Undercover Cache

Seriously???  And what does D3Y mean?

July 30, 2012 -- With the success of finding Happy we decided to take a chance on one of our most devious DNFs.  The cache behind the shopping center.  We knew it was an "imposter cache" but it was listed as 1 for terrain (very true) and 1 for difficulty.  Very NOT true.  I suppose if you were used to seeing these types of caches, maybe it would've been easier, but for the neo-geo, this kind of thing is not an ordinary cache.  AND we'd already done two of the other imposters in the series.  There is a fourth, but we really haven't tried for that one yet.  The other two were as tough as this one but had a difficulty of 2.5.  I think this one should've been at least that difficulty as well.  So back to the same site we'd already been to two other times.  Luckily we had no muggles nearby, but unluckily, the dumpsters REALLY needed to be emptied.  There was a total sickly rotted smell coming from them.  Like rotting fish.  Ugh!  It was hard to stay focused when that smell was wafting around the area.  Could it be a rock, a stick, a leaf, a switch box, a lock, a branch??  We were all being driven crazy.  I circled the area several times, then finally for some reason I started to pull at the stickers on the electrical box.  One seemed to pull off very easily.  Lo and behold UNDERNEATH the magnetic sticker that had the letters DY3 on it was the cache which consisted of a very tiny plastic bag and a strip of paper for a log.  Why did I mess with the sticker?  I don't know.  But there you go, it was indeed "in plain sight" as the hint said, but who would think to look under a series of nonsensical letters and numbers on a piece of equipment.  It just looked like a code for the big box.  Imposter, indeed!

Happy to have Happy

Our new recruit was the eagle eye that found it.

 July 30, 2012 - This one was a long time coming.  We were attempting to finish up the Snow White cache.  We still had Happy, Doc, and Sleepy to go.  Happy was very elusive for us.  We'd tried for Happy once before and spent close to an hour looking for him to no avail.  There were five sets of eyes, but no one could find him.  Needless to say, none of us were very---happy----about not finding Happy.  When two of your party of five start whining about going home and not looking any more you need to cut your losses and move on.  So we did.  Fast forward about two weeks.  I had this cache on my watchlist.  I had tried to email the owner about the cache to make sure that the big storm at the end of June didn't mess up the cache.  I never heard back from the CO so I put it on the watchlist.  FINALLY, yesterday, someone found it!  Of course, as with most cachers, the findee was lazy about his log.  He wrote Good hike, nice trail,

The hidden cache

Where we THOUGHT it probably was (or underneath all that)

TFTC.  No info whatsoever.  Thanks.   I like when people write something that helps me out just a little bit, like -- tricky hide or not exactly where the GZ coords are, something like that.  Oh well.  At least someone had finally found it.  I called my geocaching buddies to coordinate a new rescue mission.  They were up for it and so was I.  One of our group declined to go, but he's a teenager so I'm so not surprised.  Back to the same spot.  The GPS was still consistent in where it was leading us. The thing that threw us off the most was the fact that it was sending us to an area nearby that was just devastated by the storm.  Lots of trees down, leaves, branches, sticks, etc.  We thought that maybe the cache was in the tree and was now underneath all that mess.  The find by the fellow geocacher yesterday gave us the renewed hope we needed to give it another shot.  In the midst of us once again discussing where it could be--arguing about whether or not it could be up a tree, our eagle eyed friend was saying, "Excuse me, excuse me.  I think I may have found it."  Finally we all turned around and there he was, cache in hand, with Happy smiling like a Cheshire cat, and so was our buddy!  GREAT FIND!  So we can check that off our list of "can't find but we'll be back - CFBWBB"  Still have a couple more on that list, but Happy is not one of them!

The Lorax Gang and our new recruit celebrating the find.

Johns Stash Cache - Not a Cache and Dash

Dear sister with her web whacking wand

THAT'S A STUMP?

