Well, it's been over a month since I last posted. Lets see...most recently, I participated in my first geocaching tournament, called the great northern tier geocaching tournament . I took my nephew, Josh, and we had an absolute blast! We camped out 2 nights, and met some wonderful new friends. I slept out in my hammock, which alot of folks thought a little odd...but, I slept like a baby. First night we had a good thunderstorm....didnt get wet at all...and even got to watch it out over the pond through my tarp. It was truly amazing. Now, on to the caching...
First day, we linked up with Scout98, and went out. We didnt intend to compete at all, but, after the first day, we had an amazing 22 caches, in one day! Then, on to the night caches....there were 8 in all, and, after a great dinner o BBQ chicken, potato salad, corn, and other fixings, we were off at dusk to grab 8 more. We finished up about 8:30 or so that evening, and called in a night.
One thing I forgot; the night we arrived, Friday, I went out ad did a few local caches with some people there for the event. I even got to FINALLY log one of my DNFs, at Lyons falls. My plan was to hit 300 caches this weekend, and I didnt count correctly, as I only counted the ones from the tournament. This threw my count off a little, but, thats ok. Anyway, on to day two...
The next morning, we got up and, much to our surprise, Scout98 was in the lead for single cachers! Well, without even trying, he pulled ahead! We set up a game plan for caching that day, and didnt stick to it. That happens. We grabbed a bunch more, including a few in areas where tournament ones were, and I finally hit 300 at Shore of Wicket Pond. After that one, we decided to hit one more, and call it a day. Again, mind you, I had forgotten about the "other" caches I did outside ofthe tournament.
So, we get back, and they tally up the totals for the day. It turns out that Scout98 missed making best by ONE CACHE!!! we were literally 1/10th of a mile away from him winning. Ah well...there's always next year.
As an aside, I did the whole weekend kilted, and it was EXTREMELY comfy! This I ill definitely be doing kilted from now on...
I have attached a couple of pics here, to share both my 300th cache & a small prank played on us by fellow cachers. You'll see the kilt on me. It is made by Freedom Kilts, and I was VERY happy with it. It most definitely took a beating, much as Steve (the maker) told me it would.
So, here are the pics:
