Smokey Bear FTF Token

Today, the Smokey Bear 75th Anniversary GeoTour launched. I did what little preparation I could - looking to see what State Forests are located in Maryland, which ones were in my county and the next closest one, inspecting a trail map of the closest State Forest and letting Tom know well in advance that if one of the Smokey Bear caches published in a 30 mile radius, that I was going to try to go for the First-to-Find. Before falling asleep last night, I made sure that my phone was not on vibrate, and when I got the new cache alert at 8:01 a.m. - and saw that it was 5 miles from my location, I rushed to the computer to get more specifics.
It was a 17 minute drive to the parking coordinates, a walk down a trail to where it forked, then the cache was on the left. I let Tom know I was going for it, not wanting to disturb him if he wanted to sleep in, but he wanted to come along. In short order, we were out the door and heading down the road. I fully expected to see other cars at the parking area, but when we didn't, we felt like we really had to hurry. Down the trail we went, and when we go to the fork, we headed away from the trail. My iPhone readings were bouncing around, saying I was 50 feet away, then 100 feet, then telling us to head back towards the trail. We were looking for the hint, but when the signal seemed to settle down, I located the cache. I yelled to Tom that I found it, and he joined me as I retrieved it from it's hiding spot. When I did, the cache rattled and I knew that we had earned the FTF token! I signed the log with the time and the (wrong) date, replaced the cache and we headed out - not seeing another soul until we were back on the road heading home.
This token is one of seventy-five, and we are thrilled to have earned it!