A Great Day for Geocaching!

On Saturday, my wife and I went out for breakfast and had a full day planned for geocaching. After eating a larger meal than we should have at The Original Pancake House, we rolled ourselves out the door. After a couple of DNFs on some supposedly simple "urban" caches, we found three other simple LPCs (lamp post caches) to brighten our spirits. We then discovered a really cool cache at an historical house in Fishers at 106th & Kincaid. Then we decided to take a little hike at Ritchey Woods where we found a traditional cache and an EarthCache. 

Ruth at the EarthCache in Richey Woods

The new GPSr is working out beautifully...paperless caching is THE way to go AND we have a camera right there too without having to lug around an extra electronic device. I remember the good 'ol  days when we printed off every geocache page and then had to remember which ones we found when we came back home...thus the reason why we didn't log many of them. (probably some where between 20-30 unlogged caches in many states). On top of that, Ruth found out how to upload the caches we found (field notes) directly from the GPSr...WOW, what a time saver. NO MORE FORGOTTEN CACHE FINDS! We ended up with 27 caches for the day. It was a long day, but we definitely didn't push ourselves. There was a lot of driving back and forth picking up kids and friends, along with fellow geocachers 3Snipe Hunters (Jim and Lynette Hobbs). We were thankful for the young monkeys for one particularly difficult to get to cache.

Our monkey friend, McKenna,
helping with a tough one!

Another highlight of the day was seeing lots of beaver activity near Mud Creek. Pretty cool! Of course, this was a cache that had a terrain difficulty rating of 1.5 stars (out of 5). Ruth continued to ask why it wasn't at least a 3 or 4. We soon discovered (ok, not really soon...it was after we found the cache and walking through 450 feet of briars, brambles, thorns, and beaver-felled trees) a much easier route that would rank it at a 1.5. 

Ellen pointing to the work of a beaver.
I wonder if the hole beneath was a home for an angry beaver.
We didn't stick around long enough to find out.

I don't want to give any caches away, but we found (with great help from 3Snipe Hunters) a particularly cool one at an area nursery. All I have to say is AWESOME and geocachers are some pretty creative people!!

We ended the day with a return trip to one of our favorite landmarks (that, of course, we had never logged before). See me in the picture??

No, I'm not the pink one!