Sniffing out Angus and Ambrose
It's been awhile since we had gone geocaching, so when Jill came back from riding with the statement, "It's beautiful out there, we've got to get out and do something," it seemed only natural that we would pick up on our latest hobby. One of the reasons we began caching in the first place was to give me more of a reason to hike around than solely for the exercise, which I'm in dire need of after not doing much of anything over this entire winter.
It was around 3pm in the afternoon, so we selected the Ambrose and Angus Story, a multi-cache in the Wheaton Regional Park. The last time we were in the park, we had found the first part of this, but didn't have the time to do the full thing (which is at a minimum six caches if you get all the questions right, and a maxium of 12 if you don't). We parked next to the dog park, not necessarily on purpose, although as we started the story (which is about a couple of cute Westies), we thought maybe it would prove a happy circumstance that the end would be somewhere near the dog park. Not so, but it was of no matter--we got in a full hour or more of hiking around, finding all of the caches (getting all of the questions right, too!), and commenting to each other that we had selected the right one to do because the brush wasn't so bad at the present time--give that same area a couple of months, and the caching would be much more difficult due to the heavy brush.
We left a ball that a couple of dogs would enjoy and some crocheted coasters and picked up our Troubadour travel bug, to move him to a less task intensive cache. On our way back home, we stopped off at a new cache near the Capitol Beltway that wasn't so difficult (although it was a little more of a hunt than I expected).
A pretty good return to a fun hobby!
My goal for the summer is to buy a GPS unit and start geocaching. I love the idea of geocaching. I hadn't even thought about exercise as one of its fringe benefit ... and speaking of which, care to continue our tennis tradition this season?
You betcha, Alex! I've been missing our tennis matches a lot.
Alex.. You should come geocaching with us sometime. No need for your own GPS right away.
Gave my Dad a GPS for Christmas. I'm still hoping it wasn't a bowling ball.
We borrowed it from him for a camping trip to Big Bend and I had a great time geeking out with it. We didn't do any long hikes where it might have been truly necessary, but it was still a lot of fun.
What is Geocaching?
Check out Geocaching.com to learn all about it. Basically, it's a high-tech treasure hunt.