Where Does It Go?

07/01/2012 By Kabutroid
Kristos Rodyvsya! I specifically wanted to find a geocache today, purely so that I could say that I found a cache on Ukrainian Christmas. And unsurprisingly, I found this cache while on the way to my mom’s place to pseudo-celebrate it with her. We celebrate ‘regular’ Christmas, but generally since she’s Ukrainian (and thus I’m half), I try to wish her a ‘Kristos Rodyvsya’ and visit her today. And so, I was off to do exactly that.

My wife and I headed out from the city a bit after noon, and I had resolved to find a geocache sometime during the day. At first I was dead-set on finding on in Landmark itself where she lives near, but after thinking that there’s a distinct possibility that I’d want to head straight to the house, and thus it’d likely be pitch black when I left, I should take the opportunity to find one way beforehand, just in case. As it turns out, this was a good idea since I didn’t get a chance to leave we were tired and it was dark and cold. We definitely didn’t want to stop the car on the way home, so I thanked my forethought of going after this cache.

Which brings me to that very topic... this cache BigSmile . While we were driving out of the city, I dragged the cursor of my GPS around from cache to cache looking for one that wasn’t a micro (since I didn’t want to be hunting for like... half an hour while mom was waiting for us), wasn’t all DNF’s for the most recent logs, and was close to the road. Basically, trying to make it quick and easy. However, I quickly found out that although my GPS has 985 geocaches on it centered around where I live, while it used to reach almost to Steinbach when I first started caching... the distance needed to fill 985 caches has gotten significantly smaller (I have a separate pocket query I loaded in that finds the 5 caches nearest my mom... which usually has a 15km spread ToungeOut ). In fact, this very cache was the absolute furthest one away until I reached the ‘Landmark 5’.

Happily enough though, it fit the bill perfectly. Not a micro, lots of finds, not having an insane difficult, and close to the road. The GPS told me that I’d be able to turn onto a road right by the geocache. Yyyyeah, that road doesn’t look to exist any more. Or even at all. I have no clue what road it thought existed in this location at one point, but it certain doesn’t look like it’s been here for a while. Now normally, I don’t like parking my car on the shoulder to go after a cache. However, with my wife staying in the car, I felt a lot better about letting the car sit there for a few minutes. Thus, pulling far onto the shoulder, I hopped out and booked it for the coordinates. Not much snow has fallen yet this year (much to my snowshoes’ annoyance), so getting to the cache was easy. I spotted it on the way over, and soon had it in hand BigSmile ! WOOH! UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS CACHE! Actually accessing the container was a bit interesting, but I pulled it off pretty easily.

With the cache in hand, I soon signed the logbook and dropped in a chainmail ball. With the mission accomplished, I replaced the cache as found (as in... exactly. Due to the light bit of snow, there was a perfect indication of where it was sitting when I picked it up, which I placed it exactly back onto) and headed back to the car. Over the snow and through the ditch to my mother’s place I go...

Thanks for getting a cache out here... came in quite handy today, and I got a good workout going up and down that big ditch with 5-pound ankle weights on (building endurance for the aforementioned snowshoeing) Smile .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook entry and chainmail ball

ps: Sorry about the lateness in posting the log Frown . Was hoping to say Kristos Rodyvsya on the actual correct day, not Friday the 13th of all days, but got distracted for the past week.