You might ask, "Why should I look for benchmarks? They show on my
Profile page, but they won't count in my total cache finds, so, why
should I bother?"
When asked, "Why climb Everest?", George Mallory answered,
"Because it is there!"
Before we even heard of geocaching, often we'd be hiking or
sightseeing and stumble across a bronze disc with numbers and words
and just move on. Now I wish we could go back and log them!
When we started caching and were running out of nearby caches,
we decided to look for benchmarks. Some were easy, but several
required detective work ... measuring distances from various
objects. Talk about a treasure hunt! Many of them were
historic!
Once, on a coaching trip without a GPS, I realized that I could
find benchmarks without one, and had yet another reason to look for
them.
Finally, while we've had some interesting experiences caching,
there have also been some really memorable ones benchmarking. When
you're caching, you try to avoid muggles, but when you're
benchmarking you can involve them!
To see why we enjoy them, look at our logs for the following
benchmarks: HU2708, AY0213, EJ0229, KW3030, FW0266, AE8327, KW3078,
and MB0897.
We're hoping this cache will challenge you to look for
Benchmarks and the next time you look at a cache listing you'll
click on the "...all nearby benchmarks" link.
As a bonus, this cache is within feet of Benchmark HU1840 #3.
Happy hunting!