X marks the spot

                                                

March 15, 2013 - A big day... have to park on the south side of Mt. Scott.... hike around to the north side, cross the refuge fence to get on City of Lawton property and then do 15 + 1 bonus Geocaches... not just any but the famous X marks the spot series... fifteen 5,5's ... oh boy... Took off early with Dave McDermott and Keith Mitchell from work and tackeled this puppy!

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Dave and I finding a cache on X marks the spot Each cache had a number on the bottom of it and when you got all 15 you had the cordinates to the bonus cache. Found a neat pair of deer horns (and skull) .... Lord Keith of the Deers presiding....
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Acutally pretty neat but we left it there for others to find. sometimes the best way to travel was by stream rather than cross country across forest and briars! each went a their own way trying to find the best way out sometimes...
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As it was...just a little further was an animal trail leading out.... Dave found briar! HA!! When we got to GZ (Ground Zero) we would each drop our pack at that point and start our search from that area. Of course...in the middle of the woods...lost... sigh...
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Keith putting ink to the logs and putting it back for another to find. Lots of varied terrian... thick woods and giant fields
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Keith taking a call in the middle of nature... phone call that is... Lunch after finding a booger of a cache... Back out for more!
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Keith and Dave The BONUS cache... course it was a mile away from where we started... sigh... The goods (or swag) inside the cache
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It was a LOOOONNNNGGG way back to the car... this just after we crossed back into the mountains side... we were pretty pooped out! Our entrance and exit to the cache area.... too fat to climb a 12 foot fence...I'll just belly under the stream bed crossing. Hello Mr. Longhorn! We started at 7 a.m. and finished at 4:10 p.m.
                                                

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