Several days this month we have geocached in the area around Sioux Falls. Some of the finds were very creative and worthy of sharing ... and others I'm sharing because our kids don't read the blog so they won't know what we did.
a fake beehive
maybe made from the spray foam insulation in a can?
cute bees attached with screws
hidden out of the way in trees away from regular foot traffic
a cache container tucked between utility boxes on private property
repurposing a microwave
another well crafted container by a local cacher
he had to lay on the ground to reach into the tube to retrieve the key
the key unlocked the padlock, allowing us to open and get to the log
climbing the tree using the branches
shirt caught on a branch slowing his upward movement
it really wasn't all that high of a climb
made the grab and signed the log...twice!
the log fell out when he opened the container
he had to climb down and retrieve it and put it back
lightning claimed this tree
the silver bison tube is in the black circle
the expandable ladder came in very handy for this one
(I was holding the ladder, so no photo of the climb)
he used the ladder to reach the ammo box in this tree
(again I was the holder of the ladder)
an old cottonwood tree bit the dust
no need to climb this one
The Geocaching Trail
this is one of the projects we have been working on this month
this is a result of our geocaching in 2015
the yellow smileys are the ones we found on our several trips that summer
The trail contains 188 caches and is approximately 30 miles (50km) long x 4 miles (6km) high. The shortest possible distance to drive the entire trail is 180 miles. The GC Trail is made up of a variety of caches such as Traditional, Multi, Puzzle, Whereigo, Letterbox and an EarthCache.
The GC Trail is not a power trail. You will need to check your GPS at each cache location to determine where to search. Each cache container is not necessarily hidden at the most obvious location. Although portions of the GC Trail are somewhat power trails, as a whole it is not a power trail and it may take a while to find all of the caches. There are many family friendly caches, rare difficulty/terrain combinations, and the odd bizarre cache along the trail.
The GC Trail is not a power trail. You will need to check your GPS at each cache location to determine where to search. Each cache container is not necessarily hidden at the most obvious location. Although portions of the GC Trail are somewhat power trails, as a whole it is not a power trail and it may take a while to find all of the caches. There are many family friendly caches, rare difficulty/terrain combinations, and the odd bizarre cache along the trail.
The 180 caches were placed in August 2010. More than 15,000 geocachers have visited the geocaching website for GT #1 and over 200 geocachers have signed the log for GT #1, including some from other countries. We found it in June 2015. We got so frustrated that summer because many of the containers were no longer there. The two cachers who placed the GT geo-art no longer lived in South Dakota, so some of the area geocachers were trying to maintain it and keep it active. Recently, there has been renewed interest in the geo art, so once again, we have attempted to find some of the elusive containers this summer. This is our progress as of the end of July 2021. It definitely is NOT a power trail; not the typical caches on a geo art.
yes, some overlaps of the letters
some of them remain elusive
we'll go back out in September and keep working on it
Those are some really fun caches. Love those ones that make me smile! Your "Geocaching" quest is almost complete!
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