ScienceCacher: In anticipation of moving out of the area, I posted a request for my traditional geocaches asking if nearby active cachers would be interested in adopting my hides. At one time I was the owner of over 50 active geocaches but responsibilities of work, family and travel prevented me from providing the day to day maintenance that I needed to do to keep these caches active and well stocked.
When the decision was made for us to move about 150 miles away I offered the caches for adoption. I was pleased that most of the older caches were adopted by some great cacher friends who are keeping them active and maintained. However, a few caches were not adopted so I took the opportunity of a beautiful autumn day to collect the caches and enter them into archive status.
I had tried to collect these caches a couple of months ago but was turned away at the entrance to Barboursville Park by police. It turns out that a murderer was believed to be hiding out in the woods at Barboursville Park. Police were combing the woods with dogs and air surveillance looking for the criminal. Since the briers were down, there were no ticks or snakes and the rain forecast for later this week hadn’t started, today was the pick day. I was able to get Ms. ScienceCacher to go out with me since she has sharp eyes and a good intuition for the hides.
While we were out in Barboursville Park, we checked on a couple of caches that belong to friends. Truthfully, we were just enjoying the beautiful day and looking for a cache was as good an excuse as we needed to walk through the woods.
When we found the container it was well hidden and dry although not well stocked. We pulled it from the hide and are listing it as disabled. I hope that someone uses this site to place another great geocache.
Happy caching.