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drat I will have to miss this one. I'll have to miss it too since I'm hosting an event cache that weekend.

Blueberry Stroll Cache You can also find berries at my Jefferson Pass Cache and my Lower Ellinor Cache but hurry, they might be getting past their prime now

I was in Spokane last week.. if only I had known about this cache.. I liked Spokane, a lot of nice parks there.

Hey this is kewl.. I only need seven more.. I'd go out and try to get them tonight but I'm in Canada so they would not count..

over cast in Hope B. C. last night ... we should have stayed in Eastern Washington. The campground there was nicer and it was free and I bet the sky was clear there..

Hi there, Thanks for the heads up Mudsneaker.. we are still want our cans but we are in Canada right now eh. Will be back before the potluck... I can pay pal you the money now if you need me to. Thanks

Now that I have a laptop I would at least have a chance of being able to do some of these. But I don't think I'm up to a challenge with the price of gas and my lack of free time.

I'm glad to hear it. I have not bought the hot dogs yet. I wonder where I can get a good deal on bulk hotdogs. I don't want to serve the 88 cents a pound type of hot dogs, I want to serve something nice. I plan on hiding several caches around town near the time of the event. I'm already scouting around for open space in Shelton. I found a new park in town last week. I hid three caches in the National Forest day before yesterday.

I've been happy with the down bags from campmor. For down the price is nice. They are very light and preetty warm. They don't lose much of their down and the zippers work as well as any sleeping bag zippers. http://www.campmor.com/webapp/wcs/stores/s...productId=86902 Since I have a front loading washing machine I can wash them when ever they need it, but it does take a very long time for down to dry even with a gas dryer. Washing any sleeping bad makes it lose some of it's loft but at least I don't have to take these to a dry cleaner or a laundry mat. They don't even sell top loading washing machines in England and I assume the rest of Europe.

Too bad that is the day of my potluck, I might have gone..

It turns out that dogs are not allowed in the park so I'm changing that on the cache page. I don't have a problem with dogs myself but the park seems to. The park does not have any signs posted about horses so I don't know if they are allowed but I do have a problem with horses coming to the potluck. I'm not sure how many hotdogs a horse can eat, so please leave your horse at home. Potluck Page

I was able to get one of your caches during the day, it turned out to be the closest cache to my Mother's house so my Mother got introduced to geocaching. I sure hate the traffic you have in Kirkland, things have changed since I lived there 35 years ago. I grew up in West Seattle and have to force myself now not to make statements like yours. Traffic is crummy everywhere in the megalopolis area now and it just isn't the same place as where we grew up. My first trips as an "adult" (in the late '70s) from WS to the east side made me feel like I was travelling to the ends of the earth (25 miles each way). Now those ends of the earth are about 3 miles from my house. I like the traffic in Kirkland compared to our last home which was in Sammamish. 40 minutes to anywhere. I grew up in Woodinville. My house was the last house on a dirt road, not anymore! At least it's not too bad in Shelton but they do expect the population here to double in the next couple of years thanks to all the planned development. I used to walk to downtown Kirkland with my dog to get the newspaper for my Dad when I was six. No one sends six year olds out alone anywhere now. We lived on 6th Ave and at least our old house is still there. Federal way has not changed it is just as bad as I rememeber it being..

I was able to get one of your caches during the day, it turned out to be the closest cache to my Mother's house so my Mother got introduced to geocaching. I sure hate the traffic you have in Kirkland, things have changed since I lived there 35 years ago.

Yep, there is a time and a place even for lame lamp post hides.

i dont like the ones deep in bush whack territory, ones near trails and paths are always great to do, once it starts going past 300 feet of pure bush i start to get annoyed, and it wouldn't look very good if i went around with a machete. When my three year old is too cranky and I'm too tired to keep putting her in and taking her out of her car seat I won't look for a cache that requires me to go out of sight of my car. When she is in a good mood I take her up to 2 miles from the car and she walks herself. Last night I had to pass up a bunch of caches in Kirkland because I had to go just out of sight of my car to get them.

If my kids are with me and we are all tired an cranky I won't go more then 100 feet from my car. If it's my hiking day I'll go up to 14 miles round trip. I don't get many hiking days and I'm tired and cranky more then I care to admit so mostly I don't walk very far to grab a cache.

