Science Fun

This past Sunday I headed out to round up two geocaches that I had discovered on the geocaching website – they were very close to home and one had just been posted as a new cache and the other was one that had been dormant for some time until earlier this month.

Ruzz’s Secret Cache was the first one I did and by far the most interesting one. This cache is located in Robin Hood Park in Keene, NH. I have done other caches in this park in the summer time and it is very busy place with muggles. Since today was a cool day, I did not think the muggles would be up in the park and I was correct – I only saw one couple on the trail. I headed on up and as I got higher and deeper into the woods, I realized that the snow was getting deeper and the trails were disappearing. The pointer on my gps swung off to the right and I was thinking that it would not be up there – that is just a trip up through some rock ledges, boulders and such – it was snow and little ponds of water lay about where the sun poked through the pines to do some melting. Off I went and climbed on up – up – up we go…. Finally, I made it up and as I approached the plateau, it began to snow – it lasted less than five minutes. I crawled through some brush and hopped up on a rock to face another rock with a crevice – ground zero! I moved the hiding rock and pulled the cache. This cache had been dormant since last summer, up until earlier in March. The last geocacher that found it, reported in the log that it took him longer to dig it from the ice and peal off the lid than it did for him to climb up to the location. Well, it was not all iced in for me – I was able to pull it out from the hidey hole, drop my comment and replace, then off back down to move on to the next cache – oh, by the way – there was a trail, I found it on the way down and followed it out.

The second cache adventure for this past Sunday was at a ball field in another one of Keene’s family parks. Upon arrival, I located the monument where I was to do some reading and puzzle solving to get my coordinates for the actual cache location. While I was working at the monument, a couple approached me and asked me if I was a geocacher (they saw my gps), I replied that I was and they said good – come help us find this beast! They had already been looking for about a half hour – I joined in the chase with them and we searched and searched and searched – for about an hour and came up empty handed. We had to record this one as a did-not-find! I will go and check this one out again as it is close to home – there were several others that did not find it, so I will wait to see if it is found or if there is an update from its owner.

Well, that is it for this weeks geocaching adventure – come on back and join us again for another tail from the trail! Not sure what geocaching is – visit them on the web or send me a comment and I will get you a manual that I put together on how, what, where, etc.

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