Checking in. Finally walked our upper 20 acres the other day. Great views, but I forgot to take a camera/phone with me, so no new pictures from the trek, I’m sure there will be many more. One thing that really hit me was a dead pine that was partially burned. It looks like a huge corkscrew, can’t wait to get a picture on here. My wife says no caches on the property other than the Bug hotel at the end of the driveway/wagon. I have ideas but nothing solid yet for that…
Huge flocks of cranes are a couple miles away at the lake (Swan Lake) at the base of the mountain. Nothing available to see them from here, so I can’t see what they are, but they sure are loud!
I have to share this log from one of my hides on the Trail. The only thing that upsets me about it is how the two finders (friends of mine) moved the hide to a less messy location. I had the T rating higher for a reason, now it isn’t applicable to the hide…not that many people are beating a path to my hides yet. Here’s the log:
Luckily we parked over by this cache and did our walking out beforehand. We still had plans for another 3 hours of caching. Looked pretty mucky down there , looked at logs and went in from the east side. So far so good. Spotted cache. Still ok. Little muddy but okay. Got to gz and tossed cache to Miller0126 to sign logs. Sinking but still okay. Before the cache was in my hands things turned for the worst. I was sinking pretty fast. Was probably 10 inches on both legs. Struggled to get free. First leg out but my shoe didn’t come with it. Second leg out. I attempted to get shoe out but the harder I pulled on the shoe the further I sunk back into the abyss. Almost slipped and then called it. Hobbled out with one shoe lost to the cause. We moved cache so this won’t happen to any other cacher. Miller0126 grabbed new cords and will send them to co. Will definately remember this one for awhile.
I did maintenance on a cache today. The land had turned to goo, so every step was a twisting/turning experience. With each step, I never knew if my foot would turn left, right, both or neither – or slide like stepping on a greasy floor. It reminded me of walking to Lambeau Field before all the homes were built. Sliding through clay fields after thousands of other people had walked the same area wasn’t fun. This wasn’t fun either.
There are people from all over the area looking at my 40 caches that still need FTF. I’m wondering who will be brave enough to trek through the slop to get to the nice Trail. Who knows, they may still be available when HP2 gets back this way!
.
