This week was suppose to be the nicest week so far this year for us Pacific Northwesterner's. I was super stoked to be having tank top and shorts weather so soon this year. I had many things planned over the course of the week such as mowing the lawn (and Grandma's lawn), smashing cans, moving stuff around in the garage and some geocaching after work.
We both went to work. For a Wednesday, my work load was very light but there were a lot of date extensions. I hate doing more than 50 date extensions a day and today there were 64! Ughh! At lunch time, I got the pulled pork ready to go but because Ben's crock pot is lame and I thought I had pressed the on button. Apparently, I didn't and it wasn't cooking for almost an hour and a half. Lame!! I went in and made sure the button was pressed. Now, dinner is going to be an hour and a half later than we anticipated. I told Ben and he told me I was lame.
I said to buy time he could meet me in Hawks Prairie to go get a few caches that published last week. I told him where they were and he said sure, it will waste time while we wait for our food to get done. I told him to let me know when he was off work so I can plan when to leave so we get there about the same time. He said he will do that.
I logged off at 4, changed my clothes and did a few things before checking the food one more time. I fed the kitties and Ben called to let me know he just got off work. I got my shoes on and headed out the door. I gave him the parking coordinates for the caches and there was probably going to be room for maybe three or four cars if you did it right. He got there before I did because I got stuck in traffic.
I told Ben that the last time I was out here was with Bob and Bev several years ago in the winter time. We picked up a few of them around the north Hawks Prairie area because Bev got a few solved puzzles and their coordinates from Frisbeer. Before that, is when I first started caching and we grabbed the seat belt/wrecked car cache, the one that I was going to let Ben find once we got on the trail.
The first one we walk towards was This Cache Has Been Sanitized! (GC97V0X). It was at least 200 feet off the paved trail hidden in the tall bushes. We were getting close to it but weren't seeing it. Ben got a better angle on it and saw it. He pulled it out and I wasn't expecting a repurposed Diaper Genie. Hahaha! We took the lid off of it and got to the container. We signed our names, got a fabulous photo of Ben and the cache and he put it back how he found it. I can definitely say that this is a first I've found a Diaper Genie cache.
We walked east on the trail so Ben could get Make Your Mark (or, Don't Take the Pens!) (GC1BP06) and I told him it was pretty straight forward as far as what you had to do. It was an old broken down car and you signed the seat belts. I found it on 4/8/2011 which seems like a very long time ago. Life was very different back then.
We got back on the path and headed west again to get the rest of them cache. The next one, Texas Bison (GC97T65) was thrown into the bushes by the last set of cachers. We had to figure out a way to get around the pokey bush to grab the huge container without getting destroyed. Ben, since he was wearing pants, did manage to grab it unscathed. The lid was hard to get off of it but we pulled it and it came off. There was a bunch of stuff crammed inside of it. We found the baggie with the log book in it, signed our names, posed with the container and Ben threw it back in the bush.
I read up on the next one, Rainbird (Rainbird???) (GC97T63) to see what we were in for and what side of the trail it was on. I knew we were looking for a sprinkler head but where would they have hidden it on a path in the woods? Since the coords were a bit spotty (because of the trees) we looked on both sides of the trail for good measure. We saw the large stump and found the sprinkler head. We got the logbook, signed our names and put it back.
We got back on the path and enjoyed the short walk to the next one, Keep Your Ammo Under Cover (GC97T5Y). Ben read the hint wrong so we were looking in all the wrong places for the next 10 minutes or so. I looked everywhere 18 inches from the pavement on both sides of the trail. I reread the hint and I was like, Ben, it says 18 feet from the paved trail, not 18 inches you dork! He said, oh, I read it wrong. Derp. We finally found it. It was within reach quite a few times for the both of us. We signed our names and put it back where we found it.
Now onto the last one, Pond View (GC97T5N). This one was further away from the rest of the caches in this tiny series. We saw that there was active construction, cut trees and branches, barriers, new ponds, stumps and construction flags everywhere. We got closer to the cache and saw where we needed to go. We had to step around a huge stump to grab the ammo can. Ben stayed on the trail while I went and signed our names. I got a picture of it with on of the several ponds.
We made our way back to the vehicles. We knew we had to walk quickly so we could get home and check on the pulled pork. I was hoping that it was going to be done after my mistake from earlier. We both got home and we checked the crock pot. I had Ben check it to see if it was ready to take out and pull. He said we should give it another half hour. I got the buns ready to put in the oven, cooked the beans, grabbed the extra BBQ sauce and the Cole slaw. We got one of our giant plates out and Ben shredded up the pork, slapped it on our buns and added some more BBQ sauce on top. I added beans and some chips to my plate and found a show to watch and we ate our food with delight. Pulled pork sandwiches are sooo good!
Next Adventure: Lewis County Adventures: Onalaska, Carlisle Lake, 2 FTF's and Harold's Burger Bar
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