This cache marks our 300th hide.
When I first started cache back on April 1st, 2012, I was very uncertain about this game but was immediately addicted. That first month (April2012) I managed to find 100 caches. Looking back on that one, I wonder how many others did the same thing. I was very tentative about hiding my first geocache, but was very intrigued by the prospect of trying something new. My first hide wasn't until August 2, just over 4 months later then my first find. That cache "Rock On," (GC3RRFV) My first hide was found by 13 geocachers, and then archived 21 days later to make room for a Multi-Cache that had been in development all summer. Since then, I had the bug! Nothing is better then reading a thoughtful "Found it" log. They really make my day.
Here is one such log:
Less Than C wrote on fantastic "Found it" log for (GC540FY) Cinco de Mayo
"Amanda solved this one really quickly but it was a little out of the way and too late before work to get it first. Change my pants into some jeans and took a little trek over to the cache. It was really easy to find. As Amanda was playing with a stick to see if she could get it down that way I began climbing. There was a pretty large hole at the bottom of this tree, glad whatever lived in that didn't make its appearance. I made my way up and I cleared out some of the vines on the way since they seemed to be everywhere. Got up and grabbed the cache, it was pretty difficult to handle the large cache and trying to get the logbook signed and some pictures. Signed the logbook ("Get me down!!") and then put the cache back, very glad I didn't drop everything. Now to make my way down. From up there the next step seemed way too far to make it, I grabbled on to the branch and tried to lower myself but something happened and all of a sudden I was hanging off the tree with nothing under my feet. I tried to move and then I was somehow straddling one of the vines and it was somehow holding me up. My one leg was able to touch one of the branches but that didn't really help at all. I slid my leg up so I was stuck on the vine by my knee. I wasn't sure exactly how I was going to get down from there and I don't think that I would be able to lift myself up. I don't know how I did it but I was able to pull the vine off and I just hung on and the vine grabbed enough to slow my decent and put me on the ground fairly softly. My legs and arms didn't work so well after that and it was a little uneasy walking. My back is a little scraped up but it isn't too bad considering I fell out of a tree." (You may also want to check out the photo he posted with his log)
Thanks to all geocachers that have written such wonderful logs. Those logs are what keep me hiding caches.
Thank-You