I needed to go caching and not just for one or two. I had envisioned the day going differently but I get what I can get. I called Bev to see what she was doing and she said she would go with me. Bob had to go help the guys with a job so he didn't get to go with us. She said there were a few in the South Hill/Puyallup area we could go get. I said okay and made a query for that area. I asked her when she wanted to go and she never said so I got up around 8 the next day to ask. She said whenever I get there. Then she said she would drive if I buy the lunch or dinner. I said okay.
I got all my stuff together and made a sandwich to bring with me. I got to her house around 10 and parked the car. I grabbed my stuff and walked towards the house. She came out and asked why I was holding my stuff. I told her, you said you were driving if I bought lunch/dinner. She said no she didn't, her "smart" phone typo'd me the wrong message. Apparently I was suppose to drive and she was going to buy lunch/dinner. I said okay. I put my stuff back in the car and off towards Hwy 161 we went via McKenna.
Our first ones were along 161 just before you got to the busy part of South Hill. There was two inside this park they called "new park" but we really didn't know how to get to it. It was kind of hidden off the main drag. We parked near a business and walked into the park. I didn't have the first one we came to but Bev did. She didn't remember coming here so she assumed Bob came and got it with Kenny or Mike one day. We started searching for A New Park (GCY6FH). The coords bounced around everywhere. All of a sudden a guy walking his dogs walked by while we looked for the cache and he knew what we were looking for. Then he got distracted talking to the Pierce County worker. I moved my search to the other side, found a good spot and I knew that's what I was looking for.
We walked towards the other one at the far end of the park, It Is What It Is (GC56BRY). Some people have been finding it and others have not. I was guessing it would be similar to the one I had just found. We made it to the fence line and started looking. After searching a bit in the area I decided to expand closer to the corner. And...there it was! It was similar to the one I had just found. I yelled to Bev to come over towards me to shower her where it was. We signed the log and put it back as we found it.
We walked back to the car and headed to the next few caches. South Hill Park contained four caches we could get. We parked the car and started with the closest one first, Pooper Scooper 3 (GC40DTM) was no where to be found. We had to log it as a DNF. We were bummed. We walked to the next one, it was a multi called We Now Have a Hero (GC40DTM). We didn't find that one either. We were starting to wonder if coming to this park was a good idea. We followed the trail to the next one, Back to the Future (GC5PDAV) and it was actually there. We had to hide behind the stump so the muggles didn't see us when they walked by.
We followed the trail and finished up our experience at South Hill Park (GC500JP7) with a cache that bears the same name. It was in a tree cover with a lot of rotting stumps. The coords bounced a bit so it was hard to pin point the exact stump that it was hiding near. I found it after a few failed attempts.
We used the restroom before heading back to the car and looked at the map for the next cache. The next one was over by the South Hill mall. I remember years ago getting all the caches near here but I guess there were more put out. Let's Go To Lunch (GC4X6C1) was behind the restaurants in a place I've gotten a cache once before. It was crammed between two branches.
We drove over to the Costco to find Loafers (GC574BT) and struck out after searching for nothing for too long. We were pretty bummed that we already have 3 DNF's on the day. We saw there was one at the park and ride again, almost in the exact same spot as the one that used to be here was. Mr. Hoover (GC4TFNY) was a tribute cache by Hoovers69 for his dad. When we rolled up of course there was a guy in a truck less than 40 feet from the cache. We really weren't sure what we were looking for but after using our brains we found the cache quickly.
We went towards the western side of Puyallup near the Clark Creek area to some caches we both didn't have. One was along the pipeline called Cross Roads 2 (GC55E3R) and the other was almost underneath Hwy 510 called Deer Crossing (GC5E96C) and that container had a fake spider next to it that moved if you touched it wrong. It had Bev jumping from it. Haha.
The Mystery of the Powerless Power Pole (GC4RXGR) was one we had to go see. It had a bunch of favorite points and we read some of the logs and it sounded like a really creative one. I plugged the coords into Nuvi and she lead us to the back side of Clark Creek Park. The corner didn't allow us to park there legally so we turned around and parked in front of a truck on the side of the road. We weren't going to be gone that long so we figured it was a good spot. We followed our GPS into the forest and started looking. It was an actual power pole. We read the hints and tried to figure out how to get the cache out of the device. The cache concept was brilliant and the story that went with the cache was creative. Eventually we figured out how to open it. I gave it a favorite point.
I took Bev to go find the one at De Coursey Park and we tried looking for one called Evil Eye (GC5BXQ8) but we couldn't find it. We even phone a friend. We finished off the afternoon near Sparks Stadium to grab one more to make it an even 10 caches at Friday Night Lights (GC5QVYB). That one wasn't hidden very well and we could see it from the sidewalk.
We went up the hill and got back onto Hwy 161 and made our way to Sonic. Bev has never been to Sonic and she wanted to try it. Since we had cash we decided to go through the drive thru instead of ordering it with a car and having them bring it to us. Once our food came, we ordered the standard burger and fries with a drink, we ate it inside the car. Bev said it was pretty good food and would probably come here again at some point. I dropped her off at her house and went home.
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