S.E.U.R.
What is S.E.U.R.??? I hear you cry.
The S.E.U.R. is quite simply the Society for the Exploration of Unknown
Regions.
This is an ancient and learned body. Not anyone can become a
fellow of this Society (F.S.E.U.R) they typically have no room or
time for common folk such as ourselves. However after much
debate and contemplation they found it in thier hearts to let in a
common grocer, this grocer in his amazing quixotic journey
actually placed the very FIRST geocache
ever!!.
I have likely found the earliest mentioned geocache in
literary history. This one dates back to 1905. ; This
intrepid Geoexplorer reached a particular point deep in his
journey where he had to turn back. Proceeding would be
dangerous
I quote:
For there is a
point at which even the most daring of men must stop, when Nature
cries --- halt! And Mr ***** felt that he had reached that point
now.
Before leaving the brink of the gulf, *****
tore a sheet of paper from his notebook and wrote upon it his name
and address, the date of the month and year, and a few particulars
of his voyage so far. This done, he rolled the piece of paper up
and placed it in a champagne bottle, together with some United
States currency, mostly five and ten cent. greenbacks, some of them
being counterfeit. He corked the bottle up firmly, and placed it in
a small crevasse, with the neck --- to which he tied a piece of
white paper ---projecting, so that if anybody should contemplate
journeying over the same route they would have no difficulty in
discovering the bottle, even after this lapse of time. That is, of
course, assuming that no change has taken place in the geological
formation of the place.
There you have it, the FIRST geocache mentioned in a literary
work from 1905(He even included swag)!! The geology of the
area he left his cache in is not unlike Flin Flon's,
mostly igneous extrusions. However most of Flin Flon's exposed
rocks were formed by Lava erupting into water. His rocks were
crystallized where he hid the cache, deep underground.
Since his geocache is fictional and certainly a terrain 5+, I
did not duplicate his hide. Ross lake is not Lake
Averness.
This cache will make you a F.S.E.U.R.W.( Fellow of the Society
for the Exploration of Unknown Regions Wannabe)
As any good geocacher, you will certainly want read this
book that quite possibly contains the earliest mention of
Geocaching. I will provide some incentive for you to read it with a
nice little geocache hidden in your city with an FTF and an 2TF
prize.
The book of which you now seek should be in your local library
however there is a very easy to find free online version. If
you email me the title I will send you a link,however Google is
your friend.
In order to find the cache you will have to convert your GPS to
hddd.dddddº
The particular chapter number in which the protaganist signed
and dated his logsheet. That number is equal to W
In chapter(W) he Christened the spot with a Particular name.
(***'s ***************) You need to find this name.
The number of letters in the first
word of this name(ignoring the 's) is equal to X
The number of words in the title is
equal to Y
Take the number of Pigeons that he took with him and subtract
the number of Fowls that he also brought with him. Make that equal
to Z.
This geocache is hidden @ N 54.76WZW
W 101.87YXX
If you are stumped as to the book here is a geographical
hint
N 54º 46.264 W 101º 51.303
If that isn't clear enough here is another:
N 54º 46.236 W 101º
50.367
Now get reading and find this cache!