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We had planned to hike up to the Bucegi plateau on Sunday but, after 2 days of heavy rains in our area and 30 fresh centimeters of snow on the mountain top, yesterday morning found us looking at plan B, C, D... and so on. We finally decided on an activity that would keep us below 1400 m altitude. If you look at this news report you will see we were probably wise where others were not.
So, we set off to do some Geocaching in the area, looking for those moderately accessible caches that we would have probably ignored on any other day.
With a good mix of hikers, meaning myself, Dea, Hapa and Quicksilver (I have to get myself a callsign, all the cool kids have them), we found the first one within the 1st hour or so. Having turned the new guys into believers, who now knew geocaches DO exist, we turned our attention to the next one. It was all very good fun, despite the tons of mud left over after two days of rain.
We already felt pretty successfull as we'd found two geocaches fairly quickly so we decided there was still time for another one. To make things more interesting we decided to hike for 3-4 km up to the 3rd one instead of taking advantage of the fact that it was car accessible via forest dirt road. All was good and well as we entered the clearing where the cache was hidden. The GPS read 412 m to target as its battery died. We had nothing but an aproximate heading and a very big distance so despite our efforts to make use of maps, compasses and traditional means of orientation, the search for our 3rd geocache proved fruitless.
Despite our failure to find the last cache we were feeling quite happy with all the cardio workout we got and with everything we'd seen. We spent a few more minutes in the clearing, taking another hundred pictures and we made our way back to the car we had left in town near the Sinaia monastery.
A great day all in all, one that I look forward to repeat.
Photos from the day via Facebook can be seen in my Geocaching Sunday album.
The picture associated with this post is an HDR generated photo of the Caraiman cross taken from Poiana Stanii.
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