Random Lunacy

I woke up Monday morning to a notification of a cache being published down south of me, in North Bend. It looked like it should be a fairly easy find, but I pretty much assumed someone else would have gotten the FTF (First To Find) before I could manage to get down there... but as the morning progressed, I checked back and it was still unfound. Well, it was getting on toward lunchtime and I had a bit of free time, so I hopped in the car and headed out for North Bend, which is always an incredibly pretty drive and worth doing even without the lure of a possible FTF.

I got to GZ (Ground Zero) and spotted the cache right away, despite it being very cleverly camouflaged (seriously, this is the sort of cache that I never would have found in my first year or so of caching... but I've got enough experience now that it stood out like a beacon). A really nice container that just didn't want to open! It was pouring rain, so I hopped back in my car and worked on trying to open it for a bit longer, finally emailing the cache owner to make sure there wasn't a trick to it that I should be trying to figure out and that it really was just stuck. About this point, I remembered I had a toolkit in the back, got out some pliers that gave me much better leverage and I finally got the lid open! I pulled out the logbook... and it was blank! Sweet! First to find!! I put the cache back where I found it and then walked up the road a little bit to snap this shot of ( Mount Si in the fog and rain. )

Crossposted from my Livejournal.