The beginning

I took up geocaching this last spring as my new hobby. I found that since graduating from grad school I had time to do stuff like hobbies again and stumbled on this one while perusing my phone applications for something cool to take up time. I had heard about this years ago but with little knowledge on GPS in general combined with the expense of them I just couldn't bring myself to be involved. Now with the accessibility of the application on a phone and the realization that the hobby had spread and there were finally geocaches by me I took off.

I found my first handful of caches with my phone and upgraded rather quickly to a handheld GPS which added an entirely new learning curve to my hobby. I struggled with learning and a spring a snow storm but eventually got on my feet and running.

This cache season I have found 189 caches which all in all is not that impressive if one keeps track of numbers. But we have low cache density where I live limiting how many caches there are to find basically without travel. And that's fine with me. I also have limited patience for caches in some areas. I'm not exactly enthusiastic about the local bike trail where many seem to be located nor am I entralled with climbing up every mine dump in the area. But that's the beauty of it. I can go to caches that entertain me at any given moment. And I have.

I have crawled in and out of a variety of pine trees, traversed swamps and stepped in things I would rather not remember. I have spent a lot of time laying on trails and board walks of trails trying to get a "different perspective." Thankfully no one ever actually caught me doing this.

Caching was used to break up a road trip to Yellowstone this summer. Who would have thought there were things to see in North Dakota. I was surprised by all we saw in North Dakota while doing this and had such life changing experiences as the cow screaming at me.

So I hope to ultimately use this to put memorable stories of my adventures.