Happy New Year!
Posted By Shirley on January 1, 2010
Happy New Year, everyone!
It’s been sooo long since we last blogged…..time to get back to it….a new year’s resolution?
Yes, we’re still caching though with this very cold New England weather and the holidays it’s slowed us down a bit (current cache finds of 1227!). A lot of caching has happened since I last wrote. Larry & I vacationed in the western part of South Dakota during the summer. What a beautiful area at that time of year. We saw much of the Black Hills, The Badlands, Devil’s Tower in Wyoming, a corner of Montana (had to add another state to our caching adventures!). Also lots of wildlife – the buffalo herds in Custer State Park are amazing. We’ve checked in on the current weather out there and it’s not nearly as inviting in December as it was last July. I think it takes quite a hearty soul to live there year round. More on those SD/WY/MT caches in another blog.
Christmas has just passed and of course our love/obsession for geocaching was a part of it! Some small gifts that are sure to come in handy, but the biggest item…..Larry got a new Garmin Colorado GPS! Can’t wait to try it out……..he also got the flu so it’ll be a little longer before we get out hiking & caching. We really like going out with two GPSers. Larry’s original eTrex Legend has been sitting in the bottom of his backpack. It never really could hold a satellite position very well so using it has become too frustrating. We’ve been relying on my Garmin 60CSx which has always worked well for us. The Colorado should let us download more info from the cache pages and eliminate all the paper we’ve been carrying……save a few trees!! From what we’ve read there may be a bit of a learning curve with this one but I’m positive we can handle that part….we’ll let you know! So……….get well, Larry……lots of caches waiting for us!
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Don’t forget the prairie dogs! ……. It looks like the Garmin Colorado 400t is going to be OK. A day of caching with this new toy would be most appreciated.