A cache a day, keeps boredom away? 28 August, 2010

I took a trackable from a cache yesterday and wanted to drop it off ASAP to get it on its way.  What better place to get the little guy traveling than at Tamarack.  This is "A Cache for Woobie" (not sure who or what Woobie is) and you can see what the inside of a cache looks like.  This was in an ammo box and an easy find, except my hand had a slight argument with some barbed wire.  As usual, sustenance was necessary.  I think Tamarack's carrot cake has just replaced their key lime pie as my favorite.

Pipestem State Park, 27 August, 2010

A great day GC'ing today with Woodhick803 and Mrs. WH.  Pleasant temperature, good company, 100% finds.

Someday WH and I will learn to trust our GPS equipment.  We traipsed around in the woods looking for Pipestem Quick Cache for over an hour.  Up the hill and down the hill, around the hill, and back again.  I had already given up when WH said to give him a few more minutes.  You know what he did, right?  He found the cache!  Yay!  Once he trusted his GPS and wasn't arguing with it any longer, he walked right to the cache.  Here he is --

I picked up a small yellow CareBear travel bug and hope to transfer it to A Cache for Woobie later on today.

A quick find at Harris Homestead for me (marked a 2 difficulty, it should have been 1/2) then off to McKeever Lodge for lunch. All that prowling around in the woods works up an appetite, not that I actually need an excuse to eat.  (More about that later.)

After learning our lesson about trusting our GPS, we walked right to the Law Hollow Trail Cache.  Pleasant walk going down the hill, got some exercise going up.  An easy find though.

(Ugh. Those jeans look terrible on me....)

 Mrs. WH claims the final find of the day at Turkey Spur Cache.  Nice going!

 Cool fungus (looks like a sponge, doesn't it?) found on the Turkey Spur Trail.







As in the past, the day ended with a stop at the Hinton Dairy Queen for MORE FOOD!!!

A fun day, good weather, good company, good finds.

Ready to go? 26 August, 2010

I'm ready for tomorrow's day of geocaching with Woodhick803 and Mrs. WH.  We're planning on hitting several sites near Pipestem State Park, WV.

Oh yeah......

Woodhick803 has started a geocaching blog too.  http://cachingin--geocachingme.blogspot.com/

Yes, he's my brother and if anyone tells me we look alike, you're in BIG trouble!  LOL! 

19 August, 2010

Spent a lovely day GC'ing with brother Woodhick803 and SIL.  We started out in the rain at the New River Gorge Visitors Center - Sandstone Falls, getting some information we needed for an Earthcache and also getting the "eyeroll" when we explained to the volunteer what we were doing.  Argh - I guess he'd forgotten the thrill of searching for hidden treasure.  Onward to Cemetery Cache where Woodhick803 found the first cache of the day, hidden in plain sight but, at the same time, very well camouflaged.

After that a quick stop at the Hinton Dairy Queen for lunch - gotta be well fed, ya know - and on to the John Henry statue and Steel Drivin' Cache.  We never did find the cache there, even though we made a return trip to it and searched everywhere we thought it should (and shouldn't) be.  It's a pretty popular stopping place and we all wondered if it had been kidnapped.


I got the second find of the day at TGH-Summer Camp.  Yay me!  Since we had to return through Hinton, another stop at DQ was in order!  GC'ing encourages such an appetite.

The majority of the remainder of the day we spent at Sandstone Falls.  Even though I've lived less than 30 miles from the Falls for most of my life, I'd never been there.  It's beautiful and I'm so glad today's adventure got me there. 

We finished finding the necessary info for the Earthcache and spent more than a few minutes at Roadside Swimmin' Hole, but no luck there.  The last few logs for that site had mentioned that they couldn't find the cache either, so none of us felt too badly that we had to join that list.

Mom always wanted my brother and me to play together and I know she's absolutely beaming that we're enjoying GC'ing together.  

All in all, a good day.

16 August, 2010

Did some scouting today to find Groce 'n Cache, a micro cache hidden about 1/2 mile from my house at the local supermarket.  Way too many people around to actually do a search, but I have a pretty good idea where it is.  Will keep an eye on the store and will look again when things are quieter there.

Day 1: August 14, 2010

Today was my first real foray into geocaching.  My brother went along, while his wife and her friend waited in the car for us.  We stopped at three sites, finding two caches: Tamacache, Almost Off Your Rocker in Beckley (no luck there), and Young Cache Chow's. 

Many thanks to my friend Lisa for getting me started on this new adventure.  I think it will be great fun.

That's my brother at Tamacache.

That's me at Tamacache.