Very close to the hide out we couldn’t find was Mona Lake Geocache so we figured we could hit that one real quick before we called it a night. It was a little difficult to find in the dark with nothing but a couple flashlights for illumination, but we found it.

We didn’t log Stix VI Just hiding out last time we tried it, but we did try it once before without any luck. Unfortunately, even with the extra eyes tonight we didn’t have any better luck .

There seems to be an entire series of “Dead Drops,” though at this point in time, Dead Drop #5 is the only one we’ve done. We found this one relatively quickly with the number of eyes we had looking for it and got the information we needed from it.

This was our 80th find in our first month of caching!!

After we left the Pine Park cache we stopped and let the Moores do the TV 38 cache. Once we left that, we went to the next closest cache. As we got closer we noticed that while the cache we were chasing may have been close “as the crow flies,” on the road we had to go another route. We redirected to Duck Hunt #2 – Rosie Duck being that it was right on the way. The duck wasn’t identical to the last Duck Hunt we did so it took a little longer to find it, but find it we did.

We started out the trip in the rain with Moore Adventures at the Pine Park Cache. We parked in the wrong lot so we had to walk a little longer, but it probably wasn’t too much longer. We took nothing and left nothing.

We had an epiphany today about the Veterans Memorial Park Tribute Cache. We weren’t looking for a container or an actual set of coordinates, we had to use the hints along with the item at the first set of coordinates to get the next set of coordinates… often called an offet cache. So we went and tried to figure it out. After completing the puzzle, we came up with coordinates that were about 1.1 miles away… well outside the park. We double and tripple checked our numbers, but didn’t come up with anything better. The hint for the second set didn’t really help all that much either. And without being able to find the cooridnates for the second place, the hint for the third didn’t make much sense. The hint for point four, which gave us the coordinates for the fifth and final place, made more sense. I’m pretty sure we found the right place and got the coordinates for the log book. We couldn’t, however, actually locate the container with the log book in it.

After Nothside multi it we decided to take a shot at Veterans Memorial Park Tribute Cache even though it was dark outside. We parked in the recommended parking lot and starting making our way to the first point. After a decent hike, we made it to the corrdinates. Once there we noticed that they are doing quite a bit of work around that area. We looked for a while, but never did find anything. It could be either because of the darkness or the construction, not sure which.

Following our success in the ballfield, we headed over to Northside multi. As the title suggests, this one was a multicache. The description for it said it was a walk in the woods behind the former grocery store, so we parked in that lot and headed toward the woods beind the store. Oops, the first stage isn’t in those woods. We found the first stage OK once we got over that preconcieved notion and got the coordinates for the second stop. Couldn’t find anything there. The last few entries are also of people who say they couldn’t find anything, so perhaps it’s MIA.

Our first stop on the 5th was Derelict Ballfield. Other than getting a little side-tracked on the second coordinate, it was a fairly easy cache. We took a Tigger pen for Brendan and left behind a Nokia phone pin.