Posts Tagged ‘stargate’

Troop 923, Springville Ut.

This is another one of those coins I retrieved from the Stargate on our first trip down to Springvillle. Goodness, can I just say that there are TONS of caches in Springville. If a person were worried about knocking their numbers up, that would be the place to cache. I think we were there for two hours and we looked for 10 or 12 caches. We found all but two.

At any rate, I felt really badly about this one once I logged it in. It was a brand new coin, just venturing out in to the world with high hopes of getting to the birthplace of scouting. In England. ..And I pulled it out of the gate. I think of all the coins that should have been left there, this one gave me the most guilt. This is the one that prompted me to drive all the way back down there and return it.

I did finally get an an answer about the stargate. The owners of the cache have the addresses of all the other caches. (as in mailing address). I was told that geocoins could be mailed to help them achieve their goals. The poppy was pulled out by someone else who thought they could move it a little East. (I really should have just mailed that one on my own). I'm not sure what else I could have done. I marked the coins very, very well. Also, the ones I took were not marked in any way. I suppose I will probably still use the gate to move coins. It seems to be frequently visited, so in that regards it is still a good place to leave a geocoin.

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Uckermark Geocoin

This is the Uckermark Geocoin. I didn't actually retrieve this one. A friend of mine hiked up to the snowshoe cache and found it for me. The picture doesn't do it justice. It is a really beautiful coin. This particular coin has a pretty generic goal to travel the world. It belongs to tokencollector and was released in North Carolina on Sept 12th, 2007.

I deposited it in a local stargate. So hopefully it makes an international jump some time soon. I actually dropped of 5 coins in the hope that they are moved around the world. Interesting thing these stargates. (loved the movie and the series by the way). I was under the impression that things needing to move would be marked. However, I took 5 coins and once I logged them I discovered that 4 of them have international hopes. So I'm thinking the system is flawed. Or, at the very least the box needs to be emptied more frequently so that outbound items are not picked back up by people like me. I'll be making the 30 mile drive again next week to drop off the items I apparently pinched. Incidentally, I also dropped off that California Poppy. The Stargate (assuming it works) will get the swag closer to its goal than my dad can.

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