Not much to write about when you’ve only got three new finds over an eight day period. A two-find day last Saturday and then one more yesterday is all the Stoogeteers have to our name of late. For those who might be curious, here are the ones we got:
Caution. Low clearance. – 2.5/2 by x_superman_x
Martha Stewart’s Stash – 1.5/3 by Jigada
Ganier Ridge Virtual Cache – 1/2.5 by Murrcat
And that’s about it. Hopefully we’ll have more to write about soon.
Halpert
Yes, the Stoogeteers have reached the 200-mark. The January rain that fell over Nashville threatened to derail today’s campaign, but I persevered and got the four finds needed to reach our goal. The rain did kind of put a damper on the photography though, so I’m sorry to say that there aren’t many pictures from the day’s hunt. We got to 200, though, and that’s what matters.
Find #197: Shy’s Hill (2/3.5 by FireFighterEng33)
The day started with a nice little hike up Shy’s Hill, site of one of many encounters in the Battle of Nashville. Atop the hill (which would have given me a great view had the fog not been so dense) I found the cache in a fallen tree as it’s hint suggested. The rain was beginning to fall, so I cut my stay at the higher elevation a little shorter than I would have liked, leaving the flags, embattlements, and canon behind for the dry car below. Three caches to go.
Start climbing here
Find #198: Bats (1.5/1.5 by Warner Parks)
After driving around in the rain and having to post a disappointing DNF for •here• by sduck (a search that included stepping in some animal’s former meal soon followed by me having to get that off my shoe) I made my next find just off a trail in scenic Edwin Warner Park. However, this park loses its scenic quality on days like today, when the trails are wet and the sky is gray and it’s just above freezing as far as temperature goes. The hardest thing about this one was staying reasonably dry and clean while hiking to it. The search itself lasted all of twenty seconds. TNLNSL. Only two left now.
Find #199: Gitty Up 2 (1.5/1.5 by JoGps & Family)
After yet another disheartening DNF (this time in front of the Warner Park nature center where the 60CSx told me I was a foot away from Getting Back To Nature as I stood in the middle of the road having searched the surrounding areas multiple times) I headed up the scenic drive in search of our 199th cache. The rain had been reduced to a light drizzle, but time was becoming a factor now and I had to hurry if I was going to make it home by 3:30 as requested. I got within ten feet and searched all the promising spots but came up empty. I had to find this one fast so I pulled out the iPhone 3G and opened the Geocaching app hoping to get a helpful hint. My wish was granted. The hint gave me a great idea of where to look and I found the cache pretty quickly after that. It was a nice hiding technique, one that removed gravity from the equation (not literally, but if you find it you’ll see what I mean). With the log signed and time running out, I sprinted back to the car and made a beeline for…
Find #200: William’s Tribute (1.5/1 KLifeMom)
This virtual cache is made up for it’s non-physicality by taking me to a really cool place, which is half the fun in this great sport of geocaching. We’d passed this one up a few days ago because we couldn’t see where we were supposed to go to find the information, but today I spotted the site from the road. I pulled over, put on the hazards, and sprinted across the wet field with my camera (so I wouldn’t have to remember any information in my haste). I reached the graves of William Scruggs, Sr. and his wife Sarah under the only tree the field had to it’s credit and took the necessary snapshots I needed in order to answer the quesition of how long the husband mourned for his wife. My work done, I ran back to the car and managed to get my shoes only a little wet. Once home, I emailed the owner and received credit for find number 200. Despite the weather, it had been a good day of geocaching, but then again, it usually is.
Halpert
Click here to see photos from today on Flickr.As the name of this entry might suggest, today I was able to not only be a seeker of caches but an owner as well. Being able to simultaneously give back to and get something out of this wonderful sport is truly a privilege and doing both in one day is simply pretty good.
First off, the finding part. Today’s find was of the virtual nature. Winds of Change is a 1/1 by AbbysGrammy which I can’t say to much about lest I divulge the answer and give it away. It was a good find though, and a nice way to end a night at church.
Speaking of church, the “fixing” mentioned above refers to some maintenence performed on aptly named cache Here is the church…, a 1.5/1 that shouldn’t be too tough to find. After seeing a log on Sunday saying that one cacher could not locate the hide, I went over and checked to make sure the cache was still in place. It was, but somehow it’s contents had become a tad waterlogged. This was strange to me, for I had thought the container to be of the watertight sort. Apparently, that is not the case. Watertight or not, I replaced the soggy log (that almost rhymes) with a new dry one in a protective plastic baggie. Also, in light of recent DNFs and some reconsideration, I upped the difficulty half a point from its previous status as a 1. So there you have it, a bland day of caching, but a day involving caching nonetheless.
Halpert
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