My little gaming trip (sorta) - NOT 56K FRIENDLY!

[ubikuberalles]

Flack's little gaming trip back in January (link (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50760&highlight=store+trip)) inspired me to make a similar trip and take photos along the way.

The name of the store in question is "BoulderDash". Promising name but the location seemed to be a little remote (link (http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1ad48022-6d69-461f-9476-953a547db41e)). Despite the remoteness of the store I decided to go and one of my friends wanted to come along.

Here's a picture of me and my friend just before we left the house. My friend's name is Mr. Flibble.

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Here's a shot of where the store is roughly located. As you can tell, the store is indeed quite remote. The website mentioned it was on a hill. I didn't realize how big the hill really was.

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After thirty minutes of strenious hiking and about 500 feet of altitiude later, Mr. Flibble was very tired and demanded a rest. I...however...wasn't tired...**gasp**...at all...**pant**...but I agreed to Mr. Flibble's request (I didn't want to make Mr. Flibble very cross). Here's a picture of Mr. Flibble while we were resting.

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After another twenty minutes of hiking we came across a fork in the road and we had to decide which way to go.

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Here's a shot of Mr. Flibble with my GPS as he tries to figure out which route to take (we decided to take the road on the right).

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At last we reach the store. Here's a shot of the store..I guess. At least that's what the GPS tells us. As you can tell, Mr. Flibble looks a little confused. That's because the store looks closed.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/ubikuberalles/photos%20for%20dp%20site/vgtrip06.jpg

After some searching we decided that the store must be closed. The only thing we found in the store is this beer can.

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I was bummed because I was hoping for a good selection. With a name like BoulderDash, I figured it'll have a great selection. I even brought a couple carts for trade:

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Here's Mr. Flibble looking over the beer can. There was some writing on the beer can and we were hoping it would have instructions for the stores new location. Alas, no such luck. I was getting a little nervous because, as you can tell from his expression, Mr. Flibble was getting very cross.

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Just as we were about to leave this deer and her two friends approached the store. I had to tell them that the store was closed. They looked very dissappointed as they slowly left.

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Well, the trip was a bust but at least the view from the store was excellent!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v453/ubikuberalles/photos%20for%20dp%20site/vgtrip12.jpg

:)

[DJ_DEEM]

OMG Mr. Flibble ROCK!!!!!


nice pics by the way, i really did halfway expect there to be a gamestore at the end hahahah.

[mezrabad]

Mr. Geocacher are you saying you replaced the contents of the cache with Night Driver and ET? OR did Mr. Flibble stay there instead?

We should start a retrogaming exclusive Geochache network. It would give a new purpose in life to all the commons out there. Hell, we could devote an entire region to just Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt NES carts. That might actually be enough to inspire me to get a GPS.

[ubikuberalles]

Mr. Geocacher are you saying you replaced the contents of the cache with Night Driver and ET? OR did Mr. Flibble stay there instead?

It was my intent to replace one of the cache items with one of the carts but there was no cache at the site! I found out later, when I got home, that there is a green beer bottle nearby listing the new location of the cache. Apparently the old container was wrecked and someone replaced the container and moved it to a new place. I saw the beer bottle but I just thought it was trash.

Now that I know about the beer bottle, the next time I go hiking in the area I'll check out the new location.

Hopefully Mr. Flibble will have calmed down by then and he'll come along. :)

[Sanriostar]

Altair: That place looks a LOT like my old hometown. Were you near Ridgecrest, CA by any chance?

[ubikuberalles]

Altair: That place looks a LOT like my old hometown. Were you near Ridgecrest, CA by any chance?

Sorry, no. It's all Albuquerque, N.M. The foothills I hiked are east of town. The last picture in my first post shows parts of Albuquerque and Kirtland AFB. The Four Hills in the distance are part of what was formally called Manzano base. Manzano base used to house nuclear weapons manufactured by Los Alamos labs (I don't know what Manzano base is used for now).

I've seen the foothills and mountains in California and Arizona and they look a lot like those in New Mexico. Desert mountains look the same, I guess. The look of NM mountains are in stark contrast to what I've seen in Colorado and Montana. More vegetation and higher elevations are probably the reason why.