Show 880.0: Lonely Cache & Unique AL Idea

Hi, this is Ilanka from Rockville, Maryland, and you're listening to Podcasher.

Hey, hello there, and welcome to another Podcasher podcast.

We are glad you're here with us for show 880 for September 2nd, 2024.

And hopefully no matter where you are in the world, you had a little bit of time to find

some geocaches with friends, family, or with complete strangers, or by yourself.

So this past week, I was finally back to work with kids in the classroom, and so that was

very fun.

I'm now working three days a week, so I'm getting used to that, but I'm really enjoying

it with one kid I had before and one new one.

Yeah, I think we've mentioned it before in the show, Sandy works with special education

and is an assistant to all the special needs.

Which is related to how Sandy broke her wrist because she was supervising a kid.

That actually wasn't the one assigned to her, which is a sort of temporary thing.

Right, but running after him, yep.

So no more running around.

No, no.

But I think Sandy's describing the kids that she's working with now are a delight and just

need a little bit of extra help.

And for me, it was a wonderful weekend.

It started off on Friday night with a birthday present.

So my birthday's in April, but my friend Brent saw a concert coming up in the not-too-distant

future and said, do you want to go?

It's going to be your birthday present.

And I said, oh, of course, yes.

And what it was, so we went on Friday, was three bands from my time period.

You're dating yourself.

I know.

So the bands were Journey, Def Leppard, and Steve Miller.

And I got to tell you, they played for five solid hours.

Yeah.

Basically, it was their greatest hits.

It was the best thing because, you know, sometimes you go to a band that's up and coming, and

maybe they play for an hour and a half, two hours, right?

And then part of that is like, and our new album's coming up.

And so you've never heard the songs before.

And of course, they want to promote their new album and get people excited about that.

But in this case, that's not happening.

They just did the hits.

It was awesome.

It was great.

It was over.

It was held over at Petco Park, which is a large baseball stadium out here in San Diego.

It was a wonderful evening.

Yeah, they played from 6 to 11.

Yeah.

And got home really late.

Really late.

But still, on Saturday, we headed out a little bit later than we normally do.

And we're able to get out and enjoy the sunshine and go on a bike ride and check on some of our caches.

And we actually recorded some audio that we'll share with you in a little bit.

Yeah.

It was a wonderful day.

Yeah.

And you'll hear some of the sounds of San Diego and what we discovered there.

All right.

Well, there's a lot going on, but we do have a great show planned for you today.

We have the story of the hunt for a lonely cache.

We're also going to share a listener's unique idea for an adventure lab.

Some fun San Diego trivia from our visit downtown.

More responses to the Cosmic Quest extension and much more.

All right.

First up, fuel and CETO in the news.

Geocaching and GPS news.

First up in geocaching and GPS news, we have cosmic news and CETO news.

Yep.

And we mentioned last week on the map show for our podcasher club members.

This, but if you hadn't heard it, the cosmic quest deadline has been extended to September

8th and you still have time to earn those first two souvenirs and also help the geocaching

community reach 15 million units and unlock the third souvenir.

And we'll share some responses to this news a little bit later on in the show.

Also be looking out for CETO or kit tall events, by the way, you know, I think it's been a

while since I've mentioned why I say that.

Yeah.

Some people might be going, what are you saying?

All right.

So CETO is an acronym, right?

And it stands for cash in trash out.

Right.

But, but the letters come from words that are pronounced differently.

So it would be cash.

Right.

So it's not a S.

Okay.

And then cash in it.

And then trash out to out.

Oh, oh.

Get tall.

He's kind of crazy.

I know.

Anyway, back to reality here.

We now officially have officially in, we're now officially in Kitah season two, and there's

a new souvenir available if you host or attend a CETO event.

The timeframe, by the way, is Sunday, September 1st through Sunday or through Saturday, November

30th, 2024.

So mark your calendars.

You don't want to miss that or I'm not prepared to host an event.

If that's something you want to do, we'll put links on our show notes so you can go check

out information about this on your own.

So earlier we mentioned our bike ride down on San Diego Bay, and we're going to start

with some audio that we recorded down there.

And the water you hear, I know, you're probably guessing we're at Mission Bay again.

Not this time.

