+TotemLake Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 (edited) It was a great hike with great hiking companions! Snow was anywhere from scant to knee deep, but not enough of it to switch to snowshoes. It snowed most of the day on the trail. On the way back, the sun started to come out and turn everything into wet snow bombs and slush. Sometime tomorrow, I'll compare tracks and see how much was done looking for caches. Edited February 25, 2007 by TotemLake Quote Link to comment
+Square Bear Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 What a day for a hike and I almost didn't get out of bed this morning. I couldn't miss the hike so got up and got dressed and headed out. Every thing was turning out to be a great Hike of the Month until we turned around and started back down the trail. The sun came out just long enough to turn every thing to slush and it just sucked the heat right out of you. By the time we got down the hill and stopped to eat dinner we got some hot coffee and felt much better. I have never wanted a hot cup of coffee more in my life. Quote Link to comment
luckykoi Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 (edited) What a day for a hike and I almost didn't get out of bed this morning. I couldn't miss the hike so got up and got dressed and headed out. Every thing was turning out to be a great Hike of the Month until we turned around and started back down the trail. The sun came out just long enough to turn every thing to slush and it just sucked the heat right out of you. By the time we got down the hill and stopped to eat dinner we got some hot coffee and felt much better. I have never wanted a hot cup of coffee more in my life. I enjoyed meeting all of you and hope to hike with you again next month. I was so cold when I got home and all my stuff was wet. I spread out the contents of my pack in front of our gas insert and my SO made me a hot cup of tea. Some of my stuff it still wet I might just have to put it all in the dryer. Here is our track for the two caches I looked for (on max zoom) : Water Emerges: Mikes Miracle and some wandering around the I or maybe just my GPS did (one trackpoint seems to be in the middle of the lake) at lunch rock. Edited February 25, 2007 by luckykoi Quote Link to comment
+ironman114 Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 I had a great time! I love the snow and did very well even if I sprained my ankle just a month ago. This hike also gave me a reason to try out my new El Diablo hiking staff. It was real helpful on the steeper portions. Thanks for organizing this hike TotemLake. We did lots of wandering both on and off trail. I hope Totemlake emails me the photos of the birds eating from my hand and trying to get my sandwich right out of my mouth while I was eating it! Quote Link to comment
luckykoi Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Here is my trip report with pictures I hope others post some pictures of the hike here in the forums. Quote Link to comment
+Square Bear Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Most times I bring the camera but forget to pull it out, this trip I even forgot to bring the camera. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 I was pulling out the PPC so many times, I forgot to take out the camera to take pics. Here's what I have: L-R: TL, SquareBear, Ironman, luckykoi Ironman with a Camp Robber luckykoi at one of the bridges Ironman at one of the bridges Lower Lena Lake' Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 With the hunt wander on both DNFs, my MeriPlat showed the mileage at 8.8 miles. Taking the hunt wander out, the track came down to at just 5.94 miles. Quote Link to comment
+chubby forest monkey Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Hey sorry you couldn't find that Water Emerges cache on the way to Lena Lake. Let me tell you what I remember about it. It was on the west side of the creekbed-heading uphill, you cross the bridge first then scramble down to the creekbed. It was a small tupperware container- white I think. It was in a place that fit the hint- in the fork of a cedar tree- streamside of tree, just upstream from where the water emerges- although not quite in view of the outlet. I'm not a very patient or thorough geohunter, and I found it pretty easily with the clue, so my sense is that it is gone if the group of you couldn't find it. regrets... Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted February 27, 2007 Author Share Posted February 27, 2007 We're pretty sure we looked in the wrong spot. We didn't carefully read the cache description and made some assumptions. We walked away from it believing we missed something and couldn't figure it out until Ironman and I collaborated after the fact. No worries though. It was all good even for a DNF. I did more scrambling around those rocks and trees than my age would have called good sense. Quote Link to comment
+ironman114 Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 It seems with poor satellite configuration and snow falling we got some poor signals. All the gpsrs were pointing to the east of the stream by 50-100 feet. Quote Link to comment
+-Hawk- Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 If nothing else, it looks as if you had a great time....look forward to participating someday. Love the bird photo by the way Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 (edited) Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Edited March 5, 2007 by TotemLake Quote Link to comment
luckykoi Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Sounds Kewl.. I've not been up there ever. I always thought that highway 2 closed in the winter? If I can go I will want to carpool with someone, (I'll be coming from Shelton) but that can be worked out later. Quote Link to comment
+...The Girl Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Look at Fe with the bird!!! I'm so jealous! Quote Link to comment
+-Hawk- Posted March 5, 2007 Share Posted March 5, 2007 Dang! Another weekend I have vistation with my kids. One of these months the dates will line up. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 5, 2007 Author Share Posted March 5, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Sounds Kewl.. I've not been up there ever. I always thought that highway 2 closed in the winter? If I can go I will want to carpool with someone, (I'll be coming from Shelton) but that can be worked out later. Looks open according to this web site. There aer some low impact events that are happening that might cause unavoidable delays. Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 (edited) Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Sounds Kewl.. I've not been up there ever. I always thought that highway 2 closed in the winter? If I can go I will want to carpool with someone, (I'll be coming from Shelton) but that can be worked out later. Hwy 2 is not closed in the winter; it's a major trans-Cascades route from the Wet Side to Wenatchee and points east. It has a large ski resort at Stevens Pass, not to mention a few snow caches like the ones TotemLake mentioned, which were placed in winter. Like I-90 over Snoqualmie, Hwy 2 can sometimes be temporarily closed in a big storm (usually around Stevens Pass), but only for hours or a day. Perhaps you are thinking of Hwy 20, the North Cascades highway, which does indeed close in winter. Edited March 6, 2007 by hydnsek Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 (edited) Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Dang, you picked the one day with another caching event scheduled. I would love to go on this HOTM, since those caches are next on my snowshoe list, but I'm already committed to a team for the geo car rally. Edited March 6, 2007 by hydnsek Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 6, 2007 Author Share Posted March 6, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Dang, you picked the one day with another caching event scheduled. I would love to go on this HOTM, since those caches are next on my snowshoe list, but I'm already committed to a team for the geo car rally. You mean I get to maybe find a cache before you? Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 [You mean I get to maybe find a cache before you? It's all yours. Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked This looks like fun...may try to make this and get some use out of my MSR Ascents if schedule allows. Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked This looks like fun...may try to make this and get some use out of my MSR Ascents if schedule allows. 'bout damnn time you joined us mere mortals EGH. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked This looks like fun...may try to make this and get some use out of my MSR Ascents if schedule allows. It would be very cool to see you again EGH! It's been a while! Quote Link to comment
+ironman114 Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 No HOTM for me this month. Just found out today that I did the last hike of 9 miles with a chip fracture of the lateral malleolus in my ankle. Time to sit tight and let it heal. Quote Link to comment
+...The Girl Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 No HOTM for me this month. Just found out today that I did the last hike of 9 miles with a chip fracture of the lateral malleolus in my ankle. Time to sit tight and let it heal. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 No HOTM for me this month. Just found out today that I did the last hike of 9 miles with a chip fracture of the lateral malleolus in my ankle. Time to sit tight and let it heal. Slacker. There will be other hikes and some are even close to home. Quote Link to comment
