About a month ago I started trying out this thing I've heard about before and maybe you have too...geocaching. I think I saw an article about it in the same magazine that I found the donut recipe in, while waiting for hours in the ICU waiting room. If you want to try it out go to www.geocaching.com. So when the weather started getting nice in March, I tried it out. I printed out lots of coordinates for geocaches in my area and the Alton area. I started at Gordon Moore on the same day I got my cortisone shot in my shoulder (which did nothing for me fyi). There are 3 geocaches in Gordon Moore, placed by the same person. I started with one that was across the lake in the wooded area, shown by my gps. From where I stood near the bridge it looked to be a long trek through the woods, so I thought I might take a shortcut. I moved my car over by the road off to the side where the army tank used to be...I wonder what they did with that thing?? I set off by myself in the woods close to 140 on what I thought was a shortcut....WRONG!! I went through so many thorn bushes and had so many leaves and debris in my hair it wasn't funny. I did finally find the geocache in a tree next to the corn field on the edge of the woods by the lake. 
This is what I found. The rules are: you sign your screename and date on the notepad. If you take anything out, you have to put something in of equal or greater value. There were just random trinkets in there, so I didn't take anything.
I set my gps to the next coordinates and found the trail I should have taken, which went between the end of the lake and a smaller pond next to it, which you can see from 140. Walked past a fisherman who didn't seem too disturbed to see me walking by myself, not fishing, in the woods. The next geocache is somewhere on or near that veranda seat overlooking the lake. So I hiked back through some woods, across the lake, up the hill to the wooden seats. The clue said look high and low...I couldn't find anything, and there were people constantly walking by so I looked like a freak. I set my gps for the last geocache which was back across the lake, and is somewhere down the hill in the woods next to the plastic animals. I saw lots of trash and litter, but nothing that was an official container, and 2 teenage girls playing around on the animals made me not stay lurking in the woods too long. I'll go back sometime with other people so I have some witnesses to establish that these things are nowhere to be found. Everyone on the website said they were easy finds: yeah right. More to come...
This is what I found. The rules are: you sign your screename and date on the notepad. If you take anything out, you have to put something in of equal or greater value. There were just random trinkets in there, so I didn't take anything.
I set my gps to the next coordinates and found the trail I should have taken, which went between the end of the lake and a smaller pond next to it, which you can see from 140. Walked past a fisherman who didn't seem too disturbed to see me walking by myself, not fishing, in the woods. The next geocache is somewhere on or near that veranda seat overlooking the lake. So I hiked back through some woods, across the lake, up the hill to the wooden seats. The clue said look high and low...I couldn't find anything, and there were people constantly walking by so I looked like a freak. I set my gps for the last geocache which was back across the lake, and is somewhere down the hill in the woods next to the plastic animals. I saw lots of trash and litter, but nothing that was an official container, and 2 teenage girls playing around on the animals made me not stay lurking in the woods too long. I'll go back sometime with other people so I have some witnesses to establish that these things are nowhere to be found. Everyone on the website said they were easy finds: yeah right. More to come...
