All sorts of activity on the geocaching front this weekend. I've done a few caches and also placed The Iron Worker's Memorial- the second in my Coastal Trail Memorial Series.
The weather has been unbelievable: sunny and warm - athough not necessarily hot - in the 70's as opposed to the 80's. Which is just fine by me.
On Saturday evening, Peter and I finished off Puzzle Me Puzzle You, a puzzle cache that had consumed me for the entire week. I finally got it, but not without a ton of help. It involved a stereogram - those pictures that you stare at and then let your eyes cross and suddenly everything becomes clear - in 3D. I've never been able to see one of those. But I was desperate this time around. I found a website that included steps for us near sighted blind bats. Using the instructions from that site, I was able to make out the coordinates - and in the process incur a monumental headache!
The cache is located up off of Old Rabbit Creek Road, way back in. I hadn't realize that a place like this still existed in Anchorage. I grew up on a homestead a mile west of the cache location. That was 35 years ago. This area is locked in the most wonderful time warp. I grew very nostalgic. But not so nostalgic that I would want to drive that road in the winter.
Here I am at the cache location off of Rabbit Creek. Wow - just such a wonderful spot!
Rabbit Creek. I can't get enough of mountain creeks!
On Sunday, Peter and I did the Jolly Roger cache. This has to be one of my all time favorites. The cache is an actual treasure chest!!!!
Here's Peter and Tyge on the Coastal Trail. The final location to the Iron Worker's Memorial Cache that we set this afternoon, is immediately to their right. You may be wondering why Peter is wearing a backpack with a big old saw sticking out the top. That's because, we were on our way to setting up another cache that required some judicious saw use. We hope to get that cache up sometime this week.
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