Curly Girls hits a milestone in the swamps!

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And, be sure to have a full charge on your cell phone just in case you need to call the Medivac.

So the reason they are 5-star terrains is the special equipment needed is a caching partner and a cell phone??? 🙂

I predict these 2 will never be found by me. I am a wimp and pale in comparison to the guts and determiniation that Curly Girl Lisa has…

[Team Hemisphere Dancer]

@-cheeto- wrote:

I predict these 2 will never be found by me. I am a wimp and pale in comparison to the guts and determiniation that Curly Girl Lisa has…

I remember a brave soul conquering a squall out on the great Winnebago in nothing but a battered canoe.

[Curly Girls]

This sport sure will do crazy things to you, like make you go trekking in the swamp in 15 degree weather! My original plan was to make the trip for my 1K tomorrow (Monday) on my day off of work with my husband. Glad that I went when I did! Look at all the snow we have now!

The swamp was a challenge and I was glad to have seldom|seen there as my guide. He was quick in that marsh, almost too quick! We lost contact a few times and I grew very tired blazing a trail in the tall marsh grass. After a while, I took off my snowshoes and took a break from the exhausting work with those big gadgets on. I have to admit, there was a moment when I was having visions of a hovercraft or Theda-Star come to my rescue. It was a bit nerve-racking (yeah, and probably insane) to be out there in the marsh wandering around on that rotten ice. I wanted so bad to be the first girl to find this cache….

Well, persistence paid off and not long after taking off the snowshoes, I found myself reunited with my guide and we had discovered the cache!

I was so happy to be on our way back and got a bit anxious and ended up breaking through to my knees. Darn the luck! Thankfully seldom|seen was close by and grabbed the big walking stick I had brought and pulled me out. Snowshoes went back on then! I was surprised that I did not get too cold and had the wet stuff on for about an hour before I got to take it off.

Since we were all geared up, we managed to look for and find the (in)famous SSSS, the other 5/5 cache. It was all quite an adventure! I even had to leave a party early to meet up with s|s, and I sure was not going to tell anyone where I was going or what I was doing for fear they would think I was NUTS!!!

So now that the 1K is done, I have to feed my geo-appetite and look for opportunities to make some progress on my maps! I think Santa is even going to give me a trip to Denver this year! I have a plan all thought out that will maximize and give me 7 more states for my caching map! Now all I need to do is talk Grandma into watching the kids for a week! That is going to be the hard part! Maybe even harder to do than find 2 caches in the swamp! 😀

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