Record setting month???

Well I tried to find 7 caches today to beat my all time record for caches found in a month. Currently my record is 80 caches set in March of 2004. That included my record of 53 in a single day.

I got my first 2 finds with a little luck

Double Mystery
Golf Course

The next 5 caches I was thwarted by muggles or just plain no finds. I gave up after that. Guess with all those extra eyes searching yesterday I just forgot how it was done. So for right now I have 76 finds for the month.

Here is a picture of one of our many finds from yesterday.

Big caching day

At the last event I was invited to go along with Biggieet_al and Duck the next Saturday for a caching trip to Medford. So today joined by Oldendorf we made the trip and found a lot of new caches. I found 30 to be exact... just enough to reach 1300.

Most of todays caches were easy drive up micros so there were none really exciting. A few of them were too urban for me... but we found them all the same. These were the finds for the day.

Travelers Bug Hangout
Wild And Scenic Rogue
FARMING ARTIFACTS
Phone Tree ??
SLEEPING BEAUTY
Little oak
OLD MILT
OLD STAGE ROAD VISTA
Dahlia
Willow Creek Bush
LEWIS and PARK
FOUR FINE FIR TREES
NO BAKERS DOZEN HERE!
yield!
Fiddlers Three
JUST BECAUSE
POLE VERMIN
the bolted rock award!
MEAN MAG MICRO
Ellendale 35
CLOCKOVER
Rockit
ANOTHER CREEKSIDE CACHE
Little Cedar?
Cedar? 2
WILDISH TREES
YAPIDNA 2
Cut Grass
That's da crunk
BOES 12 GA.

Country caching

Today was the Walk in the Country Folks event. I found a few caches beforehand and showed up for the event at 1pm... guess I misread as the event was at 1:30. So I sat by myself for a while. After the event my new neighbor rain_man_rich and I found a few caches. We had a couple no finds and hard searches which kept us from finding too many. These were the finds for the day.

Lonesome Cedar
Redwood Wetlands
ducks by the creekside # 5
ducks by the creekside # 4
ducks by the creekside #2
Just in case
ducks by the creekside #3

GeoWoodstock VI: the website

The website for Geowoodstock 6 is up and running. You can now register for the event. It is totally free with free food and activities, but you have to register to get a food ticket.

I'm all registered and have a room reserved and everything... even if its 7 months away.

A year gone by

It was one year ago yesterday that SallyC and I finished the Oregon DeLorme Challenge. It has only been done by one other cacher since (though 2 more are ready to complete it.)

In the 2 years since the cache was hidden it only has 8 finds and 3 of those were out of state geocachers. It does take a good bit of time, money and dedication to complete, but it is worth it just for bragging rights.

FTF feaver

Last night I noticed a new cache near my house that had yet to be found. So I took off after dinner and got a FTF.

Ladeana

The weather is suppose to improve this weekend so I might try and find a few more caches. I have a lot just in the Grants Pass area... in Medford I have hundreds. I'll have to decide if I want to hike a bit or just do a bunch of cache-n-dashes.

Columbus Day caching

Yesterday was Columbus Day, and that means a day off for me. Some people don't think Columbus should be honored with a holiday, but I disagree. I'm an equal opportunity holiday taker... I'll take a day off paid in the name of just about anyone.

With the day off I called up my uncle Duck to see if he was interested in picking up some new caches. Mainly I wanted to get a new cache called Tombstone. This cache is in and old tombstone quarry recently discovered in Josephine County. It is an interesting place with several stones in different stages of completion. A tombstone quarry also makes for a perfect October cache.

Also found 10 other caches that I had been saving up in the area

You're Benched
Deceptive
Defence
TINY PARK,BIG TREES
POLEMIC
ODS Snoogan's 5 - GP
Camping Out in Joy
Three at Sixty-One
Would You Marry Harris?
Salute

Weekend of caches

Yesterday Daveydude and I went out to Cave Junction to find some of the new caches in the area and pick up a few older ones. These were my finds for the day.

Mother Hubbard
GOATHEAD
1 + 7 =8 cache
2 + 6 =8 cache
2 x 4=8 cache
8 cache
1 dollar cache
4 dollar cache
7 dollar cache
8 dollar cache
View #1
Those Flyboys Gotta Love Em
Barbwire
You turn me right & left
“The Secret Cache Stage 1”
“The Secret Cache Stage 2”
“The Secret Cache Stage 3”

We ran out of time to complete the secret cache series. So those must wait for another day.

Today I decided to pick up a few and ended with 7. I was thwarted by muggles all day... including a concert and sidewalk chalk artists. These were my finds

Tower Power
It's Done 2
Over the bridge
cornered -- no longer Centered
Hello Gilbert
Mycorrhizal
R and R

House hunting at an end?

Well my house hunting days may be over. I found a nice little 2 bed 2 bath house and put in an offer on it... and it was accepted. As long as nothing comes up in the inspection it should be just a matter of days before I'm moving in.