We returned to search for the elusive geocache for a second time. It was a good thing I was able to get a hint from the person who placed the cache, as my GPS was 77m off! Still, we had fun exploring all the rock outcrops throughout the area... 

Doug and Tanya at a rockshelter. I worked at this site 9 years ago as an archaeology volunteer. 

Another view of the rockshelter 

Tanya and Doug examine graffiti scrawled on the walls, both historic and modern in origin 

Success! Adam finds the cache... 

Action shot of Adam retrieving the cache box, and bringing it down for us to examine 

Unfortunately the cache box was cracked, and its contents soaked... but we still enjoyed the adventure nevertheless. 

My family was kind enough to indulge in my searching for two geocaches, one of which was near where John and Vicki live in Reno. This cache was located in a canyon that was reputedly haunted. We didn't find any ghosts here, nor did we find the cache on our first visit. Luckily it was close enough that we were able to return again on the following day...

This is a photo of my Dad taken from the same spot on our second visit to find the cache. Note the snow left over from the previous evening's storm. 

Vicki searches for the cache site 

I hurry to find an item to leave in the geocache container, as "muggles" (non-geocachers) close in on our location. 

Climbing the mountain in search of our second geocache, in the vicinity of Virginia City. This cache was in a scenic spot that overlooks a historic railroad line 

Dad at the top of the mountain 

Vicki at the geocache, inspecting the contents 

Near the geocache... The scenery here reminded my father of the old Cowboy and Indian movies...

That's it for the pics. I have some video clips that I might try to post as well.

Are you kidding me? C'mon...

This morning I returned again to a geocache I had trouble finding yesterday. My GPS led me to a point in a nearby town that was next to an outdoor electrical box. There was a large breaker box on one side of a wooden support, and a smaller one on the ground on the other side. Upon closer inspection, the smaller electrical box did not appear to have a wire coming out of it. I tried to twist it to open, but it didn't budge. A screwdriver was necessary to open the box. I wasn't 100% sure that this electrical box was a geocache, and I wasn't going to try to open it up with a screwdriver in any case. I thought, nah, this can't be it, and gave up.

When I got home, I e-mailed the person who placed the cache and found out that lo and behold, that was the cache after all. Personally I don't think placing a geocache in a disguised electrical box is the best idea in the world, and if I find another of these I will have to log another "did not find". Sorry guys, prying into electrical boxes just isn't my thing. Yikes.

Guess I'm not savvy enough yet to find all of these geocaches. Here are more examples of camoflagued geocaching containers that I dug up on the geocaching.com website:

The top of this PVC pipe unscrews to reveal a hidden cache container 

Apparently this is a bunch of sticks and leaves glued together to camoflague a cache container 

A "cowpie" cache 

One of these bricks is a fake