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| Dr. Romy Protacio Signing his book |
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| Me with Ms. Caridad Sanchez |
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| Ms. Caridad Sanchez |
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| Me with Ms.Perla Bautista |
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| Dr. Romy Protacio with his Book |
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| Me with Ernie Garcia |
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| Me with Delia Razon |
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| Dr. Romy Protacio with Sen. Guingona |
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| With Senator Guigona |
With the finding of this cache in Silverton, OR, I completed the requirements for a challenge cache involving finding a cache on every day of the calendar. Not in one single year, mind you, although that would count as well. Yes, a cache find was required for Feb. 29 - fortunately, I had that day covered already when I discovered this challenge and evaluated my list of found caches. Some folks won’t be able to claim this cache until 2012. Bummer guys!
Glad that’s over! Now I can relax and not worry about missing a day and having to wait another year to complete the task!
Posted by Mike on 09/24 at 01:48 PMSick and tired of the cold, rainy spring and summer on the coast we headed to central Oregon to meet up with my parents and camp at East Lake in the Newberry Crater.
Paddle Slap - East Lake
Caching highlights:
Stopped at Salt Creek Falls on the way for a road break and photo ops. Very cool finding Mackie & Annie signatures on the cache I found here!
Fun cache found by paddling across East Lake with Pat and my dad. Awesome lake to paddle! Extremely clear water! Saw big ol’ brown trout swimming around underneath us!
Found several more when we drove around both Paulina and East Lakes scoping out the various campgrounds for a future family gathering.
One cache in the vicinity fairly new and hadn’t been found yet! I was hoping for a FTF but the coords looked to be out in the middle of a lava flow field with no trail access and we weren’t planning any excursions in that direction. The more I read the cache description the less sense it made - description made it sound like it was down near the lake and campground where we were staying but coords were quarter-mile away! Having seen a few of these mistaken coords before I made an educated guess and headed out to look with dad. Bingo! The guess paid off - found it! Unfortunately the owner had corrected his mistake and updated the online coords and someone just beat us to the FTF! Still felt good to figure out the error.
VERY fun weekend getaway!
Posted by Mike on 08/08 at 09:35 AMFor a little background on what the Geocaching Triad is…..check out this blog post and the video found there.
Pat and I had an opportunity to spend some time with our 10 year-old grandson recently while in the Seattle area. He has accompanied me on many geocaches from the age of 5 to the present and I knew he would want to help his ‘popop’ find the remaining two Triad caches. I had already found ORIGINAL STASH TRIBUTE PLAQUE in 2007 for my 1000th milestone cache as noted in this post. This trip I would get Mission 9: Tunnel of Light and Groundspeak Headquarters.
Our hike to Mission 9: Tunnel of Light cache
Yesterday we got up early and headed out of Seattle in the direction of Snoqualamie Pass for a hike to Mission 9: Tunnel of Light . This is also commonly called the APE Cache (click the link for more info). We saw lots of people on the Annette Lake trail but very few were going up toward the cache and tunnel as we were. Actually finding cache was a bit anticlimactic but it allowed us to take in the great scenery in the Snoququalamie Pass area. Pat got some nice pictures.
Groundspeak Headquarters!
Fremont Troll!
Today we made our way down to Groundspeak Headquarters with time to have lunch at the much talked about Red Door before our 2pm appointment. A small group was already gathered in the Lily Pad lobby when we stepped out of the elevator. Grandson and I had a great time checking out the huge treasure chest of goodies and playing around with the interactive, live giant geocaching screen. Didn’t spot Signal the Frog but we had a very nice visit with the greeters and other visitors. Some of them were also there completing the Triad.
Very satisfying to have this geocaching accomplishment under my belt! Now if I could just finish off Oregon’s County and DeLorme challenges!
Posted by Mike on 08/30 at 03:29 PMHanging Rock, at the extreme southern boundary of Coos County, is such a great place to visit and when was asked if I wanted to go along with some geocaching friends I jumped at the chance!
I joined Darren, Butch and Beckie for a really fun day of my favorite kind of geocaching.
The day started, as all great geocaching hike trips should, with a hearty breakfast in Myrtle Point. Once the giant pancakes and biscuits/gravy were gobbled up we headed out.
After picking up a couple of roadside caches between Powers and the Siskiyou NF, we warmed up with a short but steep hike down to the Coquille River Falls cache. We would later rethink the wisdom of tackling this trail on the same day as a hike to Hanging Rock! Also made a side trip to the BIG TREE site to hunt a cache that turned out to be missing! Beckie wanted to return to the pavement via the trail down to Elk Falls so I went along while Butch and Darren drove around to pick us up. We thought it was going to be a quick 1/4 mile jaunt but was actually nearly a mile!
Next was a cache that none of us had found - Sru Lake - the ONLY cache of the day that all of us needed to find. Very pretty little lake especially with the vine maples turning color along the shore!
Sru Lake
Finally we make our way up to the trail head for Hanging Rock. There are a number of trail heads accessing this spectacular formation but we chose the shortest (0.8 mile one way) on this day. What a great view we got from there! You can see for many, many miles in all directions! Took lots of pictures and some video. Check out my video of the adventure…...
THAT is what geocaching is all about for me! Thanks for inviting me along you guys!!
Posted by Mike on 10/17 at 04:16 PM