Tag: outdoors
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A cache on a peninsula
Today I found a geocache wayyy out on a peninsula on Milford Lake: It was a really difficult hike (at times — one commenter described it as “by far the most rigorous cache I’ve found”) but I think it was worth it — the view from the edge of the peninsula (a sandy cliff maybe…
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More Geocaching!
I've been doing quite a bit more geocaching recently. None of the places I went to or things I found were worthy of their own blog post, but a list of them probably is: The smallest geocache ever (watch for scale): A neat statue from a cemetery: An interurban railway bridge: A cool stone bridge:…
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Geocaching!
So, wanting to get outside (but not get lost, as has happened before) I decided to take up a new hobby called geocaching. It's explained really well in this short video, but the short version is that geocaching is like a global treasure hunt. Someone places a container (usually a tupperware-type box) and records its…
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Fancy Creek Hike
A couple of weekends ago, when the weather wasn't awful, I decided to go on a nature hike. I found a neat-looking path online, and drove up in the afternoon to walk around it. It's a 4.6 mile path, so I figured it would take an hour and a half, since I walk pretty fast.…