TreeoCache

[pantheraba]

Thank Nick for getting this started.

"Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. " See http://www.geocaching.com/ for lots of details.

A standard geocache is on the ground typically...on a trail, in a park, in a building, etc. Nick had the idea to place one in a tree...he established TreeoCache 001, the first Tree Cache in the world.

http://tinyurl.com/yy46ry
There is also a thread at http://tinyurl.com/y8wux9

Today I set TreeoCache 002 in a big Willow Oak.

[pantheraba]

This is part of the official description for the geocache.com info page:

"This is the world’s second Treeocache. It is located high up in a tree, about 45-50 feet above ground. The first branch is much higher than you can reach jumping, about 20 feet up. You can't really just climb the trunk...it is almost 5 feet in diameter, over 14 feet circumference at breast height."

I am in the process of submitting the details to geocaching.com for their approval...then it will officially be listed.

[Paul B]

cool, any more info about the whole deal?

[pantheraba]

The geocache.com site has lots of details about the activity.

This is the Tree Climbers International site where I posted a thread about it:

http://www.tci-forums.com/viewthread.php?tid=1085

This is Nick's treeocache 001 info: http://tinyurl.com/yy46ry

[NickfromWI]

Cool gary! I got another one I'm cooking up right now.

How is it attached to the tree? It looks like the rope is just sitting in the crotch with a weight on the other end...that might be a VERY good way to keep one of those things up in the tree!

Nice cache...I can't wait to see it on the geocaching website!

love
nick

[No_Bivy]

Iv'e one in mind but I don't have a GPS.

[pantheraba]

Originally Posted by NickfromWI

How is it attached to the tree? It looks like the rope is just sitting in the crotch with a weight on the other end...that might be a VERY good way to keep one of those things up in the tree!

A counterweight IS a good idea...hang onto it...I did not do that (I just helped YOU think of it )

The cord attached to the cache pulls is back thru a crotch and then goes up about 4 feet thru another crotch and back down to a limb near the cache...I used a running bowline there to allow for limb growth. The limb will have to increase from 6" diameter to about 15" diameter before the bowline is full...then it'll start pulling the cache up into the tree and around the high crotch. It won't happen any time soon.

NoB...if I can ever get up there I'll have my GPS with me and we will set it.

[No_Bivy]

Too bad it wasn't this weekend, killer weather!

[pantheraba]

Yep, that's why I finally go mine done...great here, too.

Gary aren't you providing too much info for the potential searchers? I assumed that if they are really reinterested the coordinates should be all they need to get. How to reach it and the techniques to use are up to them. I hope they do not deside to cut a branch or something like that to get it.