It's been awhile since I've mentioned our geocaching expeditions, partly because we just didn't do much of it in the last six months. Too much rain in the East coast has made traipsing around in the woods a not-so-pleasant task, and then before that it was all the snow (although we did get out once). I'm way out of shape and need to do some more walking, so today we grabbed a list of all the cache sites near us and walked to them, a total of five or six miles.

Hiding caches in the District is difficult, as most of the park land is Federal and off-limits to geocaches. So people have to make do, sometimes by hiding them in unmanaged areas by large entities (University Forest), hoping that the green space between houses is District and not federal land (S Valley), or simply finding a spot of land that's overgrown, albeit steps away from a busy street (DC Line). Jill and I had hid a cache about six months ago called DC CD, but we discovered that what we had thought as a District park was actually Federal. The cache was raided--in fact entirely missing when we checked about four months ago--by, what we suspect was, local high school students anyway. We hope to find a new location for it some day, but I'm wary of any open land in the city now.