Foot by foot...
Jul. 6th, 2009 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kengrThe two missing caches I'd gone looking for have been replaced. And I decided that one was close enough to try for on foot.
So I headed off for GC1PMPJ Who Flew the Coop... eaarlier this evening.
It's 0.9 miles away as the crow flies and not a lot farther as the Shadow stumbles.
I'd figured on taking a slight detour on the way back to hit another cache. This was changed from a maybe to a definitely when three blocks from the cache, I found a grocery cart from the store I live next to. I could use it as a sort of "walker" if my legs objected too nuch.
But when I found the replacement cache and told the GPS the cache was found, it popped up a different with the "find next?" question. It was the one I'd forgotten to check the clues for the other day and thus missed the cache.
Since I knew I'd have the cart to help me, I headed off for that cache (a bit under half a mile away).
GC14XWY O.I.C.U. Found-R-Cache
Yep, it was where I'd realized it had to be. I took a look for the tree the beavers had taken down (about 100 feet west). They'd not only finished the job, they'd been working on other trees. While trying to take photos of them (most of which didn't come out), I heard a particular sort of loud splash from the slough. I'd never heard it before but I knew it had to be a beaver warning others of danger (namely, me).
I started back to the cache (I'd spotted it, but figured I could check it on the way back from checking the beavered tree). And then I spotted a beaver swimming in the slough. I took a lot of pics but only a few came out.
Got back to the cache, dug it out of its hiding place and opened it.Signed the log and hid it again.
On the way back up the street I saw some horses in a corral that I'd managed to not notice all the times I'd biked down the street in the past. Pics of them didn't turn out well either. Did get an ok pic of the dog that was in the corral with them. But he was objecting to my presence, so I continued on my way.
By the time I got back to the cart I'd seen, I was glad it was there. Mind you, much of the discomfort was due to poor choice of footwear. I need to break in the other pairs of sandals. This pair is ok, but on long walks, the heel compresses enough to stretch my Achilles tendon a bit more than it is used to.
Dropped the bag with my water, clipboard and other caching stuff into the cart and headed off for the third cache (the one I'd intended to be the second).
GC1KT61 Shelrik's Happy Cache Inn
This one was another easy find. I'll have to go back sometime when the light is better and take some pictures of the inside. Very neeat. Made up like a sort of dollhouse.
Walk back home went ok. My calves are mildly unhappy, but not anything serious.
Total trip distance 3.6 miles. Averaged 2.1 mph walking. Not bad. And that gives me an idea of what I can do until the new tube for my bik tire gets here (Thanks, Chrissy!)
So I headed off for GC1PMPJ Who Flew the Coop... eaarlier this evening.
It's 0.9 miles away as the crow flies and not a lot farther as the Shadow stumbles.
I'd figured on taking a slight detour on the way back to hit another cache. This was changed from a maybe to a definitely when three blocks from the cache, I found a grocery cart from the store I live next to. I could use it as a sort of "walker" if my legs objected too nuch.
But when I found the replacement cache and told the GPS the cache was found, it popped up a different with the "find next?" question. It was the one I'd forgotten to check the clues for the other day and thus missed the cache.
Since I knew I'd have the cart to help me, I headed off for that cache (a bit under half a mile away).
GC14XWY O.I.C.U. Found-R-Cache
Yep, it was where I'd realized it had to be. I took a look for the tree the beavers had taken down (about 100 feet west). They'd not only finished the job, they'd been working on other trees. While trying to take photos of them (most of which didn't come out), I heard a particular sort of loud splash from the slough. I'd never heard it before but I knew it had to be a beaver warning others of danger (namely, me).
I started back to the cache (I'd spotted it, but figured I could check it on the way back from checking the beavered tree). And then I spotted a beaver swimming in the slough. I took a lot of pics but only a few came out.
Got back to the cache, dug it out of its hiding place and opened it.Signed the log and hid it again.
On the way back up the street I saw some horses in a corral that I'd managed to not notice all the times I'd biked down the street in the past. Pics of them didn't turn out well either. Did get an ok pic of the dog that was in the corral with them. But he was objecting to my presence, so I continued on my way.
By the time I got back to the cart I'd seen, I was glad it was there. Mind you, much of the discomfort was due to poor choice of footwear. I need to break in the other pairs of sandals. This pair is ok, but on long walks, the heel compresses enough to stretch my Achilles tendon a bit more than it is used to.
Dropped the bag with my water, clipboard and other caching stuff into the cart and headed off for the third cache (the one I'd intended to be the second).
GC1KT61 Shelrik's Happy Cache Inn
This one was another easy find. I'll have to go back sometime when the light is better and take some pictures of the inside. Very neeat. Made up like a sort of dollhouse.
Walk back home went ok. My calves are mildly unhappy, but not anything serious.
Total trip distance 3.6 miles. Averaged 2.1 mph walking. Not bad. And that gives me an idea of what I can do until the new tube for my bik tire gets here (Thanks, Chrissy!)
