Thursday, September 9, 2021

Geocaching August 2021

The continuing effort to make it to 500 caches found over the summer...

On another trip to donate blood, I found another geocache near the Mall in Columbia. Happy Canada Day! is a cache that was placed on July 1, the day celebrated in Canada as Independence Day. It's a fun, sort of hidden spot. Even though it is by the mall, the muggle traffic is very minimal, thanks to its peripheral location.

Somewhere in the wall, of course

On a trip to Minnesota, I found four caches in one park that put us over the 500 mark.

The first find was Accessible 4 All #1 in a very easy to find location. The container had no log, so I didn't get to sign it. There's other easy caches in other county parks nearby. We stuck with this park.

Somewhere in here

The other three caches had more traditional settings--out in the woods. Chunky Monkey had nothing to do with the ice cream, other than it was easy to find.

Can't leave ice cream out here

Following some trails up the hill, I found our 500th cache, Awful Waffle (which also didn't have anything to do with food). On the way, I spotted some deer but they were too well camouflaged for photographing.

The deer were on the right, I swear!

500th cache location

The pencil for signing the log was quite congratulatory!

Thanks!

Not much further was Hilltopper Surprise which was surprisingly out in the open. I managed to give it a better hide for the next geocachers.

501!

I came back down the hilltop to find the trail entrance that I guess I would have used if I had reversed the order of cache finds. The trail head isn't that obvious, though.

A bit of pathway

Yay success!

I made one bonus find at the end of the month when I went to visit our local Scout Shop. Powered Present is just where you'd think it would be from the picture below.

Industrial hide

Our count is now at 502!

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