We arranged to meet at 9am and head out in some direction. We decided to begin our hunt in Riverside Park (AKA MLK Park). There were a handful of caches left for us to find in that park and it had been a while since we had been there.
Upon arriving at the park, I declared that we should go after GS - MLK Park by Abiectio (GC18A5W). Nothing like starting the day with an easy guardrail cache, right? Hmmmmm... The road we need to be on doesn't seem to exist.
We decided to go ahead and hunt Flip Dizzy by Abiectio (GC18M8X). I had known it was in this park even before attempting the puzzle. Earlier finders (from GOWT) had left enough clues in their logs to tell me and anyone else who reads logs what park it was in. Thanks guys!
Anyways, we hunted and found it in short order and moved on to find more caches.
We had managed to figure out what happened to the missing road that the guardrail cache was on. It seems that the parks dept closed both ends and simply removed just enough of the road to make it difficult to find. After finding an entrance on the south side, we drove the cachemobile in far enough to be out of sight of any muggles. It turns out that you can't drive too far on it anyways. We were able to walk a good distance on the road, a few spots were covered with vegetation we had to navigate around. After a bit, we found the guardrail. Wow - this was a cool hiding spot! I hadn't paid attention to the terrain level (a 3) and it definitely fit the ratings, in fact they might be low for this time of year.
Walking back to the truck, we detoured slightly to pick up Cherrybark Oak by Chance Encounter (adopted by Abiectio) (GCTP6W). We tried this one before and couldn't figure out how to get to it - not knowing about the hidden road. It was a welcome easy find.
Afterwards, we hiked back to the truck and drank some water before moving to another area.
We decided next to go after Ohm's Law by Chance Encounter (adopted by Abiectio) (GCTK4G). We had solved this puzzle a long time ago, but couldn't find the cache. Today, we had better luck. After a lot of wandering around, jbgreer spotted the container.
We drove a short distance north and quickly found The Troll of MLK park by Abiectio (GC18A6R). I think the troll has been replaced by spiderwebs...
That was our last find in the park. Since it was still early in the day, we decided to hunt a few more of the Flip Dizzy series.
We plotted the coordinates for Flip Dizzy - Turning gold into lead since 1973 by Abiectio (GC1B6FJ) and headed across town. We were able to park within a few hundred feet of the cache, but had some obstacles in our path. We stumbled out onto a trail and found the cache a short distance away. Rather than go back the way we came, we decided to see where the trail led. It led us eventually to a nature area we had been to once before. Neat! I took a few pictures, but my camera messed up...
After getting back to the truck, we headed to Flip Dizzy - Bad Juju by Abiectio (GC1CJJ1). This was the easiest of the puzzles to solve and for some reason, I thought it would be tougher to find. It was an interesting area that will probably be built over at some point.
Finally, we headed over to Bartlett Park for two more caches. The first, Flip Dizzy "It's the colors man" by Abiectio (GC1A8WG), was partially spoiled by the online logs (thanks, GOWT) but was not disappointing. On this day the ditches/gulleys were muddy and slippery. We tried to avoid mulitple crossings and ended up going in circles before finally finding our way back to a trail. It was way to hot and humid for wandering in circles. Our last cache of the day was FTF All Star #7: Bartlett Park by Abiectio and itcomagic (GC1D76T). It was mercifully easy and took us to probably the one area of the park we had not seen before. Jbgreer nearly broke his arm at one point, but the hike out was nice and uneventful.
I was glad to make it back to the truck where I drank most of my third quart of water. I had just enough as it turned out. I was also pretty glad to get home afterwards and clean up. I slept very well that night.
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