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  1. There will be 3 total from The Navigatorz group (myself, daughter and her fiance). I can drive the Navigator so I can take 2 more (5 total) and I have a Northwest Forest Pass. I heard from KD-did and he said he will not go on this hike, but may do the July hike.
  2. Yes, I should have used the proper name instead of parking permit. You need a Northwest Forest Pass to park at the trailhead.
  3. Regarding parking at the Devils Gulch trailhead, you need to have a parking permit issued by the US Forest Service. They cost $5 for a 3-day pass, or you can purchase a 1-year pass for $30. They are good for any FS trailhead. They can be purchased at the FS building near Easy Street, Hooked on Toys, Arlberg, or Mounatin Air (near Lowes). Option: There is a parking area that does not require a parking permit, located about 0.3 miles down the road, towards Cashmere, that can fit about 3 vehicles. There was a little discussion at the rafting event about the terrain. From my topo maps it appears to be a very gradual incline. Here is a comparison to last months hike to Horse Lake Mountain: Horse Lake Mountain Hike: 1540 feet gain in 4 miles = 385 feet gain/mile (averaged) Devils Gulch hike: 862 feet gain in 3.5 miles = 246 feet gain/mile (averaged)
  4. Looks like a scene from the movie "The Happening".
  5. That would be great. I've seen his photos and they are professional quality.
  6. Actually, the Wedge Mountain hike is twice as steep as the Colchuck hike, but shorter distance. The incline on Wedge Mountain is 1600 feet in 1.5 miles, or 1066 ft/mile average. Colchuck Lake incline is 2200 feet in 4.1 miles, or 536 ft/mile average. Regarding the choice between Colchuck and Wedge Mountain hikes, here are my estimates of total time durations for both trips. Wedge Mountain Driving time round trip: 2 hours Hiking Time round trip at 1 mph: 3 hours Waypoint time: 0.5 hours TOTAL: 5.5 hours Colchuck Lake Driving time round trip: 2.5 hours Hiking Time round trip at 2 mph: 4 hours Waypoint time: 0.5 hours TOTAL: 7 hours My hike time to Wedge Mountain was 3.5 hours round trip, but that included taking a wrong turn at a fork in the trail which led me across a meadow to an old miners log cabin (also worth seeing). Plus, I made short stops along the way to gaze at the views and make a couple of cell phone calls. If you pushed it, you could probably hike Wedge Mountain round trip in 2.5 hours. Waypoint time may be longer as it includes time for cache hunting, gazing at the wonderful views, exploring the area near the cache, photo shoots, lunch or snack time, etc. So for those under a time crunch, Wedge Mountain would be the quickest. It doesn't matter to me which one is selected for the July group hike.
  7. Wet Siders are more than welcome. Just don't bring any rain with you.
  8. Sure, here it is, but its also on the cache page. The scenery from the top of Wedge Mountain is one of the best I think I've ever seen, where you look into the Enchantments (the Snow lakes surrounded by 8000 ft and higher granite peaks). If anyone wants to do that hike, let me know cause I'd like to go back, this time with a better camera. I want to take a high quality panoramic photo that I can print poster size and hang on my wall at my office. The view from the top of Wedge Mountain The route to the top of Wedge Mountain (Green Line is Hiway 97, Red Line is Mountain Home Road and FS 7305, Blue Line is trail to the top which is 1.5 miles with 1600 ft elevation gain).
  9. Here are a couple of maps of the hiking route to Colchuck Lake: Start at the trailhead at N47 31.657 W120 49.225 Elevation 3500 ft Miles are indicated by Blue numbers: Mile 1 Elevation 3890 ft Mile 2 Elevation 4390 ft Mile 3 Elevation 4960 ft Mile 4 Elevation 5570 ft Colchuck Lake is 4.1 miles in from trailhead. Map 1, Plan View, Hike from trailhead to the lake in a southwesterly direction. Map 2, 3D, rotated as if facing lake from the trailhead.
  10. I got mine at Clara Lake Twofer and he got his at Weathering Heights.
  11. Thank you! I bet on my next milestone, Gadget and I will both be celebrating 2500.
  12. Since I haven't done the hike myself, but Mr. Gadget has, I asked him your question and he did not recommend taking kids that age on the hike due to the steep terrain. Sorry bout that.
  13. I'm thinking about hiking up Sauer Mountain this weekend. Does anyone want to go with me? Its a 6 mile RT hike to incredible views. There is a cache at the beginning of the hike called Sauer Rock (will drop off replacement cache for owner), a multi in the middle called Welcome Friends, and the one at the top called Sweet and Sauer To Go. Let me know by email as I will be traveling today and tomorrow and won't be back in the forums until tomorrow night.
  14. According to Maptech, there is another trail that parallels the Devils Gulch trail. It starts at the same trailhead on Mission Creek, but instead of heading up Devils Gulch, it goes up the ridgeline that seperates Devils Gulch from Mission Ridge. Have you been on that trail? It appears it reconnects with the Devils Gulch trail beyond the Devils Mission cache. I wonder if we could hike the ridge trail to a point, then cut down the hillside to the Journey cache and return to cars on the Devils Gulch trail, making a loop?
  15. Are there Earthcaches on Mars? Or are they called Marscaches?
  16. Okay, here's the Devils Gulch trail stats: Elevations: Trailhead at Liberty-Beehive Road: 5037 feet Devils Mission cache: 3368 feet Journey to center of WA cache: 2620 feet Trailhead at Mission Creek Road: 1760 feet Distances: Trailhead at Liberty-Beehive Road to Devils Mission cache: 4.5 miles Devils Mission cache to Journey to center of WA cache: 2.5 miles Journey to Center of WA cache to Mission Creek trailhead: 3.5 miles That should help in the decision for our hike. So here are the scenarios: 1) Park at Liberty-Beehive road, hike to Devils Mission only, and return: 9 miles RT miles with 1669 feet elevation change (downhill in, uphill out) 2) Park at Mission Creek trailhead, hike to Journey to Center of WA, and return: 7 miles RT with 860 feet elevation change (uphill in - downhill out) 3) Park at Liberty-Beehive trailhead, hike to Mission Creek trailhead, getting both caches along the way, and getting rides back to the Liberty-Trailhead: 10.5 miles one-way with 3277 feet elevation change (downhill all the way) 4) Reverse option 3, uphill all the way 5) Park at Mission Creek Road and hike to both caches and return: 12 miles RT with 1608 feet elevation change (uphill in - downhill out) 6) Park at Liberty-Beehive Trailhead and hike to both caches and return: 14 miles RT with 2407 feet elevation change (downhill in - uphill out) How's that? And June 7 works for me.
  17. For the caches up on Mission Ridge, you will most likely encounter lots of snow, even in June. The lakes (Clara and Marion) are at 5500 ft elevation and the others mentioned above are at 6500 feet elevation and higher. That would be a good July hike. A couple of years ago they were found on June 11, but the cachers had to walk an extra mile due to snow. The Devils Gulch however should already be free of snow. The trailhead is at 1760 feet and the cache (Journey to Center of WA) is at 2620 feet EL. Someone asked about going further and getting the next cache on the trail. It's called Devils Mission and its an additional 2 miles past the Journey to Center of WA cache. So if we did both caches, the total round trip distance from trailhead to Devils Mission cache is 12 miles round trip, with a 1600 foot elevation gain. My guess is that would take 6 hours round trip.
  18. How about hiking the Devils Gulch trail up Mission Creek. There is a cache called Journey to the Center of WA which from the trailhead at the Mission Creek road makes for a 7 mile RT hike. What's interesting about this cache is that its located at the official geographical center of Washington state. Evidently there is a benchmark near the cache for the geographical center. This cache has only had 3 finders in 3 years, and they all 3 found it on the same day, May 30, 2005. Maybe we should give it some more visitors?
  19. What an awesome day!!! Let's do this again...and again...and again... Here are a few pics: At the trailhead and ready to head out. Left to Right: K-Ddid, The Navigatorz, tenya, g-people, MAX-X (Mr. and Mrs.), Mrs. Gadget #2, mmauvil, Patudles, and Mr. Gadget #2 Part of the group as we're heading down from the top. Columbia River in background. At the intersection between the Twin Peaks.
  20. In g-people's original announcement (and copied in your post #1552) the start time is mentioned as 7:30 AM. See you then.
  21. Congratulations Pazooter on 1000. And Congratulations g-people on 1100.
  22. Three new caches have been added to the Washington Forest Fire Lookout Challenge Bookmark list. They are: GC1CBQ0 Anderson Butte (Area 1) by ruck GC1CBQC Weatherwax Ridge (Area 1) by ruck GC1CE5G Baldy Mtn (Area 3) by Georoo
  23. So do we know how many are going on the hike? We should carpool from the WRAC parking lot for a couple of reasons, one is that the road is rough after the pavement ends and requires a high clearance rig, and the other reason is there is not much room for more than about 3 vehicles at the trailhead. I can take four in the Navigator besides myself. I called the WRAC and got permission for us to park vehicles in their parking lot. I'm looking forward to the hike. It should be a lot of fun. I heard there may be a couple more caches up there to find.
  24. I took this picture this morning from East Wenatchee. Horse Lake Mountain (also known as Twin Peaks) Elevation 4621 feet, towers over other Wenatchee Foothills landmarks (Saddle Rock, Castle Rock, Sage Hills).
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