Weekend With BomberJohn

As this week was a vacation at work, I was able to go out to Leominster to spend this weekend with my dad, BomberJohn. On Saturday, with a little free time we found, we decided to finish up a multi that my dad had started with frf and Lloyd&Jess. This multi was the Tour de Fitchburg (GCV1A7). In order to find the final, the numbers of the years found at a few nearby stages had to be munipulated to find the cordinates to the final leg. With the final set of cords, we headed out to find the cache. It turns out that the cache was actually planted in an area where we have previously found a cache. (Writing this the day after, it looks like the owner decided to drop a GJTB today, as I write this after just getting back from that area of the state.) After finding Tour de Fitchburg, BomberJohn remembered about the nearby Crocker Concervation Area. We drove over there and began to plan a cache that we would plant there the next day.
For Sunday, BomberJohn and I planned to do three Fitchburg/Leominster area caches, I hate micros(V) carter park (GCVDVT), White Puffy Cloud Cache (GCX4WV) and The end of the (steam) line (GCXDX9). The Carter Park micro ended up being a micro in a great, little park in downtown Leominster that we had been to before. We then hopped into the car and drove over to Leominster State Forest for White Puffy Cloud Cache by Team Lucky Cat. This was a new cache with really nice trails through the state park. We searched the rock wall for a few minutes and ended up finding the cache with no bees in sight, as it was posted that there was in the online logs. At this one, was able to trade one of my own signature cards for a Team Lucky Cat one, which had a nice story on the back. After hiking out of the park, we made our way over to West Fitchburg in the car to look for The end of the (steam) line, which was put in the new, West Fitchburg Steamline Trail Park. This was a really great park with an old steam plant and about a 1/2 mile section of a steamline pipe. The old plant, the waterfall, the nice, new trails and the pipelines made for many really nice pictures. As we aproached the cache site, we saw TheMaadMacks logging there find. At the time we weren't 100% sure thats what they were doing, due to the fact that we decided to keep our distance, because they were standing where we needed to be. After they left, we logged our own find and checked out the bottom of the railroad bridge, which will soon house a wooden boardwalk that will extend the trail. We then got to the car and went to the Crocker Conservation Area.
When we got to the CCA, BomberJohn and I thought we should scope out the area before he picked a spot for his first hidden cache. After a decent inspection of the conservation and taking a good few pictures of the structure in the reservoir, my dad settled on a spot along a rock wall. We moved around a few rocks to make the perfect fit and set up the container with a logbook, pens, and a FTF spinning geocoin. We then took a bunch of cordinate listings to form a solid set of cords for accuracy. After planting, BomberJohn's first, we went over to his house to then log our new finds and great new hide.

I would like to give a big congrats to both BomberJohn for planting his first cache, CCA Traditional Cache (GCXP3F) and to fitzfive, the FTFers that are the new owners of a spinning geocoin.