The Keizer Iris Festival Geocaching Challenge, May 23, 2010

My daughters, Kimberly and Catherine, my son, Christopher, and I drove to Keizer for The Keizer Iris Festival Geocaching Challenge early. We stopped at Starbucks for blueberry muffin and drinks. We found a few caches, picked up our Passports and hit the road. We found all of the caches in three hours. Kimberly almost walked off with a colored pen and Catherine almost walked off with a large green lid to a cache container. I drove down a service road into a golf course and had to turn around in the tight space. We found two caches in two locations. We had a fun time!

Trip to Cannon Beach, May 9, 2010

Christopher, Catherine and I went to Cannon Beach yesterday. We drove into town where I purchased an Oregon State Park year pass, orange and poppyseed muffin.

We drove to Indian Beach, parked in the lower parking area and hiked up the trail about a quarter mile. We found the fourth and last of the “twilight” series caches. The coordinates were over 80’ off.

It was warm day with a light breeze. We ate at a picnic table overlooking Indian Beach (La Push in the movie). There were a lot of surfers. Driving back to Cannon Beach I stopped briefly at Ecola Park to take photographs of Tillamook Rock Lighthouse.

We drove into Cannon Beach where Christopher found a cache. Catherine and I waited at a bench with a view of Haystack Rock. We headed back about 2:30pm. Clouds and rain met us as we drove east over the Coast Range.

Christopher and I will find the "twilight" series Bonus Cache someday soon. I plan to have lunch at a nearby restaurant. I met the owner a week ago and had an interesting chat.

10th Anniversary of Geocaching Event at Redland, Oregon

On Friday, April 30th, I drove my #2 son, Christopher, around to all of the caches so he could fill each with stamps and passports. Yesterday I dropped him off at the Grange in Redland, Oregon before 8:00am so he could give coordinates and passports to the cachers. I had a very early start and knew the caches locations so I stamped my Passport but did not sign the logs. I placed one of the ten caches set for the 10th Anniverary Event - "Slumbering Giant." I stopped briefly at the Original Stash (Cache) Plaque on S. Fellows Road. About 150-200 cachers attended the Event at the Redland Grange. I have my "10 X 10 Challenge Official Passport" as a souvenir.