My first cache for the month of February was
HAPPY THANKSGIVING GEOCACHERS. I found it inbetween dropping off my daughter for Algebra II and picking up my son from Debate. It was a quick cache for which I was happy. It's in a parking lot for a restaurant that's closed, which explains the darkened sign.
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| A shopping center full of muggles in the distance |
I found an unsignable log at
Mad Skillz #5 Academy Junction. The trail leading to it was almost already overgrown with thorns and other winter shrubs, I can't imagine what it would be like in the summer!
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| The lid from the cache proves I made the find! |
A fun find on a very cold and windy day was
Lamby. The cache was on the side of the road though I could not park right next to it.
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| My car barely visible over the rise |
On a frigid Saturday morning I found
Our Anniversary Cache... in a nearby park. Thankfully, the find was quick because the temperature was below 20 degrees. Also, it was the cacher's anniversary, not mine!
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| More woods |
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| Actually, it looks bigger than the Middle Patuxent in this picture! |
A fun puzzle cache not far from home is
The Golden Cache, a mathematical mystery that I solved quickly thanks to a lucky guess. The hide is on one of the many walking paths of Columbia, Maryland.
I went to the
Robinson Nature Center to find
Mica in the Middle Patuxent: A Kids' Earthcache. I was not with the kids since they were in school. The weather was so nice, I couldn't wait. The walk was easy and I picked up some information for another cache that I will find on another day. I was worried when I got to the beach and saw a fence in the way! Luckily, it was only protecting an area just above the beach.
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| The nature center |
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| The fence! |
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| Behind the fence |
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| Me with the river (and a hanging tree! How does it stay there?) |
On the next empty day empty on my caching calendar, I went back to the nature center to find the final stage of
CAM 2022 Bonus: Robinson's Trees and Trails. The hide is just outside of the nature center in a unique container. I made the find quickly and had the combination to the lock thanks to finding a series of trees at the center.
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| Not much to see |
I found
The White Christmas Cache... in the middle of February on a cold and windy day. The church where it is located was totally quiet on a Friday early afternoon.
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| More like "Bleak Midwinter" than "White Christmas" |
On another miserable day I found
Grunge is so Grungy!, a mystery cache that involves knowing lyrics from the band
Nirvana. I don't really know their lyrics. The internet saved the day on that front.
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| This nearby pond is kinda grungy |
My fabulous wife cleverly solved the puzzle for
Omnicache, which involves Perl programming. I have no programming skills, so I had no hope of coming up with a solution. We went to find it on a cold Saturday morning. The area was surprisingly busy--there's a dance studio and a small gym right nearby.
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| Emptiness |
The next day I found two caches. On unofficial trails in Columbia, Maryland, is
littleblkdog's letterbox, a
hybrid between a regular geocache and a letterbox cache. Letterboxing is another form of outdoor activity using clues instead of coordinates to make the find. Also, a letterbox will have a stamp and ink pad so finders can leave their own stamp and get a new stamp in their book. I don't have a stamp or a book for stamps, so I just signed the log and moved on. On the hike in, I saw some deer across the way.
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| We stared at each other |
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| More Patuxent water |
At a nearby park and ride is
Not Pricky and pokey? Aside from the weird capitalization, the cache is a fun multicache and has a super-powerful magnet holding it in place. I thought about finding a tool to pry it off its spot but eventually slid it around until I could get a finger underneath part of it.
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| The cache location looks a bit run down |
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| The parking area looks normal |
The Silly Rock... was a quick find on a cold day that threatened rain. When I got to ground zero, I looked around and the cache container leapt out at me. Not literally, of course, but I recognized it as soon as I saw it.
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| The weather doesn't look so bad |
I end the month with only two holes in the calendar--the fifth and...the twenty-ninth! Couldn't fill that one this year, but I will make double sure (maybe quadruple sure) next year! The total cache finds is 761, so I feel confident that 800 will be achieved this year.
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