Hello everyone.  Well, we have decided that this blog is not great how it was.  Listings of geocaches found was boring and useless.  So, for now, I am going to write about our experiences.  The last post I did on here was in January of 2012.  Bah.  Since then, I really don’t want to log all of our stuff.

Let’s just say this, in 2012, we found some caches and we didn’t find others.  We actually didn’t do too much geocaching because of the price of gas.  We did try to geocache in Florida for the Make A Wish trip.  We had the GPS, geocaches loaded, but didn’t have or take the time to get any of them.  OH well.

We did head up to one of our favorite lakes, Currant Creek, and not only found a few, but placed 2 caches for Leatha’s birthday.  That is becoming a tradition, to place a cache for Leatha’s birthday.  Finally, in 2012, we got our badge for  finding a cache on 12-12-12.  It was a quick cache, close to home, at 10pm.  we almost missed it.  I had originally planned to get 12 caches, but it was not to be.

Quick cut to 2013.  It was March before we did anything with the GPS, when we placed one that couldn’t be published because it was too close to another one.  We then found 1.  only 1.  From March until August.

Well, August took us again to Fish Lake for Leatha’s birthday.  We placed a cache near our camp again as well as a couple of others.  And wouldn’t you know, there was a place that we drove by and it just needed a cache.  I looked, no caches nearby, so I placed one.  Got home, put it in to the geocaching site, and someone published a cache less than 50 feet from mine on the same day I placed mine.  I told you it was a good location.

All together we found 17 caches over that trip, the most in one month that we have ever done.  We also hit 150 caches found, and Amelia found it!  Too much fun.  Now, you can see in the sidebar there, our cache total stands at 165 found and 12 hidden.  Leatha has a disproportionate amount of caches, she finds a lot of them.

We didn’t know at the time, but we got badges for caching in August as well.  it was geocaching month.

                                 We really had no idea that the 17th was International Geocaching day, but we participated anyway!

One of the great things about caching is seeing places people choose to put caches, and reading interesting points that they put in the descriptions.  One of the caches we found was along the road and had a bunch of lava rock around that would catch water.  People used to stop there to water the horses and cattle in the old days before cars.  kind of cool history there.

We were on our way home and ended up with another flat tire for the trip.  So, while I was getting it changed, Leatha had to place  a cache.  She called it Flat Tire Blues and it has already been found!

The last cacche of the trip we found in Nephi, and was at an old Sinclair station, something that looked like it was built in the late 30’s.  It was of course closed and overgrown, but it is fun to see some of that old Americana on these quests for geocaches.  That is half of the fun.

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Wow it has been a wild summer and I am behind updating the caches we have found.  The last post was in May!  Ok here goes, pictures will be added as soon as I can!

We start with a couple we didn’t find.

1.  This is the place for a city cache at 40° 38.453 N 111° 53.057 W we couldn’t find!

2. Quick Urban Multi at 40° 38.519 N 111° 53.196 W we found the first stage but the second we didn’t.  It may have been moved when the trees were trimmed.

3.  Go Tell the Spartans at 40° 39.349 N 111° 53.396 W eluded us as well.  This was not a great day caching.

4.  Do your Lips Hurt? at 40 ° 39.595 N 111° 54.264 W was found by Leatha saving us a cacheless day!

5.  Mastering Technology at 40° 39.531 N 111° 54.109 W was found by Dad.  We were frustrated with these because we tried to place a cache near here but it is saturated!

6.  A couple of days later we couldn’t find Jordanelle Views at 40° 35.657 N 111° 24.922 W.

We then reset our cache by Jordanelle and it was finally accepted!

7.  After a few more days, Leatha found Brittney Bristers Duck Duck Goose after needing a machete to get to it.  40° 39.728 N 111° 54.316 W

8.  Amelia and Mom found The Nature Center at 40° 39.714 N 111° 54.905 W

9.  We didn’t find Is this an Old beaver dam at 40° 39.714 N 111° 54.905 W because the river was high and the coordinates seemed to be IN the river!

