and Geocaching!
Foxhound and I went to a day long training for Girl Scouts - we had found #898 & #899 very close to the training facility and planned to grab #900 in the park directly across the street from the training - after we finished.
The course proved to be "too difficult" for Foxhound - and she "threw in the towel" - tho she REALLY DID get a lot of the info that even the adults were struggling with...
At our table was a "newbie" to Geocaching - she'd just cleared her first 25 finds... we invited her to join us on our #900... which she did... I mentioned before that geocaching is a strange small world... people you never think you'll met - suddenly show up at places you don't expect.... turns out her good friend - is the owner of a cache that gave us FITS and about four visits to find - and in a post he'd written that he took some "newbies" with him to verify that it was still there - when WE were still trying to find it... SHE was the "newbie"!
We love Geocaching!
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Strange Small World
We geocache - www.geocaching.com for everthing you want to know.
We found it accidentally. At O'Neill Regional Park where we volunteer. A stack of pages and a green decon container... the container was found by Rangers - way off trail. They asked if we knew about "this geocaching thing" - nope - found out and contacted the owner of the container and three other caches in the same area - all requiring bushwhacking which - is not allowed in the park...
We have now over 700 finds and I recently became a Girl Scout Leader. Had to take training. Second night of the meeting we are to write activities our girls might enjoy under pre-written titles on large sheets of paper. I write GEOCACHING - the one dad in the class comes in and ask "who wrote geocaching"? I did! - He says they know about it, they do it, but haven't been in a while - doesn't exactly remember his caching name... I know a cacher with HIS real first name - the one on his name tag. So I ask his last name - !!! It matches the name of the cacher I know! I say - YOU are "oc_bobwhite !!!" YOU are the reason WE cache!!!
I find out he just needs to get equipment fixed - replaced - I was beginning to think we'd caused him to stop caching - because of the Rangers at the Park...
life is funny.
We found it accidentally. At O'Neill Regional Park where we volunteer. A stack of pages and a green decon container... the container was found by Rangers - way off trail. They asked if we knew about "this geocaching thing" - nope - found out and contacted the owner of the container and three other caches in the same area - all requiring bushwhacking which - is not allowed in the park...
We have now over 700 finds and I recently became a Girl Scout Leader. Had to take training. Second night of the meeting we are to write activities our girls might enjoy under pre-written titles on large sheets of paper. I write GEOCACHING - the one dad in the class comes in and ask "who wrote geocaching"? I did! - He says they know about it, they do it, but haven't been in a while - doesn't exactly remember his caching name... I know a cacher with HIS real first name - the one on his name tag. So I ask his last name - !!! It matches the name of the cacher I know! I say - YOU are "oc_bobwhite !!!" YOU are the reason WE cache!!!
I find out he just needs to get equipment fixed - replaced - I was beginning to think we'd caused him to stop caching - because of the Rangers at the Park...
life is funny.