Lost in the woods

Our afternoon plans were to find a couple of fairly quick caches in the same area and a short hike. One was a multicache with this sign as the first point and using the clues and numbers of of this sign it would take us to the next set of coordinates which would lead us to the final.

After we determined the coordinates for point 2 we realized the other cache we were looking for would be closer so we went to it first. Once we got to the right spot we found it fairly easily and we were off to finish the multicache. And that is where the real adventure begins. Hubby takes off in the direction of the trail, at least that is what he was attempting. I thought it was a different direction and wanted to follow the GPS towards Point 2 of the multicache. After quite a bit of walking I convinced him we should be going a different direction. Just a short distance after that we came to the fenceline along the road so we followed it hoping to run into the trail again, and then we came to another fenceline surrounding the missle site. We thought it was a whole different spot than where we had found the the first micro named Deer Park's Cold War History Micro. It took us to a spot where we could view the historic site of Deer Park's Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile site.    

As we followed the fence line I noticed what looked like the exact type of micro we had just found. I took a second look and realized we had gone around in a great big circle and were back at the same spot we had started. That really blew our minds. This time we took off in the direction that I thought we should have gone in the first place and we used the GPS. It wasn't long before we were back on the trail and on our way looking for Point 2 of the multi. As we got close the GPS started leading us in circles. "I wonder is there some interference (magnetic maybe) messing with our readings"
This is a random stump that is somewhere in the general vicinity of where that second point was supposed to be:

We continued to look and look and go around in circles. The GPS never did give us a good Ground Zero and it started to get a little darker and there was no way we wanted to find our way out of those woods with out a flashlight so we had to give up on the multi for now. Maybe on a day when the skies are clearer.





Just another discovery we made as we were wandering around

Kind of reminds me of a TV show I enjoy watching. Now that we were no longer "LOST" It was time to follow the trails back to the car.


But first of all lets take a break and read a little more of the history of the area.