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!

Need Exercise?

There were a series of these flights,
and they were steep!
Wow, this was quite a workout! It didn't sound like that many stairs from the bottom, but it sure feels like it as you're climbing them. I never would have climbed these stairs if it weren't to find a cache, so I'm so glad there was one here to find! The stairs begin at a pretty waterfall, then take you past a gorgeous garden, and then on up to the top of the town with a fantastic view of the city below!

Longer Uphill Climb

This was the second cache on this trail, but we didn't know it until we were already back down the hill and to the van again! Oh, well the exercise did us good, and it was a pretty decent climb. The cache was easily found, and we enjoyed the walk, the creek, and the time alone together immensely.

Short Uphill Climb

This kind of trail in the woods is my favorite kind, and there were two caches on this trail. This first one was just a short walk and an easy find.

Have To Bring The Kids

This was such a neat spot, and we didn't even get to explore it. But that will give us a good reason to bring the kids back here. The find was easy, but the scenery was awesome!

Nice Little Hike

This trail would easily have been missed by us if it weren't for geocaching. In fact, we drove right by it even when we were looking for it! The actual hide turned out to be really easy, and I was surprised the trail ended up leading us right back near Highway 84.

Huge Tree!

This cache is right next to The Original Stash, and it was an easy find, though a slippery and potentially muddy trek up and down the hillside. We managed to make it without too much mud, but I was worried I'd end up needing to change my pants before we got back down. I was glad the kiddies weren't with us on this one or we would still be there cleaning my daughter up!

Yet Another Cemetary Cache

People really like hiding caches in cemetaries, and this was yet another one. It was easy to find too. On our way out we saw the cutest Jeep, which Abigail thought was so cute...and frankly, I did too!

Different Cache

This was the last one we did on this day, and it was different from any cache I've ever done before. You actually have to find the correct establishment and ask for the cache! We met the nice cache owner and traded some goodies. Fun one!

Jumping For It

I wanted to show my best friend how much fun geocaching can be, but I only managed to make a fool of myself, I think! This cache was out of reach, and so I tried jumping for it but with no success. I only managed to push it around but couldn't actually get my fingers on it enough to grab it. Oh, and the police station across the very busy street wasn't making me feel like continuing to try either!

Dad's First Cache

I tried to make geocachers out of my family while we were visiting, and this was the first one dad did with us. It was a very windy day, but it was fun nonetheless. I found it right away, but I gave the GPSr to dad and let him find it on his own. He did pretty well for his first time!

Along the Aquaduct

This was a neat cache located up a small hill and along the California Aquaduct. It was fairly easy to find, but we enjoyed looking anyway!

Business Cache

This cache was located at a local business, and though it was fairly easy, it was nicely hidden. There was a friendly kitty there that Abby about mauled to death. We traded travel bugs, and enjoyed finding this one. Unfortunately, right after we found this, someone stole the whole thing! What a shame...there were lots of travel bugs and coins in it.

Bug Hotel

This was our third of the morning before getting back on the road for Gramie's. I was eager to find this one so I could unload all the travel bugs I had been holding on to that wanted to go to California. I traded four for four! It could have been a messy find if you're not careful!

First California Cache

This was a neat little park with new things for the kids to play on. We did a few caches before beginning the second leg of our trip to California. We had to outwait a few muggles before making this find, and Ryan found it after I made a suggestion. This is our first California cache!

On The Border

I had to stop and get this cache on our way down to visit family and friends in California. The kids got a big kick out of stopping so close to the California border, and Ryan made the find, which is always exciting for him. The wind was blowing hard and sand got all over the inside of the van while we were buckling the kiddies in, but it was well worth the stop!

Steep

This cache was one of the last in our area that we wanted to find, but for a while it was taken offline. Someone dumped a dead body in the vicinity of where the trail begins for this cache, and there had been lots of activity by police and new crews. So the owner wisely took it down until it was safe to go back there without fear of messing up a crime scene or getting questioned by the police about what you were doing in the area.


Abby wearing the light-up goggles she got out of the cache!
When they opened this back up we finally went to hunt for this cache, I was unprepared for the hike it turned out to be! Wow, it doesn't look like much at the beginning, but once you turn that corner, the hill gets steep in a hurry and we had to take a couple of breathers on the way up! The picture looks like a flat path, but it actually is about a 70-degree angle, STEEP.

Never Enough Playtime

When we are out geocaching, we like to find hides in parks so the kids can play while we hunt or after we make the find. It was getting late when we found this cache, so the kids didn't get to play long enough to suit them. We'll have to come back to this park some time so they can play all they want to.

Cute Idea

I have heard of these kinds of caches, and when we saw one in the area where we were going to be geocaching, we had to try to find it. The idea is to give everyone a First To Find, only you have to be creative and think of your own first to find acronymn. Mine was FTFWPLGTC or First To Find With Plastic Leaves Glued To Cache! Get the idea?