First FTF!
SO and I got our first "first to find" cache today.
We'd planned out four in a relatively similar area, but after finding two and having no luck with a feasible trail to the other two, SO decided he wanted to head home and get the grocery shopping done early. We'd try the other ones another day. I agreed, and some how we got on the topic of "FTF" caches as we rode the motorcycle home. I think it was because one of the ones we'd nabbed was recently placed and local cachers were decending upon it quickly, one by one.
At home, I logged our two finds and looked a the map of the area for the two left behind caches. That's when I spotted two green cache pinpoints that were close to other caches we'd done before.
I KNEW they must have been new - why else would we have done everything around them and left those open? I checked and sure enough, both were published today. One had already been found, but I input the coordinates to the second into the GPS and we flew. I wasn't even concerned with the whole "hiking down a hill means we have to hike back UP it" thing, I was so freaking pumped.
Luck was with us! We nabbed it! I was so excited, I was dancing on the cache site! I wrote in huge letters on the log and then happily logged our find from the laptop in the car, near the grocery story. I'm such a geek, I couldn't wait. :D
We'd planned out four in a relatively similar area, but after finding two and having no luck with a feasible trail to the other two, SO decided he wanted to head home and get the grocery shopping done early. We'd try the other ones another day. I agreed, and some how we got on the topic of "FTF" caches as we rode the motorcycle home. I think it was because one of the ones we'd nabbed was recently placed and local cachers were decending upon it quickly, one by one.
At home, I logged our two finds and looked a the map of the area for the two left behind caches. That's when I spotted two green cache pinpoints that were close to other caches we'd done before.
I KNEW they must have been new - why else would we have done everything around them and left those open? I checked and sure enough, both were published today. One had already been found, but I input the coordinates to the second into the GPS and we flew. I wasn't even concerned with the whole "hiking down a hill means we have to hike back UP it" thing, I was so freaking pumped.
Luck was with us! We nabbed it! I was so excited, I was dancing on the cache site! I wrote in huge letters on the log and then happily logged our find from the laptop in the car, near the grocery story. I'm such a geek, I couldn't wait. :D