I recently completed a year-long term in Kansas with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and I have lots of new information to share. In this series, I will be sharing all the insights and experiences that I gained while living in the Sunflower State.
REVERSE WHERIGOS
When I first began caching a few years ago, it didn't take very long for me to go through all of the different icons and understand how to complete the find. That is, however, except for the Wherigo icon. For months, I was stumped on how to even begin trying to find one. I knew enough that it wasn't at posted but that was as far as I could get on my own. It was later revealed that I needed to download a cartridge from a separte website. Very well, shouldn't be too hard....Oh how wrong was I. Several attempts were made to get an account before I ended up looking myself out completely after losing my password. I was occansionally try to log back in to no avail. I eventually gave up trying and continued to ignore the blue compass dots on my map.
That is, until I came across a particular style of Wherigo hide: the reverse. I did some digging, found how to solve it, and on Feb 19, 2023 I found my first Wherigo! How exciting! But just one problem. There aren't that many arond here, in fact there are only two that I know of. Once again, I went back to ignoring those blue compass dots.
When I got to Kansas, I noticed a lot more Wherigos but chose to ignore them figuring they were much in the same as home. It wasn't until one particularly subzero winter night spent scrolling on the map of even more far away lands, I came across the VetRun Trail made up of over 1000 reverse wherigos! (GCAE433 is the first one if you're interested.) While I never made it down to Texas, I did start looking into more of the ones nearby and was pleasantly surprised to find so many solvable Wherigos; specifically in and arond Topeka.
So this Wherigo hide serves two purposes: the first being a thank you to the kind cachers of KCGO that find ways to add more color to the monotony of green dots on our cache maps and second to anyone who needs a type of hide or a little help on an icon day challenge, may this ease your travels. (Just don't go searching at posted coords. I promise there's nothing in the water.)
The cartridge was created by -Waldmeister- and is available to download from the wherigo.com website.
-Waldmeister-'s "The first reverse cache [TIG]" is the original cache in this family.
Your task is to find the cache by periodically querying your Reverse Cache Box for the distance to the final location. Try to use your Reverse Cache Box as few times as possible. All instructions and necessary information needed to complete the cartridge is contained within it. The cartridge is multilingual.
To begin, you will have to type this code into your player:
058366
305700
655087
It is suggested that you take the code with you on your journey. It will be needed if it becomes necessary to restart your player for any reason.
Optional:
When you have reached the final, you will be given some statistics on your quest. If you wish, you may enter the details into your log, and also post the number of times you calculated the distance.
At the end of the game, you will be given a personal pass-code which you can enter into the cartridge if you select "create" rather than "play" when you start the cartridge. Save this code, and if you ever wish to create your own reverse cache, you can do so. -Waldmeister- would like you to inform him of your new edition of his handiwork. Please do not include hints in your log about where and how you found the cache or post photos that would give away the final location.