Since we decided to go to my parents place in Montana for Thanksgivng, we though we would take advantage of picking up some geocaches in a couple of states we hadn't cached in before. On our way out of town we passed this wreck so I snapped a picture as we drove by.
We wanted quick roadside caches that wouldn't take a lot of time out of our traveling, but just be a nice stretch of the legs. The first one we had planned was just off of an access road on the other side of a rest stop. When we got there the access road had a more than a foot of snow on it and we really didn't want to trudge through the snow to get to the cache. It also would have been a longer hike than what we had planned on, so we saved that one for another trip.
Our next planned cache was at a rest stop and it is called Rest 2. I had read the logs and the hints and figured it was something magnetic in the covered picnic area that you would have to reach into to find. So I headed to the picnic area and started searching. It was only a few moments until I had found it. Meanwhile hubby and the girls had followed the GPS to the flagpole not far from the picnic area and when I looked to call them to the find, they were busy doing a thorough embarrassing search of that flag pole. It's a good thing they don't mind looking silly :)
Our next cache is called "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" and it is located just off of Rainbow Bend Drive. A very pretty spot between the river and the freeway. It was an ammo can and so of course hubby was the one to claim the find as he followed his GPS almost straight to it.
One last cache along the way. This one is called "Wye Come Here". It is located along the old Wye Railroad track at the place where they used to turn the trains around. Lots of ruins and a very pretty spot. We though at first that we might have to hike in from another location that would have been to long of a hike for our traveling day, but we discovered there was a pretty nice parking spot just along the side of the highway that was only a short distance from the cache. The first GPS GZ was in the middle of the river. We knew that wasn't right. We searched around and finally registered a GZ at a likely spot. It was a small broken railroad bridge, so we were looking over and under and I finally spotted some sticks that looked like they had been placed in a way that they would not have been naturally. It was just out of my reach and MBW was close, so I pointed it out to her and she retrieved the cache. (I really didn't want to crawl through where I had just been in order to get to it)
By this time it was getting close to sunset and we wanted to hurry to grandma's house for lots of good grub.
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