July 29, 2012 -- Yowzah!  Okay, first of all, again, I did NOT read the car coordinates at first.  So we drove and parked to where I thought we should start.  But there was no entry spot into the woods and you can't just go tromping through somebody's yard (although I have done that, but ONLY as a last resort when The Lorax Gang and I were hopelessly lost and it was getting dark) but I digress.  Anyway, we came back to the car, reread the coordinates for parking, put the coordinates into our car GPS and went there. Again, not a good place as far as I'm concerned.  We got as far as a horse trail and turned around since there was no way to get INTO the woods unless we had had hacksaws and axes.  We didn't.  Finally we went to a deadend road and it showed us as being about 800 ft. away.  Perfect.  So we went into the woods and started walking.  Okay, we ended up in someone's yard and then came back and followed the GPS.  It did tend to bounce quite a bit due to the tree cover, but FINALLY we got to within about 20 ft.  A BIG thanks for the hints, fellow geocachers, otherwise I know this would have been a DNF for me and my sister!   But we did find it and swapped out an Avenger bouncy ball for a soccer ball.  Of course, the inevitable happened afterwards--once again I couldn't find our way back to the car. We ended up having to use my iPhone Google maps to find our way back. So basically we needed three different GPS units to accomplish this cache! God I love technology!!!

Victoria Sprung

Sister dear with her very first find

July 29, 2012 -- Since my dear husband and son went to an Orioles game today and the Lorax Gang was busy I was going to be on my own--unless I could convince my dear sister to accompany me.  Since she's been retired for all of one month, she jumped at the chance to go.  She's up for any kind of adventure as long as it doesn't include any type of WORK -- fun only for her -- at least for awhile.  So we started slow with a cache one street over from where she lives.  She was surprised, as most new geocachers are, to find that there are caches right in your own backyard--so to speak.  Once you start, you find that they are just about everywhere these days (well, in highly populated areas, that is).  As usual, though, I got myself and my sister lost while trying to track it down. We went through one set of woods before coming out and realizing it was in another set of woods. In the second set of woods it was really easy to find. I have to agree with the recent logger who says this one needs maintenance. There was water in the container. No holes, but the top really doesn't fit well. Sister dear was excited at the adventure of it all.  We left an Avenger bouncy ball and took a monkey toy. TFTC!!! k back to the car because, of course, I parked much farther away than I had to.  THIS is how I end up getting so much exercise from geocaching.  The cache is in need of some maintenance because it was wet in the cache.  The top didn't really fit very well on the cache.  A new container is probably in order for this one.

Easy Cache -- Easy Money

Signing the log

Cache among the rocks

Rocks, rocks, and more rocks is right!

July 28, 2012 -- This was the second cache that we found on this day.  I had originally gone for a completely different cache, but no matter where we went on the path, we didn't seem to be gettinjg any closer.  So we decided to give up our initial cache and just go for the two closer ones.  The first cache was relatively simple to find (see previous log). This was more of a challenge but after awhile you get a sixth sense about where geocachers are going to hide their caches.  The hint was about rocks and it was a good hint! We  left a basketball squishy ball and took a Cars notebook. We liked the log book.  The title of the cache makes sense now.  Of course, our hardest cache of the day was still ahead of us -- finding our way back to our car.  I really, REALLY have to figure out how to use waypoints on my GPS.   It would certainly help in times like these.  We did find our car without HUGE problems.  Knowing that both dear husband and I both have no sense of direction, the waypoints would be a huge help.  That's my next challenge in my geocaching career.

Looking West from Sugarloaf

Searching for the cache

Could it be???

AH HA!

What to choose -- the doorknob, the business card or the rock? 

