Naples Leather-man

This cache popped up last summer and we just had to run to grab it. When I say run it was more of a walk, but for the first time we didn’t use a vehicle to get to the cache as it is only 350 feet or
so from our door step.

I have hiked this glen for many years, 30 or so, and know the terrain pretty well. Finding the cache was a bit tricky as there were 8 people playing in the falls as I poked around and made the find.
Stealth was the order of the day and I was able to grab it, sign the log and get it back into hiding without a single person noticing I was even there. This image is from another trip we made to the
glen to find another cache placed the day we found the first one.

Some people have asked me why I didn’t place any hides in this great spot I guess there are 2 main reasons. First, the glen has very steep sides and getting a lock with a GPS is impossible on the best
of days. Second, for 20 years or so it was possible to take a lunch break any day of the week and hike from our house to the glen and never see another person. Placing caches there will draw more people
to return from time to time which may change the "privacy" aspect of one of my favorite places.

One of the most pleasing aspects of living in the Finger Lakes region of NY state is the diverse landscape around the lake areas. One hour you can be hiking on a trail overlooking small towns and hamlets
100’s of feet above them as in this shot:

One hour later you can be hiking along a lake edge looking up at the surrounding hills where you were a short time ago. The lakes offer so many interesting views and also some comical ones as with this
dock:

We have reached a point in our caching in this area where in order to find new areas, where there are caches we have not found, we have to do some traveling. With our busy schedules and the price of
gas it takes a lot more preparation than before. That leads to less caching trips and less blog posts about them. My next post will have to do with some of the equipment we use on our caching trips.

Happy hiking.

It’s been a few months since I have made a post here about our caching adventures.

With 197 finds we only have 3 more to go to meet our 2007 goal and we have been going out. The main problem is there hasn’t been anything memorable to write about. I could bitch about micros in the woods described as “Small” containers so they aren’t caught in the micro filter or even caches where the cooridinates were off by 90 feet or more on both of our GPS units, but I’ll save those rants for another day.

As soon as we find something worth writting about I’ll take the time to do it. In the mean time, I’m working on a couple of things about our work and spiritual quests.