Caching with my Daughter and Grandaughter

June

Hubby wanted to find a scouting Cache to do a quick drop off and retrieve of a scouting travel bug so that it showed it's trip to Washington State before he took it to California. It was a bad night for caching. the weather was iffy and we weren't sure it was going to start raining on us like it had been all day off and on. Our first two attempts we could not find. So all together we spent about an hour and a half to get one  geocache. These are pictures of that spot. We were glad this last one was an easy find. A cop did drive by while we were looking for it and gave us a funny look.

The next Saturday while hubby was out of town MBW and I worked at the church cannery and then picked up a few caches in the area as well as some of the ones that hubby had hidden or found previously without us.

This first one is Dizzie Montgomery on of my hubbys hides. I loved the spot!

This is another one that I really liked. It is a Travel Bug hotel. The location seemed so remote yet it is really easy access off of the freeway.

This one I didn't realize was in the cemetery until after I had made several unsuccessful attempts to get to it from roads that didn't get me there. The cemetery entrance was down a dead end road, so I didn't try it at first. This was pretty cool because it was located right next to the plaque that shows Spokane's connection to the Titanic. If you click on this third picture of the whole plaque you can pretty much make out what it says.

For family night we went caching in Newport and this is one of my favorites. It is called birds of a feather. You can see it in the tangle of branches in the first picture and then in more detail in the second. It has its own cool little nest to call home.

#300

The middle of May I reached my #300 geocache. I decided to do Ginannes cache for the 300th, so I picked a few caches in the area with a couple of optional ones just in case and planned the route. This first picture was of one at the Spokane Arena. Though I had been to the Arena many times before I had never been to the spot where these statues are located and didn't even know they existed. That is one of my favorite things about geocahing; the new discoveries. The 2nd two pictures are of one that entailed quite the climb up and over a gigantic rock. I wasn't sure I was going to be able to climb up or down that rock in some places. It was a cool little spot.

Then it was time for the #300. Since brave Eagle had hidden this one I had to do the digging around in the bushes all by myself. So I put on my gloves and soon had it found. My face was still all red from the exertion of the climb at the previous spot and maybe just a little bit of sunburn too. 

While hubby was watching and laughing at me doing the searching he called my daughter to join in on the fun. She was the FTF on this cache. She didn't want to miss out so my daughter and granddaughter came to spend some time with us. Can you tell she doesn't like having her picture taken?

May

Just a few memorable caches from the month of May. This first one is a new one near our home that we got a FTF. It was a little bit of a hike and I'm glad I had my GPS to follow the track back or we might have gotten lost. There weren't good trails to the sight. Near the cache was this cool looking tree that can stir the imagination and seem like a portal to another world.

These next 3 are just random caches around the area. The first is right in the middle of Spokane but it was down in a dip and seemed like you were in your own remote little world. I also liked the tunnel under the roadway that you can see in the background. The middle is a view form one of the caches at Greenbluff. And of course since I like interesting trees so much, I had to take a picture of this tree. It was holding the treasure.

This next set of pictures were all in the area of a cache that we couldn't find in Feb because it was buried under an ice block then. It was a pretty easy find this time. This is not very far from the McDonalds that we always eat at. It was a little bit of a hike, climbing up and down that hill, and walking along the railroad tracks for a ways. But the challenge of the terrain was worth the second trip for the cool spot. MBW spied this frog in the water and had to have a picture. Then of course there is the classic standing by the No Trespassing sign to take a picture.

This next cache is one of my favorites for all the stories in the logs. It is a magnetic nano attached to the one completed bridge in this major road construction area. It is attached in such a way that it very easily gets knocked off and goes flying down into the construction area and then you have to go find it again. Hubby was being careful but still knocked it off and had to go for the second search. It happens so often that there is a geotrail down off the hill to get into the area. The second picture is him celebrating the successful second retrieval.

These last two are of our trip to get hubbys Dizzie Farragut, and a couple others in the area, before meeting up with family for a rainy day of play at Silverwood.

Hiding Caches for Nuttyguy

Just before we left Lewiston we hid a cache for our son. Unfortunately we didn't realize it was a little to close to one leg of a puzzle cache in the area. So we contacted the owner of the puzzle cache and asked if he would move it for us. He did and it is now in a new location. These pictures are of the original hide. Pic1: BraveEagle and MBW slip and slide while scrambling up the rocky hillside looking for a prime location. Pic2: They load on the rocks to make it invisible in the location. It is supposed to be a level 5 even though it is an ammo can. Pic3: They wait for the coordinates to average using two GPS's for accuracy.

As we were walking back from the hide, hubby realizes that he is missing something. He goes back for it, while we wait and snap a few pictures of the pretty area. Wildflowers are starting to show their pretty colors and the ducks are playing on the pond. There are even a few fishermen.

We are not done with our hides yet. As we drive through Pullman, we stop at the spot of the new Domino's Pizza franchise that will soon be opened by our son. We choose a spot in the parking lot and MBW marks the spot while hubby goes to get the cache.

As we continue on our way home, we pick up a few more caches. There is a cache right there next to that sign and somewhere between this cache and the next one I lost my camera case and extra battery. I had it at this sign. I didn't have it at the next stop. It may have gotten left on the hood of the car as we drove off.