Extreme Geocaching

A trio of caches has been on Southern Man's list for some time but were not suitable for his usual between-jobs jacket-and-tie attire but today he went to work in boots and jeans with a mind to tackling those on the way to an evening exam.

The first was straightforward but well protected.

Mother Goose guards a nest of eggs near the cache tree.

The second cache site was equally picturesque...

That cottonwood tree is a good fifty feet tall...

And there's the cache container, about thirty feet up.

Most of the large branches had been recently trimmed right to the trunk, making it a very tough climb. This was, hands down, the most difficult cache Southern Man has ever attempted. Truth is, he's kind of lucky to be in one piece.

Yes, even more challenging than his very first geocache - at the bottom of The Well Of Madness!

And number three required a pipewalk...

And there's a perfectly good bridge right there, too...

To the middle of the river!

Southern Man stares into the abyss.

And that is what geocaching is all about.