Good morning everyone.
Let's dive right in because March turned out to be a busy month. Good thing I've been off work the whole time. I had seven days left to reach the peak of Mt. Everest. When you have successfully reached all the other peaks in Geocaching HQ's promotion, you have to get the last one. This proved to be more of a challenge due to the unprecedented amount of snow we have received this winter. I was focusing on Adventure Labs since they were worth the most points when completed. Unfortunately, I couldn't complete a few that I had started because the information I needed was buried under the snow. Same could be said for some of the physical caches that have the Winter Friendly attribute. Not this winter. I believe three feet above the ground is considered winter friendly. We've had around five feet of snow so far. I turned to an old companion that was very useful during my daily streak. The recently found pocket query. If a cache has been found in the past seven days, then there's hope that I can find it too.
Little did I expect that I would be climbing a mountain to obtain my Reach the Peak souvenir.
That's my car off in the distance. Somewhere on the other side of that long mountain of snow was two traditional caches that would give me enough points to reach the peak.
Found them both. And with that....
I reached the peak.
One thing I noticed while trying to accomplish this feat during the first week of March, I was finding enough to raise my daily find count past eleven for each day. Remember that goal I was working on last year? I have the first two weeks of March to fill in. May as well give this a go.
Another goal accomplished. I'm missing two days in April, and five days in May. After that, every day is filled until the end of November when I aborted this crazy goal. Along the way, I did hit a unique milestone that isn't openly recognized.
With this puzzle solved and found (I was trekking across and through knee deep snow to get this), I reached this....
Six thousand, six hundred and sixty six caches found. Onwards to 6,789 finds.
I've been busy going to the gym as well. I'm slowly introducing running, or a very slow jog on the treadmill. Downside to this is I have experienced shin splints in the past from too much running on the treadmill. No sooner do I start again, I can feel a twinge in my right shin. Not good. I took a week away from the gym to rest my leg, but that didn't stop me from getting out and enjoying some much deserved nice weather. I made two treks out to Bird's Hill Park to walk some of the trails and to feed the chickadees.
It took a lot of picture taking to catch some chickadees in flight. Plenty of pictures of just my hand holding out some seed. LOL
Taking a look at March by the numbers. I found 34 traditional caches, 4 mystery caches, attended 2 events and did 22 stages of various Adventure Labs for a total of 62 finds. That almost matches my total for December, January, and February combined. I also hid another puzzle cache. This one revives a previous puzzle cache that I had published is March, 2018. March Madness GC7K2XC had a short life. The Return of March Madness GC9PVN9 brings back that same puzzle, but hidden in a different location.
As for the weight, it's been an up and down month for that. It feels like I've run into a wall. That is expected. It's easy to get frustrated and discouraged at this point. I need to change things up to get past that wall and continue my quest to lose weight. At the end of March, I was tipping the scale at 230.8lbs. That's a pound and a half drop from February. I did see 229lbs at one point. The important thing is to keep my focus. There will be set backs in anything we try to do. Just like a DNF, you keep going back until you're able to turn that blue unhappy face into a happy smile.
Onwards to April. There's a new promotion from GCHQ. I haven't really looked at it, so I don't know how this one will fully work. Maybe there will be some development at my workplace. I'll be looking to attend an event sometime during the month. That'll be my 150th event attended. Plus I'll be busy at the gym.
Until next month, be happy, stay safe, hug your pets, and most importantly, just have fun. Peace out. ✌️
There's always just one more picture or two.
I don't know how many times I've looked for this one. How did I keep missing this.
Who doesn't like finding caches in a Little Free Library? I'm wondering which book I should grab? That Dinosaur Brains book sounds interesting. Maybe The Art of Geocaching? Hmmmm.
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