Three's Company - A Geocaching Adventure

Novermber 27, 2007

A while back we were discussing the number of geocaching 'newbies' in Ottawa and how hard it sometimes is to meet new people. So came up with a cache concept that turned out to be quite popular. Our cache is called "Three's Company" and the basic premise is that in order to log a find you have to get the cache in a team of 3 where one geocacher has less than 100 finds, one more than 750, and one between 100 and 750. We also threw in a waypoint projection and a digital root calculation in the hopes that the 'oldies' might be able to teach the 'newbies' something along the way. Finally added an instruction for each team member to memorize a bird call listed at the trailhead sign and to make that bird call upon arrival at the cache.

Our cache happened to be published just a couple of days before a local meet-n-greet event and the geocaching forum was a-buzz with people wanting to team up to go for a night raid after the event. With Samantha at Oma's and Opa's, we decided to come along with the mob... there we were... 30some grown-ups and a handful of kids in the middle of the woods on a snowy night with flashlights... making birdcalls. It was hilarious! Despite a little error in our instructions that was discovered along the way, everyone had a great time and we got lots of positive feedback. As one of the geocachers said: "If you had told me 5 years ago that I'd be standing in the middle of the woods on a snowy night with 30 other people making birdcalls..." *grin*

The teams reviewing the cache instructions.