Last Caching of 2008

Some of these I got on a caching trip to Lebanon to do some evening gaming, some of these I got with Orange Crash and some of these I got driving north. Kinda a potpourri weekend.

12/28/2008 End of the gravel
12/28/2008 Peer Pressure
12/28/2008 I Hate The Railroad: Six Remembered
12/28/2008 Boston Mills
12/28/2008 Posse Up!
12/28/2008 Ridge Road
12/28/2008 Fly/Drive # 7- Juniper Jungle
12/28/2008 Platform 9 & 3/4
12/28/2008 Chamber of not so Secret
12/27/2008 A stinky development!
12/27/2008 Smile!!
12/27/2008 Adair City Park
12/27/2008 the sublime travel bug inn
12/27/2008 Albany cut-off

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The Christmas Hunt

After gorging on way too much dinner I headed out with Bear, our newest geo-dog, and went in search of the elusive Christmas Cache. We went 4 for 5 today before the light left us and it was too dark to search anymore. Home for seconds!

12/25/2008 The shredder
12/25/2008 No Place Left Unscratched!
12/25/2008 Jump to it!
12/25/2008 Tree Farm

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Quick Find After Work

Once we became premium members we were allowed access to lots of different functions. One of those functions is to have an automatic e-mail sent whenever new caches are posted in your area. Well, this one popped up in my e-mail while I was at work and I thought I would get it on my way home as it was only a half mile from the house. I thought there was an outside chance of getting a FTF. I ended up being 4th to find.


12/17/2008 League of Professional Cachers, Corvallis outpost

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Caching Before The Snow

On a one horse open sleigh... I just couldn't resist. I finally found my first, first to find, "Looking Out For Number 2". It popped in my e-mail around 2:30 in the afternoon but I didn't see it until almost 7pm. I went out in the rain and dark, armed with a flashlight and a pretty good idea of what I was looking for and there it was.

I went out Saturday AM and drove south and picked up several that have been on my list. It was cold, around 38-39 degrees with snow to the valley floor tonight and tomorrow predicted. I'm so excited.

12/12/2008 Looking out for Number 2
12/13/2008 Treason II
12/13/2008 A Nice Place To Rest - Pine Grove
12/13/2008 X Marks The Spot!
12/13/2008 QK-N-EZ'S WAY TO HEAVEN
12/13/2008 ODDER'S GHOST
12/13/2008 Cacheholics Anonymous Step 6 - Be Ready
12/13/2008 Hear Ye!! Hear Ye!! GlenMart Finds 8000 Caches!!
12/13/2008 Park It
12/13/2008 Santiam Wagon Road-esque - Transportation
12/13/2008 An Ogle is watching you!!!!
12/13/2008 A Fresh Beginning
12/13/2008 Cacheholics Anonymous Step 8 - Become Willing
12/13/2008 Sodom Creek Cache




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Almost First To Find (F2F)

Okay, so I get these e-mails telling me when new caches pop up in my area. One popped late Wednesday night and I thought I might have an outside chance to get it Thursday morning before work. I loaded up the coordinates and I left around 7:30. I found the cache pretty easily though I was a bit disappointed to find out that I was the 4th person to sign the log! The person to get the F2F wrote down that they were there at 5:45AM. Man is it hard to get a F2F in this town!


12/11/2008 Just a bit Beyond


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Freakin' Cold Caching!

I got out this weekend for some caching down Tangent Drive on Saturday and tried to pick up a few new ones on Sunday. I found most I searched for on Saturday though I went 2 for 4 on Sunday. When I left on Saturday AM it was 29 degrees but the sun was shining. Sand Ridge Hangout had a fantastic view of Peterson Butte in Lebanon. You could almost reach out and touch it. I have been experimenting with paperless caches using my Palm Pilot. It worked out fairly well though I have to develop a system to keep track of finds vs. DNF's.

12/6/2008 Owl Creek
12/6/2008 So Many Choices
12/6/2008 Western Star
12/6/2008 Mclagan
12/6/2008 Tangent Hangout
12/6/2008 39 and Holding
12/6/2008 The Lonesome Pine
12/6/2008 Tangent Drive-by
12/6/2008 Rye Grass Country
12/6/2008 Sand Ridge Hangout
12/6/2008 Nobody's Around
12/6/2008 Sweet Rewards
12/6/2008 The Fruits of Country Caching
12/6/2008 What a view!!
12/7/2008 Car-mike
12/7/2008 Bouncy Balls


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December 2008

These next three I found during work hours. We had just been told that due to budget issues my work was closing down for two weeks during Christmas, and I just needed to get away for awhile. I suppose that it's still good that I have a job in this economy!

