Our First CITO Event.

First off on a side note: We have been battling cold’s lately. Scrappy’s sister had a baby girl about 6 moths ago and she goes to day care during the week. Well even though she is as cutie as a button. We are noticing that she is a breeding ground for germs of all kinds. It feels like every time we go over there to watch her or go play with her one of us get sick then it is quickly followed but the other one getting sick just as fast. Don’t get me wrong we love our little niece but WOW does she carry some powerful stuff, but it is worth it to watch her and play with her. Sorry for the little distraction now back to the show.

Well we went to our first CITO event at Harrington Beach State Park. Well we are getting over colds and we were looking forward to attending this event. So we got up early still feeling the cold a little. We loaded up the truck we volunteered to bring a grill so everyone could cook there lunch on it. We got there around 8:30 ish and there were people already there and ready to go. Once we unloaded the truck of the grill and we got our State park sticker. There was a wagon train of geocachers coming in. after a nice breakfast of sweet treats and coffee. We were grouped up with other cachers and assigned an area either a trail or beach or some other area. We got paired up with kmhikers, stillooking4it, and 2 members of Team S.A.D. we were assigned the trail that goes around an old quarry and is now a pond/lake.

So after we got our assignments we got all set up with garbage bags gloves and our GPS’r and anything else you wanted to carry. Me being the old Boy Scout I had a back pack fully loaded for bear. Extra garbage bags, extra gloves, first aid, tools (multi tool) and a bunch of other extra stuff. So after we loaded up and I snuck in a couple of quick pictures we were off. It was a blast to talk and listen to the others of geo adventures and there stats and just getting to know them. We came to find out this event was kmhikers 1000th find so a big congratulations goes out to them. One of theses days we will get there.

There were 3 geocaches located around this pond/lake. After walking and around and picking up mostly cigarette butts (glad we quit smoking a long time ago). We hit the 3 caches and talked and walked for a better part of the morning. Time seemed to fly when you are with a wonderful group of people.

 

 

We did find a large dump pile that we were able to get help cleaning the area up the had to be about 1 bag full of broken glass bottles and about 4 bags of metal and other garbage. So in total we had a great day. After this we went back to the staging area had lunch and talked to everyone and listened to more stories of geo adventures. We received our very first path tag. We have never received a path tag before so this was very cool for us. (Thanks again kmhiker). After lunch we cleaned up the building and said our goodbyes and we all headed our separate ways. I know Scrappy and I will be looking forward to seeing or hearing from others that we meet. Enjoy all the pictures.

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Scout