Tag Archives: Environment
Geocachers climb Mt. Fuji to Cache In Trash Out (CITO)
Cache In Trash Out | Extreme Geocaching
Mt. Fuji, outside of Toyko Japan, reaches 3,776 m (12,388 ft.) into the sky, but is still not immune from the trash found at lower elevations. Geocacher atstgm helped organize an ascent of Mt. Fuji to complete a grueling Cache In Trash Out (CITO) tour. Armed with garbage bags more than a dozen geocachers started hiking up the tallest mountain in Japan at 11:00am on September 3rd. They stayed over night at a staging area, then began hiking again in the predawn darkness at 1:30am on the 4th. The group reached the summit of Mt. Fuji around 5am and began [...]
Eric Schudiske on September 23, 2010, 2:07 pm
“Kilimanjaro Lava Tower” GC25W5D GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – July 18th, 2010
Extreme Geocaching | Geocache of the Week
Kilimanjaro Lava Tower (GC25W5D) is an EarthCache three million years in the making. KDubs created this EarthCache and two others on the mountain. Kilimanjaro Lava Tower (GC25W5D), Kilimanjaro Climate Zones (GC1X8Ao) and Kilimanjaro Glacial Sublimation (GC29PKY) all wait for visitors to answer their EartheCache questions. Kilimanjaro’s summit reaches 19,342 feet (5895 meters) into the clouds. The Eastern African mountain rose about three million years ago during the formation of the Great Right Valley. Kilimanjaro Lava Tower (GC25W5D) requires you to answer two questions about this rock tower, from one of the three volcanoes which comprise the mountain. Kilimanjaro Climate Zones [...]
Eric Schudiske on July 18, 2010, 2:02 pm
“Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau” GCJ9YK GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – 7/26/2010
Extreme Geocaching | Geocache of the Week
The Virtual Cache titled, “Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau” (GCJ9YK) takes divers forty feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. At this location you’ll discover a plaque honoring Caption Jacques Yves Cousteau. This difficulty 4, terrain 5 Virtual Cache delivers geocachers to what’s reported to be one of the most popular dive sites on the West Coast of North America. The dive site is located off Catalina Island, California. According to the cache page, you must use SCUBA gear to reach the cache and dive with a partner. PezCachers, Jill and Ken, created the geocache. They say, “We enjoy placing [...]
Eric Schudiske on July 18, 2010, 10:10 am
“As North As It Gets” GC5803 GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – June 25th, 2010
Extreme Geocaching | Geocache of the Week
Just in time for the beginning of the best weather to travel north, is our Geocache of the Week GC5803. The geocache titled, “As North As It Gets!” takes you up to N. 82 degrees. Besides the wolf above, cachers who’ve logged GC5803 say you’ll also be walking among foxes, lemmings and even polar bears. The cache is just outside what’s reported to be the northernmost permanently inhabited place on earth: Alert, Canada. The Canadian Air Force staffs a station there. Temperatures in Alert average about -30 degrees Celsius most of the year. Now is the perfect opportunity to plan [...]
Eric Schudiske on June 22, 2010, 11:06 am
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