LandRover

If I can get a pass I'll be there. I need to do a maint. run on "Sugarloaf..... It's Soooo Last Year" so this would be a good opportunity for that. FYI, you can't make caching and event, if you want to create an event you could make a quick meet & greed before the hike and call that the event. If you decided to go eith the meet & greet a good spot might be Ravensdale Park, that way you could even set up some carpooling from there as well.

Shouldn't that be the rioting Geoducks?

I'll be there!

"or two" would be this weekend and you haven't even listed a destination yet????

Yeah what he said. Can't you see some cavewoman smacking her cavekid around for drawing on the walls.

How about someone going out and finding /\/(°w°)\/\'s caches then claiming them for the challange so that he will disable his caches, then you wouldn't have to worry about them.

Bumping this for a reminder. ....and bookmarked. With all the talk of rattlesnakes and the upcoming hike on Tiger, this Saturday's HOTM is getting lost and forgotten. Rattlesnakes, we're not going to be running into rattlesnakes are we? On a different note: The Land Rover is leaving Federal way between 0630 and 0645 and still has two heated seats available for cold buns and if needed a 3rd unheated seat.

There is a pretty good creek at Custer's Bridge about 6 miles in and then a couple more on the down side in the Anschell's Alley area, about 2.5 miles from the end of the TMT. Running out of water on a 90° July day on Tiger is what convinced me that I needed to buy a water filter.

I think I'll start the Washingtin State Challange. You have to find every cache in the state before you can find the final that I'll hide under a lamp skirt at the entrance to a really busy mall someplace. The good news is there there won't be a date restriction.

I'm in.

Finally made it up to Sugarloaf today. Snagged all 10. I didn't even have coordinates for "Where's the Other Cul de Sac, Dang It!" but blind luck and a little geosense prevailed. Now I'm tired and hungry and just a little bit whiny. You missed this one. View to Nowhere Now you can make a second trip, Sugarloaf isn't Sugarload unless you make at least two trips up.

With the high price of gas right now Kitsap County is kind of a long ways away for me to drive to try and complete this challenge so I'm wondering if you could maybe assign by proxy some caches in the South King County area that could qualify for specific pages in your Kitsap County Challenge. I might be able to see my way clear to make it over to actually find the final but I really have no desire to give the State of Washington my money for crossing a bridge or riding a ferry. There are plenty of people already paying those fees so why should I have to pay them too, maybe you could paypal me the money needed to for the bridge toll, if not, I guess I'm out too.

You might try contacting Cruiser Guy. He has some friends that that have summited (the ones that we camped with last summer for the Camp Muir climb)

Yep, this free event cost me over $200

But did you check the battery?

Are there any parking permits required at either the put in or the take out and if so which permits?

If only I was as skinny as you, but glad I'n not as ugly, I can always go on a diet. He asked about DEAF cahcers not BLIND cachers. Yes, there are other deaf cachers out there.

Yes, there is free parking in a very good sized parking garage below the REI. No problem if you have a normal sized vehicle. Those of us with big trucks are better off parking on the street. If I remember correctly their free parking is limited to an hour, after that they start charging.

I was looking at the calander and noticed that "The Pokey Plodders Attack Lord Hill - WA" lists it as being near Shoreline, unless there is a different Shoreline or a different Lord Hill than the ones I'm thinking of, Lord Hill is in/near Monroe not Shoreline.

I'll take 10 and at $3.00 a can I sure hope you're offering free home delivery.

No, I was going to bring what I could and it would have been FCFS...the reason I accepted this other offer was I didn't hear from LR confirming he would pick me up...and I don't have the tires/chains for the pass...and my 4wd isn't reliable. Sorry Brian, I wasn't keeping up with the forum and didn't see you wanted to go until after you were out. I would have gladly stopped by and picked you up. Jeff-

Huffing and puffing is what it's all about. Anyway that's my story. I have done repeat hikes on several trail and find that the second or third time I do a trail it's nowhere near as hard a I remembered them being. Remember to SLOW down on the up hill, while it doesn't keep you from huffing and puffing it certainly helps, then make up for the slow uphill on the downhill.

I started out with a stick I found on the beach. I used that for about 6 months then switched to a pair of trekking poles that I bought at WallyWorld for about $20. After going through at least 3 pair of the cheap WallyWorld poles, either breaking them or just having lots of trouble with the locking mechanisms, I finally decided enough was enough and moved up to REI poles,the pair weigh just over 11 oz, they weren't cheep but well worth the money. And for about $8 I was able to get a set of snow baskets for them to use when snowshoeing. Of course I still didn't get out of REI until I had spent over $200, kind of like going to COSTCO, you just keep seeing stuff you could really use.

Upgrading my particpation status from a definite maybe to a definite definite. Ironman114 if you want to stop in Federal Way on your way north we could carpool.

Caching may have taken a backseat to life for JenandJim, but not enough to stop them from caching completly. They have found at least 40 caches since picking up the coin in question back in march, certainly it would have fit into one of those cache containers. I'lll crawl back under my rock now.