+Dub. Posted June 18, 2003 Share Posted June 18, 2003 I didn't see a thread dedicated to caches near waterfalls or caches that require you to pass by a waterfall so I decided to start one! The second cache I ever went looking for held a big surprise for me (and it wasn't the cache that held the surprise). It required that I park off of Hayden Run Rd., a road that I have driven on 100's of times. Then to reach the cache you had to walk down to the river and then follow a creek. After walking about 100 yards I came around a bend in the creek and BAM! There it was! A huge, gorgeous waterfall--hidden in the heart of the city (well, not exactly the heart but within the inner belt of the city's interstate). I couldn't believe it. How many times had I driven past this waterfall and not known it was there, hiding, waiting for me to discover it? If I wasn't a geocacher, I might have never found this waterfall. So, I dedicate this thread to sharing pictures of waterfalls near caches. Share your pictures and your stories! Here is mine: http://jeremy.qn.net/geocaching/waterfall.htm ________________________ I'm not saying we should kill all the stupid people in the world. I'm just saying that we should remove all the warning labels from everything and let the problem take care of itself. [This message was edited by wvabackpacker on June 18, 2003 at 11:32 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+dasein Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Here in the Pacific NW, Dan and Janet have a great series of 6 waterfall caches in Southwest Washington. Check out their 'WaSucally' series (Chinook Indian for 'sound of rushing water'. Hubby and I did all of them last Sunday, accessible only by forest service roads (a really nice loop that took a few hours) Here is WaSucally: Dougan Falls to get you started. Check out the photos for each page, they are gorgeous and really make you want to go! Temporarily French Polynesia's most prolific geocachers! Quote Link to comment
+dasein Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Here's another that we liked: Something Special, which was fun to access via a maze of logging roads. Just down the trail a few hundred feet from the cache is University Falls. Temporarily French Polynesia's most prolific geocachers! Quote Link to comment
+gebu Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Here´s a soon to be placed multicache in one of Austrias canyons. The cache has been already hidden there, but I´ll visit it again soon to recheck the coordinates and to see if my hiding places were safe from high water. Jump near one of the multicache-stages Rappel over a waterfall near the final stage Close up There are about 10 waterfalls between 5 and 15m height in this canyon and you can jump or rappel down each. The difficulty of the cache will be 5* obviously, but I´ll put a logbook in each of the multistages so visitors can log a find even if they didn´t get to the final location. Quote Link to comment
+Og's outfit Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 There are a ton of falls caches in Washington state. They are my favorite! I found one that's a bit like the one you found in that we never in a million years would have known of its existance if it weren't for Geocaching. It was this one. There was no trail to this cache and there were many falls to enjoy on the way up. OG Prophetically Challenged (or is that Pathetically?) Quote Link to comment
+brawdy Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Here are a couple more (in Oregon): This one... .... and this one. ========================================================= Famous last words--"Ha ha! You stupid drag..." Quote Link to comment
+Spzzmoose Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 It would be cool if one was at Dunns River Falls in Jamaca mon! We walked up them a couple of years ago and had a BLAST! The sight is too popular with the tourists and is alway's crowded so I guess it wouldn't work. Besides, I can see the logbook now...Took mctoy left ganja! Quote Link to comment
brianmcm Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Dunns River Falls is beautiful. My youngest, then 10, lost his footing and "coasted" underwater for about 20 feet. Fortunately, the only injury was a torn water shoe. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998) Quote Link to comment
+Spzzmoose Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Hey Brian, I bet you wished you had your gps to help navigate that maze of tourist traps at the end! Quote Link to comment
+Zartimus Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 I have a cache near a waterfall. It's called A vertical flow of H20. Quote Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 Also a veteran of Dunns River Falls, October '99. Unfortunately, I couldn't escape without buying a shotglass. Michigan's lower penninsula is sorely lacking in waterfalls. A couple years ago I visited Ocqueoc Falls near Rogers City (which is quite a ways up in the LP), the largest falls in the lower penninsula, and the only one that's named. That's what passes for a waterfall here. I picked one with a fisherman for scale. You could innertube this falls safely, if it wasn't so shallow. The UP has some very nice ones, OTOH. Well the mountain was so beautiful that this guy built a mall and a pizza shack Yeah he built an ugly city because he wanted the mountain to love him back -- Dar Williams [This message was edited by Dinoprophet on June 20, 2003 at 11:42 AM.] Quote Link to comment
+bitbrain Posted June 20, 2003 Share Posted June 20, 2003 This is about as close as we get to waterfall caches in southwest Tennessee. Nice cache. Weak waterfall, though it's probably 10 meters top to bottom. Quote Link to comment
+ict X ckr Posted June 22, 2003 Share Posted June 22, 2003 I am jealous, a waterfall in Kansas is called rain. Don't step in that!!!!! Quote Link to comment
Bogsucker Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 Frostbite Falls, Wisconsin http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=57948 Quote Link to comment
+Newenglandah Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 This one is in Maine it is a beautiful place.. jammer cache NOSEEUMS--High Protein Low Calorie unpacked trail snacks!!!! See You In the Woods!!! Natureboy1376 Quote Link to comment
