New Blog

I have stopped using this blog and am now going to use a blog on wordpress.com to talk about geocaching.

Go to the following link to view my new blog: http://windingpath01.wordpress.com/

PLEASE READ! Important Info For Followers!

Since I will be taking on a new blog format, I might just create an entire new blog. If I do decide to do that, I will put out a new post on Monday on this blog, which will include a link to the new blog, which will contain all of the info on our adventures from the past week. Hope it works out! Talk to ya'll later!

On Time Weekly Post- 5/10

Whew, I'm on time this week. The week didn't start out too great. Monkey See Monkey Do 1 was published over by Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. We went out to try to find it, but couldn't in the fading daylight. So the next day, are frienemies, the FugeFinders, got the FTF on it. Grrrrr! Later, one was published on my dad's way to work. We figured that nobody would have found it by the time he would head to work the next day, since there was a "not 24/7" attribute. Unfortunately, someone found it anyway, so our bad fortune continued. On Friday, we finally found a multi that had been giving us trouble, Captain Wapato's Treasure Hunt (GCHWPC). We are only one step away from finishing the requirements for the Know Your Local Cacher Challenge. On Saturday, we got up early to go find a cache that you can find only by taking the Light Rail through downtown Tacoma. In addition to it being a great tour, we got the FTF. We were sure Tom from FugeFinders would be down there searching already. We later on went back up to Tacoma to find more caches downtown. In three hours, we found two caches (is that even possible?!). A cache was published in Bonney Lake later that night, so we raced out, only to be beat to the cache by GPSWonderer. The good part though... we beat Tom! Yesssss!!! Next came Mother's Day. We got an FTF on one of ImLuckiest's new caches to kick start the day. It was a nice walk in a new park in Bonney Lake. Later we went on to find several caches in Flaming Geyser State Park, and that pretty much ends it for this week. Stay posted for next week. Remember... next Monday is the one year anniversary of us starting geocaching, so we'll start posting pictures and individual find posts on the blog. Stay tuned, and see ya'll next week!

Sigh, Another Belated Post- 5/4

Well, here's another belated post of mine. There are a couple of issues that should be addressed, but I'll get to that at the end of the post. Onto our caching adventures of the week. Last Wednesday morning, I had time before school to find a couple caches, because of the late start. Lo and behold, the reviewers publish a couple before school, but I wouldn't have time to go get them and get back in time for school. If only they had published an hour earlier. Now, here's the part that gets me. Our FTF competitioneers/caching buddies, the FugeFinders, got the FTF on BOTH of the caches. Grrrr, grumble grumble. Then on Saturday we went to see the shorebirds in Grays Harbor, and picked up some caches along the way. Since we are working on the Washington County Challenge, we went out of our way to pick one up in Mason County, then hit several in Grays Harbor County http://www.geocaching.com/bookmarks/view.aspx?guid=fc7b2939-2234-4209-be19-f49e4fbab837. On Sunday, we attended the infamous FugeFinders 10 Years! event in Sumner. We met a lot of cachers that we had been longing to meet, and caught up with other caching friends. The Fuges placed two caches prior to the event and gave the crowd the coordinates during the event. As soon as we got the coords for both caches, we headed out. We got the FTF on one of them with fozroc, GPSWonderer, and theDarknyght. Well, that's it for the geocaching adventures of the week. Now onto other business.

First of all, I noticed that a couple others have found out about my blog... cool. Maybe I'll add some more widgets to play with. Second, we are coming up on our 1 year anniversary of becoming geocachers. On May 17 (the anniversary), I will start adding pictures to blog posts. Who knows, maybe I'll even have posts for individual caches we find and add individual pictures there. We'll see what happens. Until next week...

Yay, The Post Is On Time! 4/26

On Wednesday we got an FTF over behind the Fred Meyer in Puyallup. We signed the logbook just 13 minutes after publishing, woohoo! Nothing happened again until Saturday, when we atttended two CITOs (Jenkins Creek Park in Covington, and Lake Desire-Spring Lake in the Renton Highlands) and found a few caches during and after the events. After the Renton Highlands CITO we went and found some nearby caches with MrsShock, Tobias and Petronella, The Jester, and Blooming Idiot. At the Covington CITO, we rid a little lake/pond of crud such as shopping carts, chairs, mattresses, coolers, all the usual junk. On our way home we stopped at the Auburn Mall, and as luck would have it, one was published 12 miles from our house (which is actually more like 3 or 4 miles from the mall), so we went over to find it and were FTF. Terrible T's showed up a bit too late followed by rmnrm and the cache owners. After the find we went over with rmnrm to look for another one, but we have a feeling it had been muggled. On Sunday I finally got out another GWS (Geowoodstock Series) cache. It's probably one of the easiest puzzles you will ever be given by me. However, the cache itself is a bit of a challenge. Fortunately for FugeFinders, they finally got an FTF on one of our caches, and on his first day back from Everett! That's it until next week, when I post about the happenings of Fuge's 10 years event at Aversano's in Sumner. Hasta la vista!

