We ended up going out. A few of my colleagues know of my caching obsession & have been following my streak. When I raised the possibility of not finding one last night, they were unanimous that I couldn't quit now. I got reminded that I'd reached the humpday & that it would be all downhill after this (yeah, right! I still have another 50 days where I need to find a cache, & with each one, it gets harder for the next night).
I made the kids toasted sandwiches & went to beyond Richmond to find a tradional cache. I left the probably easier to get to puzzle cache for one night next week, when I'll have less time available.
The one we ended up getting would have been difficult by myself, with navigating all the turns to get to it. Connor is getting good at navigating using the iPhone, but this one I think would have been a bit much for him to work out in the dark.
But a friend who'd already found this one came out with us, and he did the navigating. He actually suggested this one, it's a terrain 3, so I hadn't considered it. I own a terrain 2 cache that involves a half kilometre walk down a firetrail & climbing down a cliff to get the cache, so to my mind a terrain 3 is not a nighttime cache. However this terrain 3 involved driving down a road that my car (with low clearance) could handle without problem, and parking 2m from the cache. It was beside a tree next to the road. Should have been classified as a terrain 1.5 at the most. But I won't complain, I get the credit for a T3 on my stats :-).
Anyway, it was an easy cache to do in the dark, and I have made it to day 50. Got home a bit after 9pm, with 2 out of 3 children asleep in the back of the car.
Days 51 & 52 should be okay, we have the weekend available to go out for a few harder bush caches each day. One of them will be a new local cache that is actually dedicated to me :-). I wish I could have got the FTF on it, but with working during the week that wasn't possible.
And my Imp girl wants to place a cache this weekend - we have the ammo can ready to go, we have the general hiding area selected, we just have to get out & hide it now. Which means I have to get off the computer & start moving for the day.
Sounds like fun:) Thank the stars for toasted sandwiches,eh? Are you saying tbat you now climb up and own cliffs for geocaching? Amazing!
ReplyDeleteToasted sandwiches are a wonderful invention :-). I'm glad I remembered their existence when deciding what to do.
DeleteIf you cache in the Blue Mountains, you need to climb cliffs. There are drive-by caches & easy ones, but there are also a lot in the bush and along cliff lines. I only do fairly easy ones, I haven't got to abseiling yet. A local cacher tried to arrange for an abseiling course a few months back, I was going to do it, but it got cancelled when not enough people signed up to do it.
The cache I referred to is down a cliff, but if you look around carefully, there's a way down that isn't too hard.
thanks for the info on what to do re: my knitting. Hope you had a lovely Christmas with you and your family, and all the best for 2013.
ReplyDeleteGill in Canada