Day 1: Rainy GeoCache Hunt

Daisy and I woke up and it was raining, which is not a great start to our hiking senior project. However, we did not let the rain bother us in the slightest and we managed to get on the road before 10am, a bit ahead on our schedule. We arrived to Bow, NH, and that is when senior project really started.

After picking up some supplies for the next few days, Daisy and I visited the local library, which was overwhelming and way more exciting than it should have been. We spent about an hour and a half rummaging through the bookshelves, getting lost amongst the hundreds of titles, authors, and poets we want to read for the next few weeks. After double and triple checking with the librarians to make sure that we could take all the books (fortunately there is no limit on how many books a person can check out) we left the library with thirteen books.

In the afternoon we were feeling pretty brave and decided to head out to find geocaches around Concord (https://www.geocaching.com/play). Geocaches are these cool little boxes or bags hidden in the woods that people can find and sign, then leave for someone else to find. We thought this would be relatively easy, but turns out the geocaches are far smaller than we expected. We attempted to find some at four different locations, which was complicated considering that we were hiking in the rain looking for these tiny recipients that are camouflaged and hard to find. The hunt was very fun though and when we did find the geocache we were so excited we decided to keep looking. Unfortunately, we only managed to find 1/8 geocaches we looked for. We are getting better though, so keep checking out our blogs because we have a really good feeling about our geocaching skills. 

Some people leave cool things behind like this bright pink necklace that made it easier for us to find it. We now carry around a very cute fluffy stuffed bunny for when we find our next geocache. 

(PS enjoying my lollipop while geocaching).