Kiamichi Caching

We've had the opportunity to do a little caching in Kiamichi country lately. I used to travel to Poteau, OK. usually at least once a month and have recently started again. Poteau and the surrounding area has quite a few nice places to visit as well as beautiful scenery.
On 29th of April my seven year old played hookey from school and accompanied me on a little trip. We were first to find on a couple of caches in Monroe but our favorite of the day was Old Frisco Trail - Forgotten Trestle by Kiamichi Muskrat. It was hidden on an awesome little bridge that was once part of the old frisco rail line and is now converted to a walking trail.

Our most recent adventure in Kiamichi country involved an afternoon hunt for theCLB's Secret Stache by theCLB. We had previously DNF'd this cache due to being unable to find the right road (reason #214 why I want a GPS with a map on it!) and after being lost for quite some time we gave up. When we started our hunt this second time we ended up lost in the same area. But after awhile and some keen navigating by my wife we found our destination. It was a short walk from the parking area to where the cache was hidden and imagine our surprise when we were greeted by a beautiful waterfall! It was such a wonderful little out of the way spot and is the type of cache that reminds you why you started caching in the first place. It's kind of funny when I think about it but had we never gotten started in this game that would be one memory that our family would have never been able to share together. I love this game!!!

I forgot to add in my previous post that I planted a letterbox in Clarksville during our trip. They have a lot of amazing caches there so hopefully our box "Doolin's Stash" will be a good addition for all of us that letterbox also.

Caching in the Ozarks

It's been awhile since I updated anything. I'm still getting accustomed to this site and while I have a lot more to learn I believe I like it better.
We recently attended the Clarksville or Cacheville, You be the Judge event in Clarksville of course. We had a wonderful time. We stayed from Friday the 18th until retuning home on Tuesday the 22nd. We hunted quite a few of the many creative caches here. That city is like the perfect storm when it comes to caching.

After the breakfast event on Sunday we made our way to the GCG0P0 Glory Hole cache. It was absolutely amazing! While hiking along the creek we were treated to several smaller waterfalls. I love finding older caches also. It's fun to read through the logbook recounting the adventures of other cachers who have visited in the past. I did note that while we do well in recording our adventure in our online log I've sadly been very lazy about writing in the logbook. Learn as you go I guess. I plan on doing much better in the future.

I've been in the process of replacing or removing all our caches. I really want ours to be real quality that cachers enjoy finding. So far I haven't really achieved that but I think with the new ones we place will be enjoyable for everyone that hunts them. They will be more difficult but I think in our area that won't matter much at all.

We're still enjoying all our other activities like Letterboxing and Terracaching. So much to do and so little time. It's a blast!