Inside the Blue Line

On May 19th Colette and I got a date day. My mother was gracious enough to watch the kids for us while we headed south toward Lake George in an attempt at a fairly difficult multi-cache called Tongue Wagger.

Schroon Overlook
On our way to Lake George we stopped at a southbound rest stop. The view from the elevated area was very nice and the rain had left some pretty scenery. This was a magnetic micro and was a quick find.

This multi-cache is located on the Tongue mountain range beside Lake George and has only been finished a handful of times. Unfortunately for us it decided to pour the entire time we were there so we decided to call off our hike only 2 hours or so into it. We were prepared for everything but non-stop rain.

The ponchos were originally swag!

We figured we would take advantage of the situation and at least get some caches that were south of us. After some exploring of the Lake George and Queesnbury areas we started after some park and grabs!

The Route 9 Building
Named such because it is a building on Route 9. Apparently it is an information station for campers heading into the nearby RV camp. Regardless it's home to a cache which Colette ended up finding. Fortunately we read the logs in advance because they warned us about the unstable terrain!

Welcome to Lake George
A very creative hide! I didn't need to get out of the car to grab it and Colette was very surprised to hear where it was hiding. Very, very cool!

Village Park Quick Cache
This was another very awesome cache. One thing that was really cool about caching this far away from home was to see the creativity that was put into the caches. The cache is in the next photo, see if you can spot it!

Super awesome cache!

We spent a little bit of time at this park since the rain had let up some and the lake was right near by. This was one of my favorite parts of our trip.

Slim Sal visits Lake Ave Hidden Beach
Another nice park and grab. Good placement in a spot we've never seen before.

Very informative!

...and the band played on...

Our next stop was in Warrensburg, NY. This cache is located near a band stand. The area is dedicated to a gentleman which is nice, but the "park" that the band stand is on is just a bit larger than the stand itself. Hopefully he doesn't mind!

Magnetic!

I-87 NB Rest & Litter and JOE 87-25
Two quick park and grabs. the NB Rest & Litter could host a CITO event, the area itself looked like a dump! The JOE series stands for Just Off Exit which we thought was interesting!

Two Parks and a Power Line

We continued our geocaching onslaught on May 11th. This time we decided to check out the caches in a park in West Plattsburgh!

Camera Cache
Not long after Zoey and Zaiden got done playing at the park we ventured off to the nearby caches. The first cache is called Camera Cache because it consisted of a camera for cachers to document their visit to the cache. At least, it use to. Now the cache just has the pictures that were developed from the first camera that resided in the cache. This fact didn't make it any less fun to find.

Look at those handsome cachers!

Hill Side, Hill Cache, Hill Top Cache
After finally locating the trail head we started toward the first cache. The recent weather did a number since there was several downed trees. Twenty minutes later we were at the GZ for the first cache. Justin ended up finding this one which was very well camouflaged. We decided to drop off one of our geocoins here and continue on.

 The next cache was another example of doing things the hard way. We exited the trails onto a power line and followed the sand path up the hill for a bit until we found that we needed to bushwhack our way to the next cache. After a few minutes of making our way through thick foliage my mother found the next one. It was after we finished signing the log and trading swag that we noticed the other nearby power line ran right next to where it was located. Hind sight and all!

I walked right over this one!

The last cache in the series of hill related name caches was not far from where the two power line trails met. There was all sorts of fun things nearby too like "don't ride your atvs here" and "keep them atvs outta here fool" signs all over. I don't think they like atvs. Anyway this cache was also cleverly hidden and Colette was the one to find it. The placing of this was also fairly inspirational and we'd like to use a similar idea ourselves in the future.

Jport's Cumberland Micro

After enjoying ourselves we had a little time left to try for other nearby caches. I thought a new set of eyes might make this DNF go away. After reading all the logs and hints we finally found it. We had visited this cache multiple times and I was very excited to finally have the smiley on it!

Finally got you, you little bugger!