A Single But A Toughie

This little sucker took a WAY LONG time to complete. Once finished and I went to look for it, it was muggled! So I had to wait a few days for the owner to replace and the rest as they say, is history.

1/27/2009 BeavTeam Sudoku 1






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Caching With Orange Crash

Went out with Orange Crash today for a whirl-wind tour of west rural Salem. We had, what I believe, were personal bests for most caches in a single day. It snowed, sunned, and rained on us.

1/25/2009 A Differant Kind of Junction
1/25/2009 Look at ALL the Grapes
1/25/2009 Another View of the Valley
1/25/2009 A Cachizzle on the Frizzle
1/25/2009 Another Cacheizzle on the Frizzel
1/25/2009 Geonaro's Ents #2
1/25/2009 Geonaro's Ents #1
1/25/2009 One for Geonaro and the Boys
1/25/2009 OHO 2
1/25/2009 Central District 13j
1/25/2009 OHO
1/25/2009 Plum Tree Forest
1/25/2009 flowerbox waterway
1/25/2009 Welcome to Oak Grove Rd
1/25/2009 The Trips Music Box!*!*
1/25/2009 Best to Fear Heights !
1/25/2009 bike on the brain
1/25/2009 Gemetri, my first glimpse!
1/25/2009 Beavers Are Achievers 2!
1/25/2009 Eola Hills Park
1/25/2009 Barberry
1/25/2009 Hillcrest Holidays
1/25/2009 GOLDEN TRIBUTE RUN # 4
1/25/2009 Kitty Crossing !!!
1/25/2009 Gus
1/25/2009 Redhawk
1/25/2009 Stargazer
1/25/2009 Silent Butt Deadly !!!
1/25/2009 Green Box
1/25/2009 Maud was stumped
1/25/2009 Sorry, but your call has been disconnected.
1/25/2009 Welcome to Hopewell
1/25/2009 These Llama's are Stars
1/25/2009 OUCH !!

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Chip Ross Park

These are caches that are located in the Chip Ross Park section of Corvallis and I really haven't been saving them but I also haven't gotten up here to get them before today either. Most were pretty straight forward though there was another puzzle cache recently placed here (Morris The Cat). For the last two on the list I took my boys and Bear with me. The boys complained that they didn't want to go but while we were hiking I heard comments like "awsome" and "can I do that part again?". So I guess they enjoyed it a bit.

1/24/2009 King of the hill
1/24/2009 Morris The Cat
1/24/2009 Micro Snafu
1/24/2009 Malcolm in the Middle
1/24/2009 Coffee Dregs V

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Finally, Getting To Some Puzzle Caches

Okay, so since the beginning of the year here in the Corvallis area, there have been at least 15 new puzzle caches posted. To me, most of these have no apparent solution and have completely stymied me. A few I have some ideas on how to solve and have been working on them and finally completed three. These two other caches were in the area and I had to grab the smilies!


1/23/2009 Su-D'oh-Ku (Unknown Cache)
1/20/2009 Not Hidden (Traditional Cache)
1/18/2009 Very, Very Puzzling (Unknown Cache)
1/18/2009 I Really Otter Be Doing Other Things... (Traditional Cache)
1/17/2009 World Currency (Unknown Cache)

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Trip Out Of The Fog And Into The Sunshine

Today I went early and drove north to get some traditional caches. Started out in the complete fog and by the time I hit the first cache it was bright sunshine, albeit very cold. On a side note, when I parked to get Trick or Treat II, the park was closed. There were several other cars parked and so as to not block them in, I parked off to the side. When I got back from my 20 minute jaunt to the cache, there was a county mounty parked behind me giving me a ticket for parking on the grass. My left two wheels were on the grass though in an effort to justify my actions to the officer I explained that I didn't want to block anyone else in and could he please give me a warning? He stopped writing his ticket for a brief second and then replied that since he had already started it he HAD to finish it. I wonder if that's the line they teach police officers in police officer school?

On another note, when I went looking for Let's Go Swimming I was stopped by a state employee doing some brush removal in the park. He warned me that there was a cougar spotted in the area the last several weeks. He talked about different ways to avoid a cougar and if that wasn't possible, what to do if I encounter one. I listened intently. All in all a very eventful caching day. :)

1/16/2009 Helmick Road Rocks
1/16/2009 Helmick Hoard
1/16/2009 Old Fort Rd Cache & Dash
1/16/2009 CLOWning Around
1/16/2009 Trick or Treat II
1/16/2009 Salt Lick
1/16/2009 Salt creek Bug stop (cache #3)
1/16/2009 salt creek cache #1
1/16/2009 Bombs Away!!!!
1/16/2009 4 Trees 1 Trunk
1/16/2009 Let's go swimming
1/16/2009 Harmonize This
1/16/2009 Stone Ridge Cache
1/16/2009 My B.M. Cache
1/16/2009 NO I diDn'T eScApe...tHeY gAve Me a dAy PaSs!!
1/16/2009 Well...Butter my butt, and Call me a Biscuit
1/16/2009 Morning is Glory but this closes at Dusk
1/16/2009 Three Forks
1/16/2009 Help Support the Courtesy Flush
1/16/2009 Stuck in the Middle
1/16/2009 Fortune Cookie
1/16/2009 Savage Cache
1/16/2009 S.G. Pitstop

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Caching On The OSU Campus

Went out one Sunday morning to see what I could get on the OSU campus today. There were some of these little buggers that just have to be done either under the cover of darkness or during the summer as there were just too many people about. These were the ones I was able to find today:

1/11/2009 Polyglot 1
1/11/2009 Cosmic Conifer
1/11/2009 T(h)ree
1/11/2009 Whimsical Academic Jail
1/11/2009 Third Sunday In June
1/11/2009 Find A Penny, Pick It Up...


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Out To Willamette Park

Took Bear out here to look for some new caches that have popped up since the last time I was here. Still couldn't find Sea of Trees!

1/4/2009 Pea Soup
1/4/2009 Soup's On
1/4/2009 Be Happy

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First Caching of 2009

Orange Crash was visiting over the New Year's Day weekend and we were able to get out and look for some of the multi-caches that I have wanted to get off the list for some time now.

1/1/2009 ASoUC: Reptile Room
1/1/2009 ASoUC: Ersatz Elevator
1/1/2009 Welcome to Corvallis
1/2/2009 ASoUC: Carnivorous Carnival

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