In caching, there are always new caches being hidden in your area -- and it's a big rush to be able to get to these new caches before any of the other people in your area. Around the East Bay, it's about the Challenge Caches, which are used to designate a special recognition for getting all of the caches in one of the local regional parks. For GeoRedheads, we scored in Las Trampas, which is a set of hills with great sceneries, good vertical, and a great variety of terrain types -- one of our favorite local places to go get some hiking cardio in - Las Trampas is home to over 70 caches... lots of fun to find in the hills!
Anyway, had some extra time on a Friday afternoon, and managed to squeeze out the 4 caches -- just in time, right before the Alamogul, local international-class caching machine, and his partner in caching crime Jellis, hid and published 4 more caches... Literally, we signed the log on the final "Las Trampas Challenge" cache, and 3 more new released onto the web within hours. Had we waited a day, we would have had to chase those down too, adding many more miles to our trek - now, we can get them when we want to, with the challenge under our belts, on our own terms. And, had we waited to chase down those 3, 2 more were published shortly after that... the caching karma timing gods smiled upon us.
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