A Walk with Webfoot

I drove by the venue and the parking lot was already full so I had to park down the block. That almost proved my undoing as I was crossing the street a car drove through the intersection and just stopped in the middle of the intersection when they finally saw me. Good thing I saw them, or it could have been even worse. But I digress.

I greeting Kelsoboom and then went inside and saw BigDaddyGRC and Metrorail. Metrorail was kind enough to buy me my morning coffee today - Thank you very much. Then we made our way outside and we pretty much filled out the patio and more and more people showed up this morning.

Lots of good geocaching conversations and the time just flew by. I think I made it home around 10:00 and then decided to head on out and do a hike up in the hills as it was such a nice day today.

I was the beta tester on this hide. The container had been out in the area for a long time, being one of Lakolya's hides from way back that I later adopted when he got out of the game. I'd been out there awhile ago, but the brush was so intense, I couldn't even see the hide, let alone pull it, so I just archived it. Last Saturday, we went out and were able to walk right to the cache, so I pulled it and then Sanderlin decided to use it for this hide.

I had a doctor's appointment over in Fontana this afternoon and after that was done I just ended up driving home. I got in, looked at my notifications and noticed this new earth cache had just published 5 minutes before I'd gotten home. It literally went live about the time I was driving by it.

Well, since it's only a mile and a half away from my house it wasn't much of a problem to hop back in the geo mobile and head over. I was able to find parking about a quarter mile away - surprisingly busy for a Friday afternoon here on campus, but the extra steps probably help me, so I'm not complaining. I got over to the sculpture, did my measurements and observations, took my photo and called it good. First to find, as verified by the CO this afternoon.

I was the beta tester for the CO on this cache and a couple of more in the park. Coordinates for this one look to be spot on, but I'm pretty sure there are certain times of the year that this one will be tough to get. Right now? Nope, you'll probably have the area to your self. Just figure out how to get down there.

I decided to submit this cache this morning as opposed to waiting later in the week. At lunch time, K6ccc noted that a couple of caches had published including this one. We made predictions as to who would probably get the FTF on this one since we were down in Orange County at the time, but when we were driving back up, K6ccc started talking about wanting to go after it.

I said, I'd go along for the ride, but he was on his own as I knew exactly where it was because I hid it. It didn't take him too long before he found Bug Eye and logged in. I think that's only the second time I've watched someone get a FTF on one of my caches.