Geo-caching in Florence

We went to Florence for this past weekend and weathered out the HUGE storm over there and yet found 23 geocaches for the weekend. Nothing like running around getting soaked and getting blown around by the monstrous winds right off the ocean.

I thought our motel was going to blow over Saturday night the winds were so bad.

But Sunday was cold but sunny up to noon or so and then it started raining again.

It was a fruitful.

We dropped off one travel bug and picked up two in our travels. I have already dropped off the two bugs in the Ivy Hotel here near the Dixonville turn off from highway 138.

Downtown Published

4PAW published a new one and it is appropriately called DOWNTOWN ... we just happened to be down on Jackson Street when it went published into my email on my iPhone so we walked down the street to see if we can find it between the sprinkles.

The size is not shown and there is no hint just a very short description. It was too wet and we got a bad signal on the iPhone for it kept telling us that we were 16 feet north of it which meant it was inside the shoe store and I am sure it is not.

So we put that on our list of ones to find and gave it a DNF ... it must be a good hide for we tore the place apart looking for it (not really). There were plenty of muggles using the walkway and I can over hear the asking each other what the heck we were doing. So I will be anxious to see who the first to find is on this one.

So we went down the street and found Axel Rose by walking right up to it. The iPhone showed the coords to be right on the spot. That makes 430 for us now on our quest for the illusive 500 mark.

We are going to Florence OR tomorrow to get out of the house. I am feeling cooped up since going to ER a couple of weeks ago and being told by the doctors to not drive and not to do any work.

Of course we will both be doing some geocaching while over there and of course we will be getting some clam chowder at Mo's. There is some new geocaches north of the area we had geocached the last time we were there so we are going to explore the northern reaches of Florence.

The 10-10 Challenge for UVGA

We had loads of fun even if we did have rain for the day. I would call it a very successful event and we will certainly have more for sure.

Just wait!

Taking out a couple for 10-10-10 event next weekend

I am going out to place a couple for the 10-10-10 event that will be surrounding River Forks Park next Sunday around 10 am ... have done this for awhile and where I will be doing the hide I get a lot of bounces on my iPhone so they will be a good sized cache and not micros. Lots of swag for the kiddies will be in each of them. They will be clear tupperware type of snap on lids that will be yellow ... making a real easy find. No camo at all.

If I have time I may go up on Burnt Mountain and see if I can find the little treasures up there.

It seems everyone is heading west into them thar hills to hide and find caches.

It should be a good day even with all this cloud cover.

His Newest FTF

Congratulations to Mickleson5 for being the FTF on Remembering the Axman down in Riddle, OR. He found on the afternoon of 9/16/2010 on his way home from work. It was there for so long that there was cob webs all over it, but just before he gave up on the hunt he found it. Way to go Todd!

Welcome Gundy5 to geocaching

Yesterday I was told by my son from a text message I received that he downloaded the geocaching training app onto his new smart phone and was out with his wife and kids looking for their first.

They are back in Little Rock, AR for a few months while he is going through some training in the USAF before he transfers down to Tuscon AZ this winter.

They had a very successful day by finding 11 on their first day.

They even found a geocoin on their first day out - way to go.

There are lots of geocaches in the Little Rock area and I am sure they will have plenty before they make the move to the desert.

Now that football season is here I will be watching games more on the weekends than going hunting for the elusive geocache. When the weather turns wet I will be working on building some new geocaches for the spring. I have so many being developed in my mind and physically right now. It will be a very challenging winter for sure to come up with new ones.

Right now I want to concentrate on the series about my ship I served on back in 1970. One is active and I have two more that are just waiting for a location so I can take the coords but the geocache is ready to go ... so I will concentrate on the locations for those. Coach Beau (CanfieldClan) is going to be taking his "Success Class" out from Roseburg High School to find the first in the series to find and I may go into the classroom before they go out hunting to talk to the kids first.

TWO DNFs

I want to thank Gpsees for giving me a couple of DNFs on two geocaches of mine, Numbers Blitz 4 and 5, for I went out to check on them on my while to and from Glide this morning and 4 was muggled and the prescription bottle, the lid and the log sheet were laying on the ground and scattered about just down the slope from the guardrail. Number 5 was just plain missing so I replaced it. They are all back in working order now so that is good thing.

This is exactly, I mean exactly what I what I was talking about at the business meeting before the UVGA meet and eat on August 22nd. If you don't find a geocache, instead of just leaving and NOT leaving a DNF and the owner thinks all is well, leave a DNF for the geocache may be missing. It is not like you are having points taken away from you or you are ruining your perfect run. If it is a DNF play the game and leave a DNF for the sake of the owner.

Took me all of about 5 minutes to maintain these two geocaches ... no skin off my nose out of my day.

Thank you Gpsees for letting me know ... they are up and back in action again thanks to you.

The question remains - how many geocachers looked and walked away from these two and for some reason did not have guts to leave a DNF? ... I wonder.