Placing Hairy's Summer Home

Placing Hairy’s Summer Home was quite an adventure.  A couple of weeks ago we got together with BS bunch for about 5 hours to design and paint what used to be a 50 caliber ammo box – had a GREAT time.  Then life took over for a while.  Last Wednesday we met BS bunch for a road trip, about 80 miles, to place the cache.  We visited a favorite cache Tortoise Hotel goes North on the way to allow Hairy – Where Ya Goin’ to log some miles before setting out from his summer home to travel the world.  Well, less than a mile from the spot where we intended to place the cache, our GPSr whacked out on us (internal error).  Of course, we had no backup with us.  Tried a few things to get it going again, but were unsuccessful.  KINDA DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN CACHE COORDINATES WITHOUT A FUNCTIONING GPSr.  We did some sight-seeing on the way back, took the grandsons to some places they had not been before.  Spent about 2 hours Thursday morning deleting cache files and updating firmware on the GPSr – SUCCESS!  Made a quick trip and placed the cache; stopped at the home of BS bunch on the way back and submitted the cache.  Crazy couple of days, not to mention the frustration – but everything worked out well.  Hairy’s Summer Home is now in place and Hairy – Where Ya Goin’ has left home to wander.  Oh Yeah – we have been caching twice since then, and the GPSr is still functioning properly.

IDIFers Information

We started Geocaching on 17 April 2005.  We decided to call ourselves IDIFers - a backsliding acronym for "Geocachers from Idaho Falls, IDaho.  We do most of our caching while traveling, giving us a chance to stop and stretch our legs.  Occasionally we take a day and cache.  Every now and then we take grandkids out for a few hours.  We both are trackable, as is our van.  We've spent a number of days documenting the location of family headstones back through 4 generations - 1 line completed, the other 3 are about 2/3 finished.  We have met a number of other geocachers, some in the field and some at events.

WHAT A GREAT FAMILY ACTIVITY!

Bears in Yellowstone Park

Bear above road

Bear below road

Bear asleep on tree

The weeekend of 21-22 May 2011 found us in Yellowstone Park with R's parents.  On Saturday, within 10 miles of Tower Junction, we saw 5 Black Bears!  Saw lots of other wildilfe along the way - including geese, ducks, elk, buffalo, swan, ravens, cranes.  Quite a bit of snow still in the eastern portion of the park. 

Oh yeah - we did a little caching, too.

Near Sheepeater Cliffs