Gorged

What a great weekend! The weather was perfect and I spent it doing fun things with fun people :)

Saturday I went geocaching with someone who had never gone before. It was a lot of fun hiking and exploring, but it would have been even better had we found a cache. We looked for three of them, but came up empty handed on all of the them.

I'm worried that the problem might be my GPS. This was the first time I used it for geocaching, and I find it hard to believe that it wouldn't lead us to at least one of the caches. But the clues on the cache pages weren't matching up to where we were looking either, which is what is making me wonder. I don't want to log a DNF saying that the container wasn't there if we weren't even looking in the right place, so I want to go looking for another cache and see what my GPS does there. Either that, or borrow my brother-in-law's GPS and see if they match up on a location. I'm just hoping it was just a bad day of caching and the problem isn't with the GPS.

Again, we had fun hiking - but I was really disappointed that I wasn't able to share the fun of actually finding a cache with someone who was caching for the first time :( Hopefully we will have better luck next time.

Sunday was spent hiking in the Niagara Gorge. We went down at the Devil's Hole entrance, so the only bad part of the day was traversing the 410 steps down and then back up again... It was so totally worth the agony tho' :) It was a picture perfect day - too bad I didn't remember to bring my polarizing filter... too many of the pictures I took were washed out, but I still managed a bunch of decent ones.

It's so much better seeing the beauty of the Niagara River up close, instead of from along the rim of the gorge :)

With no rain the past couple of weeks, the trails were nice and dry!

That being said, I didn't think I would see many of these guys - but they were all over the place. This is a red-banded millipede, which is the largest millipede in our area - they can get up to 4" long.

How can you beat this on a September Sunday afternoon?

I put this together using six separate pictures. It's down by The Whirlpool. I thought it turned out pretty good :) If you double click on the picture, you should get a bigger version.

We hiked from Devil's Hole upstream to a little past the Whirlpool. Next time we are going to start at the Whirlpool entrance and head upstream from there.

OCD?

So when I woke up yesterday morning, the sun was shining and the birds were singing.

Too bad it was because I woke up an hour and a half late. Someone forgot to set her alarm the night before.

Fortunately, I was still able to get the garbage out and get to work on time. Last night I checked the alarm about five times before I went to sleep to make sure I set it. Does that count as OCD?

I'm gearing up for an exciting, action-packed weekend. If everything goes according to plan, it will involve hiking and geocaching both Saturday and Sunday. I haven't gone geocaching since my old GPS died and I bought my new one. I can't believe it's been so long :(

For those of you who like to hike, Parks & Trails New York has a new page on their website - it's a Trail Finder for more than 1,200 miles of multi-use trails in New York. You can search for trails for walking, biking, horseback riding - even snowmobiling. I think that it's a really good resource for people who like to hike and don't know a lot of what's available in the area or state.

I thought this was an interesting video... I'm not too sure about the editing, but it's definitely entertaining and an original idea - What a lot of work!