chubby forest monkey

Hey that is great news about the possibility of extra permits. I have succeeded in securing that day for the climb, so please count me in. However, I can't come the night before. As the time gets closer, i will try to persuade someone who might be doing this to add me onto their permit if possible. I will be hitting as much steep stuff as possible in the meantime to prepare!

Um, you don't know me but I have been lurking on your adventure threads regularly. I have wanted to join you, but I live 90 minutes south of Portland and with a family, I can only do long day trips for my geo-adventures. I would love to join you for the Mt St Helens trip. Can you put me on the waiting list? I am very fit, but I would have to negotiate mommy's day off ahead of time. Sincerely yours, the cfm

I am a woman who caches alone 90% of the time, and I love it. I am an avid hiker, biker and runner, so I seek out long trail caches in the forest. The combination of solitude in mother nature is the greatest way to shed my worries, clear out my neuroses and refresh my spirit. A few times while bushwacking through sketchy terrain I have regretted not giving more info to my hubby about exactly where I was going- but I have never been scared of the boogieman. He is an outdoorsman and sometimes comes along for the hike, but he thinks hunting the box is silly-just doesn't get it. I did a cache last fall( alone of couse)- Hawk Mountain Lookout, and I had to hike in the snow. I came across mountain lion tracks, some very fresh! Got some great photos. I was nervous for awhile, but I rehearsed lion enounter procedures and pressed on. It did add a special little thrill to my trip. Never saw the cougar. Several times I have invited others to join me on adventure caches in the forums. No one has joined me, I must be some kind of leper. I know of no other female cachers in this area who do "adventure caching" without their male partners. Wish I could find one for an occasional team hunt. I say go for it woman, you don't need no stinkin man!

My problem is that I am directionally dyslexic. I'm OK with north and south, but that devilish east and west! I am perpetually reversing them. Also, if I latently discover I am looking for a micro, my brain shuts down.

Stop bothering with cache and dashes, unless you are really interested in the area. You could do a 3 hour trip drive all over the place and find 5-10 caches, or you could do a 3 hour trip- drive somewhere nice, go on a long hike and find just one 3 or 4 rated terrain cache in a place that is special to someone. Come back tired and satisfied! I ignore all the nearby cache and dashes unless there are superlatives in the logs from experienced cachers, but I will drive 2 hours for a great hike in the woods/mountain/beach/desert. I guess I'm lucky to have all of that within 2 hours drive!

I suggest that you look at the gallery of Cole59. He usually includes a photo of the cache container/contents with his log. You might find a useful image there.

I liked "A woman's view" between Pendleton and La Grande. It has a lovely viewpoint looking east and nice wildflowers this time of year, it is very close to I-84.

I'm a trail runner, and sometimes when I come upon hikers from behind I don't like to startle them, so I usually call out to warn of my arrival, then I tell them they have just glimpsed the rare chubby forest monkey as I scamper by. I have even entered races under that name. I have also gone by the name chubby gazelle- but I have to be running downhill for that appellation. ps I also run in a kilt, well on me I guess you'd call it a skirt, not sure about the difference. What freedom we enjoy, unencumbered by inseams!!!!

The Calipooia river area is a spot to consider. Not too far from Eugene, and several caches along the way. Read the logs and view pictures for Odder's Holy Hill cache to see examples of the rocks. A good place to find shell fossil rocks is near Moolack beach on the coast- north of Newport. You can visit the Jumpoff Zooey cache and the Beverly beach cache nearby while rockhounding.

oops! Excuse me, dhrusis is the nice friend who brought my TB back into circulation. Cache Advance is the moniker of the evil bug stealer.

Permit me to add my travelbug story. Last June, this log was submitted with my travelbug by dhrusis: "I found a GeoCache Pest Control card in Book Lover's Cache. This bug has been exterminated". I emailed dhrusis, inquiring what they meant by exterminated and never got a reply. I noticed that he/she had continued to cache, but my bug was not travelling. Apparently, this person had removed a bunch of TBS from caches in order to exterminate them! Eventually (6 months later) dhrusis had a change of heart about the extermination and decided to release all of the hostage TBs to a friend, who tired to explain to me why it was MIA. Weird, huh?

I have asked for and received permission for caches that I have placed on National forest (Siuslaw and Willamette), Benton County OR parks, ODFW (a state wildlife refuge), and BLM land. I also have three caches which are on logging land belonging to Boise-Cascade and Weyerhauser/Willamette. I have not asked permission to place those due to the same concerns cited by Criminal. In the gated logging areas where I have these caches, the general policy is that "non-motorized recreation is allowed", so I have loosely interpreted that as permission to geocache!

If you like the desert and admire big rocks Nature in Balance will knock off your socks!

I heard it Kyle, This recent one was about caching in Michigan/and maybe also Pennsylania and higlghted the developing communication and relationships between the geocachers and land managers - focusing on state parks. The MI rangers were initially opposed to geocaching and would not allow them, but eventually realized it fit in with the recreation mission. A similar situation happened down here in the McDonald Research forest, which now has a geocaching policy.Seethis cache for a description. Like you, one of the rangers interviewed became a cacher himself! CITO was also mentioned.

I was able to climb down into the crack without any rope. I guess you could call it bouldering. There was one slippery area with crumbly hand holds, where I could have fallen a few feet to the next landing, and then I had to lower myself over a rock jam ledge and drop down to the bottom- again only about 3 feet. The route I took was west of the cache area, and marked with a PBR can place on top of a small Douglas fir tree. There was a very sheer wall that would be really cool for rapelling- with plenty of big trees at the top to anchor. See the photo with my log for an idea of what it looks like.

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I will be exploring up there next week. Would any of you hearty Washington folk be interested in joining me at this cache next Wednesday morning (9/10)? Manganese Mines

Grinnbearit, Why not just ask permission to place the cache there? I have dealt with the (Detroit ranger district)Willamette NF and they do have a geocaching policy and are receptive to caching. In fact, one of the rangers is a cacher. The first sentence in their geocaching poster includes "it is extremely important that you contact the land manager when you place a cache". They also add that they are "happy to help in the location of a cache to avoid impacting biologically or resource sensitive areas".

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Downtown Cloverdale Oregon, on the way to Mount Hebo. Geocachemobile and display case all in one: URL=http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/55660_800.jpg]http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/55660_800.jpg[/url]

I noticed this is now posted as an event cache on 8/15. Is it on the 15th or the 19th? Also, what time does it begin?

Hello LongArm503, Well there is actually a geocaching event tonight- Friday August 15th at the Lucky Lab brew pub. It is listed on the Oregon Cache page as Kids Kache. If you go there, you will meet a bunch of people who can give you hands on instruction! See you on the trail! -the cfm

I'm not sure if I can join you, but may I suggest camping on the Bayocean Peninsula. There is no campground, and it is not car camping, you will have to hike in. But it will be all yours and almost like wilderness camping. The best evidence that this is a great spot: Navdog has placeda cache there. Another place with a nice campground is at Cape Lookout They also have yurts and cabins.

It seems so silly if you are the first one to find a cache, and the first one to log it in, to crow about it as if that's all that matters. Isn't it obvious by the date on your log that you were the first one there? Also, why do people seem so darned disappointed if they are not the first ones?

A long challenging hike, climb or bushwack that takes several hours and brings me to a beatuiful, remote location. Likethis one, or this one, my two favorites