Shinob Kibe PaintbrushCache Maintenance: Shinob Kibe Cache by Astounding (That's me, of course! *smile*)
Benchmark Visited: Airway Beacon 37B or HO00622 of the Los Angeles to Salt Lake City Airway route (circa 1930)
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Saturday, 05 March 2005
Between 4:30 PM and 6:00 PM MST (-0700)

With the weather so nice (it was cloudy and overcast, but not raining, and the temperature was nice and cool), I had to get out and go hiking somewhere. But where? I recalled having read a recent cache entry mentioning that my Shinob Kibe Cache had some junk in it, so I decided to go replenish the cache -- a perfect solution to my hiking needs.

On my way...

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You don't know how grateful I was for the telephone call from my little brother was this afternoon. The afternoon was waring on and I had not been outside once, and it was a beautiful day. I was dying for an excuse to go for a short hike, to get outdoors, to...

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'The Wave' - Tuesday, 29 October 2002Virtual Cache:The Wave

The Wave is a spectacular sandstone formation on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the beautiful and rugged Paria Canyon - Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area, several miles south of U.S. Highway 89, about half-way between Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona, located in northern Arizona near the Utah-Arizona border.

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Approaching Mollie's Nipple from the SouthCache Maintenance: Mollie's Nipple Cache in Hurricane by Astounding (that's me) and The Desert Fox (that's my father) - Re-found at around 2:15 P.M. MDT (-0600)
New Cache Found: On the Way Home by The Bracken Family - Found at about 3:30 P.M. MDT (-0600)
Revisited Cache: Three Falls Overlook by Baby Blue and the Bandit - Re-found at 4:01 P.M. MDT (-0600)
Cache Hunting With: My youngest brother, Percible
Saturday, 10 April 2004 - 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM MDT (-0600)

When your job keeps you indoors all day, by the time the weekend comes, if you're like me, you can't wait to get out and enjoy some fresh air, sunlight, and scenery. Since came over to Hurricane, Utah to visit my family (that's where my parents live, with one of my brothers and two of my sisters), this morning I took it upon myself to convince someone to go with me on a caching adventure.

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We found the cache!Cache Visited: Trail of the Padres? by k-9kween
Saturday, 27 March 2004 - Late Afternoon, perhaps 5:00 or 6:00 PM MST (-0600)

Congratulations, Percible! (That's my brother's Geocaching nickname.)

For my brother's birthday this year, my family got together and pooled our resources to buy him a new eTrex Vista G.P.S. receiver. I think he likes it. So of course we had to try it out before the sun went down.

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1^st Cache Visited: Cody's pee canyon ( AKA Dutchmans wash ) sometime after 12:00 PM MDT (-0600)
Travel Bug Picked Up: Megan's Lizard at Cody's pee canyon ( AKA Dutchmans wash )
2^nd Cache Visited: Glass Mine at 1:53 PM MDT (-0600)
3^rd Cache Visited: Bigfoot Was Here! at 2:52 PM MDT (-0600)
4^th Cache Visited: Fort Pierce at 3:55 PM MDT (-0600)
Travel Bug Dropped Off: Megan's Lizard at the Fort Pierce cache
5^th Cache Visited: BEDROCK at sometime around 4:30 PM MDT (-0600)

Saturday, 17 January 2004

Ah, what a perfect Southern Utah winter day for cache hunting! The weather outside was cool, but not cold, just perfect, and the sun was shining brightly. That's what I was thinking that morning, so I called up my brother (cache nickname: Percible) in Hurricane to see if he wanted to go cache hunting with me. He did.

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Event Cache Missed: Southern Utah Meet Your Fellow Cachers by the Veltkamp Brats

Curses, foiled again by my own foolish ignorance!

A week ago today, at 8:00 AM I missed out on a fun event cache, all because I haven't been visiting www.geocaching.com for some time now. It sounds like the Southern Utah Meet Your Fellow Cachers event cache was a blast! I wish I'd participated. *sigh*

I'm glad it turned out so well! Hopefully I'll get a chance to meet the Veltkamp Brats and many other Southern Utah cachers (and cachers from all over the state as well) another time.

-Astounding
St. George, Utah

Top of the World Travel Bug Visits St. George, Utah1^st Cache Visited: Travelers Rest at 3:30 PM MDT (-0600)
2^nd Cache Visited: Relax on the Virgin at 3:55 PM MDT(-0600)
3^rd Cache Visited: Sheer Beauty later in the evening
Travel Bug Dropped Off: Top of the World at the Relax on the Virgin cache
Saturday, 20 September 2003 - 3:30 PM MDT (-0600) and 3:55 PM MDT (-0600)

With the Top of the World travel bug burning a hole in my pocket ever since I picked it up two weeks earlier in the Virgin Gorge #4 I-15 Rest Stop/ cache, I knew I needed to get outside and go cache hunting. And thanks to utahtim, there was a nearby cache, Relax on the Virgin that I hadn't yet found, one I'd intended to visit earlier this month, but had never got around to it. Since I'd promised to drop off the travel bug and not hold on to it for too long, I had the perfect excuse to go cache hunting.

On my way, I dropped by my friend's house to see if...

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After just over a week of web site downtime, my site is at last back up, all data restored! All this due to some corruption of the RAID-5 array when I moved the four drives from the Athlon 700MHz machine to a new Athlon 2600+ machine. For a bit, I was worried that I'd lost some of my data, including some of these web site postings. Fortune has smiled on me, and so far, all my data appears intact, though it has been a rough week trying to figure out ways to recover it.

Next, I need to get my mail server running again. Once that's done, I then need to figure out where I'm gonna stash the new server box. Right now it's sitting out in the middle of my living room amidst the clutter of torn-apart-computers (yes, I've had several open, guts strewn across the room) and shipping packaging. I wish I had a good server closet.

Cache Visited: Virgin Gorge #4 I-15 Rest Area
Travel Bug Dropped Off: Fruitty Tutti
Travel Bug Picked Up: Top of the World
Saturday, 6 September 2003 - 8:00 PM MDT (-0600)

You see, it's like this. The Fruitty Tutti travel bug I picked up yesterday, while a friendly little thing, was chomping at the bit all through the night last night and all day today, prodding me to take it somewhere so it could continue it's journey, to see more of the world. Now I really wanted to oblige, since cache hunting was something I hoped to do today. But by 7:00 PM, I hadn't yet had a chance to go cache hunting. And to make matters worse...

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