It's REALLY Too Bad...

that you can't swim in lake auburn. went for a good long bike ride this morning and decided to go down whitman spring road in search of caches GCY6DN & GC1C0PW...

the first cache, GCY6DN, life's a beach, was just down a ways from where i got on to whitman spring road. i rested on a rock looking out at the quite lake while letting the gps lock in to some satellites. followed a nice path down to a beautiful beach where I quickly located the cache! signed the log and sat there a while admiring the view.

then it was back on my bike and further down the road. which is more like a trail because unauthorized vehicles are not allowed on it, which is nice for bikers, walkers, runners, and taking the dog for a jaunt. there are a few gates shutting the road off to car traffic.

couldn't find GC1C0PW, corner rock, wasn't on any sort of trail at all, just in the middle of nowhere, at least that's what my gps said.

it looked like someone or something had maybe bushwacked in the area but couldn't really tell. no one has actually found the cache since may 2nd so i am wondering if its still actually there. i went through the logs on my cell and most of them commented on the

poor shape of the cache, waterlogged and all. one also said that they bushwacked around a bit then looked at the name of the cache, corner rock, and was able to find it. i went to pretty much the only rock in the area but couldn't find it. i did see an empty zip lock baggie though. my thought is that the cache was there but has since been destroyed, why else would there be a ziplock baggie in the middle of nowhere? so i couldn't find the cache but i did find this cool old wine (?) bottle on my way to the area.

1 for 2 kinda stinks, but at least the logs for the second one weren't really positive so i didn't feel that it was too bad. it was a nice 2 hours of biking and caching.

some more photos from my am adventure:

reflections

now this is a real "corner rock" however nowhere near the cache so named

rays of early sunlight

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One Lost, One Found

well the first one wasn't really lost, i just couldn't find it. went geocaching near the house on my way to running errands yesterday morning...
CACHE INFO:
CODE: GCWO85
NAME: 101 Dalmantions #62 Fluffy
COORDINATES: N 44° 10.528 W 070° 16.466
HINT: None
CACHE SIZE: Micro
DIFFICULTY: 1
TERRAIN: 1

this was the first cache that i took the geko gps to. it was also the first cache that i had to log a DNF (did not find) on :-(. i got to the area and let the gps settle in for about 5 minutes. went to the proposed location, let the gps settle again and it said to go 60' in the opposite direction, went there, let it settle and then it was 80' in a totally direction. i didn't look very closely at google maps when i was at the house and now i am wishing i did because after 20 or so minutes of searching to find what area it was actually in i gave up and went on to do my errands.

had i looked closer at google maps with the satellite view i am pretty sure i would have been able to find the cache! fortunately i live less than 2 miles down the road and can go back, maybe i'll even stop on my way back from work this evening, or better yet, go on a bike ride (this cache is also on one of my routes) tonight to retrieve it and a few others that are along my route.

fortunately the second cache i looked for that day was found.

CACHE INFO
CODE: GC1GGCB
NAME: Dam No Good Name for This
COORDINATES: N 44° 07.957 W 070° 27.741
HINT: Retaining
CACHE SIZE: Small
DIFFICULTY: 1.5
TERRAIN: 1.5

Hundreds pay last respects to Theodore
"Ted" Heidrich
Photo courtesy of Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

kevin's step-grandfather passed away last week and yesterday was his funeral. it was a beautiful service held in the apple orchard of his own farm. kevin's dad & step-mom live right across the street from where the funeral was held, and right on the little androscoggin river, and guess what was right across the river on the other side? that's right a cache!

told the "kids" about it and christy, her service dog moxie, jake & heidi all came along with me to look for it. we used steve (kevin's dad's) gps and it did the same thing that mine was doing earlier in the morning -- maybe they are used to get someone in the general area then you have to use what you saw on google maps and your eyes to search for the cache... but on the other hand the app that miranda had on her smart phone the other day got us right to the cache... it'll be something to look into.

anyway we were searching for about 10 minutes then we had jake look up the clue on his phone, i had looked at it earlier but couldn't remember what it was, well once we found that it took jake about 2 minutes before he found it! there were a bunch of trinkets in it and the log was just about full! we all wished we had brought something to put in there but none of us had anything. we also forgot to get a picture -- oh well we now know where it is, had a blast looking for it, and i think i may have made 3.5 more geocache addicts :-) lets just hope we didn't get any poison ivy while searching around! Read more!