luckykoi

With the price of gas and with most of the highest caches being in the Cascades I think an Olympic Mountain highest caches challenge might be in order. I'd be willing to do this if there was enough interest. Since the Olympic Mountains raise striaght out of the sea they are not as high in elevation so the caches in this challenge would be at lower elevations then the ones in the statewide challenge.

Yes it's open... Hiker has apparent coronary, dies on mountain trail By Evan Cael, Peninsula Daily News BRINNON - A 35-year-old Silverdale man died of an apparent heart attack on a steep mountain trail at which efforts to remove the body lasted into the next afternoon. Thomas Edward Graham was hiking the 12-mile Mount Jupiter Trail south of Brinnon with friends Saturday. He had reached the 3,792-foot summit and was on his way down when he lost consciousness, Jefferson County Undersheriff Tim Perry said. His hiking companions, after unsuccessfully attempting cardiopulmonary resuscitation, called 9-1-1 from a cell phone. A search and rescue team and Jefferson County Sheriff's Office personnel - including a deputy coroner - were dispatched to the scene around 7:30 p.m. Graham was pronounced dead on the trail by the deputy coroner.Effort into the darkness The search and rescue team attempted to carry the body down the mountain into the early morning hours of Sunday, but the terrain became too treacherous to continue on foot, Perry said. The rescue crew stayed with the body through the night, then a Snohomish County Sheriff's Office helicopter was called in Sunday. The copter eventually hoisted the body from a clearing below the trail after several attempts were aborted because of fog and limited visibility. It flew Graham to a landing zone in Brinnon, where the body was transferred to a funeral home representative. The rescue concluded about 2:30 p.m. Sunday For the all-volunteer search and rescue team, it ended a long weekend. Its members had undergone a five-hour training session in swift-water rescue on the Duckabush River on Saturday just hours before the call to the Mount Jupiter Trail, the Sheriff's Office said. An autopsy was performed, and the Jefferson County Coroner's Office is awaiting the results, Perry said.________ Reporter Evan Cael can be reached at 360-385-2335 or evan.cael@peninsuladailynews.com.

Those poor doggies! What kind of fish is that in your avatar?

I like that list! But I might be a bit biased as 4 of my caches are on it...

Go ahead and sign me up for another ten for a total of 20 if at or below $3.00 a can

Love, MGTS XOO Oh MGTS, I'm so excited I can't think about what I'm going to wear... I found the perfect car for you! You'll take me for a spin when you get it, won't you? Does that car have a backseat?

Cachers kill trees all the time. All those print outs of cache pages indirectly kill trees.

So join in on the fun and post a picture of shoes. ugly boots? Pogo Shoes! These hazardous wonders were designed for fun and diversion. The diversion could very well be a trip to the hospital. To start your fun, the inventor suggests you get up (we haven't figured out how yet) and "urge your weight up and down until you bounce clear of the ground." Now about that landing… These things should be sold with crutches and bulletproof buttocks. And the best news yet, No Brakes!

Wow that is weird. If not blood what could it be? A paintball fight? Teens playing doing a prank with paint? Teens playing a prank with pig blood? Maybe it was Satanists from Mercedes of Tacoma.

I would love to do a highest caches challenge but with two young children (and a husband that makes me feel guilty when ever I have any fun in the mountians) at home I absolutely can not do it.

It was a little different yesterday, though, since my ice axe was safely at home in my garage. It was more of a free-style glissading. I liked glissading until I tried that glissade down Ellinor. Too out of control for me!

So are you gonna call it Mount Ellinor now? How much snow is left up there? It's right in my backyard but I'm waiting until ALL the snow is gone. I had a bad time up there last spring.

Just my own opinion, but I'm definitely burned out on the challenge caches. I'm boycotting the county challenge because it unfairly penalizes the people who took the effort to complete the DeLorme Challenge when it was still fairly new. The Jester's Oldie Challenge rekindled my interest because I like the older caches, but when the Lookout and Highest Elevation challenges came along it went beyond the saturation point for me. The more of these challenges that we have, the easier it will be to ignore them all. They say you can't burn out unless you are in fire in the first place. I might work a bit on the Delorme Challenge, perhaps I'll have it completed in five years

CloquallumGuy has become a temporary honorary member of Team Koi he is bringing a grill and cooking the hotdogs.

Luckykoi at a bridge on a trail to Lena Lake. Another great 1/2 day hike That reminds me I still need to go get the coords for that cache I left up the valley. I'm gonna name it The Valley of Stone Cold Chocolate. I packed a thermos of hot chocolate up there but when I went to drink it the chocolate was cold. I did not want to carry that useless thermos back so I got the bright idea to turn it into a geocache. I already had swag with me so why not?

One of my newer caches Mount Rose This will take you at least half a day After the Fire Before the Fire

Go to Mount Rose instead, the road is good (even the dirt part) all the way to it and there is a geocache on the top and one half way up and one at the trail head and one right before the trailhead.

Now some of you realize I had a good reason for saying this. Glad to see the day was a big success! Congratulations! Great photos. I had plenty of sun screen and I applied it five times. But sunscreen quits working after a year so it was worthless. My face is mildly burned, no big deal. My sunscreen for my lips was bought just for the trip so it worked quite well. My running shoes were also more then adequate for the hike.

I found out that sunscreen does quit working when it gets old. DA(M)N! My sunscreen was at least three years old. Good thing I spent nearly two weeks in So-Cal in April or I'd be blistered too. I hope your face heals quickly! I just got home and boy am I tired, my three year old kept me up half the night complaining that she was cold. But she was not actually cold.. sigh.... Anyway I just dumped all my pictures onto the net, I've not even looked at them yet but here they are.

Yeah, doesn't look very promising right now, eh. Pouring buckets at my house. But the weather says it's supposed to clear off by tomorrow. Few clouds in the morning, then sun later. Of course, Rainier likes to make its own weather, so who knows.... The sun is shining in Shelton now so sunshine should be headed that way.

It's very rare that I get to go backpacking these days with my youngest at one of the worst ages of all for backpacking. She is three and weighs 35 pounds. Here is my current configuration: Tent: Shires Tarptent Rainshadow sleeps three 2.5 pounds Pack: Highly modified REI morning star 1 pound 15 ounces Sleeping bag: Campmore Down 20° 1 pound 8 ounces Sleeping pad" untested pro-lite 13 ounces Kitchen Kitchen total= 7 oz can stove .75 oz YACC stove pot .25 oz Heineken can pot Pot Cozy 1 oz Home made Wind screen .5 oz matches .5 oz strike anywhere in plastic container Spoon .7 oz ti spoon Sea to Summit 1.4 oz Food Bag Bowl Bowl cozy Swedish Match On my last backpacking trip I was out for three nights and my starting packweight including food and stove fuel but not water was 26 pounds. That was a bit heavy because I had my stupid 3 pound bear can.

When I was a kid I had a dirt bike and leaky rubber boots. I would wear plastic bags over my socks but they never lasted long. I really should have asked my parents to buy me new boots.

That's next to my site.. I just hope I can get out without waking up my 3 year old.. so does my babysitter!

Boots, what are those? Oh yeah those heavy hard to dry out things I used wear when I was hiking.

I remember getting teased for wearing stuff like this in grade school. My mother used to sew stuff like this for me to wear in the 70's