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A reason to live a few more days……a Varied Thrush is visiting a feeder in Ettrick and the homeowner invites visitors. Not going today and probably not tomorrow. I’ve seen one before, but couldn’t get any photos. Hopefully I have better luck with this one when I go!
Steeling myself to head for the garage to get in my car and go to senior day at ShopKo. I missed it last month.
I’ll share two. I took Pooh’s Pal to Buckhorn State Park last spring. That cache is placed on a part of the park that was just developed with campgrounds and a nice trail. Pooh’s was holding the GPSr in one hand and dragging a big stick in the brand new gravel path behind him, “to help the geocachers find the cache!” I had a finder shortly after us ask if Pooh’s had a stick with him.
The other was Rock Island. Mrs. Sandlanders and I sometimes plan caching trips that move at a pace we enjoy without our usual partners…a bit more of a pace for Mrs. S and a bit slower for me! We did this one overnight last fall, and we enjoyed a nice slow walk from the ferry over to the other side of the island under glorious blue skies with leaves beginning to change color. We stopped to watch birds, take photos of those little water snakes all over the place, explore the water tower and chat with a lone camper. Because that cache has a logbook from one of the original island caches, we sat at the rocks by the water and read old entries, rather than racing off to the next cache available.
The fact that Trekkin’ was not a part of either of these memories isn’t a reflection on him, except that he tends to MOVE and it’s harder to hold onto a memory at that pace!
A birding friend in Duluth and I were tossing around the idea of connecting somehow for the chase, but it won’t work out for her. We figure we both live in the flyway and it’s going to head back home sometime. Does that sound like rationalization? Cause….it is!
I’ve “seen” it, too. A birding friend in Ohio made the chase today and posted a picture of the bird on the LCD screen of her camera.
Probably..I won’t. I’ve already decided I won’t go out looking for Snowies. Too much drama surrounding them and it’s not like I’ve never seen one.
Current dilemma….do I hop in the car and drive almost to Hannibal MO (Quincy IL) to try and see a bird that is rarely outside the Arctic Circle? A friend drove from Ohio today and she saw it. One of the local guys went this weekend and saw it. What to do……?
The bird is an Ivory Gull.
Becca, You are a good dog owner. When it’s this nasty, the dogs run in and out to do what needs doing. We tried the booties with one of them but could not get her to keep them on…AT all. We’d get two on, move to the other end and the first two were already off! I had grand thoughts of learning skijoring with her, but that pretty much killed that notion. We make up for it when the weather tempers, though.
No, there’s a trail over along highway 36 in Stillwater of so-called letterbox hybrids. It published the end of October and has 91 finds already. We have stuff that’s been out for years and has…..30 finds. But….can’t really complain, cause…we found these. Waiting for dinner.
Some logs mentioned being there for the earlier series…maybe that was the NATO series? Most of my metro area caching has been on the western side of the Cities, since my family is in northeast Minneapolis. Other than Lake Elmo, we haven’t found much of anything along the St. Croix valley environs.
Becca, We just can’t do the big generic log thing. I understand that it works for others, but we don’t want to go that way. I figure the cache owners put in effort to put these out, so I should reflect that effort if I can in thanks for that. That said….that A-Z trail down the road from the motel is going to get pretty ordinary logs!
We usually don’t have this problem. This trip was an anomoly.
Happy Birthday to Mrs. Pirate! Last time I had any kind of girls’ trip is when Mrs. SL and I went to Door County this fall. Before that…..probably when I was in Newfoundland for a storytelling conference….in 2010!
That sounds like a fun cache, Noonan! I don’t know when I’ll ever finish logging all our finds from the past three days. We haven’t cached like this in probably a year or more.
My knee is reminding me of that fact, too. We figure we hiked close to 30 miles over these three days. Up the hill, down the hill, up the hill, down the hill. The ups are fine. The downs kill that knee. Good thing we have a stretch of not fun weather. Indoor yoga now for a few days should help soothe what aches!
That should make for a fun night, Becca. You guys have earned one like this!
Yes. I would. You write logs the way we do. I will add any photos later. I will also insist that we don’t go out of character again and get tons of caches like we’ve been doing here. I am guessing we’ve hiked a good 20 miles over the past two days, and not all of it on level terrain, LOL. Knowing where you were…same thing.
Makes the appeal of mass logging seem really tempting, doesn’t it?
Getting old sucks! It’s becoming all too apparant that one day of hard hiking is about all my bum knee can manage anymore. We did a ton of hiking today, too, but it was slow going for me. Guess I need a few more days in between beating myself up. We even stooped to something we rarely do anymore…finishing the day doing half of a letterbox A-Z trail along a frontage road by the motel…really exposed, really easy. Guess we all have our falls from grace from time to time!
We got to Willow River and were starting our caching day at exactly 11:07 AM. By 5:10PM, we’d found 42 caches and I thought I was going to die. One of these times, we’ll remember to check the trip odometer to see how many miles we put on. Lots!
It was an absolutely beautiful winter day. We’ll be back there tomorrow for more. We found more today than practically most months last year. Oh well.
Almost all of the caches in Willow River have been found in the last week or even less than that. We have some warmer days and no more snow, so we’re going for it now, when we’re able to get away. Not expecting to get them all. There’s one puzzle that’s going to take a lot more work than we could take on a spur of the moment trip plan!
Becca, If you can, take a look for the other caches at Straight Lake that start from the north side…all IAT stuff. Really lovely area and most people just head in, get the SP one and another one or two and skip all those. They’ve missed out.
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