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Locationless Caches
By: SangueG Date: July 7, 2018, 8:04 am
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Locationless Caches
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Terracaching LC - Coordinate Palindromes
What is a Locationless Cache?
A Locationless Cache (LC), typically challenges you to find a
particular object and log your find by posting the coordinates.
Some LCs require you do a little more to claim your find, for
example post a photograph of yourself, or of your GPSr, at the
location to help prove you physically visited the location.
To add an extra element of difficulty to obtain a find, some COs
include an additional twist to the 'little extra'. An example
could be "Find a street sign with a colour in the name, e.g.
Caches Green. Take a photo of yourself by the street sign
wearing an item of clothing of the same colour." ...some include
much harder challenges.
What I like about Locationless Caches
I was a relatively latecomer to Geocaching, discovering the
activity ten years to the month after the first ever one was
placed. As with many people, after just a few finds it became
vey addictive. Every time that I found myself visiting an out of
town location I would look up Geocaches to hunt down.
After a few months of playing this game I began to learn of
other geocaching hosting sites, some of which hosted related
games, for example gpsgames.org
HTML http://gpsgames.org
. Some had LCs listed, and this became an
additional work lunchtime activity for me when there were no new
physical caches close by to hunt down.
LCs, as Geocaching did near the start for me, now form part of
my way of life. If I am visiting a new area I will check the
listings to see if I can grab a find that I ordinarily would not
be able to near home. I am also mindful of the vast amount of
listings I have perused, and have a different way of looking at
my surroundings to see if I can spot criteria for logging an LC
whilst out and about my normal daily life. Like Geocaching,
Locationless Caching has taken me to places, shown me things,
and made me do things I would maybe of never have seen or done,
otherwise.
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Terracaching LC - Have you hugged your body artist lately?
Where can I find Locationless Caches to go hunt?
LCs have not been a type of cache available on geocaching.com
for many years. You will need look at other hosting sites to
join in this fun activity. Here are a few:
waymarking.com
HTML http://waymarking.com
– Groundspeak’s site dedicated just to
LCs. You can log in using your existing geocaching.com account.
terracaching.com
HTML http://terracaching.com
– Over 1000 active and mostly unique LCs
available to hunt, as well as other hosted cache types like
Traditionals and Cybers. They a have points systems to add an
additional element of fun and to help keep general quality high,
and leaderboards.
geocaching.com.au
HTML http://geocaching.com.au
– Australia’s own all-in-one cache
listing site, but available to the world to play. In amongst its
plethora of hosted cache types are hundreds of LCs of varying
quality.
Want to try finding a Locationless Cache right now?
We have one hosted right HERE
HTML http://cachewalker.createaforum.com/gps-games/,
so you can start
straight away without leaving this site :)
If you haven't tried Locationless Caching before, I recommend
you do give it a try. Let us know how you get on below :)
Have fun!
V Gackt V
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Re: Locationless Caches
By: SangueG Date: August 5, 2018, 4:05 pm
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Over the past month I have managed to clock up a few more
Locationless finds on TC, bringing my position on their LC
leaderboard back up to number 18, yay! ;D
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Most of the finds have been fun to do, and some of them I have
travelled far (for me) to get the required photos. One of the
closest was a visit to Seven Springs this evening to grab a
photo of a 'Spring with a plaque' to log Springing to life
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A further away adventure took me to Turville, where I hiked up
the hill to to take photos of the windmill which featured in the
movie Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Photographing that place actually
got me finds on a few LCs, not just including 'Buildings from
the movies', 'Old Green Energy', and 'Big Wind
Catchers...Windmills'.
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Whilst up on the hill I also found a rare UK Terracaching
traditional cache, and a traditional Geocaching.com cache...
well it would of been rude of me not to as I was stood just a
few metres from it enjoying the view. GMS D 01
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o/GC3Q5YR... notice I follow in the footsteps
of other CW members finding that one, including our Griff Grof
:D
The same day as the above finds, I headed a few miles down the
road to visit the Hell Fire caves and the Mausoleum up on the
hill above them. The caves were great fun, just my type of
thing. And the Mausoleum got me a second find on the 'Buildings
from the movies
HTML https://play.terracaching.com/Cache/LCI'
LC, as it has been used
in many movies, and TV programs. The most memorable one to me
was the Hammer Horror movie 'To the Devil a Daughter
HTML https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075334/'.
Do let know if you have had a go at Locationless Caching, and
what your favourite finds have been...
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Re: Locationless Caches
By: SangueG Date: April 4, 2020, 7:15 am
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It’s been a while since I checked in, and so I thought I’d share
a few of the many LCs I’ve logged over past months. There have
been so many finds to go through, enough in fact to push me up
from 18th overall on the leaderboard on one of my previous posts
to 7th! :)
The main reason for posting though is to re-highlight this
alternative type of caching, which is a safer form of caching
which could be partaken in during the Corvid-19 pandemic as
there is quite often no reason to touch an object, and with some
LCs you can even complete from your own garden or even from
inside your home similarly to Cyber Caches which we have
recently highlighted on twitter
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Westonbirt Arboretum was a source of a few LC finds for me
including hunting down some particular varieties notably a
Diospyros virginiana and a Koelreuteria paniculate. But the
simplest, and arguably the most fun to complete was Treehugger
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Ok, so I touched an object for that one :D
In August I visited a well known and quite often advertised at
the moment TV studio for TV Studio Tour
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One that took a little planning was Featured Animals (or Animal
Parts) LC Style
HTML https://play.terracaching.com/Cache/LC571E.
First you need to
identify a feature on a topo or OS type map that is named after
an animal or animal part and take a screen shot/photo of the map
showing it. I decided upon Lion Rock at Cheddar...
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You then have to visit the location to take a photo of the
actual feature along with your GPSr and post both pictures in
your found it log...
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I have completed many very simple LCs too. Whilst the idea of
LCs, just like traditional Geocaching, is to get you out and
about and visit interesting locations, a few LCs are able to be
completed without travelling. One such I found whilst at a farm
park was Bunny wabbit
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I did actually travel a few miles out to a farm park where I
took the photo to log that one, but the requirements are only to
photograph a live rabbit and so could quite easily be logged
from home for some people. In fact a few have already.
Another LC which can be logged from home, and I did so, was Good
Luck!
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The object to log a
find for that LC is a four-leaf clover. The example I found in
my garden was a bit nibbled did the job...
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If you’re looking for something from home to do during the
lockdown, then why not take a re-look at Locationless Caching.
See the first post in this thread for some websites that host
LCs.
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