9th Annual GeoRoc Holiday Event

This year my local geocaching group needed a new volunteer to host our annual holiday party. I’ve hosted quite a few events before so it was suggested to me that I should host this year. I decided to buck up and do it. We had it at a fire department’s pavilion. From my best estimate we had about 75 people attend. We had a lot of food, games and fun. So far there’s been 54 attendee logs. I had a fantastic time and here’s some photos from the event.

Our log “book” made of snowflakes

Starting the raffle

JAKSolantern also put out a puzzle cache that was themed around Christmas movies and it was right near the event. Many cachers solved the puzzle at the party and went out in search of it. The container was a fantastic birdhouse and a smaller decon container and log were Velcro-ed inside it. Really amazing. It got a favorite point from me.

Huge birdhouse!

A present inside! A hand painted decon coantiner

See JAKSolantern’s newest cache here GC67QBY

Powder Mills Park Caching

This Sunday, McDoogins, geopup Rogue and I spent the afternoon in Powder Mills Park in Victor, NY. We found 4 caches in the park, including a puzzle that had previously stumped us. Powder Mills Park is very hilly and we stumbled upon a section with lots of gigantic pine trees. I think this is becoming my favorite types of places.

A group of cachers in Rochester set up a Christmas tree in Webster Park with a geocache under it. Over the years cachers have placed their own ornaments with their names on the tree. Each year a new tree is selected and the ornaments are placed on it. This cache was published while we were out so we meet up with JAKSolantern to head over for it. Since we were already out and were so far from home sadly we didn’t have ornaments of our own to add to the tree. Maybe next time.

A little Charlie Brown tree GC67HV4

9th Annual GeoRoc Holiday Event

This year my local geocaching group needed a new volunteer to host our annual holiday party. I've hosted quite a few events before so it was suggested to me that I should host this year. I decided to buck up and do it. We had it at a fire department's pavilion. From my best estimate we had about 75 people attend. We had a lot of food, games and fun. So far there's been 54 attendee logs. I had a fantastic time and here's some photos from the event.

Our log "book" made of snowflakes

Starting the raffle

JAKSolantern also put out a puzzle cache that was themed around Christmas movies and it was right near the event. Many cachers solved the puzzle at the party and went out in search of it. The container was a fantastic birdhouse and a smaller decon container and log were Velcro-ed inside it. Really amazing. It got a favorite point from me.

Huge birdhouse!

A present inside! A hand painted decon coantiner

See JAKSolantern's newest cache here GC67QBY

Powder Mills Park Caching

This Sunday, McDoogins, geopup Rogue and I spent the afternoon in Powder Mills Park in Victor, NY. We found 4 caches in the park, including a puzzle that had previously stumped us. Powder Mills Park is very hilly and we stumbled upon a section with lots of gigantic pine trees. I think this is becoming my favorite types of places.

A group of cachers in Rochester set up a Christmas tree in Webster Park with a geocache under it. Over the years cachers have placed their own ornaments with their names on the tree. Each year a new tree is selected and the ornaments are placed on it. This cache was published while we were out so we meet up with JAKSolantern to head over for it. Since we were already out and were so far from home sadly we didn't have ornaments of our own to add to the tree. Maybe next time.

A little Charlie Brown tree GC67HV4

Black Friday Caching at Zoar Valley

This Black Friday I decided to #OptOutside and tag along with a group of 12 cachers from the Rochester area on the annual caching trip. This year the location was Zoar Valley Multiple Use Area in Erie and Cattaraugus Counties.

The initial goal for our group was a 4 stage multi "PurpleHawks finds 10,000 - Zoar Valley Multi" (GC48PZT). We parked very near the first waypoint and were able to figure out the trick fairly quickly. We proceeded through the hills and slopes of the park finding the next two waypoints. We found 3 other caches along the way. The view of the valley was breath taking.

On the way to GC29AR2

View from GC4NAFZ

We finally made it back to the final of the epic multi and it had coordinates for a bonus cache in it. Overall a great time at Zoar Valley.

After that our group split up and JAKSolantern, SpadeNya and I headed off in search of caches for the New York Amish Geotrail.

There are two parts of the geotrail. For each cache there is a keyword listed that you write down and send in. For each one you find, you get a Amish Geo Trail button. If you find 10 of the caches for either geotrail you get a trackable geocoin.

All the caches were ammo cans and were hidden at local shops or historic places. We ended up finding 20 out of the current 23 caches in about 6 hours. Check out the NY Amish Geo Trail here

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GCP4Y1

Overall a fantastic day with 38 total finds and got to experience a beautiful new area with great friends! 

Find the details about the NY Amish GeoTrail at http://amishtrail.com/geotrail.

Towering Pines and The Fox Sisters

The Towering Pines

Yesterday was a bit chilly here, but my boyfriend and I didn't have any plans so we decided to take our geopup Rogue and find some caches. We went north to Blue Cut Nature Center. We found all 3 of the caches here. The last one took us about 45 minutes to find, although I'm really not sure why. Turns out I was looking on the complete wrong side of the trail the whole time. All 3 caches were great and the Nature Center was really beautiful. There were dozens of really tall pine trees that were amazing.

McDoogins and Rogue in the pine tunnel

We also found a really fun gadget cache called The fox Sisters. It tells the story f two sisters who started hearing rapping noises from their bedroom. They soon were able to communicate with whoever this spirit was by snapping their fingers and they would receive a series of knocks in response. They found out it was a man who was murdered in the house and was buried behind a false wall in the basement. This cache brings you to a park that had been made at the location of their childhood home. The cache container has a lock and you have to "communicate with the spirits" in order to figure out the word that will open the lock. The story and theme were great and it clearly took a lot of work for the CO to put together. Check it out here GC5WJW2

The original Fox House

November Cache Crate

Yesterday, I received my monthly Cache Crate from Cache Advance for the month of November. The Cache Crate is a monthly subscription service that delivers a box full of geocaching and outdoor goodies directly to your door. This months box included:

A magnifying glass with built in tweezers. Perfect for removing splinters or ticks.

A 2 pack of flexible utility ties. You could use them for hanging bison tubes in pine trees!

A make-your-own para cord bracelet kit with instructions. You could put it in a cache as swag or keep it for yourself.

A smiley luggage tag. Keep track of your luggage at the airport with this stylish tag.

You can also choose to add on a trackable to your crate. There's multiple options available. It's "just like finding an awesome regular sized cache filled with amazing swag." You can check it out here.