+wampa Posted June 24, 2003 Share Posted June 24, 2003 There's one near Moss Glen Falls in VT. Haven't been there yet, but will in a few weeks. Incidemtally, it is also where I proposed 2 years ago. A Picture of the falls. Quote Link to comment
+CanyonRose Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 There is a locationless cache for waterfalls (beauty of waterfalls) too, which allows pretty much anyone to do a waterfall cache (even in rainy Kansas!) Quote Link to comment
+RuffRidr Posted June 25, 2003 Share Posted June 25, 2003 If you live in Arkansas there is a book out by Tim Ernst that tries to list all of the waterfalls in the state. It has a writeup, pictures, and even coordinates for each one. The book is called Arkansas Waterfalls Guidebook. You can read more about it here: http://www.cloudland.net/arkansaswaterfalls.html Thanks to mooremonkeys for pointing this book out to me! --RuffRidr Quote Link to comment
+Sea_Dog Posted July 2, 2003 Share Posted July 2, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Natureboy1376:This one is in Maine it is a beautiful place.. I have to agree with Natureboy. To this day Jammer is our favorite cache because of this waterfall and the adventure we had getting to it. Here's a picture: and our log. [This message was edited by Sea_Dog on July 02, 2003 at 08:19 AM.] Quote Link to comment
+The BeeGees Posted July 2, 2003 Share Posted July 2, 2003 Shameless Plug Just placed this yesterday. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=77563 Quote Link to comment
+Team Hydro Posted July 2, 2003 Share Posted July 2, 2003 The "The Sand Boils" in Hampshire, UK. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=34611 (haven't figured out this weblink yet!) Not a waterfall, but the source of the River Hamble. The stream starts with a freshwater upwelling, looks like a creature is trying to climb out from under the sand! I have never seen anything like this elsewhere This message may have been posted by Hydroman or his wife. If it is pedantic it is the former!! Quote Link to comment
+Og's outfit Posted July 3, 2003 Share Posted July 3, 2003 A fine word that "pedantic" I was puzzled by something on that cache page, Hydro. What does (10p/1 hour, 50p/2 hours) mean? OG Prophetically Challenged (or is that Pathetically?) Quote Link to comment
adrianjohn Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Og's outfit:A fine word that "pedantic" I was puzzled by something on that cache page, Hydro. What does (10p/1 hour, 50p/2 hours) mean? OG Prophetically Challenged (or is that Pathetically?) Quite simply, not being pedantic. Car parking charges. Tenpence(10p) equals about 16 cents at todays rates. Have boots and GPSr, will cache for fun! Quote Link to comment
+Team Hydro Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 quote: Quite simply, not being pedantic. Car parking charges. Tenpence(10p) equals about 16 cents at todays rates. Adrianjohn - got it in one ! Sounds as though as if you paid two 10p's up front, you'd get a better deal! I'll have to go visit to check that one out. We did it on a sunday - parking was free. ==================================================================================================== This message may have been posted by Hydroman or his wife. If it is pedantic it is the former! (Hydroman's hands well and truly rapped) Quote Link to comment
+Newenglandah Posted July 6, 2003 Share Posted July 6, 2003 Here is one of my favortie spots in Massachusetts, it is worth the 3 hour drive. BASH BISH CACHE NOSEEUMS--High Protein Low Calorie unpacked trail snacks!!!! See You In the Woods!!! Natureboy1376 [This message was edited by Natureboy1376 on July 06, 2003 at 02:50 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+joefrog Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 There are several around Alabama that I'm aware of, and probably several that I'm not: Catoma Lake Falls Yellow Creek Falls cache TBuff's Peavine Find Noccalulla Falls Micro High Falls Well, that's all I care to post... LOL Joel (joefrog) "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for ye are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!" Quote Link to comment
+Bull Moose Posted July 7, 2003 Share Posted July 7, 2003 Ludlow Falls near Port Ludlow, WA. That's my dog at the left getting all wet and stinky for the ride home. Quote Link to comment
Swagger Posted July 8, 2003 Share Posted July 8, 2003 Paradise Falls -- Random quote: Quote Link to comment
Jomarac5 Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Cascade Falls Fraser Valley area, British Columbia ***** Quote Link to comment
+Hillbilly Cacher Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 I have found two waterfalls within 10 min of my home that I did not know about. Cummins Fall-en Tree (GCEEC5) Waterloo (GCF099) Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 quote:Originally posted by dasein:Here in the Pacific NW, Dan and Janet have a great series of 6 waterfall caches in Southwest Washington. Check out their 'WaSucally' series (Chinook Indian for 'sound of rushing water'. Hubby and I did all of them last Sunday, accessible only by forest service roads (a really nice loop that took a few hours) Here is http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=66701 to get you started. Check out the photos for each page, they are gorgeous and really make you want to go! Temporarily French Polynesia's most prolific geocachers! Only one of their waterfall series I've done so far...awesome! They sure know how to put them out. The falls reminded me of oen of the Lewis River Falls where we used to camp. Quote Link to comment
+evergreenhiker! Posted July 18, 2003 Share Posted July 18, 2003 Oh yeah, I almost forgot. I discovered a beautiful magazine ad quality falls back of Trout Lake, Washington. I'm still mulling whether I really want to put a cache there as it's fairly close to a secret camping spot I know about. Thinking of naming it Evergreenhiker Falls...looking into how to go about that. I camcorded the falls and will see if I can get around to getting a frame converted to post. Quote Link to comment
+Ed & Julie Posted October 6, 2003 Share Posted October 6, 2003 Another shameless plug... My cache: Deer Creek Falls Cache Happy caching! Ed & Julie Quote Link to comment
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