When I was
hiking with ohjoy!, we talked about the different techniques of
hiding caches. She laughed that I find the most obvious spot,
reject it; find another, reject it; and so on till I’m four or five
spots away from the obvious. She, on the other hand, loves to go
out and find a beautiful old stump and place a neat and tidy cache
right smack dab in the most obvious place.
I
appreciate people like her when I’m searching for
caches.
But I’m
not like her.
I think
that’s a good thing, myself, I like her and I like me and her
caches are fun to find and most find mine to be somewhat
challenging. Hurray! Good challenge and good caches are both great
ways to get smileys and feel proud for having gotten
them.
So there I
was, out hiking, and I saw these two perfect stumps that ohjoy!
would positively go crazy trying to choose between for her cache
placement. Both were glorious in their oldness and stumpiness, both
had multiple optimal cache hiding places for the obvious, large
cache.
Naturally
I only had a bison with me. They are so much easier to carry than
ammo cans. I wanted to place a cache that would do ohjoy! proud,
but it was very hard to choose between stumps, yet, that’s exactly
what I did.
Coords
might be a little wonky and you may have trouble finding the cache,
but search on, and let me know, after you find it, if you think I
was able to choose between them the same way ohjoy! would have
chosen.
The best
way to find your way around the Pilchuck Tree Farm (and any other
trails in Washington) is by downloading trail maps into your GPS.
The way to do that is by following this
link.
Congratulations to Rey del Roble and BrewerMD for hiking the
(my) entire tree farm and getting FTF for RdR’s birthday!
It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase
'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
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