Well, Chris and I each had a part in solving the puzzle (although he was SO CLOSE to the solution when he handed it off to me), so it was only fitting that we should go together to find the cache once we had the solution.
We had some trouble finding the correct way in (okay, there's no WE who had trouble - I was WRONG!) but we were eventually in the right spot and put on our snowshoes. It was an amazing way to get to the cache - I'm not sure we would have made it without the snowshoes, in fact. We had a tricky decent down into a little ravine with a frozen brook at the bottom, then we started to search. We looked in several places without luck and I think Chris was about ready to call it when he tried just one more spot. He turned and said, "I've got it right here." So we both yelled out Chris' normal YAHOO, he tossed the cache container out to me, I opened it up, found the log and signed it off.
The climb back out of the ravine on snowshoes was a great deal easier than I expected it to be and in a few minutes we were back at the car having spent approximately 45 minutes on the trail.
Huey's driver training was actually our second find today. Last night a new cache placed by roxy1rose called Treasure in the Trees EH? (GC2N419) was published. We actually went to it first hoping for an FTF but when we arrived there was another car parked at the parking coordinates. It turned out to be Kevin of 4CeasonS, but he hadn't snagged the FTF either. That honour belonged to r_sheppard who had beaten all of us by an hour or more.
I had started the day with an one hour walk at the indoor soccer facility in west-end Kentville, so I sure got my exercise today! I won't need much rocking to get to sleep tonight!
All in all, it was an awesome day! Now, if we could only sidestep the storm forecast for tomorrow....
Ken
Ken sounds like you had quite a day, keep that up and i won't be able to keep up with you.
ReplyDeleteBrian, in fact, we commented on our way back to the car how much you would have enjoyed that cache! And I don't think we will ever be in the situation where you can't keep up with me! The other way around, definitely!
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