Geocaching - The Official Global GPS Cache Hunt Site

 April 23, 2009 by Team Laxson

The walk to the river bank was pretty uneventful, but I must admit I am not used to walking in sandals and squished one of my toes on a rock. Lesson learned.

Hitting the water, ankle deep at first, it became obvious that it is still early in the season - the water is COLD!

A little deeper in the river we go, knee deep and the sounds of QZ giggling and saying words that may make a sailor blush, but we continued. We had arrived at the island/sandbar. A quick check of water depths and we know - it's only going to get colder.

QZ is unstoppable though. We gave zoltig the cameras and now not-water-proof GPS, keys to EMC, and off we went in the deepest part of our trek.

First to the waist, which didn't seem that bad. The current is swift and constant.

Then the chest, with a stronger current. An uphill walk facing the current was the only way not to drift downstream. At one point QZ started swimming as her feet weren't quite stable on the bottom.

But the pass was made. Arriving on the other side, dripping from head to toe, we scurried up the bank to search for the cache. As I had already found it, I let QZ do the actual finding.

The cache is nice and dry inside now, but there are signs that it was once wet. The coin that is supposed to be here isn't. I didn't think to check the logs to see if someone wrote anything about it.

The trek back was the same as the way in, strong current and chest deep water. Photos included.

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Finally, out of deep water Cold water and strong currents It only seemed cold....... It's a bit deep in spots.... Queen Zelda, before and after