Welcome to the AgeFive.com's Iron Chef Geocaching!
Central Coast Geocaching News:
New Schedule is put out for IC's planned geocache deployment.
Goal is 2 to 3 caches per month.
The Great Santa Cruz Geocache Turkey Bash is set for Sunday 4 November 2001 at 11 a.m.!
Iron Chef plants
?Bridge To The Happened What and...
begins planning Santa Cruz Geocache Turkey Bash.
Iron Chef and Company plant a few geocaches in Mission Bay Aquatic Park:
Whale Poop Isle and Blackbeard's Booty
8/27/2001: Iron Chef begins to journal his adventures at
xenga.com/Iron_Chef/...
for your reading pleasure (possible spoilers).
Iron Chef and Company plant a few new geocaches in SD:
Gunpowder Point, Otay Wakes, Baja Coronado, & Pyle Driver
Iron Chef and Mr. Big Shoes visit
MTRP Mystery Cache and
took some Pictures and a Movie! What is Geocaching exactly? And what about Geodashing?
Well... remember when you were a kid and you wanted to go dig up buried treasure and you thought that some sprinkler irrigation piping was actually pirate loot? Its kind of like that, only
less messy usually, and its not exactly in your backyard.Geocaching is an opportunity to get off your duff and see the world. No, its an excuse to buy
expensive equipment and get off your duff and see the world. That's better. For a more elegant version of this, check out
http://www.geocaching.com/faq.asp for the official FAQ and stuff. Good times.Geodashing operates on a similar idea, only it is a race to see who can make it to as many
randomly generated waypoints as possible ( Geodashing FAQ). The sites may or may not be
accessible to the public, so there is a bit of a gamble involved. This is not like Geocaching where there is an actual cache at the site. With Geodashing, "Getting There Is All The Fun!"
Santa Cruz Geocacher ~ Iron Chef
 As a wee lad I loved to go "caploring" (I couldn't speek very gud bak den). I thought it was great
to go to places that I had never been before and see things that were new to me. 16 years later the same still holds true. Then one day I magically stumble upon www.geocaching.com and I think to myself "Ah-ha! An excuse to get out of my
tiny cell!" So equipped with a Garmin Etrex Venture GPS Unit, I went out into the mountains of Santa Cruz with a few maps, some GPS coordinates, and a sense of adventure. So far it
has worked pretty well for me as I have found 85 caches. For each cache that I find (or don't find) I will make a web page with pictures and info (that
means spoilers). These pages are called ICGP and can be accessed through this site. Not only is hunting for geocaches good exercise, it gets you out to those great places that you
would of otherwise probably never known about. Sometimes you will find that there are parks or nature reserves right near your home that you never knew about. And considering that as of 14
October 2001 there were 7498 active caches in 72 countries, which means that there is probably one near you. If so, then once the weekend rolls around, go visit one! You won't regret it. I
promise. I want some more information about this wicked cool sport!
Check out www.geocaching.com
which is the official home of geocaching. There you can register yourself (its free!) and start checking out caches! You can even add specific caches to a
"watch list" that can send you an e-mail every time there is a change to that cache. Also another hobby for some people is the Degree Confluence Project, check it out at www.confluence.org. Why the hell would you name yourself "Iron Chef"?
Hey! Don't be dissing Iron Chef! I call myself that because I like watching the TV show Iron Chef on the Food Network. Iron Chef takes cooking and turns it into a sport and since
Geocaching takes treasure hunting and turns it into a sport I thought the name only appropriate. Plus when I visit a cache I leave a spoon that was "borrowed" from UCSC's wonderful dining
halls and some instant tea as a matter of habit. Plus, since my name is "Iron Chef" I try to stick to the cooking theme whenever possible, thus the spoon and such. I leave cooking equipment in
the caches that I create and leave the spoons everywhere else! It makes the game just a bit more fun for me and hopefully more interesting for those people that visit the caches.
Cache In, Trash Out?
OK, and now for the environmentalist speech. When geocaching, always keep in mind that
someone has to take care of our world, so it might as well be those who use it the most. Thus, the  Cache In, Trash Out program. Its a nice thing to do, especially since the areas around some
caches have assorted booze bottles and whatnot littering the ground (not a lot of them, but just enough to make it visible). It is so easy to
just take a plastic grocery bag with you and collect a bit of trash while there. Even just removing a few bottles from careless people is a
great help. Really. And conversely, don't pollute the area that you are exploring at! Everything that you take to the cache site should be
coming out with you (peeing on trees is the exception to the rule). Remember that if hunting for a cache results in extensive damage to
the environment around the cache then the cache owner will most likely remove it. So just cache in, and take some trash out with you when you go. Momma Earth would be proud of you for doing it.
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