10.  Magnet was found by Leatha at 40° 39.614 N 111° 55.013 W!

11.  We didnt find Tar Baby at 40° 39.421 N 111° 55.108 W

12.  We also didn’t find Lego Cache at 40° 39.405 N 111° 55.288 W.

13.  Dad found West Jordan Main Park buried in sap at 40° 36.374 N 111° 56.873 W

14.  Cameron found Seniors and Children Abound at 40° 36.240 N 111° 56.814 W

We then headed to Antelope Island State Park

15.  Mom found Camporee Cache at 41° 02361 N 112° 15.10 W

16.  Leatha found Katies Cache at 41° 02.422 N 112° 16.555 W

17.  Amelia and Leatha found White Rock Bay at 41° 01.316 N 112° 14.492 W

18.  Leatha braved the spiders to find Where the Deer and the Antelope play at 41° 00.339 N 112° 11.818 W.

We then headed to Fish Lake Utah.

19.  Leatha found a wet and stinky cache at the top of the mountain called Fun For Kids #3.

Not sure about the fun but it was at  38° 33.840 N 111° 42.496 W

20.  Leatha found Pirates Cove at 38° 33.840 N 111° 43.52 W

21.  Mom and Amelia found this cache next to a great spring.  Sweet Water Spring at 38° 32.835 N 111° 43.983 W.  also picked up a travel bug in this one!

22.  We didn’t find Elderberry@Fish Lake at 38° 31.369 N 111° 56.894 W.  We did find some great vintage beer cans and bottles though.

23.  Cameron and Amelia Found Mon Petite Chou at 38° 32.715 N 111° 43.652 W.

and finally we placed a cache in the campground called Leatha’s Birthday cache.  it is at 38° 33.665 N  111° 42.635 W and as of 11 jan 2012 has only been found once!

That is all for this very late update.  another will be up soon with 4 more caches.  Pictures will be up sometime on the pictures page

Hello again.  This is another series of lists to catch up with.  If you want the coordinates, e-mail me otherwise they are all on Geocaching.com under our name of 6matthews.  Pictures are there with each cache, or over on our Pictures Page. Thanks for understanding, I will be more prompt in the future!

4-21-11

1.  Leatha found barbecue, Booze and Bowl.

2.  Leatha also found Tatters Buy Clop, which is a word scramble for “Rusty Bottle Cap” which is what the cache was!

3.  All three kids hiked a decent hill to a power line pole where Cameron found Slushy 500.

4.  Leatha and Amelia searched and found Air Power.

5.  After a long search Leatha found Melly’s Cache.

6.  Leatha and Amelia went out again and found Now it’s a Nano.

We picked Mom up from work after that and went to place a cache at the place where we were married almost 13 years ago.  It is fun to have caches at memorable places.  This one is called Enabling Matrimony.

7.  The last one was technically a DNF, but we found the wire that was supposed to be tethering the cache!

4-24-11

1.  Mom found Celebrating 5000 on a great trail while Dad was fishing!

2.  Leatha found I think I’ve got wings and #3 Picnic By the Falls

3.  Cameron found East of Weeden.

4.  Amelia was feeling left out and had to find Home for the Quorum

4-30-11

Another excursion into the mountains and more caches to find!

1.  We found Jordanelle State Park easily enough, or so we thought.  When we went to log it on Geocaching.com we found that what we did find, was one part of a 4 part multi cache.  We have to go back and read the descriptions better!

2.  And here we have our 100th Cache! We didn’t realize that this would be a momentous one for us or they probably wouldn’t have let Dad find Connections in Corrections, and we would have celebrated more at the site!

We then went a bit further and placed a big cache full of kaleidoscopes at a great   overlook.  We called it Stealthily Overlooking

3.  A couple of more misses and then Amelia found 8 in a tree.

This concludes April and what a great couple of months this has been!