Earthcaches
Jan. 11th, 2014 09:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fenchurchYesterday was the tenth anniversary of Earthcaches... a different sort of Geocache where the object is to take you to a spot with, usually, geological significance and hopefully get you to learn something. The requirements for them are a bit different from your average cache, since there's no physical container and, well, the aforementioned desire to have you learn from the experience. Usually you have to email the cache owner with the answers to some questions (things you can observe at the site, often related to information given in the cache description) and sometimes also a photo of yourself at the site in question.
I decided to celebrate the anniversary by actually finding an Earthcache and went searching for one close to home that I hadn't already done... and came up with one up in Snohomish. The locals call it Spirit Rock and kids from the nearby high school will paint it with messages (mostly related to the school, near as I can tell).
This is an erratic (a rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area where it rests... usually brought there by flooding or glaciers), situated not too far off one of the major roads leading into Snohomish, WA. I came at it from the nearby Park & Ride and, as you can see by the well-trodden path through the tall grass, I'm not the only one to approach it from that direction. After my visit, I decided to do a bit of research to find out who Mr. Gionet was and why there was a get well message to him painted on the rock... turns out he's a teacher at Snohomish High School who is undergoing treatment for cancer right now.
I've always loved these sort of "public billboard" type places... especially when they become semi-official as this one has.
Crossposted from my Livejournal
I decided to celebrate the anniversary by actually finding an Earthcache and went searching for one close to home that I hadn't already done... and came up with one up in Snohomish. The locals call it Spirit Rock and kids from the nearby high school will paint it with messages (mostly related to the school, near as I can tell).
This is an erratic (a rock that differs from the size and type of rock native to the area where it rests... usually brought there by flooding or glaciers), situated not too far off one of the major roads leading into Snohomish, WA. I came at it from the nearby Park & Ride and, as you can see by the well-trodden path through the tall grass, I'm not the only one to approach it from that direction. After my visit, I decided to do a bit of research to find out who Mr. Gionet was and why there was a get well message to him painted on the rock... turns out he's a teacher at Snohomish High School who is undergoing treatment for cancer right now.
I've always loved these sort of "public billboard" type places... especially when they become semi-official as this one has.
Crossposted from my Livejournal