July 28, 2012 - Sugarloaf Mountain - West Overlook -- Here's the typical way we cache: Don't read the description of where to park. Use the GPS to figure out the closest place to park near the cache. Am usually WRONG. Head for the cache you intend to grab but find that as you travel you are getting no closer. Obviously you are circling your prey. Okay, now look at your GPS and realize there is actually ANOTHER cache in the area that's closer than the original cache you were looking for. So you decide to find that one instead. Now you realize that you have to leave the path and go straight up the side of the hill. Full bushwhacking ensues including a terrifying moment as your trampling sounds flush out a herd of deer that you are convinced is a grizzly bear. Finally you are close to your prey and your GPS tells you that you are mere feet away. HUZZAH! You FOUND IT!! Smile! Take a photo of your with the cache. Open the cache only to find out that all the good stuff has been taken and no is keeping with the geocaching motto of putting back as good or better than you take. Put the cache back as it was, climb down, turn the corner, and find out you are right next to a parking lot that you could've parked in rather than hiked for 3/4 of a mile through the bramble infested, spider-webbed, rock strewn, thorny woods. Sound familiar to anyone else???

We left a Bride and Groom TB since this cache has people coming to it pretty regularly. Please move it along and PLEASE only take as good as you put in to the cache! It makes it more fun for everyone. Plastic army men just are not cutting it, neither are girls pony tail holders or a....DOORKNOB???  Come on, people, can we try a little harder?  And a rock, a rock??? A ROCK???  We are SURROUNDED BY A BAJILLION ROCKS.  Wow.  The irony.

Walking the Path of History

Okay, who's going to stick their hand in there?

Pony TB poses by the Woodlawn Manor horsies

July 22, 2012 - The second cache of our day was on the Slave Trail of the Underground Railroad in Silver Spring near Woodlawn Manor.  We have been here SO MANY times for caches!  We even have an appointed place to put the bamboo stick we use as a "magic wand" for getting rid of spider webs as we geocache.  This one we found without too much trouble and without any snakes. I call that a WIN-WIN!  It was a really nice path and a good hike although it was probably a lot longer than it had to be due to our navigation errors on where to park. We had major trouble actually figuring out where to begin this and it took us three tries driving, parking, and walking before we ended up at Woodlawn Manor. We first parked at Sandy Spring Friends School and even got on the right trail but we were afraid we were on the Adventure Park "no trespassing" area so we left and went to Woodlawn Manor where we were positive that the Slave Trail is.  It turns out that 3/4 of the way through our hike we ended up RIGHT at the same place we started when we parked at the Sandy Spring Friends School so obviously we were on the "right track" with that trail and it would've ended up being a much easier hike! No matter though, it was a nice day, not too hot, and the trail was great. We found the cache without any problems. The Lorax Gang took the Pony tracker bug and I took Waldo. Now I know where he is! We left a Gnome tracker bug and a cool bouncy ball that lights up.  Of course taking so long on the trail meant that we all were going to be late for our next event which was a cook-out at the pool, but as you know, geocaching ALWAYS takes precedence!

Missing Maid Marion

Thar she blows!

July 22, 2012 -- Too many days without geocaching makes for a boring week!  I really wanted to go out on Saturday, but the weather had other things in mind.  It rained on and off all day and would've made for some messy geocaching.  Which, while it could be fun, could also be miserable so I opted to wait for Sunday and see if it would clear up.  It did, sort of.  At least it wasn't raining.  It was still wet, but that's okay. You just have to be careful on paths with leaves so as not to slip.  The Lorax Gang and I went off in search of the Robin Hood stash.  It was a pretty easy one to drive to.  We figured it was off Sherwood Forest Road - get it?  And it was!  The cache was in a really pretty neighborhood park.  There was a creek and a fallen log and it was just the kind of place that kids would probably spend HOURS in before the advent of video games, that is.  We're lucky that at least The Lorax Gang enjoys these outings!

Poison Ivy Parade

THIS is as close as I get to that buggy box!

Sissies.

