Sick 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!
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