10.13.2007

Unique Retrieval System


People really like to hide caches in cemetaries, and this was our second one of the day! This is probably the most unusual cache we've done as far as how we had to retrieve the cache. There was a long pole with a hook on the end of a string and we had to fish for it. I was too short to see what I was doing, but thankfully hubby was able to get it. This was another Premium Member cache, but I was glad my nonPremium family were with me, otherwise I'd still be trying to hook it!

Best View Yet!


This is another Premium Member cache, and though it was a little bit of a walk, the view was spectacular! We could see all the way to downtown as well as Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams, Mt. St. Helens, and miles and miles of the Columbia River.



New County Park


There was nothing in this new park but a parking lot, picnic table and, of course, the geocache! It was an easy find, and the camo was cute too. This is a Premium Members cache, but we didn't know it when we were looking for it. Geocaching.com really should put something on the cache page so it's easier to tell!

Found a Letterbox Too


This was a multi-cache in one of our favorite parks. While we were looking for the cache, we came across a letterbox too. Letterboxing is like geocaching, but without the GPSr. People use clues to find hidden boxes that contain a log and a stamp. Then they stamp the letterbox stamp into their own logbook and stamp their stamp into the letterbox's logbook. We've run across a couple in the past.


We did manage to find the cache we were looking for, and it was filled to the brim with toys for kids, as well as a geocoin and some travel bugs. After doing some leg lifts on the exercise course, we replaced the cache and let the kids play in the park for a while.

Well Camouflaged


I think we may need to get a new GPSr. Lately it's been taking us several tries to get near the cache, and this was one of those times. Once we were looking in the right area, this one wasn't too hard. It certainly is one of my favorite kinds of camouflage!

10.06.2007

Unique Urban Cache


I figured out where this one was likely to be quite some time ago, but this was the first real opportunity I had to actually find it. I had Ryan with me, and since he was with Daddy when Daddy found this cache, he had a hard time keeping quiet about where this was. This is such a neat idea for a cache, and definitely one of my favorites!


After finding this one, we went and picked up Abby, and the three of us walked around downtown for a while where we saw a couple of statues.