The Big-O Church, v. 3.0

Sunday, 01 August 2010

Didn't do a lot of caching today, but I did run out and find The Big-O Church, v. 3.0 as soon as it was published. There are so many LDS chapels around here that people start to give them nicknames, this one is across the street from Big-O tires (which is where my brother works) so it gets that fun name. The cache has had to be moved/replaced so many times that Jay started it over as a new one (again). I think I was first on the first one, and this (the third).

Plus I love caching at churches on Sundays when all the people are going in and out.. I get some fun looks from people.

Jedi caching in Diamond Fork

Saturday, 31 July 2010 (2)

After the hike to the Hot Pots Brian (JediMasterAilshie) and I went caching up Diamond Fork and Down Hobble Creek. We stopped at several I had found for him, we looked for some benchmarks, and I noticed a cache on the GPS screen that was a bit out of the way and hadn't been found in a couple of years... so we decided to go try to get that one, it was a long and bumpy road up to Ruby Christensen Memorial Cache. But there were some great views and I always love an old cache.



We also found Flibberty gibbet , Bruce the Bear and Up A Creek before heading home.

Hot Pots!

Saturday, 31 July 2010

A group of us (Brian, Jonathan, Jay, Patti, Justin Loralee and I) hiked up to the Hot Pots in Diamond Fork, it is a really good hike, it was my 2nd time. I had already found all the geocaches but we stopped so others could find them and I hid a lot of caches too. The caches I hid today were mostly pretty challenging, climbing rocks, trees, cliffs, crossing the river on logs, etc. I think those are a lot of fun. I don't do it to make it "hard" on people, but to share the fun I have doing those sort of things.





The hike is 2.75 miles one way, it is a fairly flat trail that follows along side a river most of the time. Lots of pretty scenery to enjoy.






We got to the waterfall, I stood under it to cool down. There were several people there and more arrived after us, and many more were coming up while we were going down, it is a popular trail and rumored to be a popular place for people to get naked and hang out in the hot spring pools, but I haven't seen any naked people on my two visits. I did see some signs of it though.. underwear and bikinis sitting around that did not belong to anyone who was there when we were there...





Overall it was a really fun hike with a great bunch of people!

Mortys CITO

Friday, 30 July 2010

After work I headed over to the CITO Event Cache, Mortys CITO. CITO stands for Cache In Trash Out and a CITO event is a geocaching event where we clean up trash in an area just to be nice. I pronounce it "sit-oh" but I hear some people say "cite-oh" or even "C-I-T-O," not sure if it matters.

Timber and Pumphouse Adventure

Thursday, 29 July 2010

My twelve kay tribute cache.


My friend Dick was nice enough to name a cache in recognition of my obsession with geocaching, Congrats Jac0b 12000/1800 because I recently found my 12,000th geocache and hid my 1,800th. Jay and I talked about going up to get it together because he just loooooves to be the first to find a cache and it ended up that Dick was free to come with us too. The find was simple enough, it was at the start of the road we took on our recent adventure to Mollies Nipple. That many geocaches is a lot of memories, most have been with great friends and I am so thankful for my caching friends. I could never name them all. I am sure I will have many more than 12,000 finds coming in the future and thousands more hides as well.

It is really pretty up there in the hobble creek/diamond fork loop area, I have really been enjoying exploring it.




After that find we continued down the road and found another cache Dick had recently hidden, Timber Mountian. It was a beautiful mountain top that we were almost able to drive to the top of, the walk was easy and I enjoyed the quiet breeze and sounds of birds and bugs.




From there we decided to try to go to the top of nearby Pumphouse Hill, my lazy self decided it would be more fun to bushwhack in the Jeep then to hike, even though it was a lot longer. It got dark on the way up but we had a lot of fun and Dick hid a cache there too.

Climbing Trees is fun

Wednesday, 28 July 2010

I got a few caches in Salt Lake while working today, Land of The Lost Cache was a cute little micro. A lot of caches in the city are made to either be "cute," or to blend in really well. This one was a tiny dinosaur toy with a cache in its mouth, tied to a tree branch.


I also stopped by Out On The Streets, a cache hidden by Mick, a friend of mine. I have tried to find it many times but it is stolen often, in fact, someone had written "We are watching you!!!!! Be careful!" on the log and put it back... interesting!




And the third cache of the day was Cache1, I had looked for it before with some friends on the way to an event, I think it was missing that day. It was just stuck to a roadsign.



I went up the Nebo Loop again, this time with Jay and Patti, we were going to hike to "The Grotto" and first stopped so I could find Bunny Creek, it was under the bridge over the river near the trailhead.



From there we hiked up to Grotto Cache, I had never been up there but I knew it was a popular hiking spot. We saw lots of people on the trail and in the grotto, we even saw a family with a GPS and I asked if they were caching, they had just found the cache and were coming down as we were going up.















After that hike, which was about 0.75 miles round trip, we decided to go check out the new "tree top" caches up there, but on the way we stopped at Cow Pies Galore.



On we went to In the Top of the Trees #1, I had expected more of a challenge than it was, I was able to get it down from the top of the tree easily. The hard part of it was the round-a-bout way we hiked to it, and I was bit by something while walking through the woods. I also took the time to scare some kids in the woods by taking a dead tree and smacking other trees with it, they yelled "don't hurt us!" but I never did see them.



On we go to In the Top of the Trees #2, the real adventure of the night. I could tell right off which tree it was up in, and it was a nasty looking tree to climb, even if the branches hadn't been dead. But since they were it added to the excitement, listening to each one crack and want to break as I would step on it..







after that I was ready to be done for the day, but did stop for one more on the way down to get a snack at Dairy Queen, I found 8000, it was at the 8,000 feet above sea level sign.

Saw this guy at 8000 too.