Won't give up on Terracaching
I was looking forward to figuring out the difference between Terracaching and Geocaching. Terracaching.com claims that terracaches are “quality” geocaches. After visiting my first terracache this weekend, I don’t buy it. I took Ramskid1388 out to Hermitage, PA to go after Stranger in a Strange Land. We ended up in a cemetery, which is not uncommon for geocaches, and pulled up to a small patch of woods near the chapel. From the cache page, you can tell the cache isn’t far from parking (the cache page provides round trip walking distance).
When we got there, we immediately saw a large tree trunk in many large pieces on the ground. There were lots of good hiding spots and we checked them all (very carefully considering we didn’t know what we were looking for). When we came up empty, we were thinking maybe it was gone. The last log on the cache page was from October 2008 so it had been a while. Then I decided to let my GPSr zero out…and what do you know? I ended up right on top the darn thing. It was a standard Tupperware container with a logbook and some goodies not worth trading (the cache was waterlogged). We signed the logbook and went on our way.
For as much as the terracaching Web site stresses “quality” caches, I didn’t feel as if it was any different from any other geocache. I was pretty disappointed. I guess I was expecting something pretty special. I never did make it out to Erie, PA for The Douglas Parkway Express because it was such a long, busy weekend. And while I was a little disappointed in my first terracache, I don’t plan on giving up on it. The site has quite a few virtuals that look pretty neat and I’m sure there are some really great caches listed here too, even if the first one I found was pretty generic.
Photo: First terracache I ever found.
speaking of quality caches, that 5/2 we were looking for in roseville ‘down the line’ got archived!!! DANG!! so we have to go after a 5/2 in PA now. are you good at puzzles?
check this out and see if you can figure it out.
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=02165688-b355-4a6a-8382-0a469bb2a0fc
we seem to think it’s a fake magic eye. geopeg emailed the owner and said that the name of the cache is a hint (?). george also said the hider guy is a computer programmer by trade. so i’m really screwed when it comes to figuring this out. LOL.
he got it!!! yep fake magic eye. i know the magic eye has numbers but it was to through everyone off!! (i had seen one in ohio like that).
since i cant explain computer stuff..here is his quote, “I remembered another cache that had the coordinates buried in the HTML for the page, so I searched there but couldn’t find it. Then I remembered he said that everything you need is in the picture below. So I saved the picture to my desktop, then opened notepad and used it to open the picture file, then did a text search for “36.” knowing that would have to be part of the coordinates, and boom!~!!!! There it was!”
I put that cache on my watch list and I saw that they archived it
I wanted to go back for that one too. I’ll check out this puzzle and see what I can do. I used to be darn good at these magiceye puzzles but not so much anymore. I’ll keep you posted 
No, there are definitely numbers in it. I got some of them to come out of the picture
Then it started hurting my eyes so I took a break. I tried a couple combinations for coords, but they haven’t worked yet.