12/4/2008 The Ammo Box
12/4/2008 Ode to Billy Preston
12/4/2008 The OSU mascot tree




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November 2008

This month saw the most activity yet with 123 smilies earned. The month started out with an anniversary hike with my beautiful bride of fourteen years in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. A very nice hike indeed where we grabbed four smilies though there were a couple we decided against.

I was able to spend almost an entire weekend caching as my buddy and I went to the Yachats Celtic Music Festival over a weekend and we were able to cache both on the trip down and back as well as during the day.

I was able to get out for a couple smaller cache runs but the month ended with a trip to Astoria and I was able to pick up some more smilies with my buddy Orange Crash. Is this a fun game or what?



11/1/2008 Do Not Stop On Tracks
11/1/2008 Cascadia Cool Cache
11/1/2008 The Tasty Ol' Soda Springs
11/1/2008 Hufford Family Reunion Cache
11/7/2008 Grow 'Em & Shuck 'Em
11/7/2008 Fly Baby Turns 100
11/7/2008 Bay Watch
11/7/2008 Living on The Edge
11/7/2008 Outdoor Ed.
11/7/2008 Fly/Drive # 6- Newport News
11/7/2008 cliff side
11/7/2008 IT'S FOR THE BIRDS
11/7/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for Sniff-M-Out
11/7/2008 Goofy's Secret View
11/7/2008 Ye Old Hwy
11/7/2008 You weigh what ?
11/7/2008 Blodgett Toy Store ~ Grand Re-opening
11/7/2008 Burnt Woods
11/7/2008 Shotpouch
11/7/2008 one Ell of a cache!
11/7/2008 Mt Baber Dualsport Salmon Creek
11/7/2008 Chitwood Covered Bridge
11/7/2008 Hwy. 20 Going Home (backwards!)
11/7/2008 Welcome.
11/7/2008 Weather Rock
11/7/2008 Wet, Wild, and Learn
11/7/2008 Siletz Wagon Road
11/7/2008 Mayor's Memorial
11/7/2008 Toledo Arts and History
11/7/2008 Iron Horse No. 1
11/7/2008 Paddle Park
11/7/2008 Boone Island Homestead
11/8/2008 This Little Light of Ours
11/8/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for Ace and Fly Baby
11/8/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for Glenister
11/8/2008 Cross Country Trek
11/8/2008 Pacific View Too
11/8/2008 Prisoners of the Sun
11/8/2008 Alice's Rabbit Hole
11/8/2008 Peanut Butter and Strawberry Jam
11/8/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for Family Cache
11/8/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for Hlalger
11/8/2008 Ray's Cache
11/8/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for Shylock's Love
11/8/2008 Twisted Freak
11/8/2008 C. G. Cache
11/8/2008 Sand Surfing Geo-Pups
11/8/2008 Bucket of Sea Lions
11/8/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for Mavericks
11/8/2008 Blood Vial
11/8/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for InfoSyn
11/8/2008 Carnivorous Plants
11/8/2008 A Rocky Start
11/8/2008 Agency Creek
11/8/2008 Over the Bridge South
11/8/2008 Yachats Little Log Church
11/8/2008 What A View!
11/8/2008 Landlocked Cetacean
11/9/2008 Daisy's Wood
11/9/2008 Welcome to Yachats! North
11/9/2008 adobeoverlook
11/9/2008 Shamrock View
11/9/2008 A Windy Day(W)
11/9/2008 Old Railroad Crossing
11/9/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for Seal Rock George
11/9/2008 Tough Guys Don't Steal!
11/9/2008 Insure a Caching Good Time!
11/9/2008 LOWDOWN DIRTY MICRO
11/9/2008 Junior's Toolbox
11/9/2008 A L.A.U.G.H. for YahotsWalker
11/9/2008 Tillicum Beach
11/9/2008 Big Creek
11/9/2008 Kaitlyn's Birthday Cache
11/9/2008 HEART STOPPER
11/9/2008 River Edge
11/9/2008 This is Fun
11/9/2008 Little creek
11/10/2008 Perch Atop Peavy Peak
11/10/2008 Sixty Cycle Hum
11/10/2008 Duck Pond
11/10/2008 thorn in my hand
11/11/2008 Stairway To Heaven
11/11/2008 apple pie
11/11/2008 Stop at the door.
11/11/2008 Near
11/11/2008 Grandpa Cliff
11/11/2008 Nonagenarian Cache-Bache
11/18/2008 Take a walk on the wild side
11/22/2008 Grand Oak Park
11/22/2008 Philomath History
11/22/2008 Twixt Park and Frolic
11/22/2008 A Bee Movie
11/22/2008 Word Jumble
11/22/2008 Starlight
11/28/2008 Mail Call
11/28/2008 Battery Russell
11/29/2008 Journey's End
11/29/2008 Chinook Park
11/29/2008 Fish Tales #3 Fisherman's Specialty cache
11/29/2008 Red Cedar
11/29/2008 Mom and Girl
11/29/2008 Where the Pavement Ends
11/29/2008 Beautiful Approach
11/29/2008 Under the Boardwalk, Down by the Sea
11/29/2008 F.Y.I.
11/29/2008 Lewis's Long Beach
11/29/2008 By Land.
11/29/2008 Cransand
11/29/2008 Ole' Skipper by the sea
11/29/2008 I SEE THE LIGHT
11/29/2008 Big Tree II
11/29/2008 Five Feet From Ground Zero
11/29/2008 Captain's Crab Pot
11/29/2008 Ocean front cache
11/30/2008 Quieter Side
11/30/2008 Go West
11/30/2008 Jetty Lagoon
11/30/2008 Iredale Outpost
11/30/2008 Pre-fort Find
11/30/2008 Easy Plot Line
11/30/2008 Back Where it Belongs
11/30/2008 Through the Darkness II (Twice)
11/30/2008 #4



