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Bear Paughs retrieved it from Back to Basics
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New York
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Julian led the way to this cache, and found it immediately. Sure this was a very easy one, but it's great seeing him making the effort and really going after these caches. We talked about getting him his own digital camera for Christmas or his birthday so he can start photographing our cache trips (he's not allowed to touch the very expensive digital camera we already own and take with us geocaching.) We also discussed maybe setting him up with his own geocaching.com account so he can log his finds for himself. I think it's a great idea and would help him develop his writing skills.
We loved our walk back to the car. I can't stress how much we enjoyed this park and the hiking trail. On the way back we noticed someone had drawn a smiley face on one of the yellow blazes, and balanced a pair of childrens sunglasses on it. It was very funny!
Julian played on the playground for a while, as I made notes on the PDA, changed batteries, and such. We left Stair Park and decided to head over to Fuller Hollow Park to do Where Nidhogg Eternally Gnaws next.
[This entry was edited by Bear Paughs on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 8:59:45 PM.]
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Bear Paughs retrieved it from Stair Case
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New York
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Just Julian and I today, and we started our day at Stair Park -- another park I didn't know about. It was so lovely, and one of our favorite parks we've visited so far. The playground is really nice, much nicer than you'd expect for a relatively low traffic park. The creek beds were beautiful, and the hiking trail was very nice.
Like usual, we took the most difficult way possible to the cache. I thought we'd have to walk up the very steep hill. The name of the cache, Staircase, led me to believe that, as did the GPSr. It turned out the path just curved around later on down the trail (which we weren't on initially -- we missed the trailhead and just bushwacked through the woods to start.) Once we were more than halfway to the top, I realized my mistake and we had the arduous task of getting down the hill. Ugh! That was the most difficult part of our whole day!
At the bottom of the hill we finally found the yellow trail and followed it to the cache site. It didn't take more than a minute or two to find. We dropped off Fuzzy Farm Pig here, just in case we couldn't get to another cache large enough for it today or in the next day or two.
From here we headed off to Back to Basics, further on down the trail, enjoying our walk in this great park!
[This entry was edited by Bear Paughs on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 8:51:36 PM.]
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Bear Paughs retrieved it from SUNY - Conifer Trail T-I-M-B-E-R !
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New York
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We planned to do at least a couple of the SUNY caches, but it didn't work out that way. We started with Conifer Trail, with the main purpose being to nab the Fuzzy Farm Pig TB needed to get the final coordinates for Sneaky Sneaky. We walked right past the trail we were supposed to take, and went up another. We enjoyed the walk, but didn't realize how difficult it would be to bushwack our way into the cache area. So we climbed back down and caught the correct trail, in essence doing a complete circle before finally going the right way. It took us longer than usual to find this one. Ryder was complaining the entire time, Julian was kind of zoned out, and I was the only one really looking. It was looking pretty futile, but I was not about to give up! I knew that if we didn't do any others today, that this one would be found! Finally did find it and retrieved the crucial TB.
So after this we started to head over to SUNY Redwing. We actually started out on the trail, but aborted our mission shortly before reaching the cache area. I hated to do it, but it was a very trying day. While our walk started out fine enough, despite Ryder's incessant complaining, Julian started breaking the rules about picking up stones and sticks. It was driving me crazy! Then he picked up this fallen limb -- about 6 feet long and skinny, maybe about 4 inches in diameter -- and somehow managed to hit Ryder in the head with it. I made him sit by a tree for a time out. I was planning on having him sit while Ryder and I started looking for the cache, but then Ryder broke another important rule (won't mention it here which one), and that was the last straw. I turned us around and we headed back to the car. I was NOT happy.
We had been planning on having a picnic after the SUNY caches, and I canceled that. The boys knew they were treading on thin ice. We had a long talk, about how I don't like to have to scold them and cut our outings short, but there are rules for a reason -- namely SAFETY -- and I can't take them if I am afraid someone is going to get hurt.
Everyone calmed down, and even though the picnic was still canceled, I decided we'd stop and try another cache on our way home. We decided on Southern Tiers. Bad move. Oh, we enjoyed it, but it was just too busy with shoppers to give the place a thorough going over in order to find the cache. So we came up empty handed, but at least we had fun and ended our day on a positive note, despite the DNF.
[This entry was edited by Bear Paughs on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 8:43:20 PM.]
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Bear Paughs retrieved it from Sneaky Sneaky
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New York
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This park is so close to our home and I've driven by it a few times and said we should visit. But this was our first visit -- it was wonderful. We definitely have to visit here more often. I'd like to come walk and run here instead of going to our usual track, if I can get Steve to go for it. Very pretty park -- nice little playground, great trail, wonderful view of the river.... the list goes on and on about what makes this park so nice!
It took us a while to find Part 1 of Sneaky Sneaky. Finally we found it, after nearly missing it and giving up for the day. We loved where part one told us to go next! Very intriguing and adventuresome! We look forward to doing the next task and eventually finding the ultimate cache.
