Well, November was a slower month for us as far as Geocaching goes. There were many things to juggle - and we only made 8 Geocaching trips all month (including a couple of days with just 1 Park 'n Grab)! With that in mind, the Find of the Month for November is an event cache, Passing The Torch (GC4R3N7). It was my first experience with a GCCO (that's GeoCaching COlorado) event, and I was quite pleased.
The Event took place at a library in Castle Rock. There were a few familiar faces there, and many cachers I have never met. It was a blast exchanging stories, meeting new faces and discovering the many neat trackables! My favorite part was the cache exchange, and I think more events should have this kind of thing.
"Cache Exchange? What is this?", you might say. That is actually what I said when I read the event description. Come to find out, it is an activity in which you hide an un-published cache filled with goodies. You record the coords, just as you would for a cache you were going to publish - however, you don't publish it. Instead, you bring these coords into the event and they go into an advanced randomizing device (conveniently, this is also known as a hat). At the end of the event, those who placed caches for the exchange will draw a random set of cords and go hunting for the cache. When you find the cache, instead of signing a log and leaving the cache there, you claim it - container and all! I love the idea of keeping all of the treasure - like a pirate, claiming all of the booty!
The cache I left for the exchange was a camo'd Argo container that I have held onto for entirely too long (was going to be a creatively named cache like 'the non-newtonian TB hotel', but just hadn't had the opportunity). Inside of the container I placed a TB that needed help moving along, a caribiner from our recent wedding, a CITO bag, and at least six (although it may have been eight...) micro cache containers WITH logs. The cache I found was a small lock 'n lock with an UNACTIVATED FTF coin, some alien swag, a small roll of camo tape, and some other swag for trading.
All in all, a pretty cool meet 'n greet event, at a fantastic location. Hopefully there will be more events at this library!
