Geocaching for the Blonde

21 May, 2011

According to Harold Camping, today is supposed to be the Rapture.  What better way to spend the last day than geocaching with my brother Woodhick803 and my sister-in-law Wiscongranny?  It was a beautiful day for the Rapture; the first sunny and almost hot day in weeks and weeks.

Now let me state that I keep my hair blonde for a couple of reasons.  The most obvious one is that it somewhat hides the gray that insists upon showing up in greater and greater amounts every day.  The second reason is that I can easily explain away my failure to download today's caches into my GPS.  There must be a good punch line there somewhere:  "Did you hear about the blonde who went geocaching without downloading the co-ordinates for the sites?"   Argh....

Bowles Falls, not too far off I-77 at Sandstone, is beautiful!  I imagine this spot is cool and refreshing even during summer's hottest days.  Here you see Woodhick803 trying his best not to fall in the water.  We made this find harder than it was, wandering into some terrain that would be marked as a 5 (the higher the number, the rougher the terrain), only to spot the cache from the other side of the creek.

WARNING!!!  This place does NOT sell ice cream.  It sells tacky WV memorabilia.  It sells country cutesy decor stuff.  It sells junk food.  It even sells beer.  But it does NOT sell ice cream.  Can you imagine?  A geocaching staple.  No wonder the parking lot is deserted.

Geocaching gives me a great excuse to go tromping through the woods and to see places unknown to me.  This cache was found off the Tom Honaker Road, between Hinton and Athens, WV.  Easy hike, but what was so nice was listening to all the birds singing, something I miss by being a "town girl" now.

 Woodhick actually found this cache, so I'm not sure why Wiscongranny and I are posing for the photo.


There were other caches to be found  - some in the woods, some urban caches too.  We finally did get our ice cream and also had a terrific dinner at Outback.  The Rapture didn't happen - other than when we felt rapture at finding well hidden caches.

For more about today's adventure, check out Woodhick803's blog.  I'm sure he's going to be harping about blondes who forget to download their caches.  What do you want to bet?
 http://cachingin--geocachingme.blogspot.com/  (Oh wow - he hasn't posted his blog yet.  I'm off the hook for a bit longer.)

And for more about geocaching in general, visit http://www.geocaching.com/.

In the meantime, get outside and play!  (And remember to download your caches.)