We tried Draupnir after this one, but just couldn't find it. The ground was very soft and muddy and I was starting to sink, so we gave it up with the intent of coming back another day.
After aborting Draupnir, we decided to just walk along the trails and scout out the rest of the park, maybe find a place for hiding our own cache. It would be ideal since it's only blocks away from our house. We enjoyed the path, especially the views of the river. We did, however, run into an evil squirrel! I put this in my cache note, but I'll repeat the story here (pic is already in my gallery):
While walking on the path Julian got nervous because there were 3 or 4 squirrels nearby and he thought they'd bite. I told him, "Don't be ridiculous -- squirrels won't come close to humans, they'll run away first." A few minutes later this guy sauntered right up to us (just to prove me wrong, I swear!) and I snapped this. I about died when I loaded the photos onto the computer and saw how it came out -- Funniest picture I ever took!
We also saw the angel statue and the memorial bricks -- very moving. The boat launch was nearby and afforded more great views. Overall, our trip to this park did not disappoint!
[This entry was edited by Bear Paughs on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 8:22:49 PM.]
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Bear Paughs retrieved it from 17 SEE
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New York
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Part 2 was definitely an adventure! We actually managed to find a pretty decent way into the cache area (unlike our usual pattern of going in the most difficult way possible). The hardest part was getting to the actual cache once we were within about 80 feet. Julian stayed behind at first, as he was nervous about bushwacking in with all the trees and brush. I pushed on, as we were sooooo close and I really didn't want to have to come back and try this one again. For some caches I don't mind making multiple trips, but this was not one of those -- it just wasn't appealing for a variety of reasons. Fun to do once, sure, but I don't think it would be much fun repeating it.
I started getting nervous because it was clear it was going to get dark soon. I wanted to just find the cache and get out of there. I finally spotted it and as I was retrieving it and trying to get it open, Julian managed to find his way over to me and the cache. We took a quick peak through the contents, which were heavily mildew-smelling, likely because of a Tshirt that was in there. It was stuffed pretty good. I think my shirt absorbed the mildew smell in the couple minutes that we were there. We took nothing, left nothing, and hurriedly signed the log so we could get as close as we could to the car before it got dark.
We rushed back as quickly as we could. We did have flashlights with us, luckily. I mainly used mine to show Julian where the easiest crossing points were in some areas of the path. Luckily we got to the easy part of the path just before we needed to really use the flashlights. It was only just dark and we had the easiest part of the walk ahead of us, and only a couple minutes to go before reaching the car.
Not my favorite cache by any means, but we did have a great deal of fun doing it. It was Julian's first night-caching experience! I've just got to choose a safer cache for his next one.
[This entry was edited by Bear Paughs on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 8:08:07 PM.]
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Bear Paughs retrieved it from Dances with Vargs
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New York
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We had a couple hours free, so decided we'd hit this one again and try to knock it off our DNF list. I think this is the first time we were here with the new GPS. This time we went to the first location we always checked whenever we stopped here, and finally we found it! I could swear we looked here several times on our previous visits -- it just goes to show the search isn't over until you've run your hands over every square inch. This one should have been much easier than we made it!
Because we finished this one so quickly, we had time for another. We decided to head on over to Westover to try to nab Part 2 of 17 See.
[This entry was edited by Bear Paughs on Sunday, September 25, 2005 at 7:56:02 PM.]
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Bear Paughs retrieved it from Cody Hops, Do You?
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New York
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This ended up being our 50th cache. We had planned another to be, but mixed up our counts along the way, only to figure it out after consulting the PDA.
Julian gets 100% of the credit for finding this -- he yelled "found it!" before Ryder and I even had our GPSrs positioned and ready. Very fast find! LOL, I didn't know a Vargseld cache could be so easy and not drive me mad!
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Bear Paughs retrieved it from The End of the Trail
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New York
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I wondered as we drove to this one if we should have parked in one little parking area to the side that I spotted and hadn't knew was there before. But we went anyway over to the side of Home Goods and only then discovered we'd have to cross the Street, so it looks like my first instincts were correct, but that's okay.
We looked for about 10 minutes in the wrong spot. Eventually we turned to the GPSrs (which we had been ignoring for some reason I'm not sure of) and made our way over to the actual site. I was trying to figure out the best way to approach it and came in from wierd angle which allowed me to spot it right away. Cool camo job for sure. Wasn't expecting anything like this. We thought it was cool.
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Bear Paughs retrieved it from Cryptic Chameleon #2
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New York
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This was beautiful! We didn't even find the cache. We didn't look too long, though. We decided to come back and attempt it for our 50th find (which we screwed up by miscounting somewhere along today's journey.) This could end up being one of our favorites, if the site near part 1 is any indication. We can't wait to see where we go for the remaining parts! Definitely looking forward to completing this cache!
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Bear Paughs retrieved it from What is He Thinking Now?
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New York
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It was very cool to find our first micro of this variety. I'd read about them, but always wondered how they worked. The boys thought it was the coolest hide ever. It was also a very pretty view looking straight out over the cache. Quick and easy, but very fun!
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