Wow!

This was the first Premium Members cache that we've attempted to find, and it is a great cache! This was a difficult puzzle to solve, but after that the cache was extraordinarily easy to find...there's no hiding this one!


Inside we found the biggest travel bug I've ever seen, along with some of the coolest loot ever placed in a cache. We knew this was going to be big, so we brought along a large swag item (an obnoxiously noisy front loader) which we traded for a pretty Winnie the Pooh ball.

Days and Days

This multi-cache took us days to finish. It has six parts to it, and the third waypoint tripped us for quite a while. Finally on our fourth attempt, we met the owner and he helped us find it...right in the area where we thought it should be but couldn't seem to locate it. Getting the first to find on this one was satisfying considering the difficulty! Abby found the first waypoint all on her own!


On the final waypoint there were two deer in the park when we drove up. We couldn't believe it, but they let us walk up to within 50 feet of them!

Part Two

This may be my all-time favorite cache, though Port of St. Helens is a close contender. I don't know if it was thrill of finding it after looking for so long or the totally cool container the owners went to so much trouble to build, but this is a terrific cache! The bonus was finding our first Jeep travel bug, and a red one to boot.

Part One

Though it isn't listed as a multi-cache, the second cache we wanted to find this morning depended on finding the first one. It was quick a long walk for the kids, about three miles round trip, but it was beautiful! I was glad we had two GPSrs with us today because I kept losing the signal on ours, but our borrowed one held on to it better. This could have been really difficult, but I found it fairly quickly using my geosenses. I love these kind of cleverly hidden caches!

Three-Star Difficulty

This was the first of several covered bridges we saw today and two had caches hidden in them. However, even with the hint and reading all the logs, this was a difficult one to find. We searched and searched and almost gave up.


Ed took the kids down to the river below and tried to catch the big fish we saw lurking in the shallows. While they were occupied I hunted and hunted, finally rechecking where west is on our GPS. Once I moved to the correct side of the bridge, I found the neat micro fairly quickly. This was my first three-star cache to find, I think.