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I just got back from spending a few days camping out in Otter Creek Park just southwest of Louisville, KY. I got there on Friday afternoon and started caching along the Ohio River as soon as I got my tent set up.

After a chilly night I started early on the 8 mile trail that encircles the park forest. It ended up over 9 miles with all my side trips for caching, sight seeing and rock climbing. Nice views of the Ohio River again and half of it following Otter Creek itself.

I was pretty tired after that but after a nap I was ready for the star gazing at the park observatory. The giant telescopes were pointed at Jupiter and its moons. Very clear and detailed. It was the first time I'd seen a planet with my own eyes rather than via photo.

After another chilly night I packed up this morning and came home for a shower and a mid morning nap. All-in-all I tried 9 caches, found 7 and failed 2. Not a bad weekend.

I just went to my first five official geocaches yesterday. 3nodding

My best geocache adventure was 6 or 7 years ago in rhode island. It was a CITO event that required us to cross a river, people brought boats and canoes, and then find the site. By picking up enough trash you were given hints to the cache. Unfortuntly this was the first and last time the event was done because the area was declared wetlands and we could no longer go there.

That sounds like a couple of my caching days, especially in parks with tall hills or deep hollows so there is less sky (and satellites) visible for the GPS. I could be standing right on top of the cache where my GPS zeroed out and then my GPS is going crazy saying it is still a couple hundred feet elsewhere. I need to start trusting the first location more often.

Went out caching yesterday for a project my sister is working on. We were going to hit a couple of urban caches and be done, but it took us almost no time to finish up. So we decided to head over to a nearby hiking area and check out some nature caches that I've been considering taking a youth group to.
Well...after hiking at least a mile, getting scratched by briars, bushwhacking up hills, and hanging off a hill that was trying its hardest to become a cliffside to get at a cache hidden in the roots of a huge tree, I decided that that was not the place to go with the group.
Found the dang container in the tree, though. Got absolutely filthy as I did so...and it was only slightly distracting to listen to my mom going 'Don't fall! Don't fall! Watch your feet...your feet!'

I just found my first geocache yesterday with my dad. biggrin It was in one of the wooded areas near our house, so it was easy to get to, but the fact that we had to make our way through all sorts of bushes and trees made it somewhat hard to find; I think we took about 45 minutes, between trying to figure out how accurate the GPS was, getting the GPS to work, and finding the cache in all that greenery. My dad was about to give up when I stumbled across it- it was so exciting to find my first one! I left one of my handmade bracelets in it, so I'm hoping someone will take that soon before it gets wet (everything in the cache was damp, but I did have the bracelet in a baggie).

The second cache we looked for we couldn't find; it hasn't been found since the end of March, so I'm wondering if it's still there.

If you're curious, I blogged more about the cache hunting here on me and my friend's blog.