Another Belated Post- 4/21

Another belated post, darn. Not much happened this past week (since Thursday). We raced out for a possible FTF on South Hill, only to show up behind kristaxc (who got the FTF) and krklnmn. On Saturday, we went out to Spanaway then up to Renton for some caching. We went to Spanaway first so we could look for a cache that hadn't been found yet (GC26RHY Look at the size of that thing...), and luck was on our side, as we got the FTF (see log for actual details http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=51d5f41b-8c0a-4e61-9121-e1c066ee7436 ). Then we went over to Spanaway Park and found a couple of caches by Sir Sock Puppet. After finding those we headed up to Renton to work on the Know Your Local Cacher Challenge. We got a letterbox and a multi by mc3cats, but had to stop caching because we ran out of time. That's about it for this week. I'll try to get a post in on Monday next time, I promise : )

Belated Weekly Post- 4/14

Well, this is two days late, but who cares? To start off the new week of caching, we found FugeFinder's new multi-cache after school (it was published right when school started)-- dang it Tom! :D On Friday, dad got a Co-FTF with rodgowdy in Federal Way on his way to work. It was our first FTF on a multi. We also got some much needed help on a few puzzles. Then on Saturday we went up to the Renton area to go to Frys and do some caching. On the way up we stopped at our rock wall cache in Kent. We were going to replace the container since it had rusted shut, but we decided to archive it since there was some family un-friendly items in the rock wall. After that we ended up finding three caches in Renton (one was a fake sprinkler!) and then heading home to watch the daffodil parade. We contacted FugeFinders while at the parade and arranged to go look for First City Want Ads once the parade was over. We got there before they arrived and found it before they arrived, and I had some fun messing with them (hehe). But, they eventually got it with our help. On Sunday we went up to see the tulips in Mt. Vernon. We ended up getting caches in three new counties (Skagit, Island, Whatcom) to help us with the County Challenge. Lastly, yesterday we got two FTFs. One was another that dad got on the way to work, and the other posted right as we finished dinner, so we headed out and got a Co-FTF with nstarbill. Well, that's about it. Until next Monday...

Weekly Post 4/5

OK, so this week was my spring break. It turned out to be one of our best weeks of caching ever (including Saturday and Sunday). On Monday we called up our caching buds the FugeFinders to go look for one that hadn't been found up in Federal Way/Commencement Bay (Tacoma). We were unknowingly following him up there and we ended up getting duped out of a FTF due to our lack of observation. We showed up just a bit too late, but got to run into a new cacher, plus see some old friends. On the 30th, which was a Tuesday, we got 12 finds up in Buckley/Enumclaw. We finally found the Bacon Factor 2 - Celebrity 911, which I had figured out a few weeks prior (it is a puzzle). We also finally got zntargvp meets Evil (C)ammo, which had eluded us many times. We even found the right log (thanks, FF!). We redeemed a few more DNFs (Arbor Cache, by road trip and YA WANT 23 FRYS WITH THAT?, by fozroc). We found the latter on our way home at a stop for lunch. Unfortunately, our main purpose of the trip up there was to find First City Want Ads, which we failed at [it started to rain : (]. On Wednesday, we went up to the South Hill and found Salt:Checkmate, and Pepper, which are both puzzles that gave me trouble. We owe half the credit to FugeFinders (again, thanks for the help). Earlier that morning we got a Co-FTF with Crystlcryptr and who else, FugeFinders. It was also up near the YMCA of Puyallup. Not much happened after those two days, although we did get 3 more FTFs (one a puzzle by FF, one we beat FF to by about 2 minutes up in Clarks Creek Park in Puyallup, and one up north of the airport where we got a Co-FTF w/ FunnyNose and sciuchetti). We ran into a bunch of cachers over break. frisbee'r twice (once at Flux Capacitor Travel Hub, the other on the way back from FFs new multi), Crystlcryptr several times, timmayvsjimmay, sproutter, NWCREW, HoppingCrow, and probably several others. OVER BREAK, WE GOT A TOTAL OF 37 FINDS, WHICH IS OUR HIGHEST TOTAL IN ONE WEEK. I can sense that there is some stuff that I am missing, but for now, I'm not going to catch it. Until next week...

Time For The Weekly Post

Well, not too much happened this week. We didn't get any FTFs, while our friends the FugeFinders have gotten even farther ahead of us (darn school). We did team up with them to find the Bakers Dozen Challenge Final on my birthday, and boy was that an adventure. We turned the terrain from a 2 into a 4.5. That's because there was a bunch of hunters training dogs, and they had live ammo. That made it by far the most interesting birthday present ever! Until next week...

It's About Time!

