luckykoi

I have a few caches that after October 1st will be good for getting on a mountain bike. Ralph's Point of View and Upper South Fork Skokomish.

I'm out, I am nursing a sore knee from my last hike and need to take it easy for the next week...

Is Ocean Palace the big one right on the main street in town?

Every bear I have seen in the wild either ran away or quickly moved of the trail. I've never had to fear for my safety in a bear encounter on the trial, I wish I could say the same thing for dogs. I've had dogs growl at me on the trail and I was scared. I am a dog lover and I know the differnece between when a dog growls and really means it and when a dog is just testing the waters and actually wants to be petted.

Indeed I do and with all the water around here some caches claiming to be less then ten miles are really 20 miles away. Why don't you come hide a cache over here for me to find?

I got my 500th find on the day of my first event cache September 1st.

From the article it sounds like it was a Mama bear protecting her cubs from attacking dogs. But now they are determined to kill the mama bear. How sad.

Thanks to everyone who came and made the first Geocaching 101 Potluck a sucess. We had a good turn out and quite a few non-cachers who want to learn about caching turned out for the event. Extra special thanks to Coquallum Guy for hauling cooking and bringing his grill all the way here from Elma. The marshmallow roast was great. I've still not gone on Millie's scavenger hunt but I heard it was a lot of fun. Kudo's to Ricesraiders for making it up here all the way from Oregon.

Do they return the caches to their owners or do they steal them outright?

I want to do this providing I can find someone to ride along with. Anybody want my company?

Come to my Potluck in Shelton.. I've got 83 caches in the area.. or will have by tonight..

My domain name expired and my email has been down since the 28th (why does this always happen when I am out of town?) I've updated my email with geocaching.com so if anyone has been trying to reach me I am now back in touch.

Ok nine new caches are good to go and should be published tomorrow. That will give everyone who comes a chance to log 10 new caches including the event. Those of you who have not cached in Shelton before can go after some of my 73 caches that are already published too. A few of them are up high in the mountains but a lot of them are hidden right around down town Shelton or a bit up highway 101.

Yeah it's always good to have new caches to find!

I'm making blackberry wine in my laundry room. I'll have to wait six months before I can drink it.

Thanks, someone else mentioned Cosco too but we are not members. I've got eight caches all queued up and waiting to be published the day before the event. Took my husband on a tour of all the local parks yesterday, he is not a cacher so he had not seen most of them. He was impressed with a couple of them. There is a huge Christian festival going on right now where to pot luck will be. I might have to go over and get some lunch in a few minutes. My very first cache hide will not be avialable though. When I checked on it I saw that it was left out in the open so I called my husband to come look at what some cacher had done. Then I looked back at the cache and saw a BIG swarm of yellow jackets buzzing all around it. I yelled to my husband "Nevermind don't come here I'm coming back to you!" I was lucky to get out of there before the yellow jackets figured out that I was the cause of the disturbance. Just the day before I got two hornet stings while picking blackberries so as you can imagine I got real excited when I saw all those yellow jackets getting ready to attack.

From that book "Council of Bears" by Pete Merrill The Silent Stump Just up the lane, not far at all Bare passed the campground there. You'll find the stump Long dead and damply still. Look, Look there for signs of excavation At about the point of bifurcation Where the cache will be That holds your holy grail. Down among the sightless creatures With less than pleasant earthy features. You must search with groping hands, Fumble,fumble blindly, friend, Suceed, you must not fail ok so maybe it's not that good but it's about geocaching..

After I found the cache I took my kids and husband over to see the all the neat stuff there and while I was there I checked on the cache and found a book there. The book had a note in it that said it was free for geocachers. What a fun book that was. There was even a short poem in the in the book that related to geocaching. I really should read the first one in the series too. As a someone who does a lot of hiking in the Olympics I realy enjoyed reading about all my hiking places in that book. Eventually Ralph went up to live in the now empty Ranger Station at Dosewallips..

Hey that's where Ralph the bear used to live, I guess it was more then just those old mining caves that brought him up there.

I stayed there once too and still remember all those huckleberries..

I've submitted 4 caches in the Shelton metro area that will be published the day before the event and I plan on hiding 3 more tomorrow. That means everyone at the event should be able to log 8 new caches counting the event cache. I also have two newly published caches that have not been found yet. Travel bug trading can be at either the event or at my nearby travel bug hotel.

I like caching in Dupont and it's not far from home so count me in on this one.

There are a lot of red and blue huckleberries on the Putvin trail for those was are up to the challenge. Both high and low bush blueberries up there. Blueberry and huckleberry are pretty much interchangable. I saw what I think are currents (or are those little black gooseberries.. ) on the Putvin trail as well. I ate two of them and they were yummy. There is also an evergreen bush that folks round here call a blue huckleberry and they are coming on now as well. The best high bush blue huckleberries or blueberries I've seen are on the Jefferson Pass trail. Bushes loaded with big juicy berries all around my trailhead cache. I have two caches named after berries one is Huckleberry Stroll What I want to see is a red blueberry.

Alaska airlines told me not to use it on the way down to LA.. On the way back I kept it hidden and got a real nice track log.. It was really fun to be able to see what cities we were flying over at night. We were going 180 MPH when we landed. Some GPS such and the Rhino do transmit so maybe that is the reason for the GPS ban on some flights.

Regarding the Geocaching 101 potluck on September first. We just discovered that dogs are not allowed in Loop field! Might need to change the listing a bit on the calendar.. thanks.