Jerry & Mary's: January 1-2 - Geocaching in Hays Kansas

We hiked and climbed up a bluff to find this old geocache
north of Hays Kansas.

The little cave is called "Afghan hideout"

Named carved in stone in 1939

Someone had a fire going in the little cave

The road across the valley is the one we drove in on.

Picture of the bluff with the cave from the road

Geocache in a fake security camera at a John Deere dealership.
We carry an extendable ladder with us just for this reason.

It wasn't too hard to get since we had our ladder.

Fake phone with a geocache.

Under a business advertisment sign along the highway

A very clever gadget geocache in Hays Kansas

The cache is in the back of this hummer

Our room at the Days Inn for Sunday night

Another very neat gadget cache we had to figure out how to open

Geocache called "Pump it up" You push down on air pump
and little cache container is blown out the short pipe.

Geocache called "Up, Up and Away"
There is a package of ballons in the container
you blow one up and place over pipe to blow cache
container out the tube on the left.

This one had a metal bar on a chain in the right side that you
use to bridge the connectors under each number until one
buzzed which gave us the numbers for the lock on the left.

"Pin Ball"
You pull down on the bottom and let go shooting the cache
container out the top.

"Debit or Credit"
We had to push a card into a slot at the top to open the box
and then enter the Access code to open the container
to get to the log sheet for the cache.

Hiking trail in the fog to find a few geocaches.

Dinosaur themed cache next to the Dinosaur Museum.

Log hollowed out to hold a geocache

Fake rubber snake guarding this geocache

Home made Bed & Breakfast geocache container
behind an Antique Store

Old sandstone statue we needed information from
to solve a puzzle cache.

Boothill memorial
We needed information from the plaque.

Another tricky gadget cache. When you try to get the key off
the copper pipes it buzzes if you touch them.

Hangman's Bridge on the Southwest edge of Hays.
We needed some information to solve a puzzle cache.

A museum at Fort Hays State University.
We needed a picture with these bones to get credit for an earthcache.

Walk bridge to the dorms at Fort Hays State U.

Oak leaf Mary picked up

Description of the walk bridge.

Geocache coordinates brought us to this cool area of a park.

Mary looking for the geocache.
It wasn't under there.

Another neat section of the creek in the park.

There is a geocache about half way across that walk bridge.

Mary found it.

Disc golf course in the park.

Buffalo at Fort Hays State Park

Geocache in a fake bird house

Fake headstone that we found with the information we had
gathered. It was broken so the Cache owner gave us the coordinates
for the final cache location where we signed the log sheet.

Added effects for the geocaching experience.

The final location for the puzzle we had worked on all day.

Neat gazebo made out of tree trunks and limbs

Dusty Olson the geocache owner came out to help us
after we messaged him that we were having trouble.
Very nice guy from Hays Kansas. His dad lives in Kearney.