Sunlight and Cold...
Oregonians are more affected by light than by cold and I think I have the proof. I know that there's lots of talk about seasonal affective disorder, where lack of light can create fatigue and depression, but I was surprised by the evidence of people "activated" by the recent week's sunny weather.
You may remember that we hid a GeoCache last year, and people find it periodically, but in just 2 days this last week, 5 people found it.
People must have seen the strange light from the mysterious orb in the sky, remembered suddenly what sunlight was like, and headed irrationally out for summer activities, even though the temperatures were in the 30s.
I recently harvested the camera from our cache, and you should go look at the fine specimens and total cuties that visited our cache in the last 9 months.
Not that we're any better. Anne Marie got me a new GPS receiver for our anniversary and so we were all out "digging" for caches recently as well. This picture of Lauren is from a park we visited to find a cache, where Lauren found a cool playground toy.
Did you hide the cache in the Eugene/Springfield area or out near Elmira? I found the cities to be flooded with caches when I was playing the sport two years ago. It was fun having so many chances to play so close to home but when it came to hiding them, it was terribly difficult to stay the minimum distance away from other ones but still end up being in an appropriate spot. Don't get me started on the one(s?) hidden out by the airport!
I can't remember the real name of the cache but have you found the "pinecone" one yet? That was my local favorite.
Comment by punkin dunkinr — 02/27/2006 7:50 AM