Geocaching Guides and Trips
Trips
I took the suicide route up, straight up gully and ridge. On the way up I loosened a rock and it picked up a couple of others and I watched as they bounced 1000 feet down the way I came, hoping no one was following. Very steep! The summit ridge was quite snowy and a great view as usual. I took the traditional trail down and the narrow snow path made it...
Drove up here to do one of Bruce Bjornstad's Earthcaches. A beautiful hike. Birds. One Rattlesnake.
Nice steep hike in the fog. Easy up. A little tough on the knees coming down. Something like 1200' gain per mile.
Another re-visit to this trail across the Yakima Firing Range along the John Wayne Trail by mountain bike. Always remote and unpopulated. Always a great place to experience. A maintenance run for one of my geocaches.
This was my second trip out to Wallula Gap. This time it was hot, dusty, and very hazy from all the fires in the state. However, long slog that it was, it is an awesome spot!
A trip to another part of Ancient Lakes. A shorter trip with exploring, route-finding, and geocaching. I took this trip with LucyandRickie. Most of our adventure here involved trying to find a way across a waterfall and stream to get to another cache, and then finding a small rattle snake guarding the area.
Another hike in the Cascades to two beautiful lakes, Trout lake and Copper Lake.
A steep hike off Chuckanut Drive with great views to the west.
An awesome trip to a mountaintop ridge with views of the Straights of JuanDeFuca, Victoria BC, Mt Baker, Glacier Peak, Seattle, Bangor, Mt Rainier, and Mt Adams, all from one spot. Glorious fog blown meadows, surrounded by snow capped peaks. And of course friends.
Checking on my "The Thing that came from hell" Geocache
Cathcart, Washington, United States
Geocaching | 2.6 miles
Geocaching | 2.6 miles
The trek out to check on my "The Thing that came from hell" geocache GC1Q98V after the recent floods. The trail out to it was 50% water. I even found a fish on the trail.
I returned to the Ancient Lakes area with my wife to show her the area, do some birding, geocache, and follow more trails. Our destination turned out to be more Eden-like than I had expected, with a green plains and a waterfall at the end.
Ebey Bluffs is one of the most scenic lowland hikes in the northwest.
A excursion to find another Bruce Bjornstad cache. Westbar overlook.
A trip to find Bruce Bjornstad's Potholes Coulee cache. The gates were locked and it was between seasons, so no one was around. I rode my bike in to the trailhead and hiked from there. Another fantastic area!!
Made the hike to the Sentinel Gap View cache with Lucy and Rickie. We basically went straight up the hill and took the trail down though the northern gulch. You could also get there via the southern dunes and then up the hill to the road.
Made a quick trip up (1and a half hours) Mt. Pilchuck to repair my Purgatory cache. What a beautiful day! Just awesome. Lots of folks along the trail too.
Headed out to Jetty Island to replace my cache and find two others on what was suppose to be a wet, and gloomy day. Not!
A canoe trip down the the Stillaguamish River to Port Susan bay to repair my Ozymandias cache. Miles and miles of sand flats at low tide, as you can see.
A long auto trip on the 4th of July with the purpose of Birding, Geocaching and a visit to the fossil beds in mind. Awesome country!! High country! We drove for hours without seeing another car. Flowers everywhere on the high grasslands.
Did a little hike up Beacon Rock which happens to have an Earthcache located there.