This guy sure had a bad time up there! http://www.wta.org/~wta/cgi-bin/wtaweb.pl?...+display+time+o Fresh from the Trail! Jul 24, 2007 by Ye Olde Allyn Hiker Colonel Bob #851 The Olympics | Link to this report I Hiked up from the Lake Quinalt side on Tuesday and am sorry I did, They meant it when they said they trail is not maintained. There were about thirty wind-falls up to the shelter and some of them were not easy to get around. The trail above the junction with Pete's Creek had several over grown areas where it was virtually impossible to see the trail. To compound matters, it had rained for several days and I was soaked to the bones. Upon finally reaching the summit, the views were totally blocked by the clouds. I took a very bad tumble on the way back down in one of the densely over grown areas and another while circumventing the last wind-fall before the trail head. All in all, it was a hike from hell. I would not recommend this trail to anyone- even the most experienced hikers. The only views are near the summit and if it is cloudy like it was for me, it is NOT WORTH IT !!!!!!!!! The only saving grace was the HUGE hemlocks and Doug firs which are a delight to see.......... This is a nearly 15 mile hike and about 4800 feet of elevation gain.

In that case I might beat you to it. I know I'm in shape for it after my Mount Jupiter hike yesterday! I might do the high divide loop for my next day hike. I feel like I'm just about ready to take on anything after yesterday. Find, hide... either way is fine with me. I'd rather find them then hide them but there are so few caches in my area that I do a lot of hiding. At one point I had 2 hides and only 1 find... I have 4-5 caches all ready to do with logs books and swag and ideas of where to place them but sometimes I think I put out too many caches and try to hold myself back. If I do this highest Olympic Caches thing maybe more caches will be put out in my area or maybe they will all be put out in Port Angeles..

In that case I might beat you to it. I know I'm in shape for it after my Mount Jupiter hike yesterday! I might do the high divide loop for my next day hike. I feel like I'm just about ready to take on anything after yesterday.

If I'm not mistaken, the Marmot Pass cache is actually closer to the top of Buckhorn than it is to the actual pass. I haven't been up there since that cache was put in there, but that's the impression I've always had. I suppose Criminal or some finder could clear that up. I've found it, it's not on the summit but about halfway between the pass and the summit. The summit according to my topo map is .4 of a mile way from the cache. Buckhorn would be pretty far up the list in the WA challenge, too. I had thought I wouldn't do Marmot Pass until next summer, but maybe I should hump a cache up there for Buckhorn this year. That would be great. I need some more motivation to go up there. Buckhorn was the first peak I ever bagged and it was only 5 years ago but I had never heard of peak bagging at the time. It was my second hike with the PWC and I had no idea that it ended on top of a mountain. I had looked over at Buck horn and the other Oly mountains for years when I lived in Seattle and not being a hiker I wondered if it was even possible to sit on top of those peaks. It just blew me away to be sitting on top of Mount Buckhorn looking back at Seattle. I tried to go up it again a year or two later but I had to go to a memorial service for my Grandma that day instead. Last year I tried to go up but it was foggy and I was just not in good enough shape for it. So maybe I'll do it this year if you put a cache up there! Too bad the terracache is gone from up there, maybe you should put a terracache up there too.

If I'm not mistaken, the Marmot Pass cache is actually closer to the top of Buckhorn than it is to the actual pass. I haven't been up there since that cache was put in there, but that's the impression I've always had. I suppose Criminal or some finder could clear that up. I've found it, it's not on the summit but about halfway between the pass and the summit. The summit according to my topo map is .4 of a mile way from the cache.

Thanks. So far the one on Marmot Pass seems to be the highest. Maybe one should be put on on top of Mount Buckhorn. I'd like to put one on top of Mount Stone, it's the highest point in Mason County but I'm afraid to travel cross country alone and the rock climbing there might be too much for me.

Whoops.. Thanks..

I'm thinking of placing a challenge cache just for the Olympic Mountains. My initial idea is to include all caches on the Olympic Peninsula that are at 2,000 feet and above. But I won't make it a requirement to find every cache. I want this to be a little bit easier then some of the other challenge caches out there. Here is the starting bookmark list for this challenge. Please tell me what other caches are above 2,000 feet on the Peninsula, I'm sure there are more then I have listed. I will not exclude caches that are part of other challenges. Oh good a typo in the topic and I can't delete it.. oh well..

The Penninsula news calls it a "possible coronary". I hiked up there alone and in the fog yesterday. While I was hiking up I could not help wondering where the body spent the night and where it was hoisted up. I tried to keep my mind on the two caches up there instead. I can see why the fog gave them trouble, this is what the trail head looked like My condolences to the family.