Placed new caches

I didn't do a lot of geocaching this weekend in terms of finding caches. Pretty much all of my finds were just because "I was there" doing something else. In my case I was placing caches this past Saturday. One of them is already published, other 4 are yet to be reviewed.

I've done my first puzzle cache called Know Thy Book #1. I've also placed two more and submitted two I've placed in February to complete my CATS Park & Hide series.

Series consists of:

CATS Park & Hide:

1. Belmont
2. Northlake Mall
3. Manchester Cinemas
4. Concord
5. Strawberry Hill
6. Final Terminus

Hope others will enjoy the hunt.

First geocache with Oregon 400t

I had to grab some dinner and since there was new geocache placed nearby I've decided to take new Oregon 400t for a spin. It seems nice. It will however take me a bit to get used to the different interface and different way of geocaching. Wish Magellan would take notice and in next firmware add some Oregon features in it. Oh well... one could dream. I am selling it anyways.

Oregon 400t

I came home today from DC (business trip) and there it was... brand new Oregon 400t awaiting for me. While I like my Magellan Triton 1500 there are few things that is missing.

1. Lack of user support.
2. No digital compass.
3. Can't run Wherigo caches.

In next few weeks I will compare it. I am also selling the Triton cheap.

My 400th geocache

Well, about two months ago I was on track to find my 300th geocache for my birthday. A lot happened since then and I had couple of good runs that took me well over 300 way before my birthday. So it was time to plan my 400th find for my birthday. Not too far from my home there is the oldest cache in North Carolina so I've decided to mark it as my 400th find. Octopus Garden seemed just perfect for such occasion. Cache was hidden 30th of September 2000. Puzzle is simple and find is not difficult. However it does have a deep root in geocaching.

I always wanted to solve this puzzle...

There is a puzzle/virtual geocache called The Cyrillic Projector not too far from home. I always wanted to solve. I sat down several times and worked on it but one thing was missing. For most of the part I figured out I need to use Vigenere Cipher tool and need to transcribe image.



After transcript one needs to figure out how to get Cyrillic into Latin alphabet. Figuring out password took a guess or two and confirmation. Some google search and checking the cache itself helped.

Now I have the solution and waiting for Sun to go down so I can experience it the way it was intended.