Geocaching on Amtrak - 7/26/2012

On a recent train trip from Chicago, IL to Pasco, WA, I tried hunting geocaches at various stops along the way.  It's not easy to do as time spent at each station varies, and some caches are literally on the wrong side of the tracks.  One cache that I have hunted on at least three separate occasions was Steaming away by Rainnstar (GC1C627), located in a small park adjacent to the station in Havre, MT.  This cache is relatively close to the station, so there is the added complication of other train passengers and crew hanging around the cache site.

[ My train is in the background. ]

On my previous stop here, I was questioned by a U.S. Border Patrol agent about what I was doing.  He told me that pot smokers were commonly found around here.  The park, itself, has a monument to the cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian Border Patrols (Havre is less than 50 miles south of the Canadian border).

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[ Picture taken during a January trip in 2009 ]

For this trip, I located the coords on a satellite image before leaving Memphis, and when I got here, I just walked up and found the cache.  I got lucky in that the people hanging around disappeared during the time I had the cache in hand.

I spotted two other cache spots on this trip - one in Minot, ND, and the other in Spokane, WA.  Both, however, were right across the tracks and we were told by Amtrak employees not to cross the tracks.