#geocache

Download the app and get out there and start geocaching! Go hunting, sniffing, scavenging! It’s so fun and gives us a chance to explore! My fellow creatures and such, if you’re looking for something to do outdoors, put on your coat and go look for some geocaches!

And I’ll admit that I’m not the type to look up people who share an interest of mine ie I won’t go on yt or or tt or whatever and look up “geocaching” or “geocachers” and tbh after this post I probably will but I need to discuss smth on the matter of geocaching in the united states lol

There’s no geocaches in the hood and I feel a way about it, not necessarily negatively but not all the way positively either.

On one hand I prefer for there to not be white people poking around places that they really don’t need to be but on the other hand where the fuck am /I/ supposed to find and place geocaches lmaoooooooo bc here’s the thing

Just as much as I don’t want white people where they Shouldn’t Be, I know they don’t want me where I “shouldn’t be” lmaoooooo

And there are times—like right now lol—where I’ll be out with my husband as he’s at work (so that I don’t feel like killing my self by staying in the house, yall know how it is) driving around installing windshields all around de northern front range and we inevitably end up in white neighborhoods and there will be nearby geocaches and I’ll be like “alright I’m gonna go hit this cache while you do that windshield rq love you brb” and he lovingly would prefer I not go bc ‘there’s all that blue lives matter bullshit around here’ or bc we’re in a sundowny ass part of CO or even just bc it’s a housing development full of bored white people just waiting to call the cops on this big scary brown bitch poking around like she’s looking for something which I mean they wouldn’t be wrong and of course I’ve had police roll up and ask what I was doing even while not geocaching lmao so it’s not like an unrealistic fear. I really am a big scary brown bitch and I really would be poking around like I was looking for something lmao and like even though I wouldn’t be doing anything wrong I just don’t want to make my husband all anxious if he hears I had to explain myself to police and then he just wouldn’t like me geocaching in predominantly white areas at all and here we circle back to OKAY WHERE THE FUCJ ELSE AM I SUPPO-, you see where I’m going here. But I’m not mad at him bc I would feel the exact same way if he were the geocacher.

And like I want to place a cool lil cache around my mom’s house but I also know my fam would NOT be okay with random white people walking and digging ariund like they’re trying to find things because there no doubt would be lol geocaching is mainly white people. For sure I KNOW there’s Cachers Of Color but it’s mainly white.

i found a geocache!

Reynie - Very much enjoys puzzle caches. Loves making them, solving them, sits and stares at a computer screen or a notepad for hours on end sometimes just to decipher coordinates for a particularly challenging cache. He definitely is working on a fizzy with the help of Kate climbing trees for high-up caches.

Sticky - Remembers every cache he's ever been to but still keeps a journal separate of the site listing the caches he has been to and his honest thoughts. Sometimes he thinks he's being mean if he says he wasn't as enthusiastic about a particular cache (he never is), but he keeps tabs of which types of caches he enjoys best. The journal on his caches became so worn and destroyed he's gone through five journals--and he doesn't do a cache a page, he's written in the margins and made the most of those notebooks. He proudly keeps them on a separate shelf in his room.

Constance - Doesn't cache far from home. Her maximum distance of acceptable travel is probably 100 miles, but when a new cache comes out in her area she is absolutely the first to find 98% of the time, and the other 2% is Kate cheating. (Also known as Constance was asleep when the notif ce in.) She places caches with insanely high difficulty levels and keeps tabs on everyone who's smart enough to find them as a possible ally or rival.

Kate - Doesn't look for geocaches often unless she's with someone else--she's more oriented towards getting places than the scenery along the way. She does place caches, though. Everywhere she can. Most of these caches have a 1 difficulty but a 4.5 or 5 terrain, and she severely overestimates how skilled other people are at reaching her caches. She might scale a twenty foot tree no problem, but Reynie or Sticky have to remind her to use the "special equipment needed" button on those hides. Constance hates Kate's caches but stubbornly continues to be the FtF if she can--she has a reputation to uphold, after all!

Well folks I made it to 1000 geocaches! I started this journey back in May 2024 when my sister suggested it on vacation in California. Since then I have cached in 2 countries, 12 states, found the 1000, created 57 of my own, and attended 4 events.

I don’t know how much gas money I’ve spent on this hobby, as now it gets more and more since I’ve done most of them around where I live.

It’s worth it though. I’ve explored places I would have never if it weren’t for geocaches. Hiked some incredible hikes, used the park anywhere lights, it’s great 👍

Onward to #2000