Woot woot! What a way to start the year, an FTF on January 1st! A local cacher had hidden a string of caches in a nearby park on 12/28 and I was unable to get to them. Finally I had a day off, so I checked the cache pages and they were still unfound. We loaded up and headed out. A quick 10 minute drive landed us in the first GZ with high hopes. Kiddo and I hopped out and arg… fresh foot prints in the dirt. My heart sank. We quickly found the cache container and sure enough we had been beaten to the first to find by cacher CanyonWildcat. But not all hope was lost. There were six caches in the series, maybe there was still a chance. We headed over to the 2nd GZ and as I wandered around in circles waiting for my GPSr to center I was approached by a man with a smile, it was CanyonWildcat! We talked a bit and he had only found the first two, so we cut the conversation short and headed off some more FTF’s! He went left and I to the right. I DNF’ed the next cache, but pressed on and finally came up with a clean log sheeting waiting for my signature. The cache was CS20 – Another Rocky Bison and it was a fun find indeed! Difficulty was 1.5 which might be a little low if one had not seen this kind of hide before, but with the title and hint it made for a great FTF to start the year. SEVERE SPOILER ALERT: cache container and location revealed below!
Team sblookers and I were out grabbing a few caches in Sedona and we ran across this cool container! I love the creativity of geocachers… Check out this cache: SEVERE SPOILER ALERT: cache container and location revealed below!
This was a fun geocache I scored while on the road. I have seen this type of hide before making this find a little easier, but it still is a great cache container! SEVERE SPOILER ALERT: cache container and location revealed below!
Friends and fellow cachers “SBlookers” sent me a picture of a super fun cache they recently found. SBlookers (at least Pappa Looker) and I have nabbed caches all over the country and even found a few abroad! This cache is one of the reasons I love geocaching: a cool cache highlighting a cool place. Geocache BB-61 USS IOWA highlights a retired battleship moored in the Port of Los Angeles. This cache has 62 finds and 17 favorites in only 6 months of being active! Here is how SBlookers earned this smiley: My parents and I were in San Pedro and we decided to see what geocaches were around us. We loaded the app and it showed one right down the street near the USS Iowa. We followed the bearing to the cache and we ended up in the parking lot of the Iowa. Lucky for us the ship was just closing and most of the visitors were driving away. This was a big help, so we parked right close to GZ. I walked all around GZ using the coordinates on my phone, but the distance wasn’t lining up. I had read the cache description so I knew I was looking for a magnetic bison tube, but I had no clue where it could be after looking in all the usual places. So I went back to the car to get my Dad. We walked back to the area where the coordinates told us to go. We were still baffled until we re-read the hint and the description again – it said the code was the year the USS Iowa was deployed. With that hint in mind we glanced over towards the fence and saw this somewhat out of place electrical box with a lock. We walked over to it, put in the four-digit code from the history of the Iowa that was posted in the cache description and -snap- the lock opened 🙂 Inside the box were many trinkets and the bison tube I was looking for earlier with an old log still in it. The new container, the electrical box, looked great and worked well. This was a fun find and a pretty clever and amazing geocache to find. Oh yeah, that super secret geocaching tip I promised: Don’t forget to read the full cache description! SPOILER ALERT: Cache container and location revealed!
We just finished filling in all 366 boxes in our Finds for Each Day of the Year grid. Yep, we have found a cache on every day of the year including the elusive Leap Day on February 29th! I noticed this stats box about 15 months ago, January 2013, and decided that the grid needed to be all green! A cache for each day of the year is all we needed and so we started. A cache on January 4th, another on the 15th. A smiley for February 14th and yet another on February 27th. Next on the list, March 9th. The funny thing is that last year on this day we were actually well aware that we needed a find for March 9th and the wifey and I even talked about grabbing a cache that fateful day a year ago annnnndddd we were even out and about, but we plain ole forgot. We got home, looked at each other – arg! So today is sweet redemption one year later! BEFORE: AFTER:
I love geocaching… and one reason is for the creativity that cachers put into their hides. This particular cache left me smiling because it is a classic cache container. I was in the hunt for an FTF on this cache, but ended up as an STF (second to find). It was still a fun hike on a gorgeous SoCal morning. SPOILER ALERT: Cache container and location revealed! A rare photo of the peanut butter jar in its natural environment… oooohhhh aaaahhhhhh! Please no flash photography and talk quietly as to not disturb it.
