Yesterday Beth and I took a a short hike to visit our geocaches. Hers had been reported as somewhat vandalized, and I wanted to drop a travel bug in mine. The vandalism to hers was not severe. Someone had found it and scattered the stuff in it around. The cacher who reported this could not find the a log book. So we went there with a new log book, and hid the cache somewhere else. We need to add more toys to it though.
Then we quickly made a visit to my cache. I dropped the travel bug in it, and also emptied all the trade items and arranged them in a pose.
I don’t know which if these guys is Little Cohas. We bushwhacked to the cache (that is the only way to get there), but from a different direction this time. On the way, we saw a log crossing Little Cohas Brook, and from the other side of the creek, it was only 50 feet or so to the railroad tracks. So we crossed the log.
Beth went first. Penny went last, but she decided to swim across. It was much easier going that way, because there is a trail that dumps out onto the railroad tracks.
We went home and I got cleaned up a bit. Va and I had tickets to see the Granite State Symphony Orchestra (compliments of my employer). They performed three songs, one of which I am well familiar with, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Russian Easter Overture. I especially enjoyed that one. Va liked that las piece they performed, Tchaikovski’s Fourth Symphony. I may have liked that one better had I been familiar with it, and I guess that says something about me.
The next morning we had a Pathfinder meeting, and we resumed work on the cardboard boats. Here’s where we left them:
I need to bring in a second set of sawhorses to put the kayak on. It’s hard to work on it on the table (can’t get the rope beneath it very handily). I am very well pleased with the progress of the kayak. If we pull this off (and it looks like we will), I am convinced it will be the fastest boat in the competition in May.
March 25, 2012 at 10:14 pm
The boats are looking pretty good! Too bad some one had to vandalize a cache, I doubt if it was a serious geo-cacher. I did that for a while, it was fun, but other things called.
March 25, 2012 at 10:19 pm
I’m pretty sure it was not a regular geocacher. More likely, it was a camper (when we went there we found a tent pitched nearby). From the amount of beer bottles we find near that spot, I’d say most of the camp-outs are more partying than camping.
I have to stop by boat-building central in the morning to clean up our mess a little better. I hate to leave a mess like that, but I can’t really do too much about it while the glue is drying.
March 26, 2012 at 6:27 am
It sure bothers me that folks are so unthinking leaving the remnants of the party’s scattered about as they do. The alcohol consumption decreases their thinking I am sure. Petitions going around here to make our county wet. Bah humbug on that. Good for business is the push. On to better things. The boat building has to be a bunch of fun for the kids. The cleanup should be an important part of that for them to.
March 26, 2012 at 10:06 am
I’m a big believer in making the kids do the cleanup, and normally that’s what we do. But that was next to impossible this time. Cleanup consisted of moving the boats out of the middle of the floor and taking up the tarps. I had to allow time for the glue to dry before taking up the tarps, otherwise they would have dripped glue on the carpet. It was a five minute job this morning.
March 26, 2012 at 10:39 am
I figured as much. Not sure why I mentioned it. I suppose because I have found so much discarded cans, wrappers and such at public boat ramps lately. Those folks must never have been taught to clean up after having a get together.
March 26, 2012 at 10:48 am
I’m also heartbroken over all the littering that goes on at the camping/partying site. I wish they wouldn’t party there at all, but if they just have to, they really ought to clean up their mess. I expect I’ll go out there in the next couple of weeks with a wagon and some garbage bags.
March 26, 2012 at 8:57 pm
The biggest culprits for vandalizing the caches my brother and I have placed throughout the Beech Creek area are varmints. Seems bears and the like love to see what’s inside those nice containers. Not too many of the two legged variety messing with our caches. They’d have to work too hard to get to them. “:D”
March 26, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Perhaps they were log eating varmints. 😉
March 26, 2012 at 9:23 pm
Good one! 😀
March 26, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Do you seal the cardboard with something to try to prolong its life by maybe a few extra minutes, or is that against the rules? Is the purpose length of time in the water?
March 26, 2012 at 9:39 pm
Oh yes. We will paint it with house paint when it’s done. That is specifically allowed. We are not allowed to use an epoxy-based coating of any sort though (which rules out fiberglass).
Before we paint it, we will cover at least the joints with drywall tape, affixing it with wood glue. Warran is overseeing the canoe (I’m overseeing the kayak), and he will probably want to cover the entire surface of the canoe with drywall tape. I think it’s only necessary for covering the joints.
I will continue to document the progress as it comes along.