July 18, 2012 - The gang went back to the Sandy Spring Cache to actually track it down so we could post another find!  We'd gotten close the night before but the dark had forced us to stop.  So we squeezed this one in between dinner and a visit to the neighbor's house (for The Lorax Gang).  Just enough time to nab another cache in the woods--which, by the way, were FILLED to the BRIM with the dreaded poison ivy.  Lucky for us (so far) we didn't get smacked with any, but JUST IN CASE, I headed to REI today to pick up some Tecnu which is body wash to get rid of the oils from poison oak and poison ivy.  Never can be too careful, I say!  I also got a first aid kit to put in my pack as well. My couple of scratches and the one bad fall on my knee are enough to convince me that a first aid kit is needed --especially for longer hikes in the backwoods like the Jenners3 did in Idaho.  Ah, Idaho, how I miss you!

Seriously?  This is what I have to choose from?

ANYWAY, back to the cache -- our youngest Lorax member found this cache.  Unfortunately it was just COVERED in ants.  But being the intrepid explorer, I just picked it up and dusted it off.  Nothing too interesting inside this one.  I don't think people are taking the geocacher's code of honor to heart that you should put in something of the same value as the thing you remove from the cache.  I mean, a fork?  Really?  And some old crayons?  Hmph.  So took nothing, left nothing, signed log.  And off we went.

Signs of Life at the Spring!

Travelocity tracker bug ho!

July 17, 2012 - The Lorax Gang was up for a little geocaching fun so we went for a cache or two, albeit a little later than we usually do.  We went for a pretty easy one since one of our crew was having major thumb issues, and bushwhacking and thumb issues don't mix well.  We went to a park nearby -- again one that we've all lived by for years and years and never knew was there!  A local Girl Scout Cadet troop had hidden this stash right off the walking path so it was pretty easy to find which was lucky because our last try was DNF!  :(

Also lucky for us, there was a tracker bug in it!  And so we left a tracker bug and picked up the geo-gnome tracker bug seen here with one of the Lorax Gang.

The beautious Sandy Spring

We tried for a second at the reknowned Sandy Spring -- only reknowed because it is what the town is named after, not for its beauty or charm (right).  Our initial foray into the area was not successful because we were 0.2 miles away but could never seem to get any closer.  I made a note to self -- "read the dang Magellan user manual, you knucklehead!"  Finally, as darkness approached we got pretty near our quarry, about 200 ft. away, but alas, it was truly too dark to do anything about it, so we chalked this one up to being called for darkness and vowed to finish it another day!  -- Maybe....TOMORROW!!

Withdrawal Setting In

July 17, 2012  - Haven't been geocaching since last Saturday and our last venture to find Happy was very UN-Happy since he was a DNF.  I think withdrawal is setting in.  MUST--GEOCACHE--TONIGHT!!  I'm pulling out my cell to dial The Lorax Gang to see if they're up for a few park and grabs tonight.  Wish me luck!

Bashful Comes Out of Hiding (QFSW - Bashful)

Poor Bashful - and no wonder!  Look at him!

July 14, 2012 - (starts July 13, 2012)  This was just NOT a good day for geocaching.  It WAS a good day for getting lost, though.  Lorax #1 and I took off to find another in the Snow White series of caches - Bashful.  It was listed as not too bad to find. (2.5/2.5)  I think those numbers might want to be upped due to the ferocious storm on the 29th of June.  Things just aren't the same as they were before that storm hit.  We didn't have any problem finding the trail and heading off into the woods.  We were using my iPhone instead of my trusty Magellan eXplorist GC because I had forgotten to download this cache to the eXplorist before we set off.  I can tell you that I won't make THAT mistake any time soon again.  We got TOTALLY LOST, the app wouldn't update quickly enough and the closest we came to the find was something like 100ft.  That's a pretty big area to search when you are in the woods and losing the light very quickly.  Not only did we end up losing the light but we lost the trail!  We ended up in someone's back yard, tried to surreptiously hike through it to find the trail, got self-conscious that we were being watched and went BACK into the woods.  That lasted about five minutes since the trail was just GONE so we went back onto the property, walked down their very nice, very asphalt, and very bramble-less driveway to the main road which was the road we had started on, just pretty far down.  We had to hike quite a piece to get back to the car.  Very grumpy at not finding it (pun intended).

