Batty for caching the great outdoors

[+Redcap the Druid]

Man oh man do I love caching in the outdoors. Sure the numbers are lower, but the quality of the cache is always great... even when they are empty.

 

We spent the last five days at the bottom of Bear Lake on the ID/UT border having a wild time: swimming, fishing, canoeing, hiking, and caching. We snagged 15 caches and the majority were outstanding.

 

My favorite was our stop at Minnetonka Cave Cache on the ID side. First off, it was my 50th cache!!! We dropped a Louisiana geocoin and pulled a 2006 CITO geocoin! Then we placed a bat TB that we made and headed on to the cave tour. If you haven't been on that tour and are in the area, let me tell you, it is worth the two hours and five bucks! An 888 step trip into a crazy cool (40 degrees) cave system full of bats.... a great place to start our latest TB!

 

We also hit 10 in Logan Canyon in UT. Boy howdy do I love Logan Canyon. The caches were great and the scenery was worth any trip. Enormous pines and rocky peaks with the babbling Bear river cascading alongside the road. My favorite here was actually a DNF. It is called Gates of Moria and was a huge 75 foot+ cave entrance with enormous iron bars at the mouth - a well named cache! I had to scamper up a gorgeous waterfall only to arrive at a sign that prohibited going within 250 feet of the entrance due to it being a sanctuary for long-eared bats (seeing a theme here?). I couldn't find the cache and did not want to search past the sign, so I enjoyed the amazing view and danced back down the waterfall. I drove back to the cabin and had a cool brew on the porch and, wait for it... watched a half dozen bats circle overhead grabbing mosquitoes.

 

Finally on our way back home, we hit a couple in Soda Springs, ID. One of them, Octagon Springs, had a beautiful bubbling thermal spring that was the color of orange soda, then we hit the geyser in the middle of town... and I mean middle of town. It looks like it is in a bank parking lot, surrounded by businesses and alleyways. But every hour like clockwork it erupts way over the tops of the buildings for a good 10 minutes. The wind blew and we all got soaked with sulfur water... AWESOME!!!

 

This is why I am hooked on geocaching - the ability to mesh a game into what I love most, the outdoors and the natural world. Even better is that it takes me places I would have never gone otherwise, like deep under the earth and to geysers in parking lots, heh.

Edited June 30, 2007 by Redcap the Druid

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This is why I am hooked on geocaching - the ability to mesh a game into what I love most, the outdoors and the natural world. Even better is that it takes me places I would have never gone otherwise, like deep under the earth and to geysers in parking lots, heh.

 

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