We are actually in Studio SB for San Diego Bay.

It's a different bay, and it is not connected to Mission Bay, but it has the same water.

It's very familiar water.

And right now we are standing in a sort of a touristy area right next to the USS Midway.

And that's a very large aircraft carrier that is now a museum.

Yeah, it's a really cool museum.

We've been on once.

It was years ago.

I think actually since we've been on, there's now like a special virtual cache you can find

there.

So we'll have to go back again because you really can't see the whole thing in one visit.

I'm not sure.

It's so cool and so huge.

Yeah, really neat.

Yeah, we've been on it before, and we even went on for that puzzle pursuit, kind of like

a scavenger hunt, mystery solving thing.

But if you've never been on an aircraft carrier before, and I'm guessing many of you have

not, my dad was in the Navy, so I visited some working aircraft carrier.

This one is a museum.

And here's a little bit of information from the web.

The USS Midway is a museum, a historical naval aircraft carrier in San Diego, located

at Navy Pier.

The museum consists of the aircraft carrier Midway.

The ship houses an extensive collection of aircraft, many of which were built in Southern

California.

So yes, there's a bunch of aircraft on the deck, as well as when you go into the hold,

the interior.

The bowels of the ship.

Yeah, no, it is huge.

And then you've probably heard this many times.

It's a floating city, you know, but this thing, yeah, carrying tanks and all sorts of stuff.

And we'll see if we can get some pictures for you.

But here's a little information.

It is 971 feet in length.

It was launched in March of 1945.

So this was certainly like a World War II era.

And then construction started actually in 1943.

It is 45,000 tons.

And right now it's got that aircraft carrier gray.

And it, yeah, it hasn't, I believe this is the last, last served.

And the, and the Gulf, the Persian War, Gulf War.

Before they brought it here and turned it into a museum.

Yes.

Yeah.

It was, it was here in San Diego and then it went out for one last time and I, then

they turned it into a museum.

So, so there we are.

And this is a very touristy area right next to downtown San Diego with skyscrapers and

other attractions.

And the other thing that is near here is something we actually mentioned on the show recently.

It is the huge statue.

A lot of people call it the kissing.

A lot of people call it the kissing statue, but it's actually known as unconditional surrender.

Yes.

It's that classic.

It's a statue based on a classic photograph, an iconic photograph that was taken on VJ Day,

August 14th, 1945 at the end of World War II.

And it was a picture of a U.S. Navy sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square.

Just a spontaneous celebration of the end of the war.

And it was recently, we mentioned it on the show because somebody wrote,

that they found a cache near the kissing statue, but in a different location.

And there's actually five of these.

I looked them up.

I think the person that wrote in saw the one in Sarasota, Florida.

But there's also one in Normandy, France and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, here in San Diego, of course,

and then Hamilton, New Jersey.

So there's five of those around.

And another interesting thing is between this statue and,

the place Sonny's going to talk about in a second,

we held a flash mob here that was a whole lot of fun.

Yes.

Yeah.

It's a very, you know, we like to hold flash mobs in very public central areas so that we can be goofy.

But right now we're in a very, like there's a water between us and the Midway and people are scooting by on jet skis and yachts and other things.

But also in this area is a monument.

It's like, it's actually a bunch of statues.

All together in one, forming one.

And the name of it, I believe, is called A Salute to Bob Hope and the U.S. Military.

And you know what?

I don't know if you grew up with this, but I remember being a little kid and watching Bob Hope on TV doing his comedy routine to like thousands of U.S. military.

Did you ever see that on TV or did you see recordings of it or something?

Yeah, I'm sure I saw recordings.

I don't remember seeing it as a little kid.

But I've seen the classic.

I've seen recordings and all the different jokes that he tells, right?

Yeah, he's definitely got a certain kind of humor.

And from where we're standing right now, I can faintly hear this loop of jokes that he's obviously recorded on one of his tours.

But let us know.

I'd be curious how many of you out there remember that.

Bob Hope going out, thousands of military guys, and he would just do his routine.

And it was like a variety show.

He had other things going on as well.

Yeah, I think so.

But.

And you know what?

Before we get on to the next section, we're in such a touristy urban area.

I'll let you hear an example because there's speakers up in that area.