Bashful Cleans Up Well

And we're not in the Amazon, either!

July 14, 2012 - This time we took The Lorax Gang and two of the Jenners 3 to find it ALONG WITH the uploaded info in my trusty GPS. We were able to track Bashful's general area down, but he was being SUPER-Bashful.  Turns out he'd come out of his Tupperware home and was covered with dirt and---TERMITES! We cleaned him and his house up -- repaired the hole in the Tupperware with duct tape and put him back on slightly higher ground away from the mess and stress of the termite filled dirt. Bashful is much happier now and we're happy to have found him! OMG!  Speaking of amazing (and we were since I was talking about geocaching - :)  LOOK at this leaf!  It almost completely covers E!  And she's 10!  I could NOT get over the size of these leaves.  It was like we were in the Amazon or something, but no, just Wheaton Regional Park!

Pulling the Mask Off the Imposters (#4)

The Nano cache

Uh - yum?

Opening the nano to sign the log

July 12, 2012  (and July 14, 2012)  - The Lead Lorax and I had tried this one on the 12th with little success.  Perhaps it began when we started into the Bamboo forest and I spotted a snake slithering its way into the high grasses.  The squeak that came out of me was nonsensical, but Lorax turned around to see what had made that noise and saw me gesturing him back.  He caught a glimpse of the rascal as its tail disappeared into the weeds.  Yeesh.  Not a good omen.  It took a good five minutes for me to collect myself enough to continue.  I am not a reptile lover.  Well, not unless said reptile has at least a FEW limbs.  Anyway, we started back into the bamboo forest/maze but were able to continue because of storm damage.  We decided perhaps it was not a great idea to get ourselves trapped in a maze with serpents on the loose and me only able to squeak and grunt like a mute when one was around so we abandoned that path and chose to walk around the "pond."  Why do I put the word in quotes?  Because it was actually a round pool of pea green soupiness that was beyond disgusting to look it.   Yuck.  We finally made it to GZ only to find that we just could not locate the Imposter.  It was sort of cloudy out so we didn't have the added help of sunlight and we were pretty sure of what we were looking for, but it wasn't to be found that day.  We gave up temporarily vowing to come back with more of our gang to help us spot it.  Fast forward to July 14, 2012 when we had the whole Lorax Gang and two of the Jenners 3 with us to search.  Back around the pea soup mess we trekked.  It still took us about 20 minutes to find even knowing what it was we were looking for and here we have the pics to prove our find (see pics above).  Yes, the tiny little DOT of a thing in E's hand is the nano that we had to extract from the *ahem* brown pickle (let's just call it that) to sign to prove we'd found it.  Also, in keeping with another reason we do these geocaches are these pictures of the beautiful raspberry bushes we found.  Some were even ripe!

Ripe raspberry

Raspberry bushes on the way to the cache

The Quest for Dopey - Silver Spring, Maryland

Posing with Dopey

July 13, 2012 - Lucky Friday the Thirteenth!!  After yesterday's disastrous hunt we decided not to try to find Bashful just yet.  Instead The Lorax Gang and Jenners 3 (-2) decided to go after Dopey since that's precisely the way we felt after our last geocaching venture.  We didn't have much light because we didn't start out until 7:30 pm.  The GPS led us right to the very spot where the geocache was supposed to be (unlike our phone app of yesterday that completely led us down the garden path--so to speak).  Trouble was, we STILL couldn't find it!

Who's Dopey?

