It all started 7 months ago with my attempt at a Runnfrog type rambling log in GC10PFH (A Hundreds cache that has been archived) that included:
“Have you noticed that there are a lot more female geocachers than their used to be. Looks like what used to be a mostly male domain is starting to crumble. It looks like women cachers are getting lots of finds and even passing a few men that have been caching for quite a while. That’s fine with me so long as (pardon my sexist joke) we don’t start to have nicely painted and decorated cache containers!”
A nice fun joke or so I thought until 3/14/07 when THE GEO CHICKS STRUCK BACK WITH
Pretty in Pink
A brightly decorated beautiful ammo box that looks like it is right out of the flower power generation that had a love note to me painted on the outside of the container
At a Dinner event I gave Tacklemon and Harthusen, the leaders of the Geo Chicks plain ammo boxes and challanged them to decorate them for a cache that I would make for the Geo Chicks. At the next dinner event, Tacklemom presented me with a pastel purple box covered with Tinkerbell pictures. (I think there was deep message here since Tinkerbell was only female and the real brains of the Peter Pan crew) Thus was created:
Think Tink
It took a long time to find a worthy spot and even longer to get the state park permit approved, but here it is, a tribute and a cache for Geo Chicks.
Geo Chicks outside Delaware the so impressed me
Ironic, but my first encounter with a female geocacher was someone who introduced herself as just Lynn. The first of many enjoyable experiences with a geo Chick that happened to be the worlds leading goecacher better known as CCCooper Agency She thought nothing of wading acroos White Clay Creek in 50 degree knee deep water to get a cache and was the inspiration for: Island in the Stream which was dedicated to her.
My next experience was at one of the first Events I ever attended that was in North Jersey Event Link I met and got to do the event and other caches with Trowel32 aka Laura. She was very good, fearless and as crazy as I was doing a hard rocky hillside cache in the rain. I got to cache again with Laura at a recent north Jersey event and she now has 2200+ caches.
I have talked about hard mountain caches I have done in Vermont. Last fall at a Vermont event I got to meet Cheryl of DJ and Cal. She did an extremely hard cache in Vermont that I had found, only in the early spring with a few feet of snow and using snowshoes Mountain cache link
Special Delaware Geo Chicks I have cached with
Harthausen, dont be fooled by the cute little "German girl" that is agressive fearless cacher who finds the hard ones and maybe has a little touch of evil.
JillAlexandria, one of the early women geocachers who helped do introductory Geocaching Programs
Rachelhead, who I first met on a caching trip to the Delaware marshes and has gone on to be a leading cacher.
EvansPack, the most dedicated and intense cacher (and maybe a little adicted) but also the most fun and always a joy to be with, even if her numbers have so passed by my ststs is so short a time
Tacklemom, who on the Washington DC trip was able to cache for hours and hours and still go stong when most of us were too tired and had to quit.
Delawhere, who has made the best, most fun and most creative caches
Millennium Mom, an all round nice cacher who came on three long caching trips
Two women do not show up in the stats because they are part of teams, but Sue (Mrs Programmer 64) and Kathy (Mrs Dinobalz)have what it takes. Check out date of where they took up the challenge after finishing a five mile cache loop to get I cahes I needed that was on top of a 500 foot mountain with only one hour of daylight left.Old Glory
Last is the other female I dedicated a cache to Wendy's Picnic Cache and my most favorite caching partner, WhiteClayLover, aka Wendy.
And to all the other female caches that were not mentioned
Geo Chicks: I love you all back. Thanks for making me feel special.