Fun Field Puzzle Cache

We found this fun field puzzle cache placed by a creative hider in Virginia. 

Logging the Locationless CITO

 We thought a bit about where we wanted to do a CITO for our locationless find.  The decision was actually easy.  We chose a stretch of the Allegheny National Forest along the Allegheny River.  This area was the home to our first cache many years ago.  We walked a long stretch of trail and filled much of two full garbage bags.  It's a beautiful location and deserving of having the trash removed.

Brokenstraw Creek

A nuthatch we spotted on the walk.

Our CITO efforts.  The dogs believed they helped.

This was a great idea.  I hope Geocaching.com makes this an annual offering.

Geocaching Love Affair...

 We stopped for a cache in a Pennsylvania State Game Lands recently and noticed this log...

We flipped the log book back to 2014...

Congrats to Chelsea and Mark!  💘 Geocupid hit the target.

Blue Switch

 We earned our blue switch souvenir.  We made a small circuit hike at Warren's Washington Park.

It seemed fitting to find a few ammo cans on the walk.

We stopped for a cache called Mountain Hollow II.  It was almost 16 years  since we had visited the park for the first Mountain Hollow Cache.

Geocaching in Ohio State Parks and Forests

Strouds Run State Park

Ohio State Parks has made changes to the state parks' geocaching policy.  It no longer permits placement of premium-member only caches with the following statement...

"Caches shall only be permitted if available to the public without a fee. Caches advertised only to a fee-based membership group will not be permitted."

                                       Barkcamp State Park

Hiders in Ohio State Forests are still required to obtain a special use permit for hide in state forests.

"Special events and activities held on a state forest often require a waiver of specific rules.  The chief of the division has to approve these activities.  Filling out and sending in this permit begins the process.

Examples of when to use this permit:

• Placing a geocache."

The site has no mention of geocaching in State Nature Preserves where geocaching has been typically off-limits in Ohio since the start of geocaching although there have been permission exceptions granted in a few Nature Preserves over the years.

Ohio State Parks offers great opportunities for hiding and finding caches.

Nelson Ledges