The Healing Cache

Well C3 is a bit obsessed with GeoCaching and have spent some part of the last 3 weekends look for treasure! This last weekend we even placed our own Cache for others to find.

We decided to leave a box near the Healing Stone.

Above are pictures of us looking for the perfect spot, and the hiding spot!  

Today our first person visited our cache! Here is what they had to say:

I've been watching this cache the last few days wondering if someone would make the trip out for it. Today is one of the few days left on my "caching calendar" (due to last year's blizzard) so I got an early start and now sit enjoying sunrise from The Healing Stone, a local bit of history I may never have discovered had it not been for this geocache. Very nice hide with great coordinates and description. An excellent first hide.

I left a Pathtag and Travel Bug. Thank you for making today special and bringing me here.

We are thrilled that someone appreciates our first hide!

 Now we are ready to hide more!!! Just have to find the perfect spot.

Geocaching 101

C3 discovered Geocaching this weekend! We love it!!!

Up until a few days ago I really wasn't sure what Geocaching was. I thought it was people going out into the woods looking for geodes! Ummm... I was a bit off.

After Googling it and going to geocaching.com I realized this was something C3 would love.

Geocaching is a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location.

We spent a good part of the day looking for geocaches in our area. It was a lot of fun. Colton really enjoyed the treasure hunt. At a lot of the containers you could swap items.  

We downloaded the free Geocaching app to our iPhones first. Visited about 4 sites with limited information from our free app, so we decided to bite the bullet and purchase the real deal... and it is totally worth it.

We are already planning our next geocaching day and thinking of fun places to hid our own for others to find. I don't know how it has taken us this long to find out about geocaching, but we are hooked!