So I'll see if I can get some recording of Bob Hope doing one of his comedy routines and just a little bit of extra entertainment for you here in Podcasher.

All right.

And then we'll get on to another subject.

So here's some jokes from Bob Hope himself.

And I want to tell you, folks, these Marines are really.

They're tough.

I asked one guy if he'd seen.

Yeah, you're tougher than I thought.

And their motto is separate Fidelis.

That means, oh, don't worry about a doc.

Just nail it back on.

The Marines here.

I would go over the hill if it wasn't for one thing.

The Marines on the other side of the hill went over the hill to get over here.

You can work that out.

You're ready for Section 8.

But these Marines have a great history.

They've landed on more beaches than Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello.

No, I go way back.

I go way back with the Marines.

Wake Island, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima.

I saw all those pictures.

Now, man, I bring you great news in the land of liberty.

It's still there.

You may have to cross a picket line to see it, but it's there.

But don't worry about those riots you hear about in the States.

You'll be sent to survival school before they send you back there.

And as we said, we're in a very urban area right now.

Very touristy.

Lots of going on.

And by the way, if you ever visit San Diego, this is one great spot.

To visit.

It's right across from Coronado Island, which we've spoken about before.

And you can take a ferry from here to there.

In addition to just taking an hour-long harbor tour, which is, I haven't done it for a long time.

Because, you know, we live here and we kind of know everything they'd probably talk about in the tour.

But if you're visiting here for the first time, an hour-long tour around San Diego Bay.

And kind of pointing out landmarks and stuff.

We suggest that.

You know, give it a go.

And we're not too far from Seaport Village, which is another very touristy place.

Yes, Seaport Village.

And we said we're not at Mission Bay, which we aren't.

But we were earlier this morning.

True.

We actually went to Fiesta Island to give Selah time to run around.

Check on our caches there.

And then ended up biking, not from Mission Bay, from a place not too far from there.

Biking all the way here to where we are now, which is pretty cool.

Yes.

And as we speak.

Now there's a party boat.

Now there's a party boat that's going.

It's in between.

Yeah, it's this little channel of water between where we're standing.

And the USS Midway.

But expect that kind of.

And here comes another boat with more.

So we have musical background music for you here.

But we did want to tell you that we do have a story.

Love to share stories with you here from all around the world.

And this one happens to be in a very non-urban geocaching location.

Actually, the opposite of urban.

This came to us from geocacher Escape from Flatland.

Who wrote and said, hey, podcacher, a friend suggested I send you my log on finding a lonely cache on July 4th and also share some pictures.

Thanks for all you do for the geocaching community.

So this is the log written by Escape from Flatland.

On July 4th, 2024, I found a geocache that was, get this, 13 years, 9 months, and 16 days lonely.

Whoa, that is a long time to be lonely.

Very lonely.

That obviously means since the last time somebody visited the cache.

That's 5,038 days.

So this cache called Clear Creek, it's in Idaho, was last found on September 18th, 2010.

And I was the 19th person to find it in the almost 21 years since it was placed on August 28th, 2003.

Whoa.

That's like less than once a year.

Yes.

Very remote cache.

That is a very remote cache.

When I started planning a road trip to visit my aunt in Alberta for the Canada Day weekend,

I was trying to figure out where I wanted to be afterwards for the 4th of July.

That's when I realized I could bike the route of Hiawatha for a second time, the previous being in 2019.

As I planned the trip and started looking at geocaches on the map, I noticed this lonely cache.

And I marked it as a goal cache for the trip.

So the route of the Hiawatha is a rail trail that's 15 miles long.

In the Bitterroot Mountains, starting in Montana, with the majority of the trail in Idaho.

The trail crosses over seven high trestles.

And I think there's a picture of one of those in the pictures that were sent.

It looks kind of scary, like high up in the air, a little bit narrow.

And through nine tunnels.

Oh, wow.

Cycling round trip means starting and ending your ride with a 1.66 mile,

or 2,671 meters, long taft tunnel.

It's dark, it's cold, it's muddy, and water occasionally drips on you.

Yeah.

No wonder very few people have found this thing.

They've probably been turned away by all this stuff.

Yeah.

Wow.

