It was pretty cold today when we went out for some fresh air and adventures on the first day of the New Year. The Mrs is really into geocaching and has introduced each of us to this very economical and fun way to add some exploration, hidden treasure and adventure into our lives. It is really a fun way to spend time together. Taking turns as the line leader following the path on the GPS keeps us all engaged. Making suggestions of where we might think the geocache might be found has really kept our interest. It also has made us wonder where we might stash a cache of our own.
Finally today we did. After bungling a cache placement on the 30th of December, because we did not know of another very close pre-existing cache, we had to relocate my first cache. My fly fishing themed cache was found by a fly fishing friend because I had posted the coordinates on washingtonflyfishing.com before the cache was activated by goecaching.com (hence my total bungle). My friend read the coordinates and headed out and found the cache. Today I fixed my mess up. The ladies tracked down the Little Miss Muffet cache while I moved Take Me Fly Fishing to the north by approximately 400'. This put me out of the too close range of the existing cache and with any luck we'll get approval of the new coordinates.
After placing mine, the Mrs took the coordinates and tracked it down. I wanted to make sure that she could get to it and see how the route was. She found it, with a bit of difficulty, but the coordinates seem to be right on the money. Total freeze on the lake prevented me from making this a water craft required cache access, but we rolled with it anyway.
Then we headed toward a few other nearby JeffCo caches. In hand this time was little Sophia's Starter cache. She asked for an ammo can, had me paint black over the white certified empty sticker and she loaded it with a "first to find" prize and some other trading trinkets. She was very focused and impressed me significantly. We found a nice spot for her cache to be placed and she directed me step by step into its proper placement and concealment. My work met her approval, our coordinates are far enough from several other caches and with any luck we will get approval on her cache too.
The other two ladies will have to prepare their caches next...but not tomorrow. Tomorrow we plan to return to Hurricane Ridge, this time to snowboard and snowshoe again. Sleds were again mentioned, but as a lazy dad not wanting to have everything in the garage in the back of the truck I asked to leave the sleds at home. I think it will work out. I should be getting my rest. When in snowboard mode, we put them on pretty gentle slopes for now. My job is lift service. I let them stay buckled in and take turns lugging them up the hill, which is a pretty good workout for the cheeseburger loving fat kid in me.
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