Geo's Feb and March

With Winter behind us now (that sounds weird to say since it's only late Feb early March), it was time to go and find more geo's since we were having nice weather.

 

This first one was called "May I Take Your Order Please" and was under the drive up speaker of the now closed Krispy Kreme close by our house.  It was an easy find.

We then headed to Lincoln for a geo called "Titan Missile" and found some never before known history about Lincoln (which is right next to Roseville where we live).

 

See the white cement that is noticeable tot he left behind the two trees below?

Here is another cement piece that is easier to see:

These are two of three underground silo's for a huge underground complex for the Titan 1 Missiles that were once housed here in Lincoln from 1959 to 1965.

Here is a photo of the Titan 1 Missile:

Anyways, back to the geo cache. It was just outside the fenced area. We wanted to go beyond the fence area and "explore" but decided against it. We were sure satellites were watching us!

Marissa found the cache just under these rocks.

It was a medium sized cache with some pretty good items in it. There was a "Travel Bug" in this one, which we took.

A Travel Bug is placed by an "owner" of the Travel Bug. Each Bug has a different number on it so it can be tracked in it's travels across the world. So when we got it, we log on to the website and type in the Bug's number. It then is marked and attached to us. We then drop it into another cache somewhere, and again log in to the website and say where we dropped it off. And then someone else does it and so on. 

Whenever we go geo-caching, we mark all our finds and even non-finds on a special geocache website. It keeps track off all our finds, our Travel Bugs, and any caches we have placed.  We have a goal of placing a cache in the next month or two. We are on the lookout for good places.

Most places are already taken. There are over 500 caches within a 20 mile radius of our house!!

 

We then headed to Auburn in the foothills, (where Doug grew up) to a new regional park called "Hidden Falls". After a hike we came to a small river just ahead of the "hidden falls".

There were several caches in the park, we only had info for two of them. One we found, and the other was a little elusive.  Shelley and Meghan went to find it because the kids were tired of hiking, and Jacob found a huge branch/root and Marissa and Hannah were playing jump rope with it!

Shelley & Meghan did finally find the cache, but it was a difficult one. It was a big one though!  It was a big storage tub full of goodies buried in the brush and weeds. After we heard that, the rest of us were disappointed we didn't go find it!

 

Here are some other pictures of the park. It's beautiful this time of year! Everything is green!