Geocaching adventures
Jan. 15th, 2022 02:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yuuagoIt was a lovely day today, so I did a bit of geocaching.
My adventures took me into a quiet residential area near the forest. Kind of a middle of nowhere part of town; my brother had baseball practice down there back when we were kids, but I haven't been there since.
One was a new cache, hidden cleverly. It was a lockable tupperware container, and the cache owner had taped some very strong magnets to the inside of the lid, then placed it up on the inside of a roofed trail map. Really good place for one of these - it'll keep it nice and dry, and a lot of people don't think to look up.
The other... ugh. A forest cache. It was warm out, so the walk wasn't as unpleasant as it could have been, but I still ended up stomping through very deep snow for quite a while. The GPS took me to a steep dip, and there was no way in hell I was going to go down there when I couldn't be sure where I was putting my feet. SO, this one had to be logged as a Did Not Find. Alas.
Which is a real pain, because that forest cache has one of the stamps I need for the Wonders challenge. There's only one other cache in town with that stamp that I haven't tried to find yet, and it's out along some obscure access road and hasn't been found since 2020. Two people tried to find it last year, but marked it as DNF. I'll still look for this one eventually, but first I'll have to figure out where the heck that access road even is.
Hopefully in April or something I'll be able to avenge some of the caches I wasn't able to find over winter. ;V I should have started looking before we got that huge snow dump.
My adventures took me into a quiet residential area near the forest. Kind of a middle of nowhere part of town; my brother had baseball practice down there back when we were kids, but I haven't been there since.
One was a new cache, hidden cleverly. It was a lockable tupperware container, and the cache owner had taped some very strong magnets to the inside of the lid, then placed it up on the inside of a roofed trail map. Really good place for one of these - it'll keep it nice and dry, and a lot of people don't think to look up.
The other... ugh. A forest cache. It was warm out, so the walk wasn't as unpleasant as it could have been, but I still ended up stomping through very deep snow for quite a while. The GPS took me to a steep dip, and there was no way in hell I was going to go down there when I couldn't be sure where I was putting my feet. SO, this one had to be logged as a Did Not Find. Alas.
Which is a real pain, because that forest cache has one of the stamps I need for the Wonders challenge. There's only one other cache in town with that stamp that I haven't tried to find yet, and it's out along some obscure access road and hasn't been found since 2020. Two people tried to find it last year, but marked it as DNF. I'll still look for this one eventually, but first I'll have to figure out where the heck that access road even is.
Hopefully in April or something I'll be able to avenge some of the caches I wasn't able to find over winter. ;V I should have started looking before we got that huge snow dump.
Yuu. Fic writer & book lover. M/Canada.