Not only my most memorable, but my most satisfying FTF wasn’t a cache but a benchmark. It hadn’t been looked at in about 30 years, if I remember right. The only thing around was a little piece of an old witness post that looked to be sheared off about 2 inches above the ground. A nearby building was mentioned, but was no longer there. The only thing that remained from it was a concrete slab. After looking at and studying the official description I narrowed it down to a certain spot. It might sound like looking for a needle in the old haystack, but I started digging, and I actually found it about 4 inches below the surface in the first place I looked. I really like looking for the old bechmarks that the surveyors can’t seem to find. Talk about a sense of accomplishment.

Ours would be “Lost In Josten” in Green Bay by Gibonacci. It is a great multi-cache. If you haven’t done it yet I would HIGHLY recommend it.

We also met up with TKKS for the first time doing this cache.

I’m one of those with only a handful of FTFs so it isn’t too hard to pick out the most memorable one.

TALL TALE #2 Sagasu’s Spectacular Sunflower would have to be the one.

On a cold April day when this went active, I had the day off and decided to make the attempt. Somewhere along the trip over, I was talking with Sagasu and told him I was on my way. He tried to deter me by saying that there were others who chose not to even attempt it as we had just received 1/4-1/2 inch of new snow and the first waypoint would be very difficult to locate. Still I came, and was at least going to give it the old college try. I actually found the first waypoint pretty quick, and went on to the second. That turned out to be the most difficult at that time as I had no clue what I was looking for. I had not seen the variations those stupid little nanos could used in. Finally some visual hint tipped me off and I made the find of WP2. The trek to the final went pretty well other than the numerous trip hazards on the way but the huge, well stocked final made it all worth it.
Oh, did I mention that Sagasu showed up while I was looking for WP2?
It was a treat for him too watching me make the FTF.

Now, because of expansion at the cemetery and with the highway at that location, this cache has been moved out to the WiOuWaSh trail, renamed
Sagasu’s Spectacular Sunflower on the WiOuWaSh, and newly reactivated MAKING IT OPEN FOR A NEW FTF SEEKER and loggable a second time for those who found it in the original location. I have been challenged to make the FTF on the new location too, but may not have the time so have at it!!!

Note: The FTF on this one fell at 530pm to Sparse Grey Hackle and the Blondie Bloodhound. Don’t let that stop you though, check out the log.

My favorite FTF was Island of Lost Boys-Toys. I worked the night before and had a meeting to go to after that so I left work a little early and stopped at the cache on my way – kind of on my way 😆 . I had talked to Zuma that night and knew that he was going to go after this one that day. It was one of my first FTF’s and as I opened the log book and saw it was empty I was chuckling to myself thinking about Zuma’s expression when he opened the log book and saw that I beat him to it 😮 . That was the best part – kept me smiling the rest of the day. It was a good cache too. I don’t dare beat him to a FTF these days – not unless he makes me mad. 😈