The past few days I have been geocaching like crazy with J, we found a total of 19 caches in the past week. Thats a pretty impressive number. J just got started caching and he liked it so much he ran out and bought a GPS already. Looks like its going to be a long summer of caching!
Archive for April, 2008
For those of you who are wondering how much insaneness effort finding a cache, and Geocaching in general takes, look at this image overlay of the path I took to find a cache today. The funny thing is that about 20 minutes into looking for this cache, I realized that I had dropped my keys, and I ran off towards the top of the screen looking for them. Let it be said that I didn’t find the cache, but I will be going back with all intentions of finding it. Perhaps earlier in the day, when I have a few hours of sunlight on my side, and I don’t drop my keys, I will have a little more luck.
So I was out caching today and I reach up to scratch my leg, and I noticed that my keys were not in my pocket, where I had put them a mile back while looking for another cache. I freaked out and ended up re-tracing my steps over a mile in the thick forest, and found them. I call it being very lucky, because I was over 10 miles from home and it was getting dark fast. If I didn’t notice that I had dropped them before I headed back to my car, I would have been in real trouble. I wanted to get eight caches today, but ended up only getting two. It’s funny now that I look back on it, but at the time I was really scared. I got all disoriented, and if it wasn’t for the compass on my GPS I would have probably walked the wrong way, and ended up somewhere in someones back yard, or falling off a near by cliff in the dark. Lesson learned, get something to tie my keys to my body.
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