Bandaid for defeat! Traditional Cache
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A cache that we placed not planning to at all to soften the blow of a defeat ! Good for kids, no cliffs or drops in the immediate vicinity and semi-easy. Stuffed full of kids swag, FTF gift, log and pen.
Went in search of Cool Place and it was a complete circus. Only having 33 finds, we are new to caching and thankfully learn many things new on all of our searches. Being a pilot, I am great with maps and such, but this GPS is not my friend. When GPS says "turn left to cache..12.2 mi, and there is no road there... and only valleys and trees, that"s a problem. We found some locals who happened to have a Garmin Nuvi and were quite good with it. Funny though, been here all their life and never heard of "xxxx hole". Uh-oh.. The Nuvi nicely guided us on roads,..,hummm there's a thought, ROADS. So we & 3 little girls singing and laughing in the backseat started into hour 3. Getting turned backwards on streets that have no signs.. Westfir put that in the budget please !, we went back to the locals.Got some extra direction and headed off again. Got clear to Road 1926... drove till the GPS said 1000' and then watched it switch to 1200' so we turned around (I know many are laughing by now), got back to 1000', then it started up to 1200' again! We stopped, looked around and realized it was 1000' directly across to the west and no amount of bushwacking would get us and 3 little girls there. Using a printed map from the cache we were seeking, both west and east sides were cut off the map so we had no idea where they intersected 636 and we would not dream of going south, all the way back around and starting into another hour. Into hour 4, we looked around and my JP said, great place for a cache! I did some quick thinking, dumped out the first aid box which looks pretty waterproof, happen to have log, pen and a bunch of swag, wrote the official stuff, threw in some cash for FTF, and thrilled ourselves that we could be so clever to fix this defeat :)
Have fun finding it...kids can run around, it's fairly safe and flat and no immediate danger of cliffs or drops. We loved throwing it together, unplanned and as a "bandaid" to kiddos hearts.. and mom's especially.
Oh, and the end result on the search for the cache in the first place.. checked the map when I got home, didn't think to print "driving directions which would've worked perfectly, just about another 10 minutes forward and we would have looped around right to it. My brother (who was born with geosense) and my geobuddy both called and said, Jen, you really need to load the maps onto your GPS before caching in such remote areas. Oh was that the problem? YEP !
So I now have maps on my GPS and I like it again :)
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Vg vf haqre na boibvhf trbfcbg (qbjarq ybt).
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