Friday, May 05, 2006
Mike, have you gone mad?
Here’s my log entry for today’s adventure:
Cinco de Mayo was the day for completing my year long goal of finding all the Dunes NRA caches on foot -no ATV. Waited until Goose Pasture Goodies was re-enabled this spring so I could get these last three plus the new one (Grassy Knoll)to the south. Managed to get all four but this one was, by far, the most challenging.
I had seen PMOGUY’s log from several weeks ago and decided to wait for the water levels to drop before attempting. Well I arrived at the lake edge only to find the cache location still surrounded by water! Sheeesh I said to myself, I knew I should have waited another month or so. I REALLY didn’t want to come back another day for this one soooooooo...... inspired by PMOGUY’s “bravery” I too stripped to my skivey’s and waded to the prize. The water level had dropped some because the deepest part was just above my waist. Thanks to his warning about submerged logs and brush I went slowly to avoid scraping shins. The cache was high and dry. Signed the log, back to shore and hiked on back to the vehicle. A few ATV’ers were out but no one ventured down to the lake, thankfully.
Man, what a guy will do to get a higher scoring CCiO cache!! Seriously though I love hiking in the dunes today was no different. Thanks for the hide.
Okay it’s official - I’m obsessed!