Geocaching and Waymarking In DEVA

[DeathValleyDazed]

While researching a topic related to DEVA (Death Valley) I chose to sign into Waymarking.com which seemed to promp me to register/log into Geocashing.com. After registering I was able to "Private Email" the person who had posted a "waymark" in hope of obtaining more information about my subject of research and am awaiting a reply. The original "waymark" was located by my Google search of the topic so this is how "waymark.com" came to my first ever attention. 

ITMT (In the meantime) having never been aware of waymarking or geocashing before I'm wondering if any of you have any experience with these two activities as they pertain to DEVA and its history or geology? When I have more time I plan on using these tools to see if there are any "cool" find relating to DEVA that currently are unknown to me. (which by the way most of DEVA is unknown to me. LOL) 

I hope I have not signed up for heaps of spam, phishing, or telemarketing schemes!

[DAW89446]

A co-worker of mine (when I worked in Trona and lived in Ridgecrest) got into geocaching in the mid 1990s. On a trip where we did the Pleasant Canyon/South Park Loop, we hid several in South Park Canyon, Pleasant Canyon and Rogers Pass. I don’t think he was part of an organized group, he was part of a geocaching forum where members would share coordinates and exchange trinkets in the cache.

[Kauri]

Nice! I haven't done geocaching in years, and never thought to look in DV. (I've mostly looked for caches in rural New Hampshire, with my grandparents, as a fun neighborhood activity.) I'll plan to check it out next time I'm in the park.

[GowerGulch42]

Official geocaches in national or state parks are against regulations. There are a number of "Earth caches" that guide the user to some kind of landmark or something. I've never done one but I know there's a few in DV.

[DAW89446]

Official geocaches in national or state parks are against regulations. There are a number of "Earth caches" that guide the user to some kind of landmark or something. I've never done one but I know there's a few in DV.

This was mid 1990s, right at the time of the status change from park to monument.

[GowerGulch42]

I'm sure they're still there, but they are not posted on the public geocache forums anymore if their coordinates fell within NPS boundaries.

[DeathValleyDazed]

I'm sure they're still there, but they are not posted on the public geocache forums anymore if their coordinates fell within NPS boundaries.

The closest I've come to stumbling upon a geocache in DEVA was halfway between Rogers Peak and Telescope Peak off trail in the pine tress just below the timberline. There were two gallons of water stashed next to a pine trees amongst fallen logs. The plastic was quite faded out so they had been there a long time. I drained them and packed out the plastic assuming that they had been long time forgotten. If not, I'm responsible for the dehydration death of one or more people in the park. LOL - excuse my "dry" sense of humor. 

Unfortunately the only other pervasive geocaching I come across are those damn mylar party balloons that seem to be snagged on sticks, bushes, and rocks every few hundred yards apart.

[Candace66]

I've never been into geocaching. But I have stumbled across a few over the years. Sometimes in very random spots.

The ones I've seen look a lot like summit registers: a container with a log book. But also including other oddball little items. I take it these geocaches serve as trinket exchanges, lol.

In at least one case, the geocache I found was located on a summit. And a lot of people who were there simply to bag the peak, ended up signing the geocache as well.

[trailhound]

We found one once at the 2 mile post on the Icehouse Canyon trail near Mt. Baldy.  It was just off trail under a boulder.