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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!
Oh the woes of the short geocacher!
