I've always thought caches you couldn't quite find for whatever reason to be the worst. Not that it's still not worth doing, but it really galls me, at least. I was doing one up towards Midland, MI when I was going to a wedding up there, and it was a multi-cache. At the second stage, the original coordinates were badly faded, so someone was nice enough to reprint them. Except they reprinted them incorrectly. My wife, daughter, and I spent about 20 minutes canvassing a privately-owned field when we just decided that the coordinates must be wrong, and we didn't want to go back to the second stage to see if we could figure out the right ones. We just left.
Another painful one was a multi-cache where the first 5 were well-hidden 35mm film containers. After we finally found all five of those little things, we couldn't find the final "normal" cache. Ack. Anyway - glad you still enjoyed your first experience despite not finding the cache. Josh > -----Original Message----- > From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:19 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: geocaching - the update > > > Well, thanks to the advice of folks on the list, I picked up an > Etrex Legend > GPS receiver for my hubby, and we did our first geocache > yesterday. It was a > multi-cache and we were half successfully. We successfully found the park > and started walking around and figured out that the cache must be right on > the other side of this creek we were standing next to. Well, that wasn't > gonna stop us. So, down the bank and up the other side we went > (luckily for > us you could just step across the creek at that point). We found the first > cache and started heading for the second. Of course, instead of staying on > the trail where the first cache was we incorrectly surmised that we must > have to cross the creek again. This time we walked down to a bridge and > followed another trail that we thought would take us closer to where we > wanted to go. We got far enough West and realized we were too far > North. So > we struck off cross-country, or through the woods, to be more precise. I > haven't been "in" a forest since I was a kid. I forgot how totally cool it > is to be under the tree canopy, happening upon little clearings > and such. We > even startled a deer. > > We eventually found "the spot" and spent about 25 minutes looking for the > cache itself. The spot was in a clearing, less than 20 feet from the trail > that we didn't take. The prairie grass was really high, we were both > sweating, I'd been bitten by a deer fly (which I'm allergic to), > and our 4.5 > month old had woken up by now (we'd been carrying him in a sling > this whole > time). So, we finally gave up and declared it a fun adventure > none-the-less. > We took the trail back out. Muuuuch easier. ;) > > Yep. I could get into this geocaching thing. > > -d > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Deanna Schneider > UWEX-Cooperative Extension > Interactive Media Developer > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
