Cabin: Day 3

07/03/10 

Once again my brother and I got up and left for another lake, Upper Lake Mary, at 7 in the morning to try to catch some fish for dinner. This time we made sure to bring food. We got out there and had 3 fish within the first hour. All about 2 lbs. We didn't want to keep anything that small because the week before that was the smallest size fish we had caught. So we would keep anything well over 2 lbs. After catching another fish the same size and letting it go we decided we should just keep the next one so we would have something to eat and then keep anything larger that we caught later. So we kept the next one I caught which was just over 2 lbs. After another 3 hours, we didn't catch any more fish but had just a few bites. We decided to call it a fishing day and look for some geocaches in the area. After fishing Lake Mary, we looked for two geocaches along the lakeside. We found one right away in a rock pile. There were many coins in there that were advertising for trackable geocoins so we took one with us. The next one we found had been there since 2001. At one point it was the 49^th oldest active geocache. So that made it exciting to find.

Next we checked out 8 more near and along Ashurst lake road. Five of them had already been found on the same day and after finding one we saw some more geocachers looking for the same one we had just been to. We went back to the two at Ashurst lake that our friends had looked for, but now we had a few more geocaches under our belt and had some more idea what to look for. So we found them both very quickly. Five of the geocaches were all from the same person in the same camo containers. In one at Ashurst lake there was a bouncy ball so we traded a fishing lure for it. After getting back to the cabin and eating some food, along with the one pike we kept, three of us decided to look for several geocaches that were near the cabin. On the short drive over to them, we saw 8 cow elk on the side of the road and then 3 deer before we reached them. Our friend had never heard of geocaching so he didn't know what to look for. My brother looked 30 feet away and saw a stump and said, “It's there!!” and ran over there, lifted the stump and there it was. My friend was shocked. “How did you know it was there!!” he yelled. Then we checked out another cache on the other side of the road. We found it fairly quickly and traded another lure for a small dinosaur toy. That way we could keep trading things by transferring them. The next one was .18 miles away straight up a mountain so we headed for it. Boy was that a hike. We describe the steepness as our toes against our shins and our chest a foot from the ground. After finally getting to the top it was getting to dark to see so we had to head back down the very steep hill, though fortunately we found the trail so it wasn't as steep. In the field right before the cabin we saw some elk grazing out in the field. It was getting dark and we could barely see them. So we took the spotlight and walked out into the field. Shining the light at them we saw more than 20 sets of eyes. They headed away from us into the tree line and we finally made it back.