The Year 2006 in Pictures

The end of my first year of geocaching is rapidly arriving. To the Geocaching world I am know as Geo-Sarge. Since I first started geocaching in April 2006 I have seen many places I did not know existed and made many new friends along the way. During the year I have found over 418 hidden caches, hidden three caches of my own, and attended three group-caching events. To help keep track of the distance traveled I turned my Army Dog Tags into a travel bug. A travel bug allows the geocaching.com website to track the mileage between each cache as the travel bug moves from cache to cache. Since I first started in April I have traveled over 1,409 miles going from cache to cache using over 50 gallons of gas. Since the year has been filled with many great memories I thought I would share some of the pictures of those memories collected during my journey. Remember, it’s not about the number of caches found or hidden, it’s about the journey.

Last Day of Vacation

I took vacation to spend a week doing what I enjoy most, geocaching with O-Dis. Since today is the last day of my vacation O-Dis and I decided to find a cache we have been having problems finding. We headed out to find "Red Wanted It This Way", located at 41 degrees 24.706 minutes North and 81 degrees 41.069 minutes West. When we started into the park area where the cache is located we noticed a stream running deep and fast. We came prepared with my 12-inch high waterproof gore-tex combat boots that I used on active duty in the Army. We followed the path along the stream as long as possible. Then it was time to head into the water and work our way up the stream against the current. After an hour of picking our way around the deep holes in the stream we arrived at the cache area. At this point O-Dis said the cache was 40 feet up the hill. I asked him if he was sure. He looked at me and said those two famous words, “trust me”. After we climbed to the cache O-Dis and I gave a well deserved Hoorah yell to celebrate our find. We logged our visit in the cache log book and left one of our “eyes” to help keep an “eye” on the cache. We stopped to enjoy the view of the area from the cache. The temperature was dropping and the water was rising, so we decided it was time to head back to the car and call it a day. We climbed back down the 40 feet to the stream, stepped into the water and headed back down the stream to the car.