June saw the return of some geocaching. I went to Howard County's Western Regional Park which has quite a few caches inside. I did not find them all, sadly, but it isn't too far away. If we are out in the neighborhood for other reasons, we will definitely try to finish them.
A short series of caches were created by a Girl Scout as part of her Silver Award project. The first one I found was
Caramel deLites, just off a trail near playgrounds and ball fields. To an experienced cacher, the location seemed obvious.
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The location is somewhere in this picture |
The cache was a small box, so I was able to sign the log and trade some stuff. I had some Where's Waldo buttons so I left one and took a cool little gem.
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The cache and contents |
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Plastic gem with this year's date! |
Not far away was
ThinMints, a microcache that's hidden in an obvious spot. My only problem was my phone GPS pointing in the wrong direction. I could have saved a bunch of time if I had just trusted my instincts.
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On the trail of ThinMints |
My next cache was
All Aboard!!, which was supposedly 0.2 miles from ThinMints. Unfortunately, that distance is as the crow flies. The park trails never pointed directly to the cache, so I spent a lot of time circling around on the 0.2-mile perimeter. I finally made progress when I hit a path going straight to a fire department station.
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The cache, ahead in 0.1 miles! |
Sadly, I got to about two hundred feet from the cache when the path ended and turned into a rather thick downhill bushwhack.
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What the forest!?! |
Since it was getting late (I had to pick up my son and his friend from a training class), I decided to head back to the car and try again on another day from another direction. Or bring longer pants and maybe a rope?
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