After biking all the way down to the other trailhead, I made my way back up to the Clear Creek trestle,

stashed my bike behind a tree, and made my way up the drainage

following some old trailheads.

Some trails, some elk trails, and a comedy of errors trying to walk up the stream.

Eventually, I found the correct old trail that brought me to a clearing and the coordinates.

The geocache was still there.

And covered in snails.

The container was cracked, and part of the logbook was disintegrating, perhaps as snail food.

I signed on a good part of the logbook, and I placed it in Ziplocs before replacing everything as I found it.

Okay.

So I made my way back to the trestle, following the correct trail this time,

and continued with my bike ride back over all the trestles and through the tunnels.

And he sent pictures of the log, and the cache, and some of the vistas along the way

that you can check out in the Flickr photo set.

But that is just really cool.

I can't imagine finding a cache where no one's been there, you know, in how long was it, 13 years?

Yeah.

Kind of amazing to think about.

Yeah, you know, and I guess, for the most part, that's uncommon because caches are usually in locations that people,

they're high traffic, you know, people find them and whatever, but every once in a while,

something like this, where you have to go through so many challenges.

I mean, of course, we know of those really one-offs that are in Antarctica or at the top of unreachable mountains,

but most of the caches, I would say, around the world are findable.

They're, you know, easy to get to.

Yeah.

Things like that.

You know, I was thinking that some of the very early caches were hidden.

I mean, they didn't even think about urban caching back when it started, right?

That's true, yeah.

Containers somewhere.

2000, yeah.

They were mostly up in the mountains, you know, along a long trail.

But the thing is, the caches that are really old, like year 2000, 2001, are typically sought out by people, right?

That's true.

Because they want to find those.

They want those, yeah.

So this is one of those individuals.

It's one of those in-between ones, right?

It was hidden in 2010.

Oh, wow.

So it's quite old, but it's not like one that you're trying to get for your jasmer or something, right?

So there's probably not that extra motivation, you know, to go through…

To go out of the way.

…the tunnels and the trestles and get wet and muddy and all of that.

Yeah.

Hey, let us know about, in your area, we might be able to share it here on PodCache,

let us know of a cache that is one of those bucket list, difficult to get to,

very few people probably have…

you know, gone and done it in your part of the world.

And let us know if it's something that you were able to accomplish

or let us know about a story that you have for one of these,

and we might be able to share it here on PodCacher.

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All right, first up in PodCacher email,

we're going to share some of the latest news.

More responses that came in about the Cosmic Quest extension

that we talked about last week.

First, from Jim of Practical Geocaching.

Jim wrote,

Hello, Sunny and Sandy.

I was listening to the latest map show

when I heard your joint discussion of the Overtime extension by HQ.

I always like to remember that HQ is a corporation,

not part of the community.

I applaud their business sense in using every avenue open to them.

When this Overtime was announced,

when it appeared they might not make the bar of 15 million units,

I was disappointed.

Anyone who wanted to get the 20 and 100-point souvenirs

had ample opportunity.

Ample opportunity, not apple opportunity.

Always there will be some who can't accomplish this.

Happily, a number of souvenirs can no longer be the criteria for challenges,

so there are no ongoing effects.

I don't see this extension as a stratagem for the cashers.

It's not a good message, after all, in my eyes either.

Challenges with time limits are by design to be accomplished within those limits.

I wouldn't feel good about pushing this extension

to my personal goals a month or two or six to just accomplish them.

I have to get them done on time or they don't mean anything.

I get to try again next time period anyway.

It's only a game has two sides.

If it's only a game, what does it matter if we get an additional souvenir or not?

It just doesn't make any sense this only-a-game scenario,

no matter when used.

As always, great to listen in.

It's just possible we may see you later this year.

All the best, Jim from Practical Geocaching.

Nice.

And from Randy, also known as Randall H.,

I'm thinking that extending it was a good idea.

The original goal was just a wag, a wild guess.

I think the extension is just an acknowledgment that this was a bridge too far.

Okay.

Let's see.

Michael, Mike Ari, wrote and said,

The decision about the extension of the Cosmic Quest

caused me to think about a quote from Shakespeare.

I must uneasy make, lest too light winning make the prize light.

From The Tempest.

