Saturday, March 5, 2011

Silver Star ~ FTF!

Went skiing at Silver Star today, and after seeing the new multi cache listed, couldn't resist going for the First-to-Find.

Since I wrote a lot for the log, and I'm tired I thought I'd just paste my log instead of rewriting it all again.

FTF
WOOT!!!

Today was the last day skiing with the school and, by chance, I checked Geocaching thinking that if there were any new caches since last I checked, I wouldn't want to miss them. 
Good thing I did. This was definitely a more enjoyable way to spend a day, skiing around, on easy trails, answering questions, before finally heading to the final. 

Upon getting my ski's I immediately went off for the first stage, the paw prints. Headed off, counted, and then down to the chair lift. Then I realized I had forgotten to grab my lift ticket from my teacher. Ooops. Thankfully I managed to make it up that time without getting checked. 

Once I had the lift ticket, I headed down to the comet again, off to do stage 2. While not necessary and not having a cellphone, I just took a picture of myself there. (Hopefully I'll remember to post it later)



Then off for the long ski to Stage 3. Just to realize I can't seem to reach it from the top of the comet. Headed down under the Attridge chair, and then up it. By the way, the Attridge chair has got to be the sketchiest and slowest chair around (aside from the green)
On top, I soon found the pole I was looking for, hiked up to it and got the number. 

Then I had to race back to make it to my lesson in time. Thankfully I did make it. 
After the lesson ended, I was stuck going all the way up the comet, across the top, down under Attridge, across the road and up Silver Queen, before I made it to Stage 4. There I did some quick counting. During which the Lift Attendant came out and asked what I was doing. I told him and he said I must be part of some scavenger hunt going on the day. :p

Now down to the Silver Woods side to grab the next info, up to the top, and writing down the number. Made it to the backside after some time involving cross country, uphill and restricted area. Saw the large structure, then raced back to the main building to report in for lunch and figure out final destination. 

Plugged in the co-ords and was racing all the way around back again. Came around the area of stage 7 and thought something must be wrong, as there was nowhere there to hide anything. Checking my GPS i realized I had only changed the waypoint name, but not the co-ords, so plugged in proper co-ords and was off. 

Had a little bit of time wandering around with skis, in the deep snow before finding the string. Pulled it up and YESSS!!!

Got my FTF. Lots of travelbugs and items in here. Took the FTF prize, thanks, and a bunch of trackables to move along. 



Overall good multi. Fun way to spend a day during the ski season, easy for beginner ski/boarders also. 
Thanks for the Cache!

Glad to finally have the chance to cache again. Winter is far to cold and miserable for very much fun caching opportunities.