It's been about a month since my last, post, so I have a bunch to talk about. In no particular order...
We finally got our last Baker's Dozen Challenge day finished, and will go for the final this Saturday.
We went to Niagara Falls to visit family. We got our very first (four actually) earthcaches at Niagara Falls, and introduced family members to geocaching. We got at least one find in NY and Canada, so we now have finds in WA, OR, NY, and Ontario, CA. We put out our first cache in over a month, which was a puzzle about March Madness (NCAA Basketball Tournament). JimmyM and sciuchetti got Co-FTF on that one. We attended our very first CITO event up at Cougar Mountain. hydnsek was the "owner" of the event, and one of her events was another milestone for us. We have logged a couple of her events as our 150th and 500th find. Yay! I got to work with the Jester planting trees, and we found a 4 difficulty cache very near the parking lot. We plan on getting to 550 by the end of the month so we can have at least 600 by the one year anniversary of when we started caching. Since my last post, we've gotten three FTFs [lame : (]. One in Auburn where we just beat Tom (FugeFinders), one that FugeFinders hid, and one hidden by 2bugs up at Pierce College in Puyallup. As of now we are four FTFs behind our caching frienemies, the FugeFinders, but that is sure to change sometime soon : ).

I'm going to try to make this a weekly thing. I'll post on either Sunday night or Monday after school and recap the caching week. Until next time...

Yeah! FTF!

We just got back from a FTF run over at Seibenthaler Park in Sumner. The cache was a puzzle by FugeFinders. We headed over to the park, figuring out the puzzle along the way. Once there we noticed the CO's. We got a little help on the puzzle and started looking for the cache. Found it after a while, but we misread the hint and it was dark out, so that probably didn't help. When this was published, I had something that I was doing at that time, and got back and realized it had been published about 45 minutes earlier. What's even worse is that the listed coords are only 0.8 miles from our house!!!! We figured someone would have already found it, but nobody had. So, yay. FTF. Thanks FugeFinders!

Yesterday was a great caching day. We went over to DuPont to get a 13 cache day for the Baker's Dozen Challenge. We found 12 (found another one later), including 2 mysteries, a multi, and 9 traditionals. We found the entire DEATH STAR series, and got a multi and mystery by ohjoy!. Now we get to add her to our Know Your Local Cacher Bookmark. We didn't have any DNFs, although we were close :-). There are a lot of nice trails in DuPont, not to mention that with our 12 finds, we didn't even make a dent in the area. We highly recommend DuPont to any cacher who is in the mood for a ton of finds. There weren't any new caches published later, so we had to find one more cache (locally) for our 13 cache day to be complete. We ended up finding Weekend In Bonney Lake, which had eluded us many times before.

New Multi

Our new multi cache was finally published at 12:24 this morning. Since it's Wednesday, I'm figuring out more puzzle caches for us to go find. Since yesterday, we've got three new puzzles figured out. Working on another this morning.

New Multi Cache

ANOTHER UPDATE:

I just re-submitted our new multi for approval, so it should be a matter of time before it is published. FTF hounds, get ready!

UPDATE:

OK, we got an email from Rock Rabbit earlier today informing us about the status of our soon-to-be-published multi. We just had to change something on the cache page, and then re-submit it for approval. Since it is relatively late now, we will wait until tomorrow to re-submit it. It should be up later than 2:30 p.m., no earlier, so you FTF hounds, plan accordingly. We also figured out the GC#. It is GC240D5. The name of it is Cache Us If You Can #1. The significance of this multi applies only to those who enjoy challenge caches, particularly the Know Your Local Cacher Challenge. With this hide, we have three different types of hides out (Traditional, Mystery, Multi). So, we can now be officially 'known'.


Know Your Local Cacher Challenge: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=a09a045e-10b6-4026-a847-430159d9c101

FTF Opportunities

We had a shot at two FTFs tonight. One was up in Auburn on the Interurban Trail, which we ended up being STF on behind Tobias and Petronella. As we were leaving we realized that one had been published in Puyallup. We figured we had a shot, but once we got there we noticed FugeFinders. Darn, they had beaten us. Oh well, 0 for 2 isn't so bad.

Today's Caching Expedition

Today we found three caches that were previously DNF's. (CoinEx, Mind Your Manors, Between a Rock)

CoinEx
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ea9f80fb-8dee-4f54-a202-4e34c623fa42

Mind Your Manors
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=931b3cc7-592b-4808-aa9c-1334589a8c2f

Between a Rock
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=7448cb99-acb6-4a67-a5eb-1f199b074e63

New Multi Cache

We placed our new multi cache today. It has three WPs and a final. It should be relatively easy. Along the way we saw a lone bald eagle in the fields next to the Foothills Trail. If anyone sees other interesting wildlife while on the hunt, please post pictures, they are always encouraged (as long as they aren't spoilers).

Enabled The 4th Corner

We finally put out the replacement container to our cache, The 4th Corner. It is now open for anyone to get, so go and find it!

New Multi-Cache

We just went out today to find spots for a soon-to-be multi cache in the Puyallup/Orting area. Keep posted, it should be up around or before next weekend.