- ATTEND: The 12-12-12: A Cataclysmic Event (Rotorua) event.
- (Optional) Bring along a 'One muggle's Trash, A Cacher's Cache' item (Eclipse & V containers excluded!)
- (Required) Collect a plastic shopping bag of rubbish enroute to the 12-12-12: A Cataclysmic Event (Rotorua) event and sign the CITO log.
- OR: Pick up a bag full of rubbish on 22 December 2012 and post your photo of your collected trash online, along with your log.
Accept the challenge (optional)
- Place a cache on 22 December 2012 -
using your 'One muggle's Trash, A Cacher's Cache' item as a Container or Camo
So why is this cache set up like this?
- Mea Culpa - The concept was to have a Trash Out Cache In themed CITO on 12-12-12 but as I've submitted it too late, it's got to be on the 18th or later. I've now changed date from 18 to 22 December.
- I want cachers to stop placing boring caches. Yes, the old eclipse tin stuck under a bush or bridge for no apparent reason is boring!
- I'd like cachers to think about their environment.
- I'd like cachers to re-use interesting objects that other's have thrown away.
After all, if you've walked past it, won't others too?
What a perfect object for a cache then...
Now all that's needed is a concept for the cache that will make other cacher's award it a favourite!
I often practice the fine art of TOCI (Trash Out, Cache In)
and examples I have found (to get you started) are:
Large builders site fuse box
Old fence posts
Corrogated drainage pipe
Interesting pieces of driftwood
Old Rat Trap
Slim plastic packet (used to hold doggy doo bags) that's actually in use as a replacement cache container at a mystery cache in Auckland
The final at
WTD: Cord (Rotorua), but of course you'd have to find that to see what it is...
What's the (cache) catch?
- To Log on 12-12-12 -
You must attend the
12-12-12: A Cataclysmic Event (Rotorua) event,
show your rubbish and sign the CITO log.
- To Log on 22nd December instead -
You must collect a bag of rubbish
and post a photo of it, along with your log.
The last Cataclysmic Event in this area was
10 June 1886.
Huh! What's all this stuff about A Cataclysmic Event? Will it be the End of the World?
The Mayan calendar is based (not surprisingly) on the Mayan system of counting. They used several different cycles, such as a 260 day "short count" cycle, and a longer 5,125 year "long count" cycle. The date 21-12-12 is considered to correspond to to the end of a 5,125 year long count cycle. Some have chosen to interpret the end of the long count as the end of the Mayan calendar and hence a prediction of the end of the world, whereas it is really just the end of one calendar period. Similar in concept to the way we track Centuries or Millennia.
For amusement, read this.
22 December 2012
Summer Solstice
The first day in the new Mayan calendar "long count cycle"
So if we're right, life will carry on as normal.
And if we're wrong, there'll be plenty of 'Trash' to turn into 'cache'.
Either way, go out and make the world a slightly cleaner place.
Like this cache?
Come along and meet the CO and other Cacher's at:
12-12-12: A Cataclysmic Event (Rotorua)
