We headed back to the state park. We drove out of the trees and out onto a stretch of highway surrounded by a particularly large, flat field. It took me about 15 seconds to realize that this was the lake, frozen!
And out on the lake were a bunch of guys para-skiing, or something like that, I don't remember exactly what they called it.
We found where they had parked and hesitantly made our way out onto the ice. We didn't fall in, although apparently you're not supposed to walk onto ice off of a pier because they get warm in the sun and melt the ice thinner than on a shore. Who knew?
I found some weeds and included my toe in the shot to demonstrate that I wasn't just walking on an icy parking lot.
We departed from the kite-skiers and Mark's device identified a nearby cache site. We went over to the Sunken Garden Trail and tromped off into the snow. The last time I was on this trail with A. we had to cover our heads and run to avoid the swarms of flies. By Sunken Garden they really mean "swamp". But in the ice and snow it was much nicer. It took us a few minutes to spot the geocache, and a lot more minutes to get to it, and even longer to get it back. I don't want to ruin the surprise, but let's just say that I have some concerns over erosion for that location.
Here's a close up of where it was hidden.
That geocache looks like you probably had to really work at getting it out. We try to grab those "swamp" caches too in the winter.
ReplyDeleteWell yes, but not actually because of the frozen swamp. The freezing weather helped in getting through the swampy bits, but it didn't help with the part where you have to climb up the steep, snowy, rocky slope, hammer the iced in ammo box out of position, lose your footing, and slide back down to the trail amid a combination avalanche rockslide of your own creation.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I mean by "concerns about erosion".
And thanks for the comment, random internet person!