Geocaching on the road

We're usually so busy when we're on vacation that we can't take the time to look up caches in the places we're visiting. But for this latest trip (just in case, you know) I looked up and printed out information on 10 caches each in St. George, Murray, and Springville. Although we weren't able to use the ones in Murray and Springville, we did end up with a free morning in St. George. It had to be a morning because you really don't want to be geocaching in 110 degree weather. Even 80 degrees was a little risky as the caches might be hiding near metal that can easily burn at such temperatures.

We found this little guy in a cache location close to our hotel. Finding six others led us to some delightful shops including a camping supply place where we picked up a camp shower and a couple of extra tents "just in case".

Now that wireless access to the Internet is becoming so common at hotels and motels, we might be able to just haul a laptop computer around and not print out all the potential cache's until we need them. It's even becoming routine for some geocachers to download information into their cell phones or wireless equipped GPS devices. I'm not quite there yet.

Placerville geocaching

As I've mentioned before on this blog, one of my hobbies in Geocaching. However, it is not something that I find nearly as fun as a solitary activity as when I can do it with Carolyn or the kids and grandkids. Also, it is not something that is easy to do on the spur of the moment - when we have 15 extra minutes or when we're miles from home and our computer. There are ways to download the minimum necessary info to a portable computer or even a cell phone but I find I need as much information as necessary and that requires a regular Internet hookup and a printer.

Anyway, until a week ago it had been almost a year since we went geocaching. So it was with little optimism that I printed out some cache information sheets last Friday for caches around the Camp Nauvoo area. I really didn't think we'd get around to actually looking for any caches.

As it turned out, Carolyn and I had just enough energy left after Camp Nauvoo to drop in on 3 caches in the neighborhood and managed to find all three.

By far the most interesting was the one placed at Smith's Flats cemetery.

This cache represents my idea of a perfect cache: an interesting site that is either historical or unusual, a bit of mystery or puzzle but not enough to make the find impossible, and a "hidden in plain sight" type of cache.

This unusual label on the cache container was just icing on the cake. I wonder where one orders such a switch?