From flying planes to finding caches — Interview with cache owner Cliptwings

For cache owner ‘Cliptwings’ geocaching isn’t just a hobby, it’s a new opportunity to realize that even if he can’t fly anymore, the wings of passion prevent him from being cooped up. A former Airforce and commercial airline pilot turned creative gadget cache engineer. Travelling the world on planes Cliptwings says there wasn’t a place that didn’t have a cache nearby. 

First introduced to the game by his wife, Princess Pooh Pooh, who thought of him when a geocacher explained the game to her. They went out to find a cache in a park and got hooked. To him, it felt powerful to have GPS technology in his hand because airlines still used ground-based navigation at the time. 

Since then Cliptwings has hidden a number of amazing caches that take some time and creative juice to create. 

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The OroValleyan — Geocache of the Week

Multi-Cache
GC6G639
by cliptwings
Difficulty:
3
Terrain:
3
Location:
Arizona, United States
N 32° 25.780′ W 110° 54.945′

Imagine a world far away from our own. The mission was simple: gather intel about the planet OV and transmit it back to Earth. But an unexpected dust storm hastily moved in and separated you from your crew. In order to save the entire crew they were ordered to leave the planet without you. 

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