WOW!  What a day!  The weather was perfect and the geocaches where be found at just about every ground-zero (GZ) location that we wandered and searched in. 

Woke up in the morning and did my work-out, and rousted the boys from their slumber.  Had them dress in the geocaching t-shirts and hustled them into the car.  We drove down to San Antonio, picking up some breakfast along the way and arrived in San Antonio at the FlyingZZ roost.   We picked up Team FlyingZZ and off we went to our first cache of the say -- a puzzle cache that we determined would be a good first cache for the adults and junior members would be interested in solving, as it involved legos and assembling a lego version of Signal the Frog.   Once the lego signal was completed, coordinates could be found on the back that took you to the final cache which was also made from legos.  All the boys thought that this was very cool.

Thank you Semper Questio (SQ) for the Calendar design!

It's done!  It is finally done!  I have completed my 366 grid challenge, finally finding a cache on every calendar day including the hard to obtain leap-day of February 29th!

This cache series was archived.   With sadness in my heart, this series has to be archived. It was a collaboration effort with my chess loving boys. The final cache came under attack by evil ground-leveling bulldozers not just once, but a second time, leveling the area for development.

The other caches had been muggled more times than should be allowed, and had to be taken offline many times.

IF YOU had collected all the pieces, solved the final but could not get to the final in time before its demise and want a smiley, please contact me directly, we can work together to determine if you solved the puzzle and award you that well-deserved smiley.

Thanks for all the fun!

This article is late in coming.  It has been a very busy several months, with a new job, family vacations, keeping up with kid's summer activities -- but I still had time to do some Geocaching and put some hides out!  This cache was one of a set of geocaches hidden round the first part of July by myself and my friend and geobuddy PvilleSteve.  He wanted to put out his first hide, so we all went out with GPSr units in hand and walked around some parks with children in tow.  We found some great hiding places and settled on two.


Traditional Cache
Shipwrecked: The drought got this one!  (GC3Q1E2)
by GeoJewett

Traditional Cache
Not So Great Divide (GC3Q27T)
by PvilleSteve & GeoJewett

Trying to log this cache while sobbing and frantic as any parent would be after having to take their child to the doctor as a result of geocaching adventure is no fun!

It started out as a really great afternoon, the weather had warmed up enough to be comfortable and my son and I decided to go and knock out the rest of the caches in NE Metro park. We came prepared with the basics and found the one cache that had evaded us for a while. We looked at the last cache to grab -- and it was this cache - a tough multi-cache. Reading through the logs, we unsure if it was wise to go after this with only a couple of hours of sunlight left, but we said - "What the heck.."!

We venture off, following the GPS to the starting coordinates. The initial climb was really tough, and I was surprised after joining a gym and working out, I was huffing and puffing at the top. I am glad my son and I were tall - as we could not imagine climbing that PI infested tree to get the cache, but with my son on my shoulders he was able to reach up and take a picture of the card with the next set of coordinates.

We entered the next set of marching orders, and the next, finding large rocks and branches (seems that some one came through with machete and left lots of debris for us to use) to heave into really questionable wet and muddy terrain to get to the next.

Then it happened, we found the final, and my son was sooo happy that he went running down a hill and tripped in a large rut in the path and impaled himself with a branch. Luckily it was not to deep was able to pull it out and patch him up.

Thanks for the war wounds, adventure and worn out feet! BGTx! :)



In case you have not figured it out - this story is a log from a "liar's cache". 
Münchausen's View

WOW!  What a fun cache (or at least I made it fun).

So I must have just been lucky, because I picked a day after lots of rain the night before and the ground was wet and muddy.   The weather was cooperating as the rain had subsided but the temperature was pretty chilly.  The cache was not too far from the road and parking lots, and off a trail, so I thought it might be easy enough to get!

So I ventured to park, stashed the car and headed down the trail avoiding the mud when possible, and when slipping and stepping in some -- conjured up mini images in my head of falling and getting muddy or slipping into the creek and having to quickly get back to my car before getting to cold.

After making it to GZ, I looked over the bluff and thought there must be an easier way down, so I sneaked a peak at the clue and confirmed that I must try to find another way.  So I ventured over to a area that I could reach the creek and ponder for a moment -- creek is shallow - is it cold -- could I reach the cache from the water side? 

I went down and felt the water - not freezing and not steam water from a sauna - so I sat down, stashed my wallet, phone and keys - just in case.  Took my socks and shoes off and pulled my pant legs up.. stepped in the water and walked through the creek over to where my phone said GZ was.  I looked up -- where is the cache?  I could not see it from where I was standing.  I climbed up on the rocks just above the creek - and realized just how cold my feet where - they had gone numb because the creek bed rocks where not hurting my feet and the tactile feeling I was hoping for so I could get steady footing was not present.  However, when turned around I saw the one and only spot the cache could be and decided that I was not going to reach it from this vantage point and headed back to my socks and shoes. 

With shoes on, I venture back to where I was looking down and found many branches that I could rely on to hold me up as I ventured down what looked like a area I could easily fall and get my "butt dirty".  But I made it down to the hidey spot and found the cache.   Remembering what I read from the cache description, I felt around thinking maybe this was some natural heated rock area?  Everything was cold to the touch - so I grabbed the cache and opened it -- OOOOOHHHH!!!  HA HA HA!! I get it -- a Sauna!  SPOILER:  The cache was created to look like a Sauna (diorama), with wood walls, little figurine people sitting on a bench, with a heated rock pile, a bucket with a scoop in it.  Very well done!

I wish I could have climbed into that Sauna -- as my toes could definitely use a warm up, but I do not think I was going to get much relief, as the Sauna was cold that day -- started at 60 degrees when I opened it, and quick dropped about 4-6 degrees when I was closing it up. 

Clambered up to my bag, grabbed my phone, climbed back down to the cache and  snapped some pix, traded some travel bugs and closed up the cache and restored its camouflage. 

I managed to get minimally dirty and kept my derriere dry and clean.  Loved the cache!  Great work, lots of fun and adventure!