Half-Past Fun in the Woods, Part Deux

After an ignominious defeat at "Fun in the Woods" (GC8PWW0) on yesterday, Robgso (a.k.a. Old Bloody Rob), Fishdownthestair (a.k.a. Natalie), and ye olde dude resolved to return to the scene of the horror this morning. After failures here by a substantial number of seasoned geocachers (other than us), the cache owner, Skyhawk63 (a.k.a. Tom), and his dastardly partner in crime, Punkins19 (a.k.a. Linda), also decided to come out and check on the cache's coordinates and wellness. This bothered the rest of us not a whit, although Tom's tight-lipped demeanor while we hunted rivaled Natalie's at her worst (which is pretty beastly). Like yesterday, coordinates on all our devices proved bouncy as hell, yet when they deigned to stabilize for brief spells, they continued to point us to roughly the same localized area. At one point during our increasingly frantic search, Old Rob unwittingly jostled the cache, making it somewhat more visible, and a few minutes later, Natalie actually laid eyes on the thing. Lord have mercy, what a monster! (The cache, I mean, not Natalie — this time.)

I'd say the coordinates turned out reasonably good; it's just that they rarely keep still long enough to pinpoint a distinct GZ. To my mind, that's why this cache is so tough: you end up with a very big search area and, within it, a vast array of alluring hiding places.

So, at least for Natalie and me, that was around 3 hours on the hunt here. Finally, a hard-earned first-to-find for Old Rodan, Old Robgso, and Ol...er... Young Fishdownthestair at 10:00 a.m. Whew.

And there we have it: Half-Past Fun in the Woods, conquered!