We looked everywhere and the most frustrating thing was that we were SURE we were in the right spot.  Around and around and around we went in the same area without finding the stash.  The clue even said, "Look up" which we did to no avail.  Then suddenly I happened to look up at the branch and there inside the hollow part of a branch, being held in by two sticks, was the cache.  Oh happy day!  I was so glad to see that Dopey grin!  We took pictures, signed the log, and put it back as we found it just as it got dark.  Tomorrow we will continue our quest to save Snow and probably try to find Bashful once again, but this time with the GPS.

The Quest Continues...Silver Spring and Kemp Mill, MD

July 12, 2012 - TheLoraxGang of 1 and I went out to continue our Snow White quest.  We discovered we had to actually go BACK and re-find Grumpy owing to the fact that we neglected to get the code from the cache needed to figure out Snow White's hiding place.  That was easy since we'd already been there.

Sneezy or Sleepy?

Feeling as though we were on a roll we went to the next dwarf hideout which was a park we were very familiar with having found three other caches there.  Using our iPhone app we didn't have much trouble finding this one -- and Sneezy was quickly uncovered, apparently suffering terribly from allergies in the wood as his picture will attest.  I suggest a heavy dose of Zyrtec and to stay out of the woods!

Happy and Sneezy

We collected our code and moved on.  Since we were two for two on the dwarf cache collection we opted to move on for #3.   Originally we thought we were headed for Dopey, but somehow we ended up going for Bashful.  And Bashful to the extreme he was!  We parked and walked.  And walked, and walked.  And bushwhacked, and hiked, and hunted, and rummaged, and explored and investigated -- got tangled up in countless spider webs.  Got bitten by...well, I hope they were flies.  And we marched on into the night until the sun starting setting and the moon began to rise.  At that point, we decided that Bashful was just having an extreme case of shyness and we just weren't going to find him that day.  I can honestly say that the iPhone app for Geocaching.com is NOT the same as having a dedicated GPS unit.  It bounced all over the place and also took forever to update where we were in relation to the cache. In short, it was a disaster.  The only reason we didn't use the trusty Magellan was because I neglected to download the cache info to the unit and that flub cost us dearly.  Not only did we not find Bashful, but we got lost in the woods and ended up having to hike across a person's private yard and driveway to get ourselves back to a road we recognized so we could hightail it back to the car.  I would ordinarily frown on doing that, but it was either that or trek through the dark woods at night trying to find our way back to our trail which had disappeared.  So Bashful remains at large at this point, but intrepid explorers that we are we will be back another day!!

Quest for Snow White - Grumpy - Cloverly, MD

The Jenners3, TheLoraxGang, The V-4 Team caching together

July 09, 2012 - Took a gang with us to search for this one. This actually ended up being "caching in the dark" due to the fact that the light quickly faded during our previous cache that we couldn't find! In any event, we did find it, found Grumpy, took our pic and replaced Grumpy in the cache. Fun stuff! Can't wait to find the others.  What's the worst thing about caching in the dark?  Little demons hiding out around corners to scare the bejeebers out of you!  Happened to me, twice.  Once - scared, twice - petrified.  I guess I don't learn my lesson too well.  Thanks E and M for scaring the Imposter #4 out of me!

UPDATE:  Upon reading further on this one, seems as though we were supposed to extract a CODE from Grumpy which will provide clues to get to Snow White.  OOPS!  I guess he was too grumpy to give it up.  Seems as though we will need to re-visit the Grumpster to get the code from him in order to continue our quest for the Fairest Of Them All!!

UPDATE #2 - We did go back and re-find Grumpy and get the code -- July 12th's post has the info on that re-find of this previous cache.

Searching With the Serpents - Silver Spring, MD

Serpent swag

Jenners3, Lorax Gang and V-4 Team at the cache

Night caching

July 09, 2012  The Jenner1 and the Lorax Gang -3 went geocaching today.  This cache was a GREAT CACHE!!  Best stuff I've ever gotten in a cache and the largest cache size I've seen so far!  I hope more people go to this one. It's fairly easy but still a little bit challenging AND the cache itself is AWESOME!! Thanks so much for placing so many cool items inside! We took a NOAA coin and left some NASA swag.

