Geocaching Leather-man

Just as we expected, it’s been a month since we found the time to go caching again.
With 19 caches left to meet our goal we chose to do another cache run to clean up an area north of us. We had 12 caches loaded in our GPSr and Palm and off we went.
We always take our camera along just in case there is a memorial shot we can take and this time we left it in the car. Of course, one of the finds was on the rails to trails system and we didn’t think to bring the camera for this one. It turned out to be one of the best caches I have found so far this year.
What made it special for me is that it was located on an old and abandoned rail road tressel that ran over a road below. I had to cross the tressel by staying close to one side as the timbers that used to support the rails were pretty rotten. The length of the crossing was only 150 feet but it was a challenge I had not expected. After reaching ground zero, I looked high and low. I climbed over the edge, looked under the frame work, looked all around the structure and was about to give up for the very first time. I finally pulled out the Palm Pilot and looked at the description and past logs of the cache. It was a 50 cal ammo can and it was on top of the tressel so I put the Palm away and decided to look one more time as a 50 cal box is pretty hard to miss. Just then I looked down and my right foot was only 6 inches away from the box. I must have stepped over it at least 5 times while I looked above and below.
I’ll remember that one for awhile
The rest of the 9 finds we had for the day were pretty normal. Now we are at 90 for the year with 10 more to go. With hunting season starting in less than a month, which will hamper caching in the woods, we are thinking of doing the last 10 before the end of September. Our busy season is about to hit and between that and hunting season there wont be much time to be out on the trail.
It looks like I’ll stay at 3 hides for the rest of the year. After  recalling the few out of 90 that are memorable for me I don’t want to hide any that wont be memorable for others. I also visit my own caches to keep them stocked and nice to find which is something most other don’t do. Having 100 hides may look good on the screen but if half or more are just plain simple with no redeeming qualities and are empty or wet then what’s the point. Oh Ya, I mentioned that last month, it’s all about the numbers.

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