So when I began geocaching back at the end of June, I set a personal goal of finding and logging 50 geocaches by the end of July. It was a fun month, and I think I have really found a hobby that I can continue for years to come. Geocaching has motivated me to get out and discover places I would have never visited otherwise. It has also allowed me to spend more time with my kids, which is always a good thing. A few times either Kali or Aidan has wanted to go, but not the other, so it has created opportunities to spend time with them individually. They are growing up fast and I think we will all look back fondly on these geocaching times...not necessarily for the geocaching, but for the time together. Well, anyway...so number 50 was a milestone. I 
didn't want this to be a quick neighborhood cache. It had to be something more momentous. I had been eyeing ".50 Cal with a View", a cache up near the "thorn" or camel back hump above the Cove area. It required a hike to get to the top of the mountain, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to take Finny with me (the girls had school). Well, Finny was so excited he peed in the back of my truck on the way there. Thanks, Finny. It turned out to be a great hike...about 45 minutes to the top. I saw plenty of deer, hawks, a few squirrels, and a chubby little horned lizard that Finny wanted to eat for lunch. We passed a 
spooky abandoned shack to add some excitement. The view was impressive from the top. It was a little smoggy, but I could still see to Salt Lake City and the edge of the Great Salt Lake. There was also a great view of areas of the Oquirrhs I can't see from the Salt Lake Valley. Well, the cache itself was a little anticlimactic, as it was just a simple water bottle with a wrinkled piece of paper for the log. I guess a couple of years ago the original cache went missing, so someone improvised and used what they had with them. I will contact the person who created this cache and see if s/he needs me to place a new one there. I figure if someo
ne makes the trek to get to it, it might as well be something that at least looks official. Well, I took a few pictures at the top of me celebrating #50. I had to take my own pictures, so they had to be close-ups. Now that I have reached #50, I hope to be at least to #100 by the beginning of the summer next year, and I'll try for another 50 at that time. I have found that some caches are very simple to find (especially the LPC's or lamp post caches), and they take just a few seconds, so you can find and log several in an hour. Well, an hour like this to make it to the top of this mountain and spend some time out in nature to just log a single cache was far more worth it to me.
didn't want this to be a quick neighborhood cache. It had to be something more momentous. I had been eyeing ".50 Cal with a View", a cache up near the "thorn" or camel back hump above the Cove area. It required a hike to get to the top of the mountain, and I thought it would be a good opportunity to take Finny with me (the girls had school). Well, Finny was so excited he peed in the back of my truck on the way there. Thanks, Finny. It turned out to be a great hike...about 45 minutes to the top. I saw plenty of deer, hawks, a few squirrels, and a chubby little horned lizard that Finny wanted to eat for lunch. We passed a 
spooky abandoned shack to add some excitement. The view was impressive from the top. It was a little smoggy, but I could still see to Salt Lake City and the edge of the Great Salt Lake. There was also a great view of areas of the Oquirrhs I can't see from the Salt Lake Valley. Well, the cache itself was a little anticlimactic, as it was just a simple water bottle with a wrinkled piece of paper for the log. I guess a couple of years ago the original cache went missing, so someone improvised and used what they had with them. I will contact the person who created this cache and see if s/he needs me to place a new one there. I figure if someo
ne makes the trek to get to it, it might as well be something that at least looks official. Well, I took a few pictures at the top of me celebrating #50. I had to take my own pictures, so they had to be close-ups. Now that I have reached #50, I hope to be at least to #100 by the beginning of the summer next year, and I'll try for another 50 at that time. I have found that some caches are very simple to find (especially the LPC's or lamp post caches), and they take just a few seconds, so you can find and log several in an hour. Well, an hour like this to make it to the top of this mountain and spend some time out in nature to just log a single cache was far more worth it to me. 
