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Team No Dead Weight: Keeping our heads above water
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It’s been an interesting, tiring, mostly enjoyable weekend — from spending a
relaxing Friday evening/Saturday morning in Martinsville, where I encountered
barred owls, baby bunnies, martinis, and sushi; to spending Saturday evening
with Kimberly and friends Terry & Beth in Kernersville, with
all kinds of good food and wine (appropriately socially distanced, of course);
to riots downtown and gunfire outside the house late last night; to geocaching
in the gamelands near Pittsboro with Team No Dead Weight all day today.
This morning, friends Diefenbaker (a.k.a. Scott) and
Fishdownthestair (a.k.a. Natalie) met me on
Clark Poe Road, some ways southeast of Pittsboro near
Jordan Lake. There were a good many caches out there in the gamelands,
as well as a few near B. Everett Jordan Dam, which provided us with
many miles of fairly strenuous hiking (there aren't many trails in the
gamelands, and the bushwhacking is at times intense). After days and days of
rain, the water level is up just about everywhere, and there are areas we
hiked today where we about needed a boat.
I haven’t done any target shooting in ages, so I took my revolver along,
mainly to see if the old ammo I have would still fire. It fired. So if, God
forbid, there’s more shooting in the neighborhood, I should like to be able to
shoot back, if needed. I don’t imagine it will come to that.
Anyhoo, an exhausting but satisfying day. At the end of our outing, my total
cache count is now 11,878.
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View from the end of Clark Poe Road
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We suggested Natalie just swim to the cache, but she did not want to.
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Fast and high water in the New Hope River
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Water thunders out from below Everett B. Jordan Dam
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View from atop the dam
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