Thursday 7 November 2013

A game within a game

Today is Annual Church Micro Day, celebrating the publication of the first Church Micro in 2007. This series, the largest themed series known to the geocaching world, is truly a game within a game. I suspect the dedicated statistics page helps greatly with this; whilst the game is never supposed to be 'About the numbers', there is something about a league table that seems to gee people up to greater lengths. Many cachers will go seriously out of their way to bag a Church Micro.

Nottinghamshire Church Micros
I'd planned a route to take in upwards of 40 Church Micros today. In the end, I managed to visit 26 of them (they seemed much closer together on the map..), and actually found 23. And drove 170 miles.. - that's the penalty you pay for clearing out your local area of Church Micros at every opportunity. Fortunately more and more cachers are now placing them, hence the seemingly exponential rise in numbers in the last 18 months.

On last year's Church Micro day I found 17, so today was an improvement - and I managed to squeeze in a trigpoint as well.

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