We have been caching since 2006 and many the about caching have changed since then. But the biggest change for me is the fact that in 2006 I was 59 years old and now I am 68. I had a heart procedure done in 2006 and hopefully my heart is the same now, but most likely it is not. My knees are bad, but I still manage to hike with pain. We walked 3 miles on the Bugline Trail today. I do that regularly to try and maintain my ability to do hiking caches. Last April we did all of the caches in Bice Forest and as difficult as it was for me it remains near the top of our list of memorable caching adventures. For us and our love of geocaching it has now become a mix of everything that the game now has to offer. Last weekend we walked the 2+ miles on the Rock River with the group to hunt the Owl Series. Did my knees hurt? Yes! Was it fun? You bet! Yesterday we did our first 5/5 which took some physical skill. We also found about a dozen hides in small parks and an equal amount of park and grabs. Our recent trip to Tennessee was a mix of hiking and park and grabs. It was the way we planned it and it turned out to be an amazing trip. Where this is going I’m not sure, but this is my perspective of geocaching for what it has to offer. In the next couple of months we have some hiking caches we want to find and I’m sure will satisfy the itch to find some caches with some park and grabs too. We have camping trips planned for this summer which will lead to some finds. In July we are going on a waterfall tour. Haven’t even looked if there are caches there, but I bet there are. The weather doesn’t look too nice for tomorrow so I hope a lot of you are online somewhere so I can get my geocaching fix there.
Off to lookup 14er