THEN the rest of the LoraxGang joined us as well as the V-4 Team.  D and I decided that they should do the Searching with the Serpents cache since it was relatively easy and they were raring to do another one after Grumpy EVEN THOUGH it was completely dark out!  So we sent them in with the camera and a flashlight and the GPS.  Lo and behold they found it!  First true night cache - other than the one where I was left on the top of the butte all by myself in the dark.  Anyway, THIS venture was successful and a great time was had by all!  Stay tuned for more geocaching adventures!

Splintered Sunlight - Silver Spring, Maryland

Using your head in geocaching

The Lorax Gang grabs the cache using their brains over GPS brawn

July 08, 2012  We really had to use our noggins for this one because our GPS conked out on us when we were 300 ft. away. Dead batteries. So we intrepidly pushed on even though we were dead in the water, GPS speaking.  When we got to where we thought it should be we looked around for it. Then we remembered the title of the cache and lo and behold THERE IT WAS! Best of all, the cache contained BATTERIES which we snatched up gratefully. We left behind some NASA swag.  Bless you for attending to our needs without even knowing it!  That is truly fortuitous!

Big Tree? Tour

July 07, 2012

TheLoraxGang at their first true cache.

1 of the Jenners3 with the cache

The poor tree, however, did not survive the derecho of July 2012.

Jenners3 and TheLoraxGang found what's left of the this tree on the Big Tree Tour today. We fear the storm on the 29th of June (the derecho) was the cause of what happened to this beautiful tree. Only about 15 feet of the tree is still standing the rest of the tree was snapped off in the storm (see bottom photo). The geocache is still there and in good shape but the tree is no longer the magnificent piece of nature it once was. BTW the terrain is VERY bushy and VERY thorny. I suggest long pants and water shoes.

NO PATHS at all to get in there if you start at Layhill Park. Not sure how else people have navigated to get there, but we ended up IN the water following the stream to get back to the car. Lots of fun, though, and TheLoraxGang is ready to swing into action for more geocaching fun!

Imposters Indeed - More Like Mafia Imposters

Bring me the head of the rat

This took THREE tries before I solved the mystery.  Went with my son who declined to search declaring it was too hot out (which it was, but no matter, I wanted to find it!)  Went again with my husband the next day and searched around to no avail.  The third time was a charm of sorts.  I went with a friend and her son to, first of all, introduce them to geocaching, AND to find the dang cache!  I thought I knew what it was supposed to be (or had narrowed it down to one of two things).  Turned out I was right!  Melissa (part of The Lorax Gang) actually FOUND the remnants of the cache.  Found what was left of this cache with The Lorax Gang.I contacted the CO to tell him the bad news.  He was grateful that I contacted him and has already taken it off line for the time being until he can fix this.  Good hiding place, though!

Now and Later in Layhill

July 04, 2012

YOW!  This really stung.

Cute cache tin

Happy 4th! Went out with my dog Eddie and found it. Boy, after the storms on the 29th it was NOT EASY. In fact there was a large branch blocking the cache itself so I had to extract that to get to it. Got lots of nasty scratches from the overgrowth as well. I suggest wearing some long pants or wait until fall if you want to try out this one.

Buggy Bed and Breakfast

Jenners 3-2 at the cache site

Intrepid caching dog, Eddie, guarding the cache

July 4, 2012  HAPPY FOURTH!!  My hubby was off at a 4th of July celebration that I didn't particularly want to go to and son was off with friends at the mall, so I decided to tackle one on my own--sort of.  I decided to trek with my intrepid cache-finding dog, Eddie. We found it without too much trouble but I have to say June 29th's storm has done a number on these trails. Debris was EVERYWHERE. The cache was in fine shape, though. Took the trackerbug which I will faithfully "PUTT" to the next cache and left a stash of NASA goodies.