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October 2008

Went for a mountain bike ride in the woods I've lived around for years but haven't made it this close before. I didn't realize that one could enter the forest near the hospital and follow trails clear to MLK Park. Also, my good friend Orange Crash visited from Astoria and we spent a Saturday driving around picking up some Willamette Valley caches. All in all a very good month.


10/1/2008 Jinx!
10/5/2008 Brandis Bear Hunt
10/5/2008 Semi-for or Semi-against
10/5/2008 Timberhill
10/5/2008 deadwood
10/5/2008 Cache 29
10/5/2008 A Troll's Passage
10/5/2008 shadow box 2424
10/5/2008 moist moist
10/5/2008 ASoUC: Penultimate Peril
10/9/2008 Old World Cache
10/10/2008 Dixon diversion
10/11/2008 Rocky and Bullwinkle revisited
10/11/2008 Fern Gully
10/12/2008 View of Palistine
10/12/2008 A Landing Place
10/12/2008 Johnny's Toybox
10/12/2008 Witches Roost
10/12/2008 Camp Adair Triangle
10/12/2008 Plundering Caches... What A Hobby!
10/12/2008 Playtime #1
10/12/2008 Haunted Cemetary
10/12/2008 ASoUC: Vile Village
10/12/2008 Eternal Flame
10/12/2008 Vaders Watching You
10/12/2008 On the Run #28
10/12/2008 Dead Wrong
10/12/2008 Bramblewood Cache
10/12/2008 B.Y.O.M.
10/12/2008 A nice place to buy groceries
10/12/2008 There Once was a Dog Here
10/12/2008 OH Frankie!!!!!!!!
10/12/2008 Little One
10/12/2008 Froggy's Revenge
10/19/2008 GlenMart's Sticky 2
10/19/2008 Too Low for Teloh
10/19/2008 Gambler's Good Fortune
10/19/2008 Pacific Pile
10/19/2008 Schoen You Another Cache
10/19/2008 Hazelwood Cache
10/19/2008 Not so silent bridge
10/19/2008 TANGENT TB STOP
10/19/2008 HELL-O HEAVEN
10/25/2008 Finest One in Corvallis
10/25/2008 Tattered BMX
10/25/2008 Slide
10/25/2008 BOO!
10/26/2008 GGG #1
10/26/2008 South Town Stash




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September 2008

September the fun continued. We found 67 caches on lots of walks in the woods and in the city. Plus there were lots of caches to be found at EE Wilson Wildlife Refuge. This month saw a trip to Astoria Oregon for some major caching as well. Right now I'm doing more than my kids but they get into it once in a while and have a blast.

