Around October 15Th, Garmin had a news release announcing the CHIRP....a new twist to Geocaching. According to Goundspeak , they then spent the next couple of days, racing around trying to come up with a CHIRP icon...something you would need to list under the attributes.
On October 19Th... a" Famous Geocacher" in this area, placed a CHIRP Cache. (To get one that fast... he had to have it shipped overnight or something! ....anyways.... moving on...)
Turns out he placed THE ( that would be pronounced THEE) FIRST CHIRP CACHE IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS!
My response...hmmmmm.
It was posted on Facebook... Everyone was googling Garmin... googling CHIRP... People were leaving comments on Facebook... feedback on Grounspeak... making comments on forums... I am sure it was being "tweeted" on Twitter. It was crazy! Everyone had opinions on the future of geocaching. The Cache listing showed it had 11 people watching the site, AND, the Cache site had over 750 hits!
I thought....hmmmmm.
So while the Geocaching community was busy giving their insight... Peanut and I thought ...screw it ....and decided to go get the cache. And that is exactly what we did.... signing the FTF on 10/22 at 16:03. ( That is 4:03 pm for civilians)
I don't want to give anyone the impression that "we just walked up to it" (even tho the 2nd and 3rd to find... did just that!) ...AH....NO...definitely not "my style" After all...have you ever heard of me "just walking up and finding anything? LOL! :)
So Peanut with less than 200 cache finds, and little ole' me with less than 300 finds...Found it!
Now... think about it....FTF on "THEE First Illinois Chirp Cache! "
Wow...Legends ... ( in our own minds!)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment