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    Road Trip Anyone?

    in Northwest

    Posted

    I agree with Logscaler, Malheur/Fields/Alvord Desert/Steens/Whorehouse Meadow/Frenchglen are all FANTASTIC places to visit.

     

    But if you do so you need to take the remoteness of the area seriously.

     

    Make sure you have a survival kit with you, extra water, food, blankets, a couple

     

    spare tires, all that jazz.

     

    Even extra fuel if you can swing it, as even gas stations can be hard to come by,

     

    and the few that are there have a bad habit of running out themselves.

    Cache Density Champion - I think it's Stockton, California

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Blind Avocado Said, "100 mile radius from area code 92880 - 3945! The winner is Corona, CA."

     

    I should have been more clear in my new post. Stockton, CA now has 4,030, and Corona, CA has 3,944. Stockton is still the current champion. The numbers in the first few posts on this thread are from several months ago.

    If you want Corona to be champ, I guess you would have to find the sweet spot where caches would be within 100 miles of Corona but not Stockton, and plant 100 caches there.

    Sparky-watts Homepage

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I was reading Sparky-Watts profile today and it was mildly amusing, so I clicked on the link to their homepage.

     

    Their homepage has at least one graphic image on it. I have been struggling with the image I saw there all day. I won't go back to that page, but I did not notice a disclaimer of any kind while I was there. If it had a disclaimer I would have stopped reading and not been subjected to what I saw.

     

    So, I hope this post serves as a disclaimer. Don't view Sparky-Watts homepage if you do not wish to see images that are graphic in nature.

    Abandoned Road And Railroad Tunnels In Pacific Nw?

    in Northwest

    Posted

    There is an excellent cache located at a very old, abandoned railroad trestle here:

     

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...&log=y&decrypt=

     

    Fun cache, and challenging.

     

    While finding this cache I really noticed how railbeds have to be placed on a level, very gradual incline. Even moreso then than now. At times we would lose the correct path due to overgrowth, and had to really study the terrain to figure out where the engineers of the day would have placed the railbed.

    Future Cache Machine locations

    in Northwest

    Posted

    Okay, decided to back up my last statement with some facts. I found this quote in a recent thread:

     

     

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    QUOTE (Monkeybrad @ Jan 6 2004, 11:27 AM)

    Just for the record CCCooper Agency is just one cacher (singular). If you meet her you will see that she is certainly a "singular" cacher. Fast as lightning, with stamina to burn. You gotta give it to someone who runs to caches 3/4 mile down the trail.

     

    Definitely. Sometimes she lets her husband come along, or one or two of the kids, but a lot of times it's her and SBUX out and about.

     

    Contrary to popular belief, they're not an "agency" out doing the caches in separate locales, she/they just like to travel a lot for caches! It's not uncommon to go out on a Saturday morning and log a cache that they've already been to. I'm in Baltimore, they're in PA.

    My Original Geocaching Eqpt. Finally Went Kaput.

    in Northwest

    Posted · Edited by Peanuthead

    Today is a sad day in Peanutheadland.

     

    After 2 years and 9 months, 311 cache finds, 23 cache hides, and roughly 5,942 miles travelled while geocaching, my original Geocaching equipment, a little yellow Garmin Etrex I bought in April of 2001 for $119.47 cents, has finally given up the ghost.

     

    I didn't drop it or mishandle it to my knowledge. I just turned it on today and it won't receive signal at all. I put in fresh batteries, and still no reception. I checked garmin.com in case there was a software upgrade that made version 2.04 obsolete, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

     

    So, with change comes opportunity. Now I have the opportunity to see what's new out there in GPS receivers, and see what I want to do next.

     

    Still contemplating the proper memorial and/or burial for my deceased Etrex....

     

    - Peanuthead

    Storm Watch

    in Northwest

    Posted · Edited by Peanuthead

    Hang on People, I really think the worst is yet to come.

     

    I am refering to Freezing Rain, especially in the Portland, OR area.

     

    Trees and Power Lines can only withstand so much ice buildup, and then bad things start to happen. The forecast looks grim.

     

    I hope I am wrong, but I am fearing widespread power outages and property damage from falling limbs and trees.

    New ''hell Hole'' Quest?

    in Northwest

    Posted · Edited by Peanuthead

    Several Northwest Geocachers had fun a few months ago figuring out what and where the Oregon Hell Hole is.....but.......

     

    WHERE ARE THE LOST CAVES ?!

     

    I ran across this in the news today:

     

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...SPGRA3VGIQ1.DTL

     

    Any amateur spelunkers out there?

     

    Any of you government archive gurus want to chase this info?

     

    ''The Lost Caves were discovered 50 years ago by accident during a forest fire, when smokejumpers landed in the area and stumbled upon the cave openings. A small team explored it but kept their findings largely secret, although there was one write-up of what they found. That write-up was discovered in the 1980s at the ranger station in Gasquet for the Smith River National Recreation Area and Six Rivers National Forest.

     

    One report says the cave openings lead to a complex system of chambers, elevator shafts and tunnels with multicolored walls, underground creeks and waterfalls.

     

    Over the years that followed, the members of the cave team split up and disappeared, and the secret location has stayed with them.

     

    Some readers asked me not to reveal the answer to the Mystery Mountain, fearing the Lost Caves would be overrun. It is possible, however, that nobody is left alive who can pinpoint the cave entrances. My searches have been fruitless. So have extensive searches by my geologist pal, Michael Furniss, and other experts.

     

    As far as the mountain, however, there is only one answer that fills the voids of all the clues:

     

    It is Preston Peak" - WWW.SFGATE.COM

    Caching Poem

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Okay, I'll bite. Only because I just wrote this poem a couple days ago when I

    couldn't find this cache:

     

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_detai...9-20E3A562BA2F}

     

    and the poem:

     

    I looked and looked for this cache today,

    but I did not find it, I was turned away.

     

    I looked high and low throughout the day,

    but it kicked my tail, you might just say.

     

    I did not find it in the bush,

    I did not find it while sitting on my tush.

     

    I did not find it in the hay,

    what kind of a crazy hobby is this anyway?

     

    I did not find it in the tree,

    but it did look like those beavers were expecting me.

     

    Not finding the cache is surely not good,

    especially in this neighborhood.

     

    So into the night I looked some more,

    with flashlight in hand, I was determined to score.

     

    I shined that light in every cranny,

    there are a lot of fun things that rhyme with cranny.

     

    I did not find it in there either,

    not here or there, or under that neither.

     

    By this time I was starting to ponder,

    could it be, might it be, over yonder?

     

    So off I went to hither and there,

    but I could not find it anywhere.

     

    Alas i did not find this cache,

    I guess I will be the laughing stock at the next Pizza Bash.

     

    I wish this poem had a happy ending,

    but I am afraid that would involve some truth bending.

     

    And tho I may not be the best cacher in the vicinity,

    at least I still have my integrity.

     

    - Peanuthead

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