Geocache #276

After my aborted end to caching on Saturday, I decided I needed to get out and find a few more on Monday.  I had to go into town to look for a 50th birthday party stuff anyway.  Tried to do a couple of the puzzle/multi-caches while there.  Looks like I need to mull them over a bit, as I didn't seem to have to right co-ordinates to find either one of them in the end.

After that failure I really needed to pacify myself by finding, at leat, one cache.  In the end found two before I got a call from a girlfriend and headed out to dinner -- but thats a nother story!!  LOL

So for geocache #276 I headed up Redemeyer Road to find 'Fault Line #3~ Redemeyer Road'.  Parked in front of one of many vintage 'No Tresspassing' signs.  Big hint in the description of this cache.  Only walked back and forth accross the bridge a couple of times before I found it.  Best hint was

"If You find it, Pick it up~All Day long you'll have good luck!" You do not need to go into the creek to access cache

I love these benchmark/coin typecaches.  Would really like to know where this guy find these things!!

Ground was a little wet and muddy from the rains over the weekend, good thing I didn't need to get off the road!!  Gued to the top of the cache container was what looked like a penny, but was actually an official benchmark geocache coin!!

Geocache #271

My weekend plans fell through, so decided that I really needed to get out of the house today and geocaching would be just the ticket!!

Decided to stay pretty close to home and headed towards Redwood Valley to find the few that I hadn't found there yet. 

First one on the list called 'Where East Meets West - Bench marks the spot!!'.  Although it was not raining the sun was a little patchy and quite a few trees around.  The GPS was taking its time locking in, so spent a few minutes wandering from corner to corner till I decided that where I started was pretty close to where the cache had to be.

Didn't realize just how much traffic these back roads get until you don't want to be noticed -- thats when a cell phone comes in handy, you can make it look like your talking on your cell-- and of course you need to be out of the car to find good reception!!  LOL!!

Found it and brought it back to car to check it out.  Didn't realize that you could even get a container like this!!  A 'fake' trackable Benchmark!!!

Trackable BenchMark

Not a whole lot of room for tradables, but left a nickle -- didn't want to leave anything that the dampness would ruin -- yes it was a bit damp inside.  Replaced the log in a new plastic bag to keep it dry and headed on to next cache!!