Sunday, July 27, 2008

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"AGT-McKean-Marilla" - Find #25 on Saturday, July 26, 2008

This find has a couple of milestones attached to it. First, it's find #25!! Woo-hoo!! and second, it's the 6th AGT-McKean find and completes the requirements for the this County's coin!! This was a little more of a hike and actually included the use of 2 different trails. The main trail, which includes crossing over this spillway, is very nice, the second trail is tougher.

As the photo shows, they are working on this and actually have the lake drained. The second trail is under work as well and it was quite muddy in spots. It was the first real "hike" of the day.

Well, that was all we did for the day. It was a wonderful day while we were caching, but it was good we stopped when we did. A huge thunderstorm moved in and we would have been soaked to the bone had we been out in the woods! As it was, we were shopping and the power went out at the store. When we left, the rain had slowed way down, but picked up considerably as we were loading the car. So, we still got soaked!!

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"AGT-McKean-Heffner Reservoir 1" - Find #24 on Saturday, July 26, 2008

On the opposite side on the reservoir is another cache. Again, I had a hard time deciding which photo to use. This find took it a little longer, but the location is awesome!! Search this title on Flickr and you'll see some great pics!! Careful, though, there may be ones that give away the exact cache location!!

Only 1 more find to complete the AGT-McKean County coin!! That will be coin #2 as we completed Elk County on our vacation earlier this year.

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"AGT-McKean-Heffner Reservoir 2" - Find #23 on Saturday, July 26, 2008

I had a hard time deciding which photo to blog on for this one. There are 2 caches nearby each other and both have awesome views! Our 2nd find of the day went pretty quickly. It was nice that there was a big rock nearby to sit at while stamping the passports and checking out the contents! We found a travel bug here and grabbed it to move it along. Then we moved along to the next one.......

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"AGT-McKean-Timberdoodle Flats" - Find #22 on Saturday, July 26, 2008

Gosh, it feels like forever since we have been out caching. We decided to take a Saturday afternoon and complete our AGT-McKean County caches. We already had 2 from when we took our vacation, so we only needed 4 more. This was the first find of the day. It still amazes us as to the little parks and trails that are tucked into our area. Some are the best kept secrets! This trail is a short walk that has a ton of informative plaques along it.

The day was perfect for caching, too. Sunny and warm, but not too sunny or humid. Sure, we could have stayed home on worked on projects around the house, but it was much more fun to cache!!

Monday, June 23, 2008

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"Lost in the Woods" - Find #21 on Sunday, June 22, 2008

While down visiting J's parents, we decided to find this cache to drop the Koala we picked up at ASP. We even got Mom & Dad to go with us again! The path was neat and we enjoyed looking for this cache. Of course the guys went through the woods and we girls took the path!! Hopefully no one ends up with Poison Ivy!! The container was a new one for us, so that was cool too! We hope someone picks up "Kris' soon and moves it along on it's way to Australia.

Monday, June 16, 2008

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"Summit Fire Tower II" - Find #20 on Monday, June 2, 2008

Well, we hadn't done any geocaching since we got back from our vacation and we had the cow coin to drop. So, we went up to Allegany State Park one day after work. This was a puzzle cache, but we were successful right away. The park is such a nice place. It's hard to believe we don't spend more time there. Well, J does (since he works there), but I don't! Well, we picked up a travel "Koala" that we plan to take to PA in a few weeks and we left a magnet.

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"AGT-McKean-Kinzua Bridge" - Find #19 on Friday, May 30, 2008

This was a must see for our vacation. We were last here over 12 years ago and what a difference. We hadn't been back since the tornado took out the bridge. The area feels different. There was no one there but us, until we were leaving. Just another way we see that we are not in control! We did find the cache, took the cow coin to move on and left some magnets.

If you are ever in the area, you should stop in here!!

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"Crossroads" - Find #18 on Friday, May 30, 2008

On our way back home from our vacation, we found this cache. It was a nice, easy find after the last one!! Our GPS was within 7 ft accuracy! We left a couple of magnets and moved on to the next one.

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"AGT-Elk-East Branch Dang" - Find #17 on Friday, May 30, 2008

What can we say about this one! well, it was our 6th stamp for Elk County and we got the coin. What a tough one, though. Neither of us were expecting the hike this one took. We had to walk across the dam and then up into the woods. At points, we were both ready to give up, but we kept going. It was a neat area though, and we took a lot of great pictures!

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"The mercn8rs multi" - Find # 16 on Thursday, May 29, 2008

We found this cache on our anniversary after visiting Penn's Cave. It a quiet little neighborhood, we found this puzzle cache. Who would have thought the area had that in their back yard! Still, it was a little uncomfortable poking around in people's back yards. The gnome was a helpful item! After putting things back, the son of the hider stopped by to make sure we found it. We are really starting to see how varied cache hides can be!