Five Kings Traditional Cache
Blanor: This is my home cache, and the house, "Five Kings," was recently sold. My new house, "Valhalla," is right across the street, however, so I moved the cache container about fifty feet and will attempt to establish a new geocache at that location.
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Easy residential cache in plain sight a few feet from the curb, between two bushes and near a palm tree. Chrome container.
This is my 10th anniversary geocache. Although my “member since” date is 11-10-03, I have been geocaching since March of 2002, becoming an official member only when I started placing geocaches.
Tremendous changes have taken place in geocaching over the past decade. Of the 34,756 geocaches within a 100 mile radius of my home listed in a recent search, only 179 date from March 2002 or before. I know there were others at that time, but for one reason or another (including forest fires) they have been archived. I found several dozen caches during that first couple of years, was diverted by mountain climbing (turns out I could have been doing both), then started caching again just last year (2011). I did not record any finds online in my early days; at the time, just signing a log was enough. I have recently recorded just three pre-2011 finds: the Tortoise Confluence Cache (my first find about 9 March 2002), the Coon Canyon Cache (15 March 02, verified by a revisit), and the well-visited (almost 700 logs) Calico Ghost Town Cache (my FTF note dated 19 March 02 is still there).
Five Kings is the 11th cache I have placed. In November 2003, I put three at the top of area mountains (Mojave 500 #1- Lead Mountain, Mojave 500 #2- Rubble Hill, and Mojave 500 #3- Bell Mountain). Last year I put out five standard caches named after five after-work hiking partners (Toni, Cindy, Edelin, Ruth, and Silky), then followed that up with Mojave 500 #4 at the top of Paradise Mountain north of Barstow. Finally, in November, I placed “It’s the Cotopaxi!” out in the desert. It needs to be visited more; you will remember it.
And I think you will remember this one too. Look for the USGS marker.
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