GC1RECG FRAME 10 - TCs Bowling for Cache
Type: Traditional | Size: Other | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: Trove Chasers @ | Hide Date: 23/05/2009 | Status: Archived
Country: Canada | State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N49° 50.172 W97° 06.754 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
             

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Five-pin Bowling is a bowling variant which is played only in Canada where most bowling alleys offer it.

In 1908, Thomas F. Ryan, a Canadian, wanted a bowling game that was quicker to play and more genteel. He felt the balls were too big and heavy, and there were too many pins making the game too long. Ryan, developed a smaller ball and used only 5 pins in his version of the game.

The balls in five-pin are small enough to fit in the hand and therefore have no finger holes. The ball used in 5-pin weighs about 3 pounds. They are about the size of a softball. There are no holes in the ball.

At the end of the lane there are five pins arranged in a V. In size they are midway between duckpins and ten-pins, and they have a heavy rubber band around their middles to make them move farther when struck. At first, bowling pins used in five-pin were made of plastic-coated maple. Today's pins are made of a hard plastic and often feature UV-glow capability for black light glow bowling operations. The neck stripes on plastic pins are actually a red plastic tape that wears off with use. There are only 5 pins to knock down as well. Each pin is assigned a points value. The headpin is worth 5 points, the next two pins on each side are worth 3 points, and the outside pins are valued at 2 points each, for a total of 15 points. Each bowler gets 3 balls per frame. Knocking all the pins down on your first ball is a strike, worth 15 points plus the value of your next 2 balls. If you knock all the pins down with your second shot it is called a spare and is worth 15 points plus the value of your next ball. Using your third shot to knock down final pins is worth only 15 points. A perfect game in 5-pin bowling is worth 450 points.

Bowling is a fun game that just about anybody can play. It's a great way for the family to get together and enjoy an afternoon. It's not difficult to learn and today most bowling centers have machines that handle all the scoring for you. All you have to do is throw the ball.

This cache is Frame 10 in our BOWLING FOR CACHE series. This is the final frame in our series and is appropriately placed near a spot where you may now test your newly developed skills. Please watch out for muggles as this can be a very busy area. . Each frame is an individual cache, in which you will find a log book, pencil and one die.Throw the die 3 times and log the color for each throw in your "Found Log" on geocaching .com. All scores will be kept track of on a score sheet and for each 25 cachers that complete all ten frames a 1st and 2nd prize, for highest BOWLING score, of an unactivated geocoin will be awarded.

*****THE GAME IS OVER....THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT BOWLED*****

****CONGRATULATIONS*****
AS OF AUGUST 13 THE 1ST 25 CACHERS TO COMPLETE ALL 10 FRAMES IN ORDER OF HIGHEST SCORE ARE:
Chewys
Sol3
Glacier Ice
Pabloo
Peter and Gloria
Memomydog
jbrandt36
Bergmanfamily
MHZ
Old Billygoat
OHMIC
ertyu
3T's&aG
Team Kare-a-cache
TracyAndrew
Curtis R
Geo-Indy
Markzsalmon
MuStash
Hikhik
jleecollins
Da Bowz
tracama
Ztirnats & Zad
Thirdbase
PRIZES OF A GEO COIN WILL BE SENT OUT SHORTLY TO Chewys and Sol3

****CONGRATULATIONS*****
IT TOOK ANOTHER YEAR FOR 15 ADDITIONAL CACHERS TO COMPLETE ALL 10 FRAMES. IN ORDER OF HIGHEST SCORE THEY ARE:
swylie
GeoPahkers
Tromelin
Jean Deniche
ernie&bert&elmo&grover
dani carriere
stingy bandits
Wally K
1queen4jokers
junglehai
happymole
JollyJones
burchil
dtex
persta
PRIZES OF A GEO COIN WILL BE SENT OUT SHORTLY TO Swylie and GeoPakers

17/10/2010 By Kabutroid
My first cache of the day. I'm actually mildly surprised at myself going after it, too. For one, it wasn't a particularly warm day out (+10 according to ye olde weather network), and I had a multitude of things at home that I really should stop putting off . However... today, I wanted to go biking. Thus, I set out to do exactly that.

So despite the cold and procrastinated tasks at home, I grabbed my bike and headed out. I wasn't entirely sure where I was going, but for some reason I started heading South. As with every time I go biking, I had grabbed my geocaching kit in case I came across any caches to tackle amidst my travels. I had recalled several caches in the general vicinity of here while driving past on various occasions, so it wasn't too long into my Southbound journey that I decided to finally take the time and effort to go after them. A bit of winding my way down the Bishop Grandin greenway, and I eventually found myself nearing the coordinates for this cache. It was actually only at this point when I even looked at what the name of the cache was, in hopes of getting at least a slight hint about it. Or at least the size of it. This cache was listed as an unlisted size... which filled me with a bit of worry. I think this is pretty much entirely due to my noticing that many geocachers have taken 'unlisted' size to mean 'nano' when placing a cache (if they're placing a nano, of course). However... I've found other caches of the "Frame" series, and hadn't known them to be of that variety... so I wasn't too worried. Moreso just found it at bit odd, but brushed it off.

Arriving at the coordinates, I was pretty much able to zoom in on the approximate structure that I would be searching. It looks like luck was going to be with me today! In previous 'Frame' caches, I've had a bit of trouble finding them... but this one I think I stumbled across in a scant few second. I had had an initial though as to where the cache would be hidden. However, the moment I tried to reach my fingers into the spot I figured it to be hidden, I was startled to find that said location simply didn't exist, and my hand it 'solid' instead of... well... not. Ok, scratch that theory. However. I noticed something else somewhat near to where I had just tried to search. A bit of a quick 'test poke' confirmed that I had indeed found the cleverly hidden cache. Awesome job on the location though! No clue how you managed to place it here, or if perhaps the spot conveniently already existed or something. Or way or the other, I was quite impressed.

So with the cache container in hand, I sat down by my bike and proceeded to sign the logbook. There looks to have been several bumper-sticker looking things in there for some band... kinda gave me the impression that some non-cacher stumbled across it and put those there, but eh... just a random thought that sprang to mind. With that done, I replaced the cache as found, and was otherwise amused with the other objects found there. In retrospect, I should have checked if any of them were a travelbug in need of moving, but given none are listed in the cache, it looks like it all worked out in the end anyway .

In either case, after leaving everything as I had found it, I hightailed it to the next cache. Thanks for putting another cache within biking distance of my place! For a while, it was starting to get a bit sparse. Course, given this cache has been here since last year, I apparently need to work on my dani-radius a bit harder still .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball