Geocaching Logs from 7-15-09

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FireRef (Found it) GC1R0YT - Three Strikes....Your Out!!! (1.5/3) by eagles3
This was one of 6 caches I attempted to find with my cousin, SnowDelta (not a very active cacher) and another younger cousin who has gone with us before. We were camping this week at Allegany State Park, and decided to spend a few hours caching today.

This was the first one we went looking for, and it was in a place I had put a cache a few years back, but has been gone for a year or so. We had a rather decent surprise, as did the people we happened on, when we approached the tennis courts. We heard dogs start barking, and a man came out from the area right behind the courts and talked with us. We noticed his companion walking away and kind of guessed we interrupted something. The third person with our group was completely clueless, which SnowDelta and I found funny and discussed on our way to the cache. We found it after about 15-20 minutes - it was a little ways away from where we thought it would be. Thanks for bringing us here - it was nice to see someone else thought this was a good place to put a cache! My family usually plays at least one baseball game and one set of tennis here during a normal year - this was a short year for us, so we didn't really do anything here at all. I also noticed when I had my cache here the number of people who mentioned that they had never known this place was here except for the cache - I knew about it since I was a little child. On to the next one!

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FireRef (Found it) GC108VK - Game On (3/3) by zest2quest
This was one of 6 caches I attempted to find with my cousin, SnowDelta (not a very active cacher) and another younger cousin who has gone with us before. We were camping this week at Allegany State Park, and decided to spend a few hours caching today.

This was a lot longer hike than we thought it would be, since it was almost all up hill to get to the cache. Since it seemed like it was a pretty good climb, I checked the altimeter on my GPS before we headed back down, and found out that we actually went up and down 500 feet in 3/4 of a mile. Thanks for bringing us here - It wasn't quite as well stocked as we thought it would be from the way it was described, but it was a nice place - I hadn't ever hiked quite this far up this trail. We decided after the long climb and descent that we would look for some simple easy caches for the next couple. Thanks for putting this cache out!

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FireRef (Found it) GCZFXP - Just for Kicks in 2006 - #11 (3.5/1.5) by kickin'
This was one of 6 caches I attempted to find with my cousin, SnowDelta (not a very active cacher) and another younger cousin who has gone with us before. We were camping this week at Allegany State Park, and decided to spend a few hours caching today.

FINALLY! SnowDelta and I looked for this one a while back - probably 2 years ago, but didn't find it. We found...well, we thought we found it, but we were wrong. He spotted it after about 10 minutes - I can't believe we missed it before. Especially since I have a number of these out, one not 50 feet from my house. Thanks for putting this one out - it was a cool hide and I love the twist - and I can FINALLY get this one off my list!

Thanks for bringing us here and torturing me for a few years - haha!

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FireRef (Found it) GCV5JM - True Madness II - Kickin's Spawn (3.5/2) by kickin'
This was one of 6 caches I attempted to find with my cousin, SnowDelta (not a very active cacher) and another younger cousin who has gone with us before. We were camping this week at Allegany State Park, and decided to spend a few hours caching today.

We came into this area to look for one that was supposed to be relatively easy to get to, but a little harder to find. It took probably a half hour for us to spot it - the youngest of our group picked it out without too much trouble - he just happened to be looking at the right place. Before he spotted it, we had several different ideas based on the description, hint, and past logs. We almost put ourselves in some rather dangerous areas based on the hints until it was spotted, and we were almost ready to give up, but the youngest in our group wouldn't give up, and wouldn't you know, he managed to find it. I managed to forget to keep my pen in my pocket, so I ended up signing the log with a stick and a leaf - it didn't work as well as it had before when I had to do it, so it might be a little hard to find my name on there, but it is! Thanks for bringing us here - cool idea. I actually suggested a similar one as a possible hiding method, so it was pretty neat to see that it was one possible thought I had, even though I wasn't the one to spot it.

Thanks for putting this one out - it served its purpose!

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FireRef (Didn`t find it) GC1PQ3N - Rylans Hideout (2/2) by jonbrandi
This was one of 6 caches I attempted to find with my cousin, SnowDelta (not a very active cacher) and another younger cousin who has gone with us before. We were camping this week at Allegany State Park, and decided to spend a few hours caching today.

This was one we didn't find. We spent probably a half hour over, under, on, and around the bridge here. It was a very cool spot - SnowDelta kept asking what the body of water was, and it turned out based on my map that it is just a small reservoir. We checked out every possible place that we could think of, and most of them multiple times. Thanks for bringing us here - it was definitely a cool hidden place to discover, even if we didn't get the cache.

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FireRef (Didn`t find it) GC1B9B7 - Snakes, Snails and Piggy-Dog Tails? (2/2) by kickin'
This was one of 6 caches I attempted to find with my cousin, SnowDelta (not a very active cacher) and another younger cousin who has gone with us before. We were camping this week at Allegany State Park, and decided to spend a few hours caching today.

This was the final stop on our small caching run today, and another DNF. We spent about 15 minutes hunting through this area, but couldn't manage to come up with the find. There were just too many darn places to put a cache. We didn't see the place you "wanted" to put the cache either. We might have to come back here sometime on another camping trip - thanks for putting this out even if we didn't manage to find it! Now, back to camp, to get some food!