Spotted a new local cache after getting home from church and no one had logged it yet. Even though it was raining, I decided to make my first First Find hunt. Tubular is in Sycamore Grove. I got my rain gear on and headed out. Stupidly, I went out on the wrong side of the creek. Rather than walking all the way back to the bridge, I just crossed the ford where the horse trail is (I was getting pretty wet anyway). Well, I looked for a long time with the GPS consistently pointing to a particular area, but I couldn’t find it. It’s the same kind of area (lots of Sycamore leaves) as Cache Cow, and I had to visit that one 3 times before finding it.
Amazingly, there were several other people out walking or running in the rain.
3 Jan 2005 update: First To Find was claimed yesterday afternoon by “kablooey” who noted that the cache was 60 feet away from where his GPSr zeroed out. Bummer! I should’a looked in the easy to get to logs.
3 Jan 2005 update 2: Took an hour to go back out and try to find it. I did. It wasn’t in the logs like I was expecting, but next to another Sycamore tree to the north. An easy find, if the coords had been better.
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