Geocaching With Linda & Jim: Jan 17, 2012

Today was such a cold, blustery, winter day here in Denver that I hesitated going on a second search for this new cache very close to our home. Geo hubby and I went after it yesterday, hiking down a walking trail to a lovely series of lakes we didn't know were so close by! But, we followed the wrong path, and our GPS said we had to turn around and go another direction. We decided we were far to hungry to wander around in Coyote territory any longer!

This afternoon, the Angry Bird cache continued to bug me. I asked hubby if he wanted to come along but I think it was a bit too COLD for him. lol He said he needed to take DeeDee for a walk and the Wall Street Journal beckoned.

The GPS indicated a false sense of security as it had a straight arrow toward the cache hinted to be near a bird house (in a tree?). Arriving at that location, the GPS coordinated indicated I had to turn left and follow the trail beside a small lake (or river). I'm not sure because it was frozen over!

As I got near ground zero, I practically crawled under a fallen tree and started down another path before realizing the cache was on the other side of the path! (That's what happens when the GPS is slower than the walker!)

Turning around and scooting under the tree branch again, I crossed the path and headed through tall frozen grass toward the desired coordinates. Suddenly, it had the cache behind me again! Oh boy, I almost gave up. My hands were frozen from holding two GPS units in front of me for about 20 minutes in the icy Front Range Mountain wind.

Here's a photo of my surroundings...

I didn't see it yet, but the small light spot on the far left of the photo is the bird house where the cache was located!

This is one of the small lakes we didn't know about.
The cache is about 10 feet to my left, but I'm still walking in circles!

I enjoy Geocaching because of the challange (just wish it wasn't so cold right now). I love adding another find to my Geocache website at http://www.geocaching.com (Starcatcher55). This one should make #160 finds for me. Of course that's nothing compaired to my geo friends the Golden B's who have found 4,345, or our local geo master, mondou2 who now has 42,490 finds to his name!

So, I continued to circle closer and closer to my cache-of-the-day until I finally spotted the bird house in the thicket, and after plunging into the thick coppice of wood, thankful that it WAS winter and all the snakes should be sound alseep, I saw the cameod 'cache smiley" waiting for me in the neck of the tree just beneith the bird house!