Welcome to our Home Coordinates!
N 46 35.564 W 112 02.176
About Me
Hi, I'm CerealBoxMonsters. To non-geocachers, my name is Pete. I live in Helena, Montana and began geocaching in April 2007. I consider myself a "traditional geocacher" - a purist. I use a basic GPSr (Garmin Foretrex 101) that has no mapping capabilities and only a black and white LCD screen. I enter waypoints manually, one at a time, make notes in a small field book, and plan my geocaching routes using a road atlas, MapQuest Google maps, and local topographical maps.
I will attempt to find most any geocache, but am not fond of uncreative, or poorly hidden ones. I believe that a good quality geocache should either take the seeker to a location that offers a spectacular view, experience, feature or lesson, or should be a creative and unique container. I find more enjoyment in finding only a single good geocache hidden way out in the woods than I do from a dozen uncreative urban micros (unless they take me to a historical or unusual site).
About My/Our Geocaching Name
Many, many years ago a small plastic cereal box monster joined the household's collection of junk. One morning, while searching for a pencil in the junk drawer, I took the monster from its place and moved it to the silverware drawer. The next day the monster was discovered hiding in the cereal cabinet. From that day forward the monster began a continuous hide-and-seek game, being discovered in various unusual places around the house, waiting for other family members to find it. It was a natural choice in choosing a geocaching name when I first created my account - like our little monster, we enjoy living life outside the box and playing this peculiar game of hide and seek.
Over the years, I have been able to either force or encourage my wife and four daughters to geocache with me. As they have grown older, however, they have created their own geocaching accounts and now geocache under the usernames deertrax and TheseBees.
Other Interests
Collectively, we are a family of avid readers and knowledge seekers. Life-long learners, I enjoy the history of North America, but also listen to as many adventure, sci-fi, and fantasy audiobooks and podcasts as possible. Mommy Monster (aka, the Queen Bee) and I also love to walk and hike, play board, dice, or card games, and travel. The Little Monsters (TeenBee, TweenBee, and BabyBee) have a wide variety of hobbies and interests ranging from dance, music, theater, and role-playing games to Star Wars, sharks, and reptiles/amphibians. Deertrax is off to college and has little time for any activities other than work and school. We are an eclectic group of geocachers to say the least.