These picture were taken this morning by Richard at Decker Lake, near where we live. We had some freezing fog last night and left a wonderland.

The above is a picture of our latest pathtag, we had these made for the Christmas trade this year

Merry Christmas everyone!

Last weekend (Sunday) we hiked for about 4 hours in a snowstorm. Didn't take any pictures, since I wouldn't let Richard take the camera =O But, we were with a group and there are some good pictures posted here: GC21MDT

It was a blast! I had forgotten how much fun it was walking in the snow.

Our newest pathtag design.

Update to May of 2009

Here we are in the middle of May 2009. Wow! Time flies....



I'm working now and we don't have as much time to hike as we used to.



On Saturday, we will be going to a geocaching event in support of the Geocoin fest, which will be in SLC this year.

Richard took this picture while out caching last weekend. He's a great photographer =D

As much as we love to hike and cache, we have had to put it on hold for a while this summer, temperatures of 100+ degrees are a little too much for us. Although we have, in the past, not let it stop us =) W also have our doglet (Koh Koh) to think about. She has a hard time in the heat, we had her shaved for the summer, that helped a lot, but not enough for 100 degrees...
It's getting into the time of year where it will cool down....eventually.....
We did a hike, to a cache recently, though, that was fun (it happened to be a fairly cool day). A group was going to hike to a puzzle cache, the group included Landsharkz for Canada. They have a face to face "coin" for trading, so I really wanted to go and make a trade =D It turned out that they're coins didn't get to them in time for their trip, but, we made the trade anyway. We'll get theirs after they receive them.
The cache we went to was "Suspended Between Benchmarks" (GCGZP1) by MOCKBA. I have no chance at all of solving one of his puzzles =D and Top didn't want to take it on, so we logged it as a "note" rather then a "find". It was a lot of fun, especially seeing MOCKBA make to hike on crutches....he was injured in a car wreck not long ago. If you go to the logs, Cach-u-nuts posted a video on you tube of him making the climb. He has a lot of determination....
Also present were UtahJean, Caverspencer and his boys, Eltod, Rothstfari, ForrestC (Caverspencers brother) from Montana, StuckonWGS84, gotwings, also another representative from Groundspeak (I don't remember her name). I may have forgotten someone......
There was a dinner planned after the hike, but, we didn't want to leave Koh Koh in the car, so we skipped that part.

Caching leads us up mountains...

We started Geocaching in February of 2003.

Top had always wanted a Global Positioning System receiver, since he had used them in the Army (he is a retired Army 1st SGT). They finally went down in price enough for me to get him one for Christmas of 2002.

Our first several "finds" were easy urban ones. (The first one being "The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword" GC8A73 at Decker Lake, by Cache Crazy) We did quite a few that we had to drive a bit to get to, and some were long walks along the Jordan River Parkway. We spent a lot of time in the car and wandering around trying to follow Mr. Pointy, until we wised up and began looking at the MAPS, duh, before we went looking for the caches.

Then we decided to try some that were a bit more challenging = D

Our first "hikes" were to say the least, less than fun... I thought I would never want to do another after each one, but, we seem to be gluttons for punishment and kept going back for more.

At this point, I love hiking and would go every weekend if we could manage it =D