+Team Jac'd Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked This looks like fun...may try to make this and get some use out of my MSR Ascents if schedule allows. It would be very cool to see you again EGH! It's been a while! Clarification... normal hike or snowshoe hike? KidAce is kinda out for snowshoe hikes. cheers, Poppa J Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 7, 2007 Author Share Posted March 7, 2007 (edited) Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked This looks like fun...may try to make this and get some use out of my MSR Ascents if schedule allows. It would be very cool to see you again EGH! It's been a while! Clarification... normal hike or snowshoe hike? KidAce is kinda out for snowshoe hikes. cheers, Poppa J As of this morning, 110" base at the bottom at Stevens Pass and 128" base at the top. It's all snowshoe. If it all melts, waterwings. Edited March 7, 2007 by TotemLake Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked This looks like fun...may try to make this and get some use out of my MSR Ascents if schedule allows. It would be very cool to see you again EGH! It's been a while! Clarification... normal hike or snowshoe hike? KidAce is kinda out for snowshoe hikes. cheers, Poppa J As of this morning, 110" base at the bottom at Stevens Pass and 128" base at the top. It's all snowshoe. If it all melts, waterwings. These are $35! Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Good luck with finding those caches - Cache Ahead and I snowshoed up the steep slopes today and no joy at either cache. Just too much snow. I posted our DNF logs, with photos - we dug an 8-ft-deep trench at Skyline View and still couldn't reach the cache (we thought about filling it back in for you, but decided to give you a head start ). Cache ahead had found them both before, and she and GeoRoo (cache owner) confirmed we were in the right spots. I emailed GeoRoo, and his response: "There's an exceptional amount of snow this year, so I wouldn't think that either could be found." Just thought I'd let ya know our experience, so you can come prepared - or choose another outing. BTW, I would pay good money if you find the View cache and Crim signs my name (want photo proof!) and says I can claim a find for digging the ditch for him. (Knowing his feelings on this, I am sure my money is safe. ) Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 13, 2007 Author Share Posted March 13, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Good luck with finding those caches - Cache Ahead and I snowshoed up the steep slopes today and no joy at either cache. Just too much snow. I posted our DNF logs, with photos - we dug an 8-ft-deep trench at Skyline View and still couldn't reach the cache (we thought about filling it back in for you, but decided to give you a head start ). Cache ahead had found them both before, and she and GeoRoo (cache owner) confirmed we were in the right spots. I emailed GeoRoo, and his response: "There's an exceptional amount of snow this year, so I wouldn't think that either could be found." Just thought I'd let ya know our experience, so you can come prepared - or choose another outing. BTW, I would pay good money if you find the View cache and Crim signs my name (want photo proof!) and says I can claim a find for digging the ditch for him. (Knowing his feelings on this, I am sure my money is safe. ) Yah I saw you couldn't resist getting up there before us. Good logs and pics! That's one heck of a trench and a good start. We'll try to finish that up for y'all so you can come back and collect your find. Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted March 13, 2007 Share Posted March 13, 2007 Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Good luck with finding those caches - Cache Ahead and I snowshoed up the steep slopes today and no joy at either cache. Just too much snow. I posted our DNF logs, with photos - we dug an 8-ft-deep trench at Skyline View and still couldn't reach the cache (we thought about filling it back in for you, but decided to give you a head start ). Cache ahead had found them both before, and she and GeoRoo (cache owner) confirmed we were in the right spots. I emailed GeoRoo, and his response: "There's an exceptional amount of snow this year, so I wouldn't think that either could be found." Just thought I'd let ya know our experience, so you can come prepared - or choose another outing. BTW, I would pay good money if you find the View cache and Crim signs my name (want photo proof!) and says I can claim a find for digging the ditch for him. (Knowing his feelings on this, I am sure my money is safe. ) Yah I saw you couldn't resist getting up there before us. Good logs and pics! That's one heck of a trench and a good start. We'll try to finish that up for y'all so you can come back and collect your find. I'll pack the metal detector, hopefully it's an ammo can. Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted March 16, 2007 Share Posted March 16, 2007 I'll pack the metal detector, hopefully it's an ammo can. That will probably work well for Skyline Lake, which is an ammo can, but possibly not for Skyline View, since the small cache is at the base of a metal tower. Quote Link to comment
+LandRover Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I'm in this month, somebody has to bring up the rear. Quote Link to comment
