Marty Robbins park in El Paso, Texas. It was so good that it motivated me to make one and go hide it!

Mine is in a plastic “Tupperware” container and contains a log book, two ballpoint pens, an egg cup from Spain, a souvenir from the Eifel Tower in Paris, a small coffee spoon, some shiny rocks, a couple of fossils, and a new pair of ear bud type headphones.

I have listed my geocache with http://www.geocaching.com/
It will take them about 24 hours to publish it. When they do it probably will be listed as GC1FE6F
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=5d6002e2-6571-404f-8172-f7b91777f42b

It is in zip code 79936:
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---- N 31 degrees 45.267 minutes
----W 106 degrees 15.985 minutes

This is at an elevation of 4,007 feet out in the Chihuahuan desert. It is only about 100 feet from a safe place to park your car. I would recommend wearing good sturdy walking shoes or hiking boots.

The idea is you find the geocache using your hand held GPS, write down in the log book the date, who you are, and if you took or left anything in the cache for the next person. Then you put it back where you found it.
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