Well, its October and the weather here in Oklahoma is wonderful. Cool nights, warm dry days. Makes me want to get out of the house. So I decided you know, its time to plant another geocache.

I had the container. Sweetie never complains but I use lots better containers for geocaches than she gets for our household use.

And then some Walmart camo duct tape. I scored the last roll they had. Sorry!!

Voila, makes me want to dig up all my poor dead arts and crafts teachers and tell them See!! I actually can do something. Is that terrible? You don’t know 99% of what I think!!

So off we went to Turkey Mountain. Sweetie begged off because of severe allergies. Poor old SuperPizzaBoy had no choice. We first checked out a cache we set out years ago called “Boys Night Out – Firefly Swamp.” We set it out in July 2007. It has been found 94 times. We named it because it was on Sweeties book group night which is our monthly boys night out and it was very muddy due to rains, thus the swamp, and it was at night and the fireflies were out in force. Absolutely beautiful.

This cache is a hybrid. It is a geocache and also a letterbox. Letterboxing is a precursor to geocaching. Boxes are hidden but the descriptions are given by written directions rather than GPS coordinates. Also, letterboxers use stamps, to show that they were there, rather than a written log. So, its low tech but involves hiking and finding. I haven’t really gotten into it except for this one hybrid.

I took photos of some of the stamps people left. I think they are very cool.

The last two on the left are SPB and my stamps. I forget whose is whose. We bought them on sale at Hobby Lobby.  One family found the cache on Easter Sunday last year.

I went through the pages of the regular log. Those are always interesting. I’ll translate for you. “TFTC” means “Thanks for the Cache,” “TNLN” means “Took nothing, left nothing.”

Here I show the last page. A cub scout group came through in September. When I take groups to find a cache I make everybody sign the cache!! They are entitled.

That done we went looking for a good spot to hide the cache we brought. SPB was running out of gas.

We had to do some climbing and found this trail.

And then I found a good spot, hid the container, and found the coordinates. So now I have to get a permit from the Tulsa RiverParks Authority and apply to Geocaching.com to post. It took about two weeks last time.

Some vandalism we found on the way out. I don’t know if JJ Shill is the lover or beloved but whoever left this is a loser.

SPB brightened up as we got close to the parking lot.

Not a bad time, all told. Then off to dinner at NaNa’s.

Our route, I just love technology, when it works.