Do you know anyone who suffers from a mania, an addiction, an
affliction? Have you ever stuck your hand into a hole in a stump
hoping to find a box of McTrinkets and not a wasp's nest, or worse?
Have you ever left home at 10PM in a rainstorm and tunneled through
a blackberry thicket in a race for FTF? Have you ever explained
caching to a relative or acquaintance and you received that glance
that makes you feel that you might have a problem?
We all have our own life-passions. Diff'rent strokes for
diff'rent folks move the world.
The event that inspired this cache: After getting into an
argument with some coworkers about what those things at the ends of
shoelaces are called, I stumbled onto Ian's Shoelace Site. A
100+ page site dedicated to everything you could ever want to know
about shoelaces: methods of lacing, tying, history, repairs,
references, testimonials, and much more. It is one of the best
organized sites I have ever seen.
The site includes 17 different ways to tie shoelaces. One
method, 'invented' by Ian, 'Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot' was later
discovered to be topologically equivalent to the 'Double Slip
Knot'. This knot is referenced as knot #xxxx in Ashley's book of
knots, though Ian's method of accomplishing it is completely
different.
Add x.xxx to the latitude, and you will be at the cache
site.
To log the cache, you must sign the physical log and also
include one of the following in your electronic log:
1) A picture of your shoelaces, and the reference to the lacing
and/or knotting to Ian's website. OR 2) a link to a similar
non-geocaching website , where an individual/group has made
a life's work/passion in an unusual field.