FAD?

FAD?

What is FAD? In short FAD is the only geocaching Mega Event in Sweden, FAD stands for Fumble After Dark and the event has evolved into it's current form over the years (next year (2012) will be the 10th incarnation of the Event!).

We decided to go this Mega Event after returning home from the Mega Event in Catalunya, our friends in Lhasa_runner decided to join in on the fun and as usual we pushed the envelope somewhat by not staying the night but rather going back and forth to the west coast of Sweden in the same day.

We left rEDdOG base at 0600 hours and headed south west towards Floda/Lerum, we arrived just in time for the inaguration of the event where we met some new and some old friends.

After this we decided to head out and grab something to eat and then log some caches in the area before heading back to FAD for the evening activities. We found some really nice hides and some not as good and annoyingly enough we ended up with a string of DNF just before heading back to the event, that didn't exactly lift the spirits but we hung in there and joined the massive queue to get our GPSes loaded with the necessary waypoints forh the nightly activities. 

After securing the waypoints we headed out into the dark to experience what FAD is all about, it didn't start well, our Garmin Oregon hadn't gotten any waypoints so we had to rely on the GPSMap 60 of lhasa_runner which was less than optimal since the waypoints loaded into those had no more information than the coordinates and name... No more information. However we pressed on and managed to complete one of the sectors (sector C), after this sector we decided to head for home, feeling slightly disappointed in FAD. The organization was really good, but still we couldn't help feeling that something was lacking. with this said I think there is a good chance of us going again for the 10 years super jubilee but that is a year away and who knows what will happen between naw and then?