My geocaching career has taken myself to many parks in the Tennessee. In Madison County, I have been to every park and some parks about a half-dozen times. As for Memphis, I've been to many parks but not all and Cameron Brown was a park that I've never set foot. Typically, my trips to Memphis are on my job and cache hunts can't take a lot of time and I am not dressed for hiking. There have been events at the park in the past, but I've been unable to attend. I would attednd this one: Geocaching 101/FUNdamentals Class and more .
It was an enjoyable event and haven't been to many events where the host supplied all the food and participates were only asked to bring their own drinks. Wrath557 was the host and he covered every aspect of the geocaching game. One of the reasons I wanted to attend the event is that he came up to an event I held in Martin and I wanted to show the same respect.
Days prior to the event, I posted my intention of attending the event and my plan to cache out the park while in the area. While not as typical as with events from years ago, back then many cachers would go on cache runs prior to an event. I wasn't in the mood to go after park and grabs and settled to go after all the caches in the park. I knew the difficulties of caching in the 90+ degree heat and since the park is near the Wolf River, I wouldn't have to worry about hills, but there would be ditches and briars. The Facebook post invited anyone to attend the hike and I provided my number. While there was some interest, dhrnrcpa would be the only one to commit to the hike. We arrived just after 3 pm and went after the caches in clockwise motion to end the run on a puzzle and most difficult cache. What we thought would be least difficult cache Other Side of the Fence would be the most difficult and resulted in a DNF. After the event, we were guided by MorWoods and made the find before heading home.
Our favorite was The Key is the Key. We went to the posted coordinates and found nothing. We expanded our seach and still nothing. We had given up and heading towards the event where dhrnrcpa easily found the cache. It took much effort to open the lock and some phone calls, but persistance paid off and I gave it a favorite point.
It took us just a little over 2 hours to cache out the park. I guess our hike was about 2 miles and we did negotiate around some ditches that I predicted would be there. We also took some breaks to cool off including a break under a highway to get into the shade.
Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
JAG Meet and Greet
As summer of 2015 Groundspeak push for souvenir continues, minnie mouse and I attended the JAG Meet and Greet Plus Road Trip Event. We had a pleasent time, did meet new cachers to the area and continued relations with cachers I've known for a few years.
The geocaching face of Jackson has changed greatly from the time I began caching in 2005. I call the current geo-crew the 3rd geo-generation of Jackson. Much of the 1st generation and good part of 2nd, rarely cache anymore and some of the 2nd are much into the Munzee game.
We grabbed a couple of caches prior to the event, one was Redneck Caching; I wanted it due to the high terrain rating. I picked a good time to go after this cache since it's located in an industrial area and no one was around to bother us.
The geocaching face of Jackson has changed greatly from the time I began caching in 2005. I call the current geo-crew the 3rd geo-generation of Jackson. Much of the 1st generation and good part of 2nd, rarely cache anymore and some of the 2nd are much into the Munzee game.
We grabbed a couple of caches prior to the event, one was Redneck Caching; I wanted it due to the high terrain rating. I picked a good time to go after this cache since it's located in an industrial area and no one was around to bother us.
Thursday, July 2, 2015
Enchanted TB Village
Father's Day weekend, my wife wanted to take her dad to Lambert's in Sikeston, MO. Before the trip I looked around for interesting caches and found Enchanted TB Village with over 55 favorite points.
The trip to Sikeston took much longer than anticipated along with the nearly 2 hour wait for a table. While eating, I kept my eye through a window of the sky and was concerned darkness would approach before we could complete our meal. We did finish with about 30 minutes to spare. Being that we have a cache in our yard I understand why the cache owners don't want visitors after dark. We arrived and were thrilled with the work on this cache and I also gave it a favorite points.
The trip to Sikeston took much longer than anticipated along with the nearly 2 hour wait for a table. While eating, I kept my eye through a window of the sky and was concerned darkness would approach before we could complete our meal. We did finish with about 30 minutes to spare. Being that we have a cache in our yard I understand why the cache owners don't want visitors after dark. We arrived and were thrilled with the work on this cache and I also gave it a favorite points.
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