Sarah+Skipper

= My Geocaching Adventure  =

==== My geocaching adventure started as soon as I got home from school at about 5:00 p.m.. I had decided this would be done quickly because I had picked one in an area I was very familiar with in my hometown. I had looked at the map on the geocaching website and pinpointed exactly where I thought the cache would be. The name of the cache was ET Keowee. When I was in high school I worked at a girl scout camp called Keyauwee and I knew a sign for the camp was near the GPS points. My boyfriend ventured out with me and our clue was behind the tree, which we had decided meant the cache was on the sign itself. The main part of the sign is a tree and I just knew that was where it would be. ====

==== We traveled west from my house about 2 miles and pulled over to begin our search. Unfortunately the hunt did not end up as we had predicted. We looked all over and around the sign with no avail. However, the GPS said we were about 9 feet away from our destination. The GPS pointed into a wooded area to the right of the sign. ====

==== I was not enthused about this because I am not a woodsie person and our clue was now beginning to be of no use since the only thing around us was trees. As we entered the brier encased woods the GPS said we were getting closer and I was very relieved; as was my boyfriend who was getting tired of my complaints about the briers, limbs, and woods in general, as well as me snapping pictures. When we had entered the woods we noticed a wad of fuzzy green yarn. We had looked behind most of the trees in the area, but had come up empty handed when we noticed a wad of the same yarn at the base of a tree that was poorly covering our cache. ====

==== My boyfriend kicked it aside with his shoe and there was a pill bottle labeled GEOCACHE. WE wondered how we had missed this the whole time we had been walking around before. We were very excited to have finally found the cache. We opened it up to find a piece of molded paper which was impossible to read, a wolfpack golf tee, and the sign in sheet. After getting a couple last minute photos and signing the sheet I quickly got out of the woods and was relieved to be back in an open area. On the way home a we decided we would try another that happened to be on the same road as my house. The cache was titled ET "Adopt" Me. We pulled over to investigate an noticed an Adopt a Highway sign. Sure enough the GPS led us right to the sign. The clue was above. We looked all over the sign and around the ground. We walked into a field and looked too. This was all no use, we finally gave up and headed home. We both enjoyed going on a bit of a scavenger hunt, although I think if we look for another it will not be in a rural area, and definitely not with a clue that has the word tree. ====