Good morning everyone.
I haven't been posting an interesting stat at the start of my blogs for a couple of weeks now. For the most part it's because I haven't spent much time on my laptop to do the research. I will have an interesting stat a little further down in today's blog. I think I'll be sticking with the recapping of my geocaching week moving forward for now. I will be busy trying to fill in my date found calendar so every day shows a minimum of eleven finds. As long as I remember to take pictures, this will be easier to maintain a weekly blog while I continue to sort stuff out personally. Without further adieu, let's look at the week that was.
For majority of the week, I didn't need to go geocaching. All the days have a minimum of eleven finds already. I did attend a CITO last Saturday. Basically, no geocaching until this past Friday. I needed seven finds for that day. After work, I headed back out the the power trail that I've been picking away at. I'm slowly getting further and further away from the city. With the recent clock change earlier this morning, that means I have one less hour of daylight to work with after work.
As I've mentioned in the past, I enjoy the somewhat quiet walk, with the exception of the traffic whizzing by on the highway. I cue up the next cache on my phone and start walking. The phone is at my side, and when I'm within range, my phone vibrates. Sometimes I can spot the cache and never consult my phone. The above picture is an example. Can you see it?
How about now?
I did the four caches going South of where I parked, and three more to the North.
Walking North and passing my car.
That was Friday. Saturday I needed three finds. I started the day with an event in St. Vital park. The event was significant as local cacher rubonas was putting an end to his daily caching streak. His streak started on August 1st, 2013. Seven or so days before I found my very first geocache. Over eight years or 3,020 days to be more precise.
It was a gorgeous afternoon considering it's November. A really good turn out as well. I think the current crowd size restrictions for outdoor gatherings is fifty. We were very close to that if we didn't go over.
Interesting stat time. There are only six geocachers in Manitoba to go one thousand days consecutive. Four of those were at the event. With rubonas retiring, the new current longest streak is family_d at 687 days.
From left to right, we have Marco Island Guy (1,014 days - 5th longest), myself (1,010 days - 6th longest), rubonas (3,020 days - the longest and probably never to be broken), and KeeGee (1,234 days - 3rd longest and the original one thousand day geocacher in Manitoba). Missing are J&R_2003, the second longest at 2,500 days. He's currently living in faux-center of Canada, better known as Southern Ontario. Also missing is BeesCook with the 4th longest streak at 1,097 days. He hasn't cached since November, 2016.
As per usual at an event, a particular cache comes up in conversation and the end result is some geocachers going for it after the event. This particular one is a fairly new hide. A D/T of 1/4. It's about twelve feet up in a tree. 4elements5senses had her ladder and was joined by myself, crackerjackie, tuppergurl, Jillian_Frog and rubonas. We had a few muggles look at us as we navigated the trails with a telescopic ladder in tow.
4e5s did the climb and dropped the log down to me where I signed everyone in. I offered to carry the ladder back to our parking area. I have been eyeing this type of ladder for awhile. Now I have a better idea of how heavy it could be, what's it like to haul it around, extending and retracting.
There was one more find for the day. I returned back to one I didn't find. There are five decoys, all bison tubes, and the actual cache, a bison tube as well. The sun had set on me the last time after finding four of the decoys. This time was successful.
That's my past week, or should I say two days. This coming week has three days to fill. My longest stretch is later this month with ten days needing to fill in. Until next time, be happy, stay safe, hug your pets, and most importantly, just have fun. Peace out ✌
Just one more picture. I actually walked past this one as it was far enough from the trail that my phone didn't vibrate. I didn't walk very far past. Maybe 20 meters.
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