Second time’s a charm! See this February blog post from my first attempt at this Wherigo game.

Met up with Kim and Andrew this morning for a nice breakfast at Paradox Cafe – great four-grain pancakes and chicken-apple sausage links!

After breakfast we drove over to Waterfront Park where Andrew and I retraced our steps from the first attempt while the girls perused the booths at the nearby Portland Saturday Market.

This time we were successful in completing the cache and signing the log (container was missing the first time). Portland has a few more Wherigo’s and I look forward to doing more of them in future visits.

This morning before leaving Portland, son-in-law Andrew and I attempted a Wherigo cache adventure down in Portland’s Waterfront Park. I was using my Garmin Oregon 400t and Andrew was following along using the Pigo App on the iPhone. It was a good test of both devices – both worked as they should.

I titled this blog entry as a FAIL because we failed to pick up some necessary information at the first two stages and had to go back and retrieve it then couldn’t find the physical container to log the completion. On top of that, I couldn’t even log the completion on the Wherigo.com site (which is separate from the geocache by the same name) because we copied the confirmation code down wrong.

So on the next trip to Portland I will run through the whole thing again with better results, I hope!

Continuing from Corvallis, Pat and I headed for Portland to visit with Kim and Andrew. After having lunch with Kim near her job (Nike), we headed over to Cooper Mountain Nature Park where I could finally sign the log for the Days of the Year Challenge cache. I had completed the requirement some months ago but was just now getting to the physical cache site to sign the log! Raining and a bit chilly but I wasn’t leaving town without putting this challenge cache to rest!

Picked up a couple of other caches while walking the trails in this nice suburban park.

Well, work for Patricia and play for me anyway! She is attending a work-related conference and I get to geocache! Sweet! Also get to visit with daughter and her husband.

Geocaching highlights:

Signed the logs for two challenge caches (Oregon Cemetery Challenge and Century in a Day Challenge.

Found Beyond Multnomah Falls while out enjoying a day excursion with my all-grown-up-and-married daughter!

Above Multnomah Falls with Kim

A second day in the Gorge with wife and daughter – caches at Bridal Veil and Ponytail Falls and Shepperds Dell

Just LOVE exploring the Columbia Gorge! Sure wish I lived closer!