Trail Mix

One night over the weekend, there was a wonderful full moon out and the temperature was above zero Celsius, so we randomly drove to a cache area. Once there we did a half mile walk to the cache and then bushwhacked to ground zero. Despite the great light cast off from the moon, the bushes still seemed eerie. Luckily all went well and we made the find. The stroll back was even better since the breeze was behind us. It was a great night. Sometimes night caching can be just as good as day caching... this was one of those times.

So we decided to upgrade the GPS to a Garmin 60s. After receiving it, we took it out on a 4 day - single cache workout. Hasn't been much of a test for it just yet, so the jury is still out on if it is any better then the Colorado or not. Either way, it is a nice unit and we're glad to add it to our caching arsenal.

This year started year late as we experienced one of the worst winters in quite a while. The first real adventure was the annual Cache And Release Winter event at the beginning of May. It was a cold day with quite a bit of snow on the ground. After the first two drive by caches, the third was along the Sturgeon River. We spent way too much time slogging through the hip deep snow, though getting the First To Find (FTF) was a nice reward. It was then we both decided it was time to invest in some snow shoes. So it was off to Canadian Tire and then back out into the frigid weather. Armed with the new equipment, we found our stride and grabbed seven more caches. It was great fun and made us fans of snow shoeing. Unfortunately, the time spent fighting with the deep snow and buying some snow shoes killed most of the day and with night falling along with the temperature, we decided to call it a day. 10 finds in total with 5 FTFs. It was fun. Next year we'll be better prepared for the snow.

This past year we went down to Utah for Christmas. While there, we took Zer0 up on his offer to go do the Kokopelli Series of geocaches. The series is made up of approximately 150 caches, placed in such a way as to resemble the Kokopelli. The link below offers a map view of the caches... zoom out to see the picture. http://www.geocaching.com/map/default.aspx?lat=37.033767&lng=-113.963867 The caches were laid out in the desert and after much hiking, we found all of them. Though it wasn't about the numbers, we did hit the 1000 finds milestone. More important though was the adventure of wandering around the desert and completing this series.