Unexpected Finds While Geocaching
We’re back from our vacation to Door County, Wisconsin. What a place! The geocaching was excellent. We found many great geocaches, albeit the setting is enough to make any geocache worthwhile.
Many of our finds took us to the east, i.e., “quieter side” of Door County. And as caches will do, the finds also took us to places we hadn’t discovered before, always a nice bonus. Our first finds were on a dead end. However, this was the view of that “dead end.” It was an unexpected, but delightful find of itself.
The cache here was a bit of a challenge at first. We searched for some time. Unfortunately, we were way off. We were convinced the cache was closer to the water. The only thing we found there was the set for “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” There were spiders, big nasty ones, 
everywhere. As if that weren’t enough, there was a snake too. Actually, there were two snakes–two snakes in love, that is. I think you get the idea. They certainly weren’t interested in geocaches or finds or us, for that matter.
Other caches took us to other interesting landmarks. Though located in a wayside, our next finds took us to a wonderful park adjacent to the stop. We thought that we were close to town. The park, however, opened up before us. What a place too! Large cedar trees and ferns dotted the rocky landscape. Wildflowers were also in abundance.
Though we took the high road to the cache when we should have taken the low road, the extra time in the park was fabulous. The hide was a good one, tucked away in a small cave on the hillside. Downed trees made the grab a bit harder than it might have been.
Now I should clarify. The path that we ended up taking was a bit rough at times. We had to do a bit of scrambling. I guess our first clue that we were on the wrong trail was the cache ratings. We were making a 1.5 cache into a 2.5. No worries. We found a way down to the cache.
Surprisingly, during most of our geocaching, we were able to get Sprint coverage. I mention this because we rely on Trimble’s Geocache Navigator to lead the way. We had packed the old Garmin 12 Map GPSr. I don’t think we used it at all. In years past, we were not even able to roam, the coverage was so spotty.
Next time, I’ll write about one of the best caches we’ve ever found.
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June 24th, 2009 at 10:48 am