Monday, January 21, 2008

King's Chair Hike

I took the evening off since the kids were off and decided to hike to the King's Chair Geocache in OMSP and find it since none of us had found it. On the way there we ran into Gubbool coming down the hill. Gubbool is the caching name of a local Geocacher and temporary resident of OMSP. He informed us that he had just hidden a cache and would gladly take us there to let SugarPie, my Geocaching daughter, get her first FTF(First To Find) on a Geocache. So he turned around and took us on up the mountain.

He was able to help SugarPie get her first FTF and she was very excited about that. The cache was at an amazing spot in OMSP and offered a great view of the valley between the two ranges. Now it was on to the King's Chair. It was good that Gubbool was with us because it became quickly obvious that the coordinates for King's Chair were not in my gps. Gubbool however led us straight to it and MamaCacher and SugarPie quickly found the cache. MamaCacher signed the log for all of us and Gubbool passed out Pop Tarts to the kids. They really like Gubbool now.
We spent some time taking pictures and admiring the scenery before heading back to the van. It was at this point we discovered that I had dropped my jacket somewhere in the woods on the way to the chair. It was getting dark and so Gubbool offered to let us hike back the way of the trail and he would go the route we took coming in to find my jacket. We made it back to the van before dark and about 10 minutes later we see a dark form coming down the mountain. It is Gubbool with my jacket.

Everything turned out good that evening, thanks to Gubbool, even though we tried to mess it up more than once. Below is a short video I took of the view. Don't bother with trying to figure out why your sound doesn't work because it doesn't have any sound.