How Many Cachers Does It Take?

One of the CV geocachers hosted a Geocaching event at a nearby lake. (Yes, AZ has lakes.) The event was open to all geocachers and had about 45 people attending. It was a perfect day to be on the shore of a lake.

on the shore of Canyon Lake

no coats at this event

cadon (from CA) and cardon (from MN)

How many cachers does it take to find a cache?

and they kept coming!

all of them looking at their GPS units!

that is the number of people who signed the log for the cache

Hubby and I found a few more caches on the way back to town

Sherry had joined us for the day & was the photographer

Yes, we watched where we were walking although

we were at a higher elevation on the Apache Trail road

Sticking with the theme of "How many cachers does it take?" Hubby and I tagged along with a small group of CV geocachers on the hunt for a newly placed, but difficult hide. We knew it was in a tree. We were quite certain we needed a ladder to retrieve it. Two CV cachers had found the cache. How hard could it be? Our 'leader' told us he had been to the location on two previous visits and had NOT found it. Nine of us piled into high clearance vehicles and headed to THE DESERT with a ladder. When we got to the location we found two more CV cachers looking for the hide. 

Doug on the ladder

Hubby in long sleeves and gloves

Where can it be?

I loaned my long-sleeve shirt to Gary so he could 

search the prickly, blood-drawing tree

FINALLY!

above eye level, a small hole had been drilled in a branch

a SMALL metal container, holding a strip of paper

had been dropped in the small hole

blending in with the color of the branch

It was a great hide and an even better FIND!

Geocaches are rated by size; from micro to large and even a not chosen category to further confuse. Caches are rated by the cache hider or owner on difficulty of the hide; from a 1 (easy) to 5 (most difficult). The terrain is also rated on a 1 to 5 scale; 1 being wheel chair accessible and 5 being climb a mountain or use scuba gear. 

The CV group continued in that area of the desert finding 4 more caches that afternoon. I found and logged another 2 (Hubby had found them last year) before we got home that very warm, but geocache successful, afternoon. 

I LOVE this game!