Seems the greater part of the local geocaching community beat me to it an hour earlier! While I searched up and down for over an hour all alone not finding a speck of it! My GPS said I was 'spot on", but all I saw was a great big pine tree with lots of tiny baby pine cones!
Finally, in desperation, I texted a plea for help on the geo website for the person who had hid it. Nothing. No response! I vowed not to leave that spot until I found it, but I was getting a little worried after an hour had passed. The neighborhood dogs had gotten so used to me that they went back their dog houses thinking that anyone silly enough to walk back and forth around a pine tree for an hour wasn't worth barking at anymore.
As I leaned on a large branch, I happened to look up - higher than before - and there it hung!!!! Way up there much farther than I've EVER climbed a tree! Wow! After all the hints in the posting! After all that time of not looking UP! I felt foolish and frustrated that now I couldn't even reach it. I figured this was a dead end. A disappointing DNF!
Stopping by to replace our Bib and Fibs geocache that has been muggled (stolen!) four times now, I headed home to bewail the Did Not Find to Geo Daddy Jim.
"Climb a tree?"
"Yes, it's way up in a TREE!"
"Why, I can still climb a tree. Let's go!"
The rest of the story is in the photos...
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| It's up there somewhere. He doesn't see it yet. |
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| Don't catch your pants on the limb! |
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| Success!!! |
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| The bones aren't what they used to be! |
Later, I discovered the funny story of how Geocacher, "Lord Mike" was FTF earlier in the day, but was happy to re climb the tree for other Geocachers who needed a hand up there.
Geo hubby says this might be the last tree he ever climbs, but it was worth the trip for Geo Wifey!
We signed the log and left our swag.
On the geocaching website, this one is called "Heard it through the grapepine" (case sensitive)
Take Care on the Journey
Your friends in Geocaching,
Starcatcher55 & CatsEye55
