Two notable caches, and getting close to personal goal.

I was able to take another crack at the Springfield Trail today, and found the next cache down the trail - Cobras Rock!  Just like before, it was a scenic walk to ground zero, and this one was actually close to a little picnic area near a rock wall.  As I had no clue that anything like this was back here, this was pretty exciting.

Rock wall.  Not sure if that's the correct geological term for it, but oh well.

Nobody had found this cache since February, and there were a few DNFs logged by others, so I wasn't sure if it would even be here.  After a few minutes of poking around, and after needing to break out my pair of work gloves, I found it!

I was the first person to find this in 8 months,.

I'm totally going to take Jack and Emily back here soon.  He'll like the area back here, and this cache was places as part of a boy scout project, so he'll appreciate that as well.

On lunch break today I took another crack at another one of my non-logged DNFs that has been driving me nuts - Addendum.  This is a short drive from work, in a little park off of a little street, and I have already been here twice before looking for it.  It has quite a few favorite points, and the logs imply that it's tough, but now that I found it I have to say it was more of a lateral thinking puzzle than a difficult hide.  When you arrive at GZ, there are so many possible hiding spots that it's almost overwhelming.  I was actually walking back to my car today when I had my "Aha!" moment and turned back and immediately found it.  It wasn't what I expected, but in a good way, and it was totally worth a favorite point.

Speaking of favorites, I've reached a point where I need to go through and reevaluate what caches I logged as favorites when I first started out.  My whole view on caching has evolved quite a bit in the few months that I've been caching, and what I like now is nothing like what I liked then.  I like the favorite point system, but damn, I'd like 30 points to spend, rather than the 10 or 11 I have now.

Personal Goal

I'm almost at 14 consecutive days of caching!  I know that this is not a big deal, compared to the people who go at least a cache a day for over a year, but considering that I work full time and am busy most weekends, this has been quite a challenge.  I seriously hope that I can pull this off!

Caches in this post:

• Cobras Rock!
• Addendum