A Geocache With My Name On It…..Literally!

Last summer a Portland geocacher decided to place a “tribute” cache for each of the top 100 Oregon geocachers. Top….simply in terms of how many geocaches they had found. Quantitative – not Qualitative! At the time, I was in that list somewhere around 53rd place with over 4200 finds.

TRIBUTE 53 (POPOP)

All of these geocaches were placed in the greater Portland area and today I finally had the opportunity to go find mine and sign the log. Patricia and I were up visiting with and helping move daughter and son-in-law. In addition, Patricia was attending a two-day photography workshop. Today my commitments were minimal so I spent the morning geocaching from Gresham back to north Portland. First stop would be the aforementioned tribute cache…..

While the location of the hide wasn’t my favorite (urban micro with lots of people around), I appreciate the sentiment and acknowledgement with which it was intended.

Double Point Munzee Madness

Jan 16 Addendum: Congrats to Pastor Lamar for the 1800 point sweep yesterday!

Don’t know what a munzee is?…..Re-read this post

This weekend munzee enthusiasts were told they would get double the points awarded for any/all captures. Here amongst the south coast geocachers, the munzee craze is still gaining momentum and today it seems that most were out getting munzee captures rather than geocaches – or at least geocaching was secondary to claiming munzee’s. Continue reading

Urban Caching

City Geocaches – not my favorite kind. I would much rather be hiking a forest trail or paddling my kayak. So where is my motivation for getting these off my list? Partner up with someone!

Today caching buddy Darren shot me a text about hunting some caches in town. Sure, I said. We had a enjoyable time picking off several over the next few hours. Yep, ganging up on city caches is definitely more fun that by oneself!

found geocaches graphic

My finds for the day.....