IDENTIFICATION
Difficulty 2; Terrain 1.5; size - micro. Creator: goodkid. Date First Hidden: Aug 13/08 Description Small container, bring your own pencil.
Hints Comments My 1st attempt.
PLANNING
After a couple of quick attempts at geocaching in the last week when I failed to have adequate information with me in the field, I have decided to see if creating a form such as this would help.
My goal is to aim for one cache within walking distance from home and see if I can find it, using this form as a guide.
I have downloaded the coordinates of the site from the MyGarmin web site and placed a copy in the Geocache category of my Favorites on my nuvi 850 unit.
I left the house at 11:20 am. The weather is overcast with a very light rain, the temperature is +12 C, and there is no wind.
I have my Garmin nuvi 850, a pen, camera (battery charged) and gloves (in case it is in a spruce tree). Plus a clipboard for holding this page.
OUTCOME
Found It.
After looking at the sign to the park and the area near the road without any success, I turned on my nuvi 850 and quickly determined that the coordinates suggested a large cottonwood tree about 5 meters NE of where I was standing. It only took a minute to find the cache. It was nicely hidden under some leaves in the crook where the main trunk branched into a number of sub-trunks.
The cache was a small plastic container, slightly larger than a film canister. It contained a log roll and a small plastic fish. SL.
I returned home and modified the format of this page to better highlight the various components of a successful search.
I logged on to the geocache web site and logged my find. This was my 20th find.
