Geocaching Trip 3

Thur. April 30
Today after work Angie and I decided to go for a walk and check out some walking trails. It was just a coincidence that there were suppose to be a few geocaches along those trails. ;) I say suppose to be, because we didn't have much luck. We started out just off of the Kaysville cemetery by Hods Hollow. We had our GPS and were all excited to start walking. That excitement ended fast as we noticed that we had to climb down a really steep hill to get to the trail head. We weren't willing to quit that easy so we started to look for the easiest place to descend the hill. That is how I learned an important lesson that I will share with you. It is not a good idea to let Angie lead in this sort of situation. She convinced me that it would be easier to get down the hill a little farther to the right of the trail head and I followed her. It wasn't too bad to climb down the hill, if you don't mind sliding down the hill on your butt or holding onto branches to keep your balance. (I wish I could have taken a picture of the experience to share with you) We soon found our progress hindered by a chain link fence. We tried to work our way to the trail head but it wasn't easy. We finally made it, but in hindsight it probably would have been easier to just hike up the hill where we went down and start over by the trail head. That would have been too easy for us though. Besides we were on an adventure.
We started down the trail cautiously. The trail was surrounded by thorny bushes and was sort of overgrown in places. The warning on the cache listing about cougar sightings wasn't helping to reassure us either. Again we had issues with noises and movement in the bushes. I did call and made sure that my dad knew where we were going just in case they needed to send out a search party. We kept on going down the trail following our GPS. Unfortunately we didn't get the caches. We were within 200 feet of the first one on the trail when we ran across a problem. To get the cache they expected us to cross the river on 3 small logs that had been placed across the water like a bridge. They were not very sturdy. If you step on them they were very bouncy. After a few short attempts and failures, we walked several feet up and down the river looking for other alternatives. We had no luck, the only way across seemed to be the logs. We looked at the logs a bit more and even wondered if it would be possible to jump the river but eventually we had to give up. We could not figure out how to cross without ending up in the river. With our luck today I have no doubt that we would have ended up in the river. Oh well. I guess we'll have to think about this one and attempt it at another time.
After the Hods Hollow experience we were discouraged but not ready to quit. We next headed to the walking trail along the old Bamberger tracks. We again started out following our GPS. We searched and searched but could not find the cache at the designated coordinates. Desperate we called for reinforcements. We were able to drag Troy away from his computer to come help. While we waited for him we actually got our walk in. It was fairly boring considering the trail was only about 400 feet long. We walked back and forth a few times hoping the neighbors in the area didn't think we were casing the place or something. Eventually Troy came and we went back to the search. We searched and searched but found nothing.
We couldn't stand to find nothing, so we went and looked up a few more to try and find something before it got too late. We ended up finding 3 by the Sportsplex in Kaysville. GC1B1Q1, GC1CGPD & GC1CCY9. Not a really successful night but we still had some fun and got some exercise.
Hopefully we'll do better next time.