Fun Field Puzzle Cache

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

Geocaching 2018 In Photos

Geocaching for us is about being together and enjoying the amazing world around us. 2018 was filled with finds at amazing places. These were bits of the most memorable from our year.

Before a late January visit to Florida, we made a late afternoon visit to Geneva State Park to give Liz and Phin a big walk before they headed to camp. This icy inlet was hosting a number of woodpeckers on a bright afternoon.

The dogs were at camp, and we were in Florida for adventure. From Lover's Key and Myakka State Parks to Fakahatchee Swamp, it was a memorable week as January rolled into February.

We came home and spent a spring-like afternoon with the dogs in a PA State Gamelands finding our 16,000th cache.

We ended March on Easter weekend with a super hike for some Hatch Run Acorn Series caches on Collins Pine property in Pennsylvania.

With time running short for the virtual reward deadline, we made an annual April visit to Sheldon Marsh and identified possible parts for our Virtual Reward cache. It's a favorite location for us and a great place for a virtual.

In May, I was on a trip to North Carolina when I was able to avenge a dnf from many years ago with a return visit to the falls at Fancy Gap and a find.

Back in New York, we spent a fun day with friends on the trail at the ASP Geobash.

June was a month of mostly business travel for me. I made one of my frequent Spokane trips during the month and used the long dats as an opportunity to visit Pend Oreille County for a long hike in the heat.

We took advantage of my return flights to complete the second Lorain County GeoTrail.

In July we made certain Liz and Phineas hit the trail in Elk for a nice, long gamelands hike and enjoyed a walk along the rail trail in Spartansburg before we dropped them at doggie camp and headed to SW Ohio to finish the last of the Ohio Great 880 Challenge.

Our July adventures set up a wet trip to Delaware County Ohio in August where we made a find on the lightly visited Ohio State Park Challenge.

For September, we finally returned to one of our longer dnf's as we completed the Trail of the Turtles. We also enjoyed a long hike on the Tanbark with Lizzie and Phin.

October was our big vacation for the year. We headed south to revisit favorite places and explore new ones.

Quebec Run

Swallow Falls

Ohiopyle State Park

On the way home we stopped at the virtual celebrating the Night of the Living Dead and the start of zombies in culture.

They're Coming to Get You Ali...

The Fall in Allegany State Park has given us some great memories. We made another visit in early November with Liz and Phin.

Novembers in Ohio can often be quite grey, but we were able to enjoy a bright blue afternoon caching in Bath Nature Preserve.

I revisited the Bath area on a more typical November day while Ali was visiting family and avenged a prior DNF at Camp Hilaka by a super waterfall cache.

Short December days often limit our caching options, but a few vacation days to spend gave us the opportunity to spend one last 2018 day at Allegany State Park with Liz and Phin.

Hopefully 2019 will give us new geocaching adventures as memorable as 2018.

Day 29

I was on my way home and stopped for a couple caches in Jefferson National Forest. I didn't find the first in a nice pine stand despite a long search, but came up with a nice hide along a pleasant trail with the second one. I was hoping to hunt a cache at an old picnic area along Big Walker Road, but the thought of over three miles of driving on an unmaintained, narrow mountain road made me turn back almost as soon as I started. Maybe on a return trip I can make the high up Big Walker Mountain from a parking area at the bottom. The view from the top of Big Walker Mountain is impressive.

Day 26

It was time for another trip to North Carolina for work. I was able to find a few caches in West Virginia and one in Virginia on my journey to Wytheville. The image below is from a nice overlook cache in West Virginia along I77. The cache was a good hide and took me a bit to find. The month is dwindling, but we now have our longest find streak.

Day 15

It was an evening of caching in two states, North Carolina and Virginia. I was on my way home and was able to stop for a few finds. I was able to take some great walks and enjoy two super streams as well as teaming up with Ali to find a puzzle cache and meeting a new pair of cachers. It was a good day in the search for 31 days in a row.