Hiking The Dunes With The CHIEF

Posted on January 13, 2012 by mdavidson

Hiking and caching buddy Chuck Knight (geoname Chucky Chief) joined me for an afternoon hike in the dunes to hunt a brand new geocache. Would we be first to find? Continue reading →

Urban Caching

Posted on January 9, 2012 by mdavidson

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!

My finds for the day.....

A Cache A Day…..

Posted on January 8, 2012 by mdavidson

We geocachers sure like to analyze our statistics and one I hadn’t thought about for awhile was the number of consecutive days finding a cache. My best streak was 16 back in 2008. Now sixteen isn’t a terribly impressive streak but when you have a job and you’ve already found most caches in your area it can be quite difficult to find one every single day!

About four days into the new year I noticed that I’d found a geocache every day since. Well, maybe it was time to see if I could beat that! Now that I was retired it should be a piece of cake….yep! For the next several days I managed to hunt one down despite battling a cold. Here is how it progressed……..

1-1-12 * Sacajawea
1-2-12 * Willamette River Sedimentation Earthcache
1-3-12 * Life’s a Beach
1-4-12 * Cave Troll
1-5-12 * Troll Free
1-6-12 * Dead Men Tell No Tales #2
1-7-12 * Missing “Link-O-Log”

And……..there the streak ended! Foiled again! No geocache found for the 8th. Well, I have plenty of time to try again!

Day Trek to Brookings

Posted on January 3, 2012 by mdavidson

Today Patricia had to attend a work meeting at the college’s newest campus – Brookings. They were all bussed down there but I drove down to pick her up at the end of the day so she could stop for photo ops on the return trip. I used the drive down as an opportunity to do some geocaching. I didn’t really have time to hike to any – just picking off a few close to the main highway. It also gave me a chance to scout some potential scenes for Patricia.

We spent the afternoon through sunset at Whaleshead Beach just north of Brookings. One of the seastacks there had a spouting horn displaying it’s great spray!