Spring Caching - Minnesota Style

If you look back a few posts ago you'll see some caching pictures in the snow - that was on March 22nd. Today is March 30th. Between March 22nd and 30th the temps have reached the 50's and except for the large piles in parking lots, all the snow was gone. That is until today... I had plans to do some lunch caching to pick up a few in an area I've previously cached out (eg, found all the caches in the area). I normally prefer caching in the winter - no bugs, cool tempatures, no poisonous plants, etc. However, today I just couldn't muster the strength. I can't wait for Spring to arrive in Minnesota.


Out The Window


Brush the Sidewalk

Western States Geocaching

No time for caching today but I did some looking at a few other places to see what the caching was like in area's of the western US that I'm familiar with. Some of them were very interesting - at least to my family.

Cedar City, UT – This was interesting. There are 3 geocaches in the block around a house I'm familiar with! If I remember correctly, one of them is the church I've been to before!! Just around the corner from the house I know. It's an awesome building with some great stone work on it. You can see the church cache here. From there you can get to the cache page where you can read what people have said about it.


Wendover, NV/UT – there’s about 20 or so in Wendover. Some at the “movie” sites. Lots of interesting history in Wendover, too. Many of the caches will take you to those historical sites.


Alpine, UT – None quite as close as the one's in Cedar City, UT, but there are about 6 or so within a house I'm familiar with in Alpine. Plus, there's a few more in the canyon to the north east. The greater Salt Lake City, UT area is loaded with many caches.


Mt Shasta, CA – There’s about 11 in Mt Shasta proper. If I remember right there are a couple within 1/2 mile from a house I know. This is a beautiful area of the country. Mt Shasta (the mountain) towers up in the east. Great place to visit if you've never been there before!



Mesa, AZ – Some of my family have found a few caches with me around this place. Well, there’s a new one just placed recently in a little park next to some horses just down the street from a house I know very well. So I decided to take a look at the cache page. Look at the entry from a geocacher named wannabepaddlin on March 7, 2007 of this year. I know that guy!! I served with him in our church! He lives in my area in Minnesota and found this cache in Arizona - near a place I go to frequently. I had no idea he’d been to this cache. Pretty cool!! By looking at the map, Red Mountain Park is calling my name next time I'm in the area.


Lander, WY – There are seven caches in Lander proper. One of them is mine that my father-in-law and I hid near what used to be called "the field house." It's now had a huge addition and is the high school (Tiger Power). There’s one in North Park behind the old baseball filed. A second one by the high school (placed just this week). One across the street from the theater (the only one it town) in a small park they made there. One up by the antelope statue. And one out Tweed Lane. Of course there are quite a few around the area, too. For example the "The Sinks" is a virtual cache. There are many of them up the switch backs and around the Louis Lake road (those have still be some of my favorites there – we’ve done some each time we go out to see the family).


Here's some of the others one's in the Lander area that I've really liked!
The Bus - as of this posting, I was the last finder in Aug 07.
Atop A Cliff - This is a great story. You'll have to read the log entry for the details. Only been two finders of this cache since it was published on 8/12/06.
In Plane Site - Fun hike to this one. I had my two oldest son's with me as well as Grandpa and UncleM.

Confounded Bridge

Yesterday I DNF'ed this cache because I can't read instructions correctly. Today, I met up with TeamCNJC to try for the cache again. Boy were we surprised when we checked the log.... No FTF but it was still fun. The snow is melting which makes lots of mud!

Cache Name: Where is that confounded bridge?
Waypoint: GC1A8NN
Log Entry:
After I showed that I couldn't solve a puzzle and TeamCNJC couldn't see we decided to go at this one together. We met at GZ and went after it. After a short search we were able to come up with the cache - opened the log - GWWR WAS HERE EARLIER TODAY!!! You're killing me GrayWolf! TeamCNJC and I come up 2nd and 3rd on this one. TNLNSL TFTC!! (and the lesson on solving puzzles)

In the Middle

I went caching on March 22nd in hopes of finding a new caches in the area and getting a First to Find. Isn't March 22nd supposed to be in spring?? What happend here? I'm not sure but this isn't much like spring.

Cache Name: In The Middle
Waypoint:GC1ADKE
Log Entry:
3-22-08 WooHoo!! FTF @ 11:15AM I thought someone else would have nabbed the FTF for sure. With all the snow you'll be able to follow the tracks. Go ahead and do that. My tracks will take you all over the place. It took me a long time to find this one. You know how you get something stuck in your head and you just can't let it go. We'll this was one of those. I finally got the crazy idea out of my head, thought clearly for a while, and made the find. Took the geocoin. TFTC, Rebelex!!

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