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BeccaDay 8 years, 8 months ago.
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Every time I think of this log I giggle. How often have we had to wait out someone located where we want to search and what do we do…
“Milestone cache! #1000!! Biked up from Sister Bay, caught the nine o’clock ferry, and chose this one for the millennial cache find. You made me work for it though. First, the serious muggle problems at stage one; why wouldn’t they just leave? Then at stage two I walked on to the beach and groaned. Sitting directly on the cache was a girl with all her gear and books and writing material, getting inspired to write the Great American Novel. So, I walked up and, to avoid too much creepiness, introduced myself, explained geocaching, and enlisted her aid. The final stage was by far the hardest. After a long search I went back to the bike to look for a hint. Nothing. I hate to give up, so I went back at it. Even though it was right out in the open, and I had looked at it many times, my fingers found it first. Took some pics of the gorgeous view. TFTC!!”
That’s funny, I have definitely had that problem before. 😆
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
This one is from the final for the Meet the WGA series GC4NBQC:
Mrs. Hermit’s aunt came into town this weekend. She had heard some about geocaching from friends back home and wanted to find out more about what it was about. The WGA hides seemed to be a pretty good representation of what geocaching is about, so we decided to take her and Grandmother Hermit out to Wirth park to explore. Last stop for the day. We couldn’t just leave this one hanging out there unfound. Mrs. Hermit and I were able to make a quick spot of it, so we gave the hint to the newbies and set them off to find it on their own. One of them was literally within 3 inches of it at one time and didn’t realize it. (gotta give it a favorite just for that experience alone. Nice work!) Eventually we gave them another nudge and they figured it out. Very fun to watch! They enjoyed the series immensely and it sounds like the aunt is going to join her friends back east on some caching adventures of her own. We may have a convert here! Great set of caches! Thanks for the efforts to set them up. Well done!
I have gotten a couple of great logs lately. It sure is nice when someone appreciates the hard work you’ve put into your cache! Here’s one that I just received on one of my Harry Potter caches, GC657QW by Canoecolt.
Outstanding! Enjoying the finds and creativity used to make the Potter characters come to life. Bonus is that they are LARGE so welcome on cold weather days when one wants to keep hiking. Hagrid would have no problem locating this cache and signing the log. It was GIGANTIC. The passion of the CO shows through and makes us smile. Now deeper into the woods we go as Hagrid might suggest.
And another on my first night cache GC6W8K3 by Sneaky Wildcat:
STF! 40th find of the evening. I found 56 caches today and had 4 dnfs. Today I cached in Jim Falls, Brunet Island State Park, Cornell, Lake Wissota State Park, Pine Harbor Woods, and Eau Claire. It was a great November day to be out caching! It was a great evening to be out caching as well because the moon was really bright!
Parked in the suggested area and made my way to the starting point. Walked past the gate and then spotted the first tack quickly. I was easily able to follow the trail to the double reflectors. I looked around a bit and then spotted the container with the coordinates to the next area.
As I was walking in this area I wondered what it was used for. In one area I walked past a big loud utility building of some sort. I continued walking back further into the woods and then spotted the tacks again. At one point my flashlight shined a pair of eyes in front of me and then a critter scurried off into the brush. I think it was just a raccoon or a rabbit, but it still made me jump a bit!
I followed the tacks for a while until I got to a point where I had to make a decision. I thought I should go left because I saw two reflectors down a trail in the pine forest. As I started to walk towards them the reflectors disappeared and I knew it was another pair of eyes! I hoped those eyes belonged to a deer and not something else more menacing! I then shined my flashlight to the right and spotted the real reflectors and followed the trail through the dark woods. It was kind of creepy being back here by myself so I started singing songs and talking to myself so I would make my presence known to any other critters that might be in the vicinity!
After following the tacks back into the woods for what seemed like quite a while I finally spotted the final orange reflectors. The cache was in hand soon after spotting them. Signed the log and then started my trek back to the car. You weren’t kidding when you said this was a mile hike one way! I spotted a couple other sets of eyes with my flashlight on my way out, but I soon learned they were just deer as I saw their white tails; that was a relief!
At one point I took a different trail than I did on my way in, but managed to find my way back to the car without too many problems. My feet were quite sore when I got back to the car because I had already walked 10 plus miles earlier in the day mainly at Brunet Island and Lake Wissota State Parks, but it was totally worth it!
This was one of the best night caches I’ve ever done and also one of the longest! It took me about an hour to do this night cache. The tacks were all easy to spot and the final was fun to find. It was a little creepy walking way back in the dark woods by myself, but that just added to the adventure of this night cache! Definitely giving this one a favorite point!
Thanks for all of your hard work in setting up this wonderful night cache!
I’m giving this cache my November Cache of the Month Award! TFTC!Thanks to all out there that take the time to write about your experiences, I know that CO appreciates it!
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
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