Brian Greeley
FRS 144
Geocaching
After my failed attempt at finding a cache in the Dominican Republic, I looked for and found a cache close by in Princeton. (GCM3TB : Flick Lives! on geocaching.com). So, after replacing the batteries on my GPS receiver and grabbing a bike for transport, I headed west from the main Princeton campus. After biking through the graduate college and then through some residential streets, I arrived in front of the Institute for Advanced Study. I thought the cache would be located in the general area, but it turned out that I had to go behind the institute and get pretty deep into the woods behind it to get to the cache. After biking along a dirt trail through the park/wood area behind the institute, I ultimately got off the bike and the trail about 250 feet from where my receiver said the cache would be. My receiver was really acting up in the woods, and had me jumping around 20 feet while I was actually standing still. After searching for quite some time, I came upon a weird construction someone obviously spent a while building, but couldn’t find the cache there. My GPS receiver was still acting up quite a bit, and while I was in the process of circling around trying to get to the waypoint marked on my receiver, I stumbled upon the cache hidden underneath a log and hidden with a lot of sticks. After opening it, I signed the log and left a golf cart key while taking a super bouncy ball. I re-hid the container, biked back to Princeton, and went online to log my find on geocaching.com.
Pictures:
Institute for Advanced Study
Behind the Institute
Weird tree tent
Hidden Cache
Cache container
Cache Contents
The Super Bouncy Ball I took.