Had an unexpected chance to end 2010 on a positive note. 14 new Blackrattle caches on the section of RTTs he is developeing got posted after dinner. Vic wanted to goto town for some errands and she surprised me by saying that when we get back from town why don't you take off after the caches. Goto love a woman who supports my hobby so well. Got on the trail around 3:30 and had a decision to make. From where i parked there were 12 caches in 1 dirrection and 2 in the other. Went in the direction of the 12 caches and got FTF on all 12, YAHOOOO!!!!!
By the time i got back to the truck it was getting too dark to do the other 2 so i will leave them for another day. Had a great 2.5 mile hike in the process.
What a great way to end 2010.
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Spreading Some Sunshine
Well, I spent four or five hours out caching with Claire of Acadian Cachers today. She and Barry are going through a bit of a rough time right now with Barry's Dad being hospitalized and she wanted some company on the hunt today.
Claire was only seven short of 500 when we left her house around noon.
We started out at a cache near Kingston which a friend of hers has placed recently. We got to GZ and searched and searched and searched. There were all kinds of great places to hide a cache but no cache to be found. We called it and headed on to our intended destination, Bridgetown and surrounding area. (Claire contacted the CO late this afternoon after I dropped her back home and apparently the cache is right at the side of the road - and likely now covered by snow plowed off the road.)
So, we get to Bridgetown and I decide to gas up in case Claire gets a call to head to the hospital. Such a call never came, but I wanted to be prepared. We found our first cache at the ESSO station by the Highway 101 exit at around 1:00 PM. We had some snow issues on some of the R2T trails, I was surprised how much snow there was in some areas in the woods down that way.
Anyway, we got Claire her 500th at GC1B6TK. In fact, I just booted a couple of pics of her at the cache site to my log - and then we did two more. Then she says "Would you be angry if I said I want to stop now?" Of course not! So we headed for home about 3:30 PM.
Claire is now at 502 and we had an enjoyable few hours together. I hope I managed to spread a little sunshine for her this afternoon!
Claire was only seven short of 500 when we left her house around noon.
We started out at a cache near Kingston which a friend of hers has placed recently. We got to GZ and searched and searched and searched. There were all kinds of great places to hide a cache but no cache to be found. We called it and headed on to our intended destination, Bridgetown and surrounding area. (Claire contacted the CO late this afternoon after I dropped her back home and apparently the cache is right at the side of the road - and likely now covered by snow plowed off the road.)
So, we get to Bridgetown and I decide to gas up in case Claire gets a call to head to the hospital. Such a call never came, but I wanted to be prepared. We found our first cache at the ESSO station by the Highway 101 exit at around 1:00 PM. We had some snow issues on some of the R2T trails, I was surprised how much snow there was in some areas in the woods down that way.
Anyway, we got Claire her 500th at GC1B6TK. In fact, I just booted a couple of pics of her at the cache site to my log - and then we did two more. Then she says "Would you be angry if I said I want to stop now?" Of course not! So we headed for home about 3:30 PM.
Claire is now at 502 and we had an enjoyable few hours together. I hope I managed to spread a little sunshine for her this afternoon!
Breakfast Event
Attended a breakfast event at Arby's in Bridgewater this morning put on by escaperr. Had a great time and realized i had met all but one of the 35 people in attendance before. A year ago when i went to events i only knew a few people there now i know everybody by name, pretty nice group of people to be associated with.
There were 26 new caches put out for the event, they weren't published before the event but we were given a list of caches with co-rds to work from. I didn't have time to do the caches as i had to get home and get ready to leave for Hantsport to visit our daughter. Looking at the list of co-rds i realized that one of them was near my house so off i headed home.
Found the cache on side of 103 about 5 miles from home, FTF with a coin as FTF prize. Now have to wait for the cache to publish so i can log it.
Had a nice visit with Chris & Rhonda before we left Hantsport. What a great day.
There were 26 new caches put out for the event, they weren't published before the event but we were given a list of caches with co-rds to work from. I didn't have time to do the caches as i had to get home and get ready to leave for Hantsport to visit our daughter. Looking at the list of co-rds i realized that one of them was near my house so off i headed home.
Found the cache on side of 103 about 5 miles from home, FTF with a coin as FTF prize. Now have to wait for the cache to publish so i can log it.
Had a nice visit with Chris & Rhonda before we left Hantsport. What a great day.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday
great day out with ken , we had a lot of fun and lots of laughs and it was neat to send face book a picture and to get a response back from 'the seeker" ... Brian, you would have loved the walks today ........ I got 12 and Ken got 13 so we did great ........... Thanks Geo Ken ................ Super day ............ Nova Man
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Plan for Monday
Assuming the weather is okay and that ken is doing ok , he and I plan a day ( a shorter one - maybe 6 hours ) but I am inching to get out ----- Greenwood here we come //
have a good night
have a good night
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Nice Event Cache
Tonight I took a spin to Greenwood to attend H4FF's event cache, GC2JDGE - Happy Holidays!
Diane, Tony, Kelsey and Jennifer had a great turnout for their event - 21 caching families including enough individuals so that it was SRO! (I haven't heard the count of how many individuals were in attendance.)
It was nice to see several new cachers as well as our pals rick o and Miss LaLa77. It was also good to see Mark & Keatha (Momma and Papa Bear of team 3-Bearss) and Allan (Falach-fead) all the way from Ottawa! I could go on and on listing attendees, but the online logs are there for the browsing!
And every caching family - all 21 - came away with a prize! Now that is good planning!
Diane, Tony, Kelsey and Jennifer had a great turnout for their event - 21 caching families including enough individuals so that it was SRO! (I haven't heard the count of how many individuals were in attendance.)
It was nice to see several new cachers as well as our pals rick o and Miss LaLa77. It was also good to see Mark & Keatha (Momma and Papa Bear of team 3-Bearss) and Allan (Falach-fead) all the way from Ottawa! I could go on and on listing attendees, but the online logs are there for the browsing!
And every caching family - all 21 - came away with a prize! Now that is good planning!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Statistics
I don't usually pay too much attention to my caching stats exept for knowing what my approximate current find number is. But today I was looking at my numbers and I have logged more finds this year than I have in all other previous years combined! A total of 742 finds year-to-date and 573 total in all previous years! Wow!
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