This is another attempt for tonight that we’re only logging on this site. It seems we didn’t give up on Crossing Hoffma soon enough because by the time we made it to Tee’d Off it was way to dark to look and flashlights don’t help all that much. It ended up being a pretty dark walk back to the van.

You win some and you loose some. Tonight was definitely the later. We actually tried this one on the 4th but it was getting late and when we got to the point we realized that it was a multi. Not only was it a multi, but it was a REALLY long one (a 2.5 mile hike). Before we found the coordinates for the second point, a guy and his dog came by to check for some birds. We decided to call it a night and come back another night.

Fast forward to tonight and we tried Crossing Hofma again. (On the way out we saw some people trying Hoff N Hide. They said it was their first cache ever. We don’t know for sure if they found it or not. As of the time of this writing, there’s no log entry for it.) This time we managed to find the first two points, but we got stumped at the third. We looked for quite some time, but the GPS just wouldn’t give us a good lock on where we were. It was jumping around so much that the actual point could have been anywhere in about a 100 foot radius. A hundred feet in the woods contains a LOT of places to hide a small laminated card and while we certainly looked in a lot of places, we obviously didn’t look in enough. We decided to call it a night if we wanted to have a chance at any other caches tonight.

It’s really painful to log Onward and Upward as a Did Not Find because it’s not our fault at all. In fact, we’re only logging it on our site and not on geocaching.com. We got to pretty close to where the cache is when a group of teenagers came by. Most of them were smoking and they seemed to be under age. It would appear they were just hiding out in the woods. Anyway, it seemed unwise to look for the cache in their field of view (and it had to be within view of where they were) so we moved on.