10/10/10

This year is the 10th anniversary of geocaching and as a way of celebrating:

The geocaching community is attempting to break the record for number of accounts that logged caches in a single day. Currently that number stands at 56,654. Even one log on 10-10-10 counts since we are tallying how many accounts log a cache, rather than the number of caches logged.

There were gobs of events around the world and probably one or two locally to help get folks out caching and logging. Donna and I planned to do a little caching today, in the manner in which we usually cache, by ourselves. But after yesterday’s trip we decided to scratch our grandiose plans of finding 10 caches on 10/10/10 and figured we would just go get one. We had no clue which one, but wanted something close by.

Last night as I sat in front of the PC logging yesterday’s geocaching adventures an email alert came in of a new cache. I opened it up expecting to that it was 18 or 19miles away in Augusta, it wasn’t, it was .5 miles away. After briefly toying with the idea of trying to be the First To Find, we opted to use this cache as our 1 for ten-ten-ten.

We slept in a little this morning and had pancakes for breakfast. I checked the cache and sure enough, a couple of folks claimed the first to find last night at 9:20,so we grabbed the GPS on our way out to do some grocery shopping, thinking that we would get the Kissing Your Sister prize of Second To Find. We arrived at ground zero and started to search around. I had left the PDA at home so we had no idea what size container we were looking for, nor any clues if available. So we only gave a half-hearted 5 minute hunt before leaving empty handed.

Well, the record attempt requirements didn’t say anything about finds, just logs, so a DNF was just as good.