]]>Since the last post I was able to find Peanuts Playground – a really cool multi cache with a couple of tree climbs but nothing that difficult (compared to others that I have now done) and on the same day do several stages of the now archived Dozer’s domain. There were only 2 stages that I didn’t complete – both because I didn’t have the energy after the other 3 stages and Peanuts AND because it looked pretty scary! Nowadays I think I would have the guts and with some borrowed equipment I would probably be able to do it if it was still in place.
Just recently at the end of August I completed a 10 hour search for my fifth 5/5 geocache, appropriately enough 5-5-5 and had an awesome time. I took the day off work, the weather was gorgeous and we had great fun yomping through forests, abseiling and kayaking on some lakes – highly recommended. We also got to do a couple of other caches on the route too for an added bonus. Some of the pictures (that don’t contain spoilers) are on my facebook album here
The beginning of this month I was able to meet up with about 60+ geocachers to do Climbing 102+, the second in hopefully a yearly event on climbing trees. Got to use an ascender and a good old gregory to come back down again. 40 people climbed the ropes and signed the log book which is a great achievement. Many people are on facebook so I was also able to make quite a few new friends on facebook too. It was neat to see people of all ages doing the climbs – some of the kids were pretty fearless. My pictures from this event are on facebook here
Not sure what I am up to next, although this month I hope to get a cache or two in Texas which will add another state to my caching stats (and probably my hottest cache trip ever) and I’ve discovered another cool tunnel cache in the local area that I hope to do at some point too. As fall is coming out, the tree cover will change to be a beautiful color and then the leaves fall to make it easier in the woods for satellite signal so hopefully so more caching days are in the near future.
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]]>Anyway, Sunday is Geocaching’s 10 year anniversary and lots of events are being planned for this weekend (and this year). The event is Washington (home of the first geocache and Groundspeak) is expected to have over 500 people attend. Here in Ohio, I’ll be attending the 10 Years Columbus event A bonus feature of attending this event will be another new icon for the collection as all 10 year events get a new icon for the cache page.
More information and a place to find the nearest 10 year cache event to you can be found at http://www.geocaching.com/lostandfound
Along with the CacheInTrashOut cache I did earlier this month where we pulled many bags of rubbish by the river front, it’s been a busy month. As usual April has been my most product month of geocaching – It’s a good time of year – not too hot, not too cold. I’m going to try and get every day in May filled next month.
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
| Jan | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 40 | |||||||||||||||||
| Feb | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | X | X | 26 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mar | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 82 | |||||||||||||
| Apr | 21 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 26 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | X | 164 | ||||||||
| May | 2 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 77 | |||||||||
| Jun | 11 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 6 | X | 102 | ||||||||||||
| Jul | 1 | 1 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 70 | ||||||||||||||
| Aug | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 30 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sep | 3 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | X | 57 | |||||||||||||||||
| Oct | 1 | 2 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 55 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nov | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | X | 66 | ||||||||||||
| Dec | 16 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 48 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 24 | 11 | 45 | 36 | 52 | 10 | 28 | 35 | 11 | 32 | 26 | 34 | 32 | 45 | 17 | 28 | 38 | 64 | 9 | 28 | 25 | 26 | 11 | 19 | 25 | 10 | 14 | 37 | 22 | 17 | 6 | ||
ll be able to join them and by then Iâ€ll be up to 799 caches so this will be my 800th. I got out to do several caches this morning and enjoyed the walks – I even climbed a tree for one of them this morning so that will be good practise for next weekend.
If youâ€re interested then drop a note on the Cache page (or let me know here) and Iâ€ll see you Sunday
Unfortunately one of my travelbugs – a double blank domino went missing when the geocache that it was in also went missing. It’s a shame as the bug had put on a fairly decent 2386 miles.
I have resurrected one of my travelbugs – IT that went missing some time back. This time it has appeared as a Travelbug on the back of the car. It will be interesting to see who first spots it and where – whether it’s logged at a cache, an event or in day to day driving.
Still not got the impetus to go out and geocache – work has been very hectic recently so I just want to relax and do nothing at the weekend!
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m getting too old. Some of drainhooks caches are just crazy. I am still thinking about getting that Three on the tree cache though….
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