Mauison's Geoblog

Apr 16, 2010

Sticky Stash!

By: Northern Gecko Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Regular

We spent about twenty minutes looking for this before giving up. I now know why we didn't find it. We have the old coords and old hint in my GPSr. Doh! Oh well, we'll be back since we like walking up and down the beach there.

Jan 16, 2010

Good To Go!!

By: Northern Gecko Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Micro

Once again, we couldn't find this sneaky cache. We searched many spots, even double-checking and triple-checking. I think we'll try again when the businesses nearby are closed.

Sep 7, 2009

Good To Go!!

By: Northern Gecko Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Micro

Searched for a while using the hint but didn't find anything. Wanted to search another spot but a construction crew were making repairs to the parking lot. An updated set of coords would be greatly appreciated!

Aug 28, 2009

Keopuolani Park

By: mojedo Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Small

Ugh...once again, we're the first DNF on a cache with only finds. Went looking for this one myself, since my parents and Jenn didn't want to go into the brush. Not too bad though, I've done a lot more bushwhacking at other caches. My GPSr kept taking me from spot to spot so I searched a bunch of spots. Didn't spot anything but kept looking. Eventually, my dad came to check on me and helped me search for a few minutes. Gave up for the day but since we walk here a couple of times a week, I'll be back. Maybe I can convince the whole family to help me search.

May 15, 2009

Yuba Drive Trail Head

By: GoGoJo Difficulty: 3.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

We looked for about twenty minutes before giving up. We checked lots of places but couldn't come up with the find. Will try again another day.

Mar 8, 2009

Three Four One With Nine

By: cachbefound Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

I had solved this puzzle when it first came out (using the third puzzle) of course) but hadn't noticed that it'd been changed since then. Searched where the cache was before but didn't find it. Should've just searched around a bit more. Did see the cat colony nearby including one kitty guard watching us closely.

Feb 8, 2009

Ant Tree Fort

By: dr jekyll Difficulty: 4.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

Add another DNF to the list. We met up with other cachers so we had many eyes looking for this one. Spent about half an hour before we called it quits for the day. We'll be back!

Dec 4, 2008

Runway for GeoDog

By: MamaBe Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

We tried looking for about ten minutes and our GPSr kept us going back and forth. After looking at the satellite photo, I can see we were looking in the correct spot. We probably even saw the cache. We had to get to a doctor's appointment so we left this one for another day.

Sep 27, 2008

Tales of Odysseus: The Sirens

By: 50sumtin Difficulty: 2.0 Terrain: 2.0 Container: Regular

Unfortunately, we believe this cache has been muggled. We found a circle of rocks, with an indention in the middle, where a cache would've been sitting. We looked all around, hoping that if it was muggled, maybe it was tossed somewhere else but we didn't find anything. Too bad, hopefully someone can replace this one but maybe move it further from the trail down to the beach.

Jan 26, 2008

This old park feels like a long lost friend

By: wadazi and bentleythecat Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Small

We couldn't find the cache in front of the park and we couldn't find the cache in the back of the park. We don't know if it was the dwindling daylight that made it hard to see but there didn't seem to be many places to hide a decon container. Checked the obvious spots but didn't find anything.

Jan 2, 2008

Prickly's Brother!

By: northern gecko Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Small

We DNFed Prickly Monkey so we wanted to redeem ourselves by finding this one. But the sun was setting and we were unsuccessful. The grass is very green now so maybe the hint doesn't apply anymore. We stopped further down the road to take photos of the sunset so that made us feel better.

Nov 22, 2007

POP #7

By: WeBeDnD Difficulty: 3.0 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Micro

We searched for a few minutes but didn't come up with anything. Will doublecheck my coords and try again. Happy Thanksgiving!

Oct 8, 2007

Cigars (Ca.)

By: rscout79 Difficulty: 2.5 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Small

We decided to walk around the Stanford campus and find some caches. Unfortunately, we went 0 for 3, this being the first one we looked for. After about fifteen minutes of searching, I thought I had found the cache but no cigar, it was just a red herring. I guess we aren't smarter than a fifth grader! We still had a nice time walking around the campus.

MAYA'S TIME

By: Rain734 Difficulty: 1.5 Terrain: 1.0 Container: Regular

We decided to walk around the Stanford campus and find some caches. Unfortunately, we went 0 for 3, this being the second one we looked for. We must've done our calculations wrong as we ended up in a spot where no cache could be hidden. We still enjoyed our walk.

Sep 9, 2007

View From The Office Too

By: Vaudesir Difficulty: 4.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Regular

We tried for this one today but didn't find anything. I think I confirmed my coords with vaudesir but maybe I didn't. I just checked and I did confirm my coords but for some reason, the coords in my GPSr are the coords without subtracting for the latitude and adding for the longitude.

Just made the correction so we'll be back to search for this one. Doh!

Aug 4, 2007

Laguna Beach Parking

By: 50sumtin Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

This was supposed to be an easy find but after about five minutes searching, we were getting cold (55 �) so we gave up for the day and headed home.

Jul 26, 2007

Somewhere Metamorphic

By: catomcat Difficulty: 3.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

We had a couple of minutes left on my lunch break so we decided to stop by since we got a hint from a previous finder. Well, we searched but didn't come up with the cache. I think I need a better hint!

Jul 22, 2007

Big Worm-Gear Needed

By: digitalfish Difficulty: 4.5 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Not chosen

Add another DNF to the other 102 DNFs. I noticed there are more DNFs than finds, a true 4.5. We spent about 35 minutes there poking, prodding, feeling, etc. almost everywhere. We probably even touched the cache but didn't know it. We did run into the cache owner a few minutes later at REI and he gave us a few hints to narrow the spot down. We'll try again soon because we REALLY want to find it!

Jul 17, 2007

Tick-Tock Bus Stop

By: runnerinwoods Difficulty: 3.0 Terrain: 2.0 Container: Micro

We were going to skip this one today but when we drove past there was no one at the bus stop so we decided to stop and have a try. Twenty minutes later, our hands were filthy and no cache. It was getting darker and we didn't have a flashlight so we had to give up for the night. Will try again soon.

Jul 16, 2007

Meneeley Bell Two

By: alpharomero.com Difficulty: 1.0 Terrain: 1.5 Container: Micro

Add another DNF. We got the final coords, did some searching, then drove back to the bell to double check our numbers. They were correct so we searched some more but still didn't find anything.

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