If winning the prize is too easy, it lowers the value of the prize.

Okay.

From Bianca, also known as NC Mountain Lover,

I agree with points on both sides of extending the deadline for the Cosmic Quest.

I'm not a fan of everyone gets a trophy,

but since it's not a competition, there really wasn't a trophy for a winner,

but for an accomplishment.

It still cheapens the accomplishment a bit.

The extension does let my husband Bugs Fan potentially earn the souvenir.

I went out last week with a cashing friend and got my 100 points.

Didn't HQ also give the world record souvenir when the world record wasn't reached?

Maybe more people are happy getting the trophy and their goal is happy cashers.

Either way, I will keep on cashing.

Yeah, that's true.

And I had forgotten about that, that there was this big push to make a world record.

Right, right, right.

And we didn't make it.

Yeah.

We worked so hard.

Here's the souvenir.

Yeah.

But you know what?

I like her final statement.

Either way, I'll keep on cashing.

Keep on cashing.

That's right.

Thanks to everybody for writing in their comments.

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Hey, before we go on with the show, we just wanted to send out a big thank you to Pachalik,

who you were able to see at the San Diego BBQ event a few weeks ago.

He came on down bearing gifts, and one was a brand new PDR, or Pachalik Dice Roller.

He's 3D printed these.

He printed the original one as well.

And this new one is fancy.

The original one, the one that we have shown you pictures of, it's just yellow and it's

a spiral.

This new one is like a work of art.

It kind of looks like a steampunk clock tower sort of with turrets on it.

Castle.

Castle kind of thing.

Yeah.

You got to go check out the photos to see what I'm talking about.

But essentially, you drop a coin.

Essentially, you drop the dice in a hole on one side.

It goes down through the tower and then comes out these steps into this sort of holding area.

And it's really cool.

I mean, it works really well.

So now I have two PDRs in my collection.

You call it a collection if you have two of something?

I think so.

Okay, so I have two.

It's the start of something.

So we'll have to use both of them here and there as we need to roll randomized dice.

And the other gift he brought was for me.

Since he heard the story of when I got overheated after we made the foolish choice of not carrying enough water on our cash maintenance bike ride a while back.

Yeah.

And what it is is a lightweight hydration water bladder that I can wear on my bike.

That's nice.

Or wear on my back.

Yeah.

You know, either biking or scootering.

I think Sonny has an old one in the garage, but it's really cool to have a brand new one of my own.

Oh, yeah.

And he also included the water bottle cleaning tablets, which is really cool.

Very nice.

And I will need to try this out very soon.

And we just want to thank you again, Patalik, for his generous gifts.

You know, I've always thought geocachers are creative, inventive, and imaginative people.

And if you think about it, geocaching continues to evolve from the find the container at the coordinates,

find the container at the coordinates, and sign the log to now earth caches, puzzle caches, travel bugs, multicaches, adventure labs, and many, many more.

Well, next up, we have a rather creative idea that we wanted to share with you.

And this idea comes to us from?

From Cranfagle.

And he wrote and said, hi, I'd like to share an idea that recently popped into my head.

In Poland and some neighboring countries, we have an alternative open version of the geocaching platform called Open Caching.

And there are some differences between open caching and geocaching.

One of them is the own cache type, which is not available on geocaching.

Own cache is often a field puzzle geocache that travels with the owner from event to event.

And it can be logged as found when you contact the owner, complete the required task, and sign the logbook.

Due to its nature, it has dynamic coordinates that need to be updated by the owner, indicating where the own geocache can be solved at the moment.

Now, this is from the Open Caching Wiki.

Own cache is a type of geocache whose final container contains the logbook, remains under the control of the founder or maintainer,

and boxes of this type do not need to have a fixed location defined by the coordinates.

So to obtain them, you contact the founder or maintainer, and then they may require additional steps like solving a puzzle or other manual tasks before making a logbook entry.

So he goes on to say this idea is unique.

And of course, has its drawbacks.

However, it can be leveraged in an amazing way.

I've heard about own geocaches that require you to solve a Rubik's Cube during an event or throw something a certain distance to obtain the lock code.

The imagination is the only limit.

The two major advantages of such a geocache type are that you have to interact with the owner.

