Skyline Wilderness Park
The Magellan SporTrak Color GPS receiver said that the geocache at Skyline Wilderness Park in Napa Valley, California was 2,562 miles from home. The park is a private sector operation and the land is leased from the State. The Park is open to hikers, bicyclists and horseback riders. There are a large number of trails […]
View From The 49th Floor
The 6:25 AM train ride to Grand Central Station was uneventful, although I have to admit that it was hard not to think about the possibilities on this September 11. A short walk lead to the security desk at JP Morgan Chase on Park Avenue. Then a bag check (no temperature was taken as in Singapore) and up to the 49th floor […]
End Of Summer: Cache Found
Geocaching is definitely habit forming. The first hike to find the Tobyhanna Lake Trail Cache ended in failure as previously described. It would have been easier to just forget about it, but that was not to be. Knowing that others had found the cache made me feel I should be able to find it too. […]
Cache Not Found
This sounds like a Windows error (of which there are plenty) but in actuality it is the outcome of my second geocaching expedition. Conditions were nearly perfect — blue sky, slight breeze, 75 degrees, DEET (N,N-diethyl-m toluamide) sprayed on skin, water bottles full, and latitude/longitude from geocaching.com loaded into Garmin GPS receiver. The Tobyhanna Lake […]
Hiking Log
Home (main blog) > Hobbies > Hiking > Hiking Log In recent years I have come to appreciate hiking, even though I have had no training and haven’t even read anything about it. Just putting one foot in front of the other seems to work — and it is a lot of fun and good […]
