Bushwhacking

The recent post about the most memorable find got me thinking about some of the more memorable finds i had done and i think time and time again it comes down to the ones that i bushwhacked into the hard way. recently on sportsman01’s “just a cache” i noted in my log that everything i have learned about bushwhacking i learned from his caches and anybody that has done any of his will surly echo my comments. So when it comes down to it the two caches that i remember the most for bushwhacking experiences would have to be Sporty’s FLEUR de LIS and GOT A BOAT.

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FLEUR de LIS

April 5, 2009 by vbpad

First off FTF!!!!

Now this was one of the hardest caches I’ve had to go out and get but not because the cache was hard to find or that the “proper” Terrain was hard to cross but because of my own stupidity instead of taking the logging road i thought the stream bed might look like a nice trail to follow. yeah well that didn’t work out followed that for a little while just enough to realize i was going the wrong way and instead of head back and taking the right track i started bushwhacking. Big mistake. the snow in the woods is very soft and very deep 3 ft roughly so after slogging through 3 foot snow for 1km i finally reach the logging trail walked out to get the cache. signed the log and left the bad mojo geocoin (maybe carrying it along was my mistake HEHE). and walked back out so a supposedly 2 hour walk turned into a 4 hour cold wet hike. TFTH

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Now the next memorable cache would have to be off Davidson lake “Got a Boat?” Well i thought it would be much easier to hike in from the TCH as looking at the satellite photos should what appeared to be a cleared section and a nice straight approach to a cache i would normally not have the opportunity to go get. That was a bad idea instead of a nice clear area i was presented with a large expanse of wet swampy land dotted with those trees that grow out from a central core (tree people can supply a name for sure) So the entire hike/bushwhack was jumping from tree grouping to tree grouping and the couple of cleared and dry areas i did encounter was full of knee high raspberry bushes that didn’t like by bare legs at all.

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Got a Boat ?

July 9, 2009 by vbpad

So i decided i’d try to grab this Cache from the highway and if ever anybody decides that this is a good idea it isn’t the 3.4 km round trip was 3/4 swamp and 1/4 Thorn bushes so it was well deserved of the 5 terrain rating. after visiting the cache site i decided to see if kingpat and dotface were home but alas they weren’t then headed back through the hardest and wettest bushwhack. TFTH and the adventure!!

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needless to say I’ve learned a lot about bushwhacking and proper footwear/ clothing for bushwhacking. That’s not to say i won’t be stuck somewhere that i need to bushwhack and be unprepared again but i’ll at least say i’m smarter.