+WeightMan Posted March 18, 2007 Share Posted March 18, 2007 I'm in this month, somebody has to bring up the rear. I thought that was Totem Lake's job Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 18, 2007 Author Share Posted March 18, 2007 I'm in this month, somebody has to bring up the rear. I thought that was Totem Lake's job Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 (edited) Ressurecting an original suggestion for the year... Stevens Pass; GCM1V2 - Skyline Lake and GCM1TX - Skyline View look tempting. Targeted date is 3/24 with a meet up at the trailhead at 9 AM. Bookmarked Bump. Meet up time will be 9AM at the trailhead on Saturday as described from the Skyline Lake cache page: Park at the NW side of the Stevens Pass ski area and find the gravel road that goes west past the ski cabins. That's approximately N47° 44.769' W121° 5.393'. FRS channel 2 will be on. It sounded like a fair group of maybe's; so if y'all can give a definite yes here, we'll know who to wait for. Edited March 20, 2007 by TotemLake Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 It sounded like a fair group of maybe's; so if y'all can give a definite yes here, we'll know who to wait for. I'm in. I'll be monitoring FRS 02 and Wilderness Protocal Freq 146.520. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 It sounded like a fair group of maybe's; so if y'all can give a definite yes here, we'll know who to wait for. I'm in. I'll be monitoring FRS 02 and Wilderness Protocal Freq 146.520. Hopefully I'll be licensed by then. Quote Link to comment
+LandRover Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 I'm in. Will be leaving Federal Way about 0630 and have room for 3 to 4 additional pair of snow shoes and thier owners. Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I'm in. Will be leaving Federal Way about 0630 and have room for 3 to 4 additional pair of snow shoes and thier owners. Shotgun! Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Does anyone have any intel for the trailhead and the road leading to it? If I can get the car in there, I can drive my car for the carpool. It gets better mileage than LR's Land Rover. Quote Link to comment
+LandRover Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 Does anyone have any intel for the trailhead and the road leading to it? If I can get the car in there, I can drive my car for the carpool. It gets better mileage than LR's Land Rover. Either way my home coordinates are N47 20.086 W122 18.110. Green house with the Land Rover and an Orange VDub in the driveway. Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 (edited) Does anyone have any intel for the trailhead and the road leading to it? If I can get the car in there, I can drive my car for the carpool. It gets better mileage than LR's Land Rover. If y'all are still doing the Skyline caches, then you park at Stevens Pass, north side parking lot. Same place the PCT takes off. It's a big lot. The Green Egg...Without Ham cache is there. Be sure and get lots of pics of the snowduggery for the caches, so cache ahead and I can cache vicariously. Edited March 23, 2007 by hydnsek Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 Ok - bring your shovels. Snowbase at Stevens pass is at 96 inches. See y'all there at 9AM! Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Does anyone have any intel for the trailhead and the road leading to it? If I can get the car in there, I can drive my car for the carpool. It gets better mileage than LR's Land Rover. Either way my home coordinates are N47 20.086 W122 18.110. Green house with the Land Rover and an Orange VDub in the driveway. OK, I'll be there at or around 0630 (isn't that a bit early fopr a 9am show?). We'll figure it out from there. Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 (edited) Weather forecast makes this hike questionable today. Call me on my cell phone (edited) for backup plans. I'm still planning on heading out to Stevens Pass as a jump off point. Jeff Renner's forecast last night which is being repeated this morning on KING5. (edited) Edited March 24, 2007 by TotemLake Quote Link to comment
+TotemLake Posted March 24, 2007 Author Share Posted March 24, 2007 An eventful day starting off with waking up to my Jeep being stolen sometime last night. Reporting it to the KC Sheriff Dept, waiting for them to show up to sign some paperwork, to have Criminal and Landrover agree to picking me up to continue on with the march and THEY find the Jeep .3 mile from home. I lost both my GPS receivers and all associated power adapters for all my electronics and all of my geocaching swag including coins that were given to me over the past year. Get to the hike and the stress of the morning was too much for my back and I strain it a third of the way up. Fortunately, I had the good sense to turn back while the other guys continued up. My back is out. I barely have any lifting power in my legs right now. All in all a very interesting day and eventful day. Quote Link to comment
+ironman114 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 to have Criminal...find the Jeep .3 mile from home Sounds kinda fishy to me. A Criminal found the stolen Jeep? Sorry to hear of the loss of your gps and all associated equipment. Especially the coins, they would be harder to replace. Quote Link to comment
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