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Geogirl
by
Kelly Rysten
CCB Publishing
British Columbia, Canada
Geogirl Copyright ©2014 by Kelly Rysten ISBN-13 978-1-77143-151-4 First Edition Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Rysten, Kelly, 1960-, author Geogirl / by Kelly Rysten. -- First edition. Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-1-77143-150-7 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-77143-151-4 (pdf) Additional cataloguing data available from Library and Archives Canada Cover artwork by Kelly Rysten: www.kellyrysten.com Cache In Trash Out and Geocaching are trademarks and Travel Bug is a registered trademark of Groundspeak, Inc. Used with permission. This is a work of fiction. Names, places, and characters are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be considered as real. Resemblance to any events or persons, living or dead, past or present, is purely coincidental. Extreme care has been taken by the author to ensure that all information presented in this book is accurate and up to date at the time of publishing. Neither the author nor the publisher can be held responsible for any errors or omissions. Additionally, neither is any liability assumed for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the express written permission of the author, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For other permission requests, please contact the author. Publisher: CCB Publishing British Columbia, Canada
This book is dedicated to more than a million people. It’s to all those who hide caches in interesting places, create odd containers, and share their little known favorite quirky things around the world with the rest of us. How would I know about the giant cow at the California/Nevada border, about how mining was done in the early 1920’s, or where to buy the best pizza in a town of 30 without geocachers pointing the way through their little, hidden containers? How would I know that a pool a hundred feet down from a wire platform was the home to a fish that only lives in that one pool? I followed a geocache description there! I even sat in a fake electric chair, just because of geocachers.
Then there’s the finders, the people who search through rain, snow, sleet and hail in the dark of night and then post interesting stories about their adventures... and misadventures.
I can’t leave out the geocachers at Groundspeak Inc., owners of geocaching.com, and all the reviewers, the lackeys who travel from event to event, and Signal the Frog who attends mega events just to say “hi!” or rather… wave hi. Signal doesn’t speak. I’ve discovered Signal. Have you? Or the can of beans… have you discovered the can of beans?
Anyway… here’s to all you geocachers who walk, ride, paddle and fly to find elusive boxes hidden in weird places and keep the hobby, obsession, addiction alive.
