Prying Pandora

You could try the Puget Sound Chapter Forum on the WSGA Website. There are some great cachers in the Tacoma/Gig Harbor area and we're hoping they will join together eventually and form a Pierce County or South Sound Chapter, but for now they're on the fringe of Puget Sound.

Very cool! So you don't have to look it up, here's the cache they found.

Until Oakcoins has the activation code available, please send us an email to contact@geocaching.com and we can help you with the codes. Nice seeing all of you at the event! Wow, got my code within minutes of sending my email. Thanks Annie!

Hope they have enough! I got one and it looks great but Oakcoins doesn't recognize the tracking number to give me an activation code. Anyone else have this trouble?

CONGRATULATIONS to REY DEL ROBLE for finding #10,000 today at Half Moon Cache. He is the FIRST cacher ever in Washington state to break that 5-digit barrier! WTG Dave!!!

Belated congratulations to WMIKE for finding #400 on Feb 27 at Na'ili'ili-haele WaterFalls Cache all the way over in Maui! He joins a select handful of our local cachers that have been able to experience that particular adventure so far away.

I never meant to imply that the scheduling conflicts are intentional, only that for the greater good the day(s) officially dedicated to CITO should be scrupulously avoided for other events. Of course undermining the CITO effort isn't the purpose behind any conflicting events, but it is a result. The reality is that you can't be in two places at once and you'll never know how many people chose not to host a CITO event because of the conflict.

HEY what do you know - It's the same day as Spring Fling - AGAIN And CITO. I admit I'm way late bringing this up because I haven't been paying attention to Spring Fling, but it sure makes it harder to say "We give back to the parks because of our CITO efforts" when we undermine those efforts by scheduling conflicting events on the official CITO weekend. Not only do they draw people away from attending CITO events, but they also discourage people from hosting them because of concern that the conflict will result in poor attendance. There are 51 other weekends to hold non-CITO events, and now Flash Mobs want to draw people away from CITO events too? I find this very disappointing.

Congratulations to FunnyNose for getting all his ducks in a row to find #7000 today at Flat-Bottomed Boats of the Green River !!

I'm staying tuned but haven't seen any details on the hotel deal. Is that resolved yet? First post had a telephone number and a price of $55 + $4.68 tax per night. This has changed? I called and made reservations and no indication of a problem or that it was unresolved. The person taking my reservations seemed to know all about it. EEEEK! Will I have to sleep in my car? Jim No, there was no problem. I just couldn't find where the info was posted. I see it now.

I'm staying tuned but haven't seen any details on the hotel deal. Is that resolved yet?

Congratulations to Truered06 for finding their big #1000 at my Saar Cemetery cache!!!

Ummm thanks, LandRover. If I can nit pick a little more, I only needed it to be big enough to read the numbers on the right side and you chopped them all off in that ginormous version.

'Zactly right - Sno-Park Permit is separate from a NW Forest Pass and can't substitute one for the other. I learned that last winter on a snowshoe hike. Don't try to get one from a State Parks office today. I just called and discovered that our lovely governor has cut them down to a 4-day work week and now they are closed on Fridays. You can still get them from REI.

Any chance you can post larger versions of these so we can see just what we're in for?

Plaidguy and I hope to join in as long as the final choice isn't too much of a killer hike (my knee's been acting up)

Better safe than sorry!

Thanks for noticing! What a great and worthy cache that is. I loved it. Looks like you did it in style! Congrats!

The Bloated Festering Head isn't really a "night" cache, but it's become quite the fad now to do it at night. It's in DuPont.

I upgraded to a Colorado from a 60CSx just a week before the Oregon came out. I like a lot of the new features on the Colorado, but its limitations, accuracy issues, and convoluted interface is maddening after the smooth-working super-accurate 60CSx . I cache with both regularly, and leave my pda at home

They are very pretty coins! I bought several.

Coincidentally, Half-Canadian did a series about "and Bob's your uncle" explaining where that phrase came from.

This is going to be a fun event!

There's Suntop Lookout off Hwy 410 or Mt. Catherine or Kendall Knob at Snoqualmie Pass Interesting... I never thought of Mt. Catherine as a snowshoe hike before, because the road to the traditional trailhead is impassable in winter. If you do visit Mt. Catherine, try to go when the weather is clear so you don't cheat yourself out of the magnificent 360° view.

OMG! That is so cute!