Winter 2007/8 Caching Pictures

[luckykoi]

With all the snow we got this winter there should be a lot of good pictures out there.

 

I'll start with pictures of Cloquallum Guy and Frisbee'r putting on chains in Olympic Naitonal Forest. The chains were useless and we had to give up on the Cache hunt. We were going for Dennie Ahl Hill. Frisbee'r and I put on snow shoes and hiked six miles to get the cache on Monday.

 

 

A short video to capture the moment

Edited March 14, 2008 by luckykoi

[+TotemLake]

With an empty bed, those wheels would have spun anyway. You guys should throw 100 or more pounds of sandbags into the back. That'll add weight and when really icy, traction under the tires.

[+Harriet the Spy]

Would I be breaking the rules if I posted a picture taken in winter, but does not have snow?

 

I took it at Ophiolite Exposure

[+TotemLake]

This past January on Mt Baker when the big storm front came in.

[+TotemLake]

We also know all about digging out in the snow... Last month's adventure leading us to create another rut for a truck to get by.

[+TotemLake]

...and let's not forget last December's high centered episode.

[+ironman114]

...and let's not forget last December's high centered episode.

 

I got your high centered:

 

 

This truck also has a 4" body lift. Elevation was only about 1,000 feet.

 

I did get this nice sunrise photo on my 5 mile hike out for help though:

 

[+ironman114]

This is one of mine from the Dec. HOTM

 

[+TotemLake]

Now that needs just a little explaination. IM was in a treewell digging out a possible location of a cache we were looking for.

BTW, I'm beginning to notice a theme here...

Edited March 15, 2008 by TotemLake

[luckykoi]

Frisbee'r had cement blocks in the back. A few days later I went back in my jeep with new studded snow tires and loaded up with firewood but got the same result. It is wet heavy snow.

 

Here is one of my favorites taken the day I hid the "Three Old Trees" cache

Edited March 16, 2008 by luckykoi

[+chubby forest monkey]

Here's Klossner climbing up to Crack of the Gods at Table Mountain. The Columbia River is in the background.

 

[+chubby forest monkey]

Near the Dry Creek Falls cache on the PCT near cascade Locks, OR.

 

Edited March 22, 2008 by chubby forest monkey

[+chubby forest monkey]

And my new all time favorite cache:

 

farther up da chutes. Start by biking 11 (easy) miles up a spectacular desert canyon, then climb 1000 feet to the top of a ridge.

 

[+LandRover]

Here's some snow on the way up to Mt. Catherine summit at Snoqualmie Pass

 

Oh wait this is supposed to be Winter pictures not ones taken in JULY

 

[+TotemLake]

End of August. Semi-permanent snow. Not a glacier. To be followed by sheets of rain, rolling thunderstorm and oh yah... a hail storm.

[+Prying Pandora]

We never could find the bathroom at Heather Lake in July. I think the entire building was still buried under the snow!

 

[+CurmudgeonlyGal]

We never could find the bathroom at Heather Lake in July. I think the entire building was still buried under the snow!

 

This may be a silly question, having not been up there myself, but are you sure it's a building, and not just a, well, a box? Some of those back country loo's are just glorified boxes that aren't so high off of the ground... and usually not as nice as this one. Easily hid under snow cover.

 

One of the kids wandered down a side trail when we were up on one of the peaks in the Olympics recently and came back to tell me about the box, or 'chest' she found... "You didn't open it did you?"

 

Thankfully, no.

 

 

michelle

[+Prying Pandora]

This may be a silly question, having not been up there myself, but are you sure it's a building, and not just a, well, a box? Some of those back country loo's are just glorified boxes that aren't so high off of the ground... and usually not as nice as this one. Easily hid under snow cover.

 

One of the kids wandered down a side trail when we were up on one of the peaks in the Olympics recently and came back to tell me about the box, or 'chest' she found... "You didn't open it did you?"

 

Thankfully, no.

 

michelle

I dunno, we never found it. Heather Lake is only a couple of miles from the highway and gets a lot of visitors, so it seems logical that if they're going to provide a loo, it would have some privacy. Maybe somebody who has been there during the summer can tell us. No, wait - I was there in summer!