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Woodhick and I started off early on Tuesday, 11/2/10, with a couple stops at caches I'd already found, but soon found ourselves off on a couple of Waypoint_Wayne hides.  The first one took us to a cemetery near Mabscott, WV, where we had to locate a particular epitaph and count the frequency of certain letters and then assign them numeric values.  That would then give us the co-ordinates to the cache itself. 

This hill is much steeper than it looks.  Poor old Woodhick practically had to scramble up the first 20 feet or so on all fours.  I stayed at the bottom, but Woodhick says he signed my name to the log anyway.  Can you see him up there?








By now it was time for lunch and if you've been following this blog, you know that a good lunch is always a highlight of the day.  This time it was at Calacino's for their supreme pizza.  Very good.  Good crust, too.  (And yes, both of us remember the original Calacino's when "pizza pie" was an exotic food in Beckley.)

Another Waypoint_Wayne geocache had us out seemingly miles away from town, although we were just at the end of Woodlawn Avenue, practically in the center of town!  This one was called Raleigh Coke and Coal #4 and contained a history lesson on the mine and the miners who lost their lives there.

While returning from this cache I got a text message from the Drybees family.  We connected with them at the YMCA soccer fields and did a couple of caches together, with the Drybees daughter making the finds.  Good job!








With the onset of poor weather, I'm wondering how many more geocaching days Woodhick and I will be able to make.  I'd certainly like to hit the 100 finds mark (I'm at 78 now) before I have to hang up the GPS for the winter.  We'll see.

Get outside and play!