AAR: Smart Caches of Berkeley County

While Tom and I were in Berkeley County, West Virginia to work on the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour, we ended up finding all but two of the Smart Caches of Berkeley County (SCBC). In order to earn the SCBC geocoin, we had to find eleven of the fourteen remaining SCBC caches, which gave us the ability to pick and choose which ones to find. The hard part in choosing was that three of them are not on the Berkeley Gadgets GeoTour, so do we go with GeoTour caches exclusively, or do we find the ones that are near other caches? We ended up finding the three non-GeoTour caches, and leaving two GeoTour caches for a future trip.

These caches were varied and fun to complete. My favorite was "SCBC 7 Bike Trail," where I had to travel about 400 feet down a corrugated pipe to end up in the middle of an expressway. The most difficult one for me was "SCBC 12 Illuminating," but only because the flashlight that I was using wasn't strong enough to trigger the sensors. "SCBC 5 Extremes" had me feeling really good about a decision I made in the first part of the challenge (hint: friction). I enjoyed the SCBC caches, and as with the Mystery Caches of Berkeley County, I would highly recommend them.