Happy Mother's Day - Geocaching 101

Some friends went geocaching last week and had so much fun that I decided that I would like to try it on Mother's Day. Geocaching is an adventure game for GPS users. Individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the internet. GPS users then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once a cache is found, you sign the log book and can take items in the cache and leave items for future treasure hunters. Click here to get more information about geocaching.





Jamie was excited about going treasure hunting. Our first cache was an easy one near a potato field southwest of Center. The coordinates were right on and Jamie took a tennis ball from the cache. We left a hacky sack and signed the log book.

We had to do a bit more exploring to find the second one, a multi-cache, but we had fun climbing on the rocks. We saw three deer and a lizard. Jamie took a toy jet plane and we left an alien eraser and an American Idol toy.






The third cache took us to La Garita Arch where we happened to run into our friends, the Hollands.










We climbed up to the arch and "threaded the needle" before looking for the treasure.




Bill & Jamie climbing to the arch------------------------->
































<------------------Julie & Jamie sitting in the arch














Cactus in bloom
















the hidden cache















opening the treasure...
Jamie took a United Airlines barf bag that contained a dollar bill. We left a candle and a pink mini clip.









Our day of adventure ended with dinner at Chili's. It was the best Mother's Day ever!