9/1/2008 The Mad Hatter
9/1/2008 Adair Frontage road
9/1/2008 Axiom-Stretcher
9/1/2008 Presidential Nicknames
9/1/2008 Dome View
9/6/2008 Boot Camp #6
9/6/2008 Cobweb Catharsis
9/6/2008 Eye of My Apple
9/6/2008 Boot Camp #4
9/6/2008 Poison Oak View
9/6/2008 Ghosts from the Past
9/6/2008 Boot Camp #1
9/6/2008 Boot Camp #2
9/6/2008 Boot Camp #5
9/6/2008 Boot Camp #3
9/6/2008 Here's to TJ
9/6/2008 Alien Hideaway
9/6/2008 Camp Adair Memorial Garden
9/7/2008 Stick in your thumb...
9/7/2008 Froggies in the Misty Moonlight
9/7/2008 Ninja Training Camp
9/7/2008 Blue Lights and Cool Nights
9/7/2008 Lost your Chompers?
9/7/2008 Hangin' Puffballs, Batman!
9/7/2008 Posted: No Drugs
9/7/2008 Double Dog Dare
9/7/2008 Make New Friends!
9/7/2008 X Minus One
9/13/2008 Supercache
9/14/2008 Htwo – Oh
9/14/2008 A Bridge Too Far . . . IV
9/14/2008 Twist-Top
9/14/2008 Berried Treasure
9/14/2008 Ol Mossy
9/14/2008 First-To-Find
9/18/2008 Entree
9/20/2008 Anchors Aweigh
9/21/2008 Utmost Use of Compost Cache
9/21/2008 Bend Over Baby...
9/21/2008 Low In the Hole
9/21/2008 The Hole in One Cache
9/21/2008 ASoUC: Wide Window
9/21/2008 i ODDER've been working
9/21/2008 Nestled
9/21/2008 Bridge over NyteOwl
9/22/2008 ASoUC: The End
9/27/2008 Just Another Green Wall in Warrenton
9/27/2008 Freddies Frolic
9/27/2008 Skipin' on the River
9/27/2008 End of the Line (2)
9/27/2008 Hammond Hideaway
9/27/2008 Free Willy's cache
9/27/2008 So Close But Yet So Far
9/27/2008 Duck Soup
9/27/2008 June 21, 1942
9/27/2008 Behind the Ocean View
9/28/2008 Pier Into The Past
9/28/2008 Astoria's History
9/28/2008 Rock of Ruck
9/28/2008 Firmly Anchored
9/28/2008 Youngs River View
9/28/2008 Muggles Welcome
9/28/2008 Astoria Column
9/28/2008 Pedestrians Only
9/30/2008 Elemental Discovery: Spirit/Akasha
9/30/2008 Lonely Pine
9/30/2008 Pipe Dream



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August 2008

August saw us grab 40 smilies. Nice weather combined with lots of walks in the woods.

8/1/2008 Around We Go!
8/1/2008 Fire! Fire! Cache
8/1/2008 Elliovatte
8/1/2008 G-7
8/4/2008 A Vineyard View
8/5/2008 Pick Your Fortune
8/7/2008 Recycled Plastic
8/7/2008 A Dare by Flaming Arrow Patrol
8/7/2008 Stockpile View
8/14/2008 Tee It Up
8/15/2008 Bottlecap cache
8/15/2008 Tribute to Eminator!
8/15/2008 ATS
8/15/2008 Siete-Once
8/15/2008 Salmonberry
8/16/2008 The Benton Extension
8/16/2008 I have a bone to pick with you!
8/16/2008 A Walk in Seavey
8/16/2008 Crew View
8/17/2008 Oregon History Lesson #24 - James Nesmith
8/17/2008 Half way up!
8/18/2008 Errol Flynn
8/18/2008 PoohSticks Bridge
8/20/2008 Shelton
8/21/2008 Gold-On-a-Rope
8/21/2008 Lost My Wallet!
8/21/2008 George R. Hyslop Memorial Cache
8/21/2008 Sudoku Spot
8/24/2008 Volcano
8/24/2008 Frog Log
8/24/2008 Forest Dell
8/24/2008 Baby Black Mamba
8/25/2008 bushel
8/30/2008 When Good Caches Go Bad
8/30/2008 Dan's Memorial
8/30/2008 ASoUC: Grim Grotto
8/31/2008 Peavy Arboretum
8/31/2008 TweedleDum
8/31/2008 TweedleDee
8/31/2008 Big Wheels Rolling

July 2008

By July things were really starting to click. We got 43 caches this month for a total of 58. Some of these we got on a 4 day bike trip through the Gorge and others were gleaned closer to home.


