I received an email from fellow geocacher Seth Jones who sent me some photos of a modified Evil Ant Hill Geocache. Check out what he wrote:
I got a smallish box, lined it with a plastic bag, and then made a small pile of dirt (you need it to be fairly pure dirt, for easier removal later. No rocks, grass, twigs, etc)
-- Then I made a large batch of plaster of paris, and poured it over the dirt, making a plaster cast of the dirt hill. After it set, I peeled it out of the plastic, and washed the dirt out of the bottom. I then filled the cavity where the dirt was with a 2-part resin from the craft store. Before the resin set, I implanted a small plastic container with a screw-top lid. You've probably seen it: it's a touch bigger than a bottle-cap.
After it set overnight, I cracked it out of the plaster, and chipped out the crevices. (soaking it in water really helped here). I then hit it with some textured brown spray paint. I placed it at the base of a tree just at the edge of some woods. There are some vines climbing the tree that provide a small buffer of deadspace around the trunk. I have the container there, amongst the leaves.
Way to go Seth! A very EVIL geocache to be sure!
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http://headhardhat-geocache.blogspot.com/
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5 comments:
When did this go from a game that involved putting things out there for people to find into a game of putting things out there that are impossible for people to find?
I don't think I would ever find that. Very sneaky!
Christopher, geocaching can go in difficulty from 1 which is easy to 5 which is very difficult. That is the beauty of it. It can be as easy or as difficult as you want. If you like hunting for only the 1 and 2's then great.. It's all good.
-HHH
The problem is that the 1-2s are not really 1-2 anymore. I went out to get a new local 2 star it's a micro somewhere in the bleachers at the rodeo grounds. The logs indicate at least 9 of us have looked for this needle in a haystack and failed.
Hard is one thing, impossible makes the whole game lose it's accessibility.
Christopher,
Let me tell you, The cache owner moved into my area and set up a cache with this very same container. The difficulty was a four and the terrain a two and a half. Yes, this cache was HARD, but not *impossible*, and this was by far a favorite of everyone who has attempted it. While it sucks that someone was just plain mean and hid a micro in some bleachers, not everyone is that way, and there is still a LOT of fun to be had in the game.
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