The Decathlon

Back in my hometown there seems to be a true caching frenzy occurring. More or less, the area is becoming a literal hot bed for new caches to pop up at any time. Not to mention there is a great group of core cachers around the area to keep everything in a positive motion. There is one cacher in particular that comes to mind when I think of home though. He goes by the name of Brijac and he has become famous for his insanely tough puzzle caches that sometimes stay unfound for weeks and months even. In December he decided to do a little caching “decathlon”. His goal was to place ten different caches all throughout the area and see who was the quickest to find them. If you knew my area, you would know that this was spelling instant success for a time like this. He hid a cache introducing the decathlon idea and laid out all of the ground work for an amazing series that I probably will never forget. He was going to hide different types of caches all in ten different fashions. I thought this was ingenious and wished I could have come up with it myself! From the night of the first event up until now, every time he posts a new cache in this decathlon the cachers go nuts. My dad will call me asking me to direct him where he needs to go while he is driving. Picture this: I am on the Geocaching website looking at the maps and descriptions while my dad is frantically driving to wherever I tell him. Yes, it can get extremely stressful. On the other hand, the few times he has been FTF on these particular caches I have felt pretty good because I had a hand in making that happen. None the less, it is now February and the decathlon has yet to finish. I think they are on hide number nine so the results should be almost clear who the best cacher back in my hometown is. My father would tell you he is not and I would have to agree. However, for only having roughly 370 finds compared to the thousands of finds the others have, I am pretty proud of him. If I had to guess right now, he is probably going to finish up somewhere in the middle of the road at fifth place.