Sean Hits 5000 Caches and gets an FTF!

July 23, 2011 – Just a great weekend from start to finish. Sean our good friend and fellow Geocacher drove 7 hours to come up to Red Bluff and do the Leap Frog Series. He finished that on Friday got a good nights sleep then met up with us to head north to the Apostle Series where there was still one left un-found after being published for a month. Well we packed up, loaded up and hit the trail. It is about an 60 or more mile trip up to the Ai-Di-Na Unpaved Road all the while picking up caches along the way and confirming with Sean “Just how many more do you have left until your 5000th cache?”

He was counting them down, 9, 8, 7 then we were down to 3 more. BIG BEAR had a brilliant idea… lets make the Geocache that has been un-found the 5000 find for Sean, that’s if we figured right and could find it. BIG BEAR had done the reconfiguring on it and felt it was off by one number on the coordinates, he is good with figuring those things out. And Sean was in total agreement, Sean doesn’t see much First to Find action in his neighborhood in Palo Alto. When something gets published the Geocachers are all over it. This would be his 4th FTF if we could pull it off. We were losing daylight, so we decided to head to the campground after finding 2 more and unpack our tents then head back up to search for the illusive Thomas Cache.

We did just that, unpacked the tents and the sleeping back and set up a quick camp. Loaded Sean into the GORF (our Great Off Road Fun vehicle) and set off back up the unpaved dirt road in search of Sean’s 5000th Cache!! About 10 minutes later we arrived at what we thought would be the likely area to search and in 5 minutes Sean had the cache in hand!!! WHOOO HOOO SEAN!!! Way to go!! Well we whooped and hollered and made a bunch of noise, broke open the glow sticks and congratulated Sean on his 5000th find and his 4th First to Find!!!!!!

SEAN HITS 5000 CACHES!!

I was honored to be a part of being on the hunt with Sean, we had a blast that day and into the night. We headed back to the campground after a signing the log and basking in the glory of such a fun achievement. When we got back to the campground Sean popped the cork on the Sparking Cider and we toasted to his accomplishment! BIG BEAR put together the biggest hamburgers I have ever seen and grilled them on the grill, we sat down and had a well deserved dinner. Then busted out the marshmallows and taught Sean how to roast them. He is from Ireland and had never had the opportunity before to roast marshmallows.

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