A Perfect Caching Day

100% finds.  Perfect score!

20 October, 2010, was "catch-up" day.  I met up with Woodhick803 and got a few finds that he had already discovered, plus getting a couple of caches he'd put out.  He's still about 10 caches ahead of me, though.  Gotta get more, gotta get more than him.  That ol' sibling rivalry doesn't stop, does it?

Here is Woodhick803 laughing at me.  We'd spent over an hour at Hern's Covered Bridge in Greenbrier County, WV, looking in the wrong place.  On a whim, he moved over to the other side of the bridge.  I told him he wasn't going to find it there and to trust our GPS readings, but, like the brother he is, what did he do but go and find it.  Argh.  Honestly, I think he had this cache in his pocket and pulled it out just to prove his point.

As I've said several times before, geocaching gives me the chance to get out and see sites that I've missed.  Here's the Greenbrier River Trail near Anthony, WV.  Pretty, huh?  I found several gigantic oak leaves along this trail.  Gigantic as in almost 12" long.  Wow!  Lots of acorns and black walnuts too.

We had an unofficial "escort" for this part of the Greenbrier River Trail.  Here you see Woodhick803 and Goldie.

Earthcaches don't offer a cache in the usual sense, but instead teach something about nature.  Here I am at Flowing Spring on Route 19, north of Lewisburg, WV.  I had to figure out the flow rate and magnitude of the spring (hence the bucket) and whether this was an artesian spring or a gravity fed spring.




 I think I logged 14 finds for this perfect geocaching day.  No DNFs!!! Yay!  Perfect score, beautiful autumn weather, good food at WisconGranny and Woodhick's home.

Get outside and play!