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The New Geocache Craze
I see there is a new adventure sport emerging. It is called
Geocaching.
Geocaching is a real world game that consists of people hiding
caches, then others go to find it. Hide and seek for adults
basically. There are some sites that offer prizes for finding
caches. One asks that you trade a found cache for another one.
It is becoming quite a trend.
Now forgive me for being niave - but if you are going to burn
gas and energy looking for treasure - why wouldn't it be REAL
treasures that you search out? There is so much actual bonified
treasure out there to be found - old coins, pioneer artifacts,
Indian artifacts, actual lost mines and long buried treasures
from yesteryear, and this is not to even mention gem minerals.
The attraction of hunting for planted "caches" just escapes me
somehow.
There are ghost towns all over, and in those ghost towns are
many lost items just waiting for the fortunate hunter to dig up
and bring back to the world. Of course, this is just whole
towns. Anyone hiking in areas previously trod by early gold rush
era prospectors or pioneers is bound to stumble across lost
homesteads at some time or other.
Where ever parties of pioneers, wagon trains, or stagecoaches
came through, there rests the possibility of real treasures.
Pioneers were known to often bury treasures when they were being
pursued by those who might steal it, or when the load became too
encumbersome to be able to travel with it. I'm sure these people
meant to recover these treasures at a later date, but for
reasons ranging from untimely death to just lost directions,
many of these caches remain buried and waiting for recovery to
this day.
What about lost mines? No one yet has found the Lost Dutchman
mine, now you want a real thrill, be the first to dig that one
up. That is only one mine lost in the archives of history
waiting to be retrieved. The Lost Cement Gold Mine still remains
lost near the head of the middle fork of the
San Joaquin river
and the Lost Soldier Mine somewhere in Arizona near the Gila
River bend has thus far managed to alude hunters. This is only a
couple of mentions out of scores, possibly hundreds, of lost
mines just waiting for rediscovery.
Pirates and Bandits were well known to bury treasures as well.
No report has been made of the Lake George or South Mountain
treasures in Colorado having been found yet. Florida itself is
not much more than a grand treasure cache, with hundreds of
caches having been dug up that were left by pirates, explorers,
and people fleeing battles, and who knows how many left to
discover - and that is on land. For the adventuresome scuba
diver, the gulf is an explorers paradise, hiding wrecks of ships
toren on reefs, lost in storms, or sunk in battles.
The South Western portion of the US abounds with treasure
stories of lost Indian treasures, caches stolen by invading
Spaniards and buried to be lost later, and stagecoach and train
robberies that resulted in burial of treasures. While some of
these stories can be chocked up to legend, historical evidence
exists to support many.
So maybe the fact with the Geocache game is the competition and
involvement with others. Real treasure hunting does not
necessarily negate these factors. Many a treasure hunt that I
have seen revolves around shared research and information, as
well as teams of hunters who report back to each other about
progresses and failures. Some are undertaken with the spirit of
sharing a cache, while others involve shared information but the
actual discovery is pretty muchly a finders-keepers,
winner-take-all proposition.
So simply speaking - while Geocaching sounds like an
entertaining way to spend a weekend - for me "ain't nothing like
the real thing, baby."
About the author:
©2005 Sally Taylor: Sal is an avid gem and treasure hunter,
explorer, writer, and is the owner of
http://www.rockhoundstation1.com
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