Sunday, September 14, 2008

Travel Bug update

http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?guid=fa500954-a9dd-4c92-b344-3eb2480281b7

This just in: One of our travel bugs has made it out of the County. See the above link!

This travel bug started in Virginia when we took our vacation last May. From there it made it's way to the West Coast and now it's in Germany!! How cool is that?

Watch this and our other travel bugs by using the travel bug links, currently on the left side of the blog! We recently added some new bugs, including our "GeoTruck".

Oh, we have more cache finds that I'll be posting soon! Have a great day!!

Thursday, September 11, 2008

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"Cody and hunters Hideaway" Find #33 on 09/02/08

I was researching our next cache searches, and saw a new cache near our home. We have yet to be a First-To-Find (FTF), and no one had logged a find yet. So here we go as it was getting dark, to find a cache. We found it relatively quickly, but had forgotten a camera or any ASP GB IV wooden nickles to drop. And, we missed being FTF by a meer few hours. Oh well, we were close!!

We started planning our next AGT caching outing. There will be more posts soon. Oh, check out our newest travel bugs, too!!

Until next time........

Sunday, September 7, 2008

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"AGT-Potter-Ole Bull State Park" Find #32 on 08/24/08

Well, even though it was getting dark, we decided to go ahead and try to find a Potter County Cache. After starting off on the wrong side of the park, we finally made it to the right starting point. Then the hike began, mostly uphill. Climbing up a road that we could have probably driven up, we forced ourselves to remember part of why we are doing this - the health benefits. Although, killing ourselves on a 1.5/2 seemed a little crazy.

But, boy was the view worth every step. Out of breath, we became even more breathless. And the history of the location was so cool. We had seen that some logs stated they missed the castle foundation and we are guessing that is because they went up the easy way - which is the way we went out. It's amazing how most finds we say we took the hard way in, but the easy way out. The crazy things we do while hunting down a cache.

Anyway, after this find, it was just too dark to continue, so we headed home. We were happy that we completed Cameron County AGT and got a head start on Potter County. Maybe we can get back out this way in a few weeks......

Until next time........

Saturday, September 6, 2008

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"AGT-Cameron-Sinnemahoning Sportsmen" Find #31 on 08/24/08

This find had us a little nervous. We pulled into the driveway and figured we'd park right at the entrance and head in. I decided to get a picture of the sign, so I hopped out of the car and walked around. After taking the picture, I was heading back to the car to get my stuff and then it happened. We heard the loudest boom of some sort of short gun that you could imagine. It scared both of us. It sounded like it was right where we would have been walking. So, playing it safe, we decided to drive up the driveway further so we could make sure we didn't walk into their shooting range. Good thing we did!!

Anyway, the tree (seen here on the left) was a cool place for the hide. Although we tried to find it and head out quickly, just in case some of the sportsmen weren't to keen about cachers :-) The great thing about this cache is that it was #6 for the day AND Cameron AGT! We completed our 3rd AGT coin today!! Since it was still relatively early and we were going that way anyway, we decided to try and start Potter County on the way home. Stay tuned to see what happened next!

Friday, September 5, 2008

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"AGT-Cameron-Elk Country" Find #30 on 08/24/08

Well, after a long trip to get gas, this was a nice little walk. We had just spent a lot of time in the car and were ready to stretch our legs. The hide was cool. A hollowed out tree stump was a nice location, although I was leery to put my hand down in there to grab it. We took many photos of this location and most can be seen on Flickr.

These are the types of "hikes' I like. Most of this one was along a decent path and it was up the side of a hill. J, on the other hand, likes the more challenging ones. He gets his wish by the end of the day!!

Oh, this was find #5 for the day and our 5th Cameron AGT find. Stay tuned to see what else we did this day.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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"AGT-Cameron-Hicks Run East or West" Find #29 on Sunday, August 24, 2008


This was another quick find not all that far from the last one. After this cache, things got exciting. As we were on our way to search for the next cache, we ended up on a single lane dirt road that seemed as if it ran through the middle of no where. It was then we noticed we were low on fuel and should find a gas station. Well, thank goodness for tom tom. we still had to drive for almost an hour before we got to a station outside of St. Mary's. We actually had to leave Cameron County to get gas. Oh well, we learned a good lesson - always start with a full tank of gas!!

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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"AGT-Cameron-Little White Church on the Hill" Find #28 on Sunday, 08/24/08

This was a quick "cache & dash" as it looked like the church folk had something starting soon. The people who were there were helpful, some may say a little too helpful as they didn't let us search very long. As you can see by the picture, it's right in the church parking lot. We left a few goodies, signed the log and got out of their way so they could enjoy whatever was about to start.

Thursday, August 28, 2008

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"AGT-Cameron-Lower Bear Run" find #27 on Sunday, August 24, 2008

Grabbed this cool poker chip at our 2nd find of the day. We had read in the geocaching.com logs that there was a tree nearby that a bear had rubbed the bark off, and they were not kidding. J stood next to it and raised his arm as high as he could and the bark was rubbed off at least 2 feet higher than his hand. For those who are our Flickr friends, you can see that picture on the Flickr site. Needless to say, we made a lot of noise on the way in and on the way out from this one.

The nats and skeeters were sure out on this one. We kept singing the "There ain't no bugs on me" jingle, but it didn't help! Oh well We found the cache, stamped our AGT passports on headed on to the next cache.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

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"AGT-Cameron-Fish, Fair, or Cache?" Find #26 on Sunday, August 24, 2008

This was the first of many finds this outing. The little fairgrounds were empty today. Here in this photo you can see a small blacktop racetrack. The cache was off in the woods. There were several piles of old pipes and that's where it was! It is turning out to be a nice day and we hoped to complete at least Cameron and possibly Potter AGT today. Stay tuned to see how we did.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

More posts coming

Hello! We were out caching today, logging in 7 caches for the day. I will try to blog one per day over the next week,so keep watching!!

Have a great day!!