07/05/08 Say, Are You My Mother?
07/05/08 Be Brave
07/05/08 Out Yonder
07/05/08 Sit and watch the grass grow
07/07/08 I'm a Pond, Not a Snapper!
07/09/08 Kay, O-Kay, O-Kay
07/11/08 Snakes in the Grass
07/11/08 Why? Why Not!
07/12/08 Pablo's Singletrack Mind
07/12/08 FORE! Resurrected
07/12/08 M and M's
07/12/08 Dash for the Cache
07/12/08 Dash for the Cache # 2
07/12/08 Have You Met Your Waterloo?
07/12/08 Welcome to Waterloo
07/13/08 Take A McCullock Peak
07/13/08 Peaked
07/16/08 BeavTeam Sudoku 2
07/16/08 Anti-Repellant
07/19/08 X minus Seven
07/19/08 ASoUC: Slippery Slope
07/20/08 TU BE OR NOT TU BE?
07/26/08 BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER
07/26/08 Bridge of the Gods
07/26/08 A Taste of the Crest: PCT Oregon
07/26/08 TRAIN APPRECIATION
07/27/08 Thunder Island
07/27/08 Isthmus
07/27/08 DRY CREEK FALLS TRAIL JUNCTION
07/28/08 Wedged
07/28/08 Canned
07/28/08 Perfect Tree
07/29/08 Headin' Home
07/29/08 Hidden cove
07/30/08 Hare Canyon
07/30/08 Mountain Dale
07/30/08 Brooke Creek Hike-in Camp
07/30/08 Hook Creek Horseshoe
07/31/08 Going to the Fair
07/31/08 where is all the trees
07/31/08 Natal history
07/31/08 Welcome to Vernonia

June 2008

June saw a big jump in terms of finds. The weather combined with a couple of bike trips really allowed for more time outside. Also, the addition of Orange Crash really helped motivate us to look for more.

06/08/08 Metaphorest

06/14/08 Noisy Bridge

06/14/08 Along Youngs Bay

06/14/08 Old Youngs Bay Bridge South

06/21/08 Warrenton Waterfront Trail

06/21/08 W.W.F.T.

06/23/08 Wilson Admirer
Our first in Washington. We found this one at the start of our bike trip in Washington.

Finds this month = 7. Total finds = 15

May 2008

May found us getting out more but not geo caching I guess. We found a couple but mainly we were using the GPS to create our summer bike routes.

05/04/08 EJECT!!! EJECT!!!
This was a nice find before we toured the air museum.

05/11/08 The Old Bean

Found this month = 2. Total finds = 8

April 2008

April found us wanting more finds though combined with available time and our inexperience we only were able to locate three new ones.

04/13/08 A Haven for Birds

04/20/08 Beaver Nation
We had to go back a couple of times for this one as I didn't get the coordinates entered correctly.

04/20/08 ASoUC: Austere Academy
This one remains one of the most clever hides we have found. I have no idea how we found it, just blind luck!

Found this month = 3. Total finds = 6

March 2008

March of 2008 our family decided to purchase a GPSr for two main reasons. First, as an aid to navigation as we explore places we have not been before and secondly, to participate in a game called Geo-Caching. It is now nearing the end of 2008 and we thought we would post a blog describing in more details some of the fun we have had.

We purchased a Garmin 76CSx unit. I won't bother to explain the details or features but it had what we needed. (It was bigger than we thought it would be!)

After purchasing the software to run the GPSr on our computer, we went off in search of our first Geo Cache. Wendi and the boys stumbled upon one even before we had the GPS and we thought we would try in the same location, since we already knew where that one was. These are the caches we found that first day:


03/21/08 pine coneundrum #2
03/21/08 Klaatu barada nikto
03/21/08 Mossy Hollow


We were hooked after this!

Found = 3. Total = 3