Muggle oversupply
I must admit I didn’t hear about the term ‘muggle’ before I started geocaching. I’m not into Harry Potter and similar stories. Some people don’t like the term and like to refer to a non geoaching person. It doesn’t sound that good, but I don’t mind using both terms. It’s the same thing with the term stash.
Anyway, I’ve had close encounters with them multiple times on this drizzly day. It started when I wanted to prepare one of my first own geocaches. I needed to determine a couple of coordinates and whilst doing this, I needed to pretend that my GPSr was a mobile phone several times.
After setting the necessary coordinates, I headed for the Appels & Peren GCY7R1 cache. In fact, it’s the third time. My previous attempts failed. I simply couldn’t see it. I’ve seen horses with and without riders, farmers ‘moving’ soil at dusk, a couple surprised seeing me and their plans within the woods fall to pieces, a jolly jumping hare when I came too close and a less happy puss in the hands of a hunter. The funny thing was that the hunters looked at me as a muggle. If only they knew. But I finally found it and could log the stash.
When I wanted to drive to the place where I should hide another stash of mine, my self-willed car navigation unit took me into a superfluous route and a city where I didn’t needed to be. I recognized there the memorial described in Fallen Heroes VIII GC12N5G. I couldn’t resist and stopped in order to take a look. All this out of the blue and without coordinates and purely on what I recalled from I’ve been reading in the cache details a couple of weeks ago. Surprisingly, I found it rather smoothly. I had more problems putting it back since a lot of muggles annex dogs where in the neighborhood.
I finally arrived at the place where I wanted to hide my second stash. And no, no detail yet. The only thing I’ll tell you now is that it’ll be a TB & GC Motel. All will be revealed when it’s published. Just when I finished hiding it and determining its coordinates another bunch of muggles drove by, but I jumped in my car and headed home.
December 1st, 2008 at 12:43 am
I know muggles are part of the game, but I don’t like urban caching. I’d rather be out in the woods where no one is around. But worse than muggles, I don’t like micros in the woods! Those are for the city.
December 1st, 2008 at 9:16 am
@tonka_boy -
I guess it depends on the type of woods. Maybe other types of caches aren’t possible/allowed.
December 1st, 2008 at 4:28 pm
ok, i’m ready to go on a FTF-hunt so get these caches published asap …..
December 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
@freggie -
Seems you’ve found it already. Sadly not a FTF this time. Better luck next time.
December 3rd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
I had never heard of the term before caching, either. Always makes me smirk when I hear it. It’s funny with muggles, though. Some pay attention to you, but there have been times where I’ll just go grab a cache with people around and they’ll pay no mind to me.
December 4th, 2008 at 8:34 am
@P.J. -
Muggles can be dangerous though. I’ve seen yesterday a cache listed that was gone after one explained muggles about it (and geocaching in general)