And more importantly, the owner takes care of it.

So it might be really fancy without a threat of being stolen or damaged by muggles.

That's true.

Yeah.

Okay.

Now, I had never thought of how to migrate this idea to geocaching until the last mega event in Slovakia.

Among the mega event lab adventures published, I saw on the map that there's a mysterious mountain ninja's UFO lab.

It turns out that this is a single stage lab adventure that goes with the owner to any event he attends.

It has a pretty large location range, the current maximum, and it contains only one simple multi-answer question.

Who is the owner of this lab?

I think you know where I'm going with this one.

You can create an own cache geocache on geocaching.com with an adventure lab credit.

Just create any field puzzle you want and bring it with you to the events you attend.

The puzzle solution can then be used to answer the lab step.

To complete it, people must contact you, solve whatever you have prepared for them, and then claim the find by answering the lab.

The only thing you need to do is to update the adventure lab coordinates before the event.

Like Mountain Ninja does.

And you could have up to five own geocaches with a single lab credit.

So what do you think about this idea?

I'd love to hear some comments on this topic.

Unfortunately, I couldn't create an experimental lab own cache for myself because I don't have any adventure lab credits right now.

However, I couldn't wait to share this idea with you.

And again, that came from Cranfagel.

And then an update you wrote back and said, I found it funny.

Shortly after my message to you.

They released the easier lab credits.

So I immediately got one.

I plan to use it in the described way and leverage the scream to open idea.

Okay.

And what he did is he linked to a video by the geocaching vlogger of a cache where you have to scream loud enough to open the cache.

I don't know how it's created.

But it's made to look like the scream canisters from the Monsters, Inc. movie.

Yeah.

So that sounds like what he's going to do.

So what do you guys think of this own cache idea?

Using an adventure lab location that you just move with you and update the coordinates as you go.

So just to clarify, he's like making up this idea, right?

He hasn't done it yet.

As far as you know.

As far as I know.

But he ran into this other guy, Mountain Ninja, who did.

Who did do it.

Interesting.

Okay.

Well, you know, and like we said, geocaching has evolved over time.

So let us know.

This is an idea that's come out there.

What do you guys think?

And let us know.

We might be able to share your opinions here on Podcacher.

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Geocaching milestones.

Here at Podcacher, we love to celebrate milestones and achievements of geocachers from all around the world.

And this one came in from Daniella Cabriolini from South Wales in the UK.

Hi, Team Podcacher.

July 29th, 2024 marked my 10-year geocaching anniversary.

All right.

Nice.

I celebrated by hosting an event at a snack bar on Carefilly Mountain.

The sun even made a welcome appearance.

The event lasted about an hour and was attended by cachers.

I had met over my 10 years in this hobby.

Someone suggested an impromptu caching trip to find two puzzle caches that we had solved in one of our regular South Wales puzzle caching events.

So off we set.

Both geocaches were unique containers, one using a girl's world head.

I have attached a photo of this.

Take a look at that.

I had a great day, and here's to the next 10 years and more.

Keep up the geocaching goodness.

And once again, that's from Cabriolini.

All right.

Well, Daniella.

That is a great milestone.

Certainly worth celebrating.

Let's go ahead and call in the Podcacher studio audience, and let's celebrate with them.

And that theme song means we are done with the geocaching goodness, at least for today's show.

It's now time for a quick Sean update.

Well, Sean has officially started his junior year of high school.

Junior year of high school.

Time flies.

It sure does.

But actually, they all had to start on Zoom classes because the new campus they've been

building is not quite ready.

And they first said maybe two weeks of Zoom, hopefully not more.

But we actually just got the good news that the campus will be open a week earlier than

expected.

Yay.

So that's a good sign.

I'm excited.

The campus will be open a week earlier than expected.

Yay.

So they'll get to be back on campus very shortly.

Boy, I tell you, hearing Sean having to be on Zoom for school just brought back memories.

COVID nightmares.

Yeah.

Oh my gosh.

That was hard.

Yeah.

But fortunately, it's a temporary thing.

The campus will be open soon and they'll be able to actually be face-to-face and at their

new school.

All right, guys.

That is going to do it for today's show.

Hey, thank you once again for being part of the podcast.

We'll see you next week.

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