Do you see me way up there poking around? No, I'm not at the cache yet, I've still got several feet to climb, but I thought I'd check this spot while on my way to the more likely hide...
BatikFreak10 (Sister Sally) and I had a Waypoint_Wayne cache first on our list a couple of days ago. W_W is a great cacher. If you've been reading along he's the guy who set up the cache at which you had to listen to a telephone message to find the combination to a lock that had to be opened... You get the idea--he's clever!!
This time he had us running to a Mabscott WV cemetery to read an epitaph. The letters in the epitaph had to be converted to number values to give the coordinates for the actual cache location. The actual cache was only a few minutes drive from the cemetery, but the area was completely wild.
And then there was the climb to the cache itself. Pitons and rope would not have been out of order. But we prevailed!!
Later we ran into what is probably another Waypoint_Wayne cache, but under a slightly different name. This one was at the end of a very well-to-do street in Beckley WV, but was again a world away--in a very wild and secluded spot. The cache dealt with some tragic Beckley area history. There had been a massive explosion at the Raleigh Coal & Coke mine in 1940 (sound familiar?), and 9 miners died. In addition to the usual cache goodies, this site contained an extensive history of the disaster complete with reprints of newspaper articles and maps. Wonderful find.
Tough day. Our finds were not easy, physically and mentally. It seems there is more to Geocaching than just running around signing a log and collecting toys. We had a rewarding day.
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