Seattle Geocaching

I have found a great motivator to walking during my lunch hour is to go geocaching.  I've found 7 or so.  I usually walk two miles during these expeditions.  The walks have helped me with my social anxiety as I often find myself in crowds of people on my way to the cache.

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Utah County Caching

We had three hours to kill before Darren's BBQ, and we decided to use them caching.

We started out in South Jordan, looking for a cache hidden in the SJ cemetery. It was a pretty simple find once we figured out true north from the starting coordinates.

Next it was on to the AF one to find a multi-cache, and a traditional cache. The multi-cache was a lot of fun. We had our starting coordinates, and looking around at the old tombstones we had to answer questions to figure out our next set of coordinates. We had to do this for two legs.

On our way to the second site.

The second site took us to the Veteran's Monuments. I neglected to get a photo of this, but it is such a beautiful site, and I felt quiet appropriate spending time there reading all the plaques. (Click here for beautiful photos describing the site.) After getting the information we needed we were finally able to find our ending site. In this case it was a virtual cache, and we had to take a picture to get credit.

The AF Pioneer Memorial

As luck would have it our next cache was very close. This is a traditional cache, in which one signs their name to it.

Madelynn at this point had had enough caching for one day, and we took her to my mom's house.
Jeremy and I then had about 40 minutes left before going to the BBQ and decided to hit the PG cemetery to try and find two more.

We were successful at finding the first one, but ran out of time for the second. We will have to return to the site when we are back in Utah County for some time.

It was a really good day. Got in some much needed exercise, as you all can see, and really enjoyed each others company and puzzle solving skills.

New Family Hobby

We discovered Geo Caching today. After what seemed like hours of finding a compatible application for our blackberries we were off and finding caches. We found five today, and plan to go out and find more this weekend.

It was so much fun. It was warm with a light breeze which made it very enjoyable to be outdoors. We got to get Madelynn some natural Vitamin D, and Jeremy and I got some much needed exercise.

The Geo Caching definitely made exercising more fun, and we seemed to go further than we would have on a normal walk.