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Welcome to our blog about our adventures in geocaching around the Pacific Northwest, our little corner of the world. We started Geocaching on March 6, 2010. We are approaching 600 finds and have an even 100 hides so far.

Geocaching is a fun activity for Nosey Rosey (Dawn) and I and we do it as a team. It has taken us around our county to places we have never seen before in 13 years. The exploring is just one aspect of the fun in geocaching. We go out nearly every weekend and use multi-million dollar satellites to play our hobby for free using an iPhone and my handheld GPS.

I (Ed) go by GeoHL now since I am called GeoHotLine by some of the fellow geocachers in the area.

If you have a question about geocaching ... you can email us at anytime at nwgeocaching@gmail.com .


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Sunday, August 29, 2010

Son's Geocaching Team

I took my son and one of his friends out to do some geocaching last night. It is amazing how my son went from, "No, I don't want to do the same thing my parents are doing" to "I hate to say this but I am actually having fun".

He and his friend became a geocaching team and I took them around to find their first five. They are now known in geocaching cirles as RHSKooks. They will be running around on their bikes and skateboards looking for their geocaches all over town without a GPS, just using descriptions, hints and maps from geocaching.com.

I intended to do some geocaching today but fell asleep on the couch and took a nap for six hours. I guess I was really tired.

I did however submitted one to be published and get started on two more that will be my hardest so far. I put them at a 4 rating for difficulty. The reviewer suggest that this first one be a multi-cache. It will be in memory of the ship I was on board back in 1970, the USS America CVA-66 and a memory of sailing around the world. But, it will have a twist.

I want to congratulate Buckshot and Foxy, themasonfamily2 and Cacti_Talon for being FTFs on some of my latest hides that were published on August 22nd.

A special congrats goes out to Cacti_Talon for their FTF after so many people who looked for it off highway 42 without leaving a DNF. Cacti_Talon was able to understand the hint and wrote their comments as the same. LOL big time.

The next one as a tribute to the America will be similar.... but NOT quite the same.

Welcome to RHSKooks to the wonderful world of geocaching.

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Going to the council

Will be at the council for a bit of the day up in Eugene. So on the way home we hope to stop off and find some geocaches from the Eugene and Cottage Grove areas.

Tomorrow we are going to try and find some that are on Highway 42 out in Camas Valley area out to Coquille. Need to get to 400 before Tuesday for sure since I made it my goal to reach 400 by September 1st. It is so frustrating sitting at 379 for so long. Have just been too busy with work to get out and do more hunts.

Will go for AgentsD new hide which is their first one ever. I have a meeting with Brian on Monday and I am sure we will discuss some geocaching as the meeting winds down. I also want to take NoseyRosey over to Under the Bridge (Revisited) to assist me getting it from its hiding place. I found it the other day but was unable to get it. I will be taking my walking stick today to do my "reach" for me.

Friday, August 27, 2010

Boy Scout Travel Bug

I just got the notice that the Boy Scout Travel bug has gone 2,313 miles and it is now back in Buena Vista, Virginia. The Bugbandits took it from the Ivy Hilton TB Hotel near Dixonville and flew back to Virginia while taking their son to settle in at school.

The geocache is a wooden box inside the visitors center for the University. It is in GC2B4JT at the present time.

We will keep a watch on this for sure to see where it travels from here.

Monday, August 23, 2010

1 Day After the UVGA Event

Well we took up about a quarter of the Abby's Pizza place for the Umpua Valley Geocachers Association Meet and Eat event ... good to see so many faces and so many new people who are getting into GeoCaching around the Roseburg area ... we even had one woman come down as far away as Junction City ... way to go.

We had a good business meeting before the event and some good dialogue was had by most present.

I had 12 new geocaches go public during or shortly after the meeting and there were others that had theirs publish after the meeting too. We even had a geocache at the event for everyone to take advantage of loads of TBs on vehicles or on the table for us all to discover.

I just wish Nosey Rosey did not have to work yesterday and she missed the event.

The next event is going to be a good one. We are all going to have fun - we will discuss that our next business meeting coming up soon.

I had to get up to Lookingglass first thing this morning to hang some posters at the Lookingglass school and found three quick park and grabs along the way ... geocaching makes my daily business day go by so much faster with the challenges that keep popping up.

Will see what challenges will come my way for the rest of the day, week and month as I do my geocaching to and from appointments as time allows.

Thanks for attending the event.

Friday, August 20, 2010

I just launched 10 new geocaches into the world for the event on Sunday while we are at Abby's Pizza for the UVGA meet and eat.

Now everyone will have some new geocaches to head out to hoping to be the FTF.

Good luck everyone.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Surprise for fellow geocachers

On Sunday, during the UVGA meeting at 3 PM or so, I should be announcing a surprise to all other geocachers in attendance at the meeting.

If you see me, ask what it might be.... I will tell as soon as it is ready.

Nosey Rosey won't be in attendance since she has to work in Family Birth at Mercy Hospital. But, I will be there for sure and forward any information to her.

It should be a good meeting and eat and there will be lots of new people in attendance from what I have heard.

See you at 3 PM on Sunday at Abby's on Diamond Lake Blvd.

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Half the Team is Sick

Today Dawn woke up to a migraine headache that is a doozy. So she called off going into work at the hospital and I found her sleeping on the couch in the living room sitting up when I woke up. It looks like we might need to go to the emergency room and get her one of the Migraine cocktails in a shot served to her again.

Health issues do interfere with this hobby on any given day.


Friday, August 13, 2010

Dawn is working this weekend at the hospital both days so I will be going out both days to do some geocaching exploring. Probably will be going to Eugene area on Saturday since I need to stop by the Scout office to pick something up on Saturday.

Sunday I will probably shoot over to Coos Bay and try out the geocaches on the coast which I have been hearing about.

I will post some pictures of my adventures for sure over the weekend.

Ed aka GeoHL

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sheer Beauty



Sometimes it is not just about the numbers or being the First to Find but seeing the beauty of nature. This is what happened yesterday on Saturday. Dawn was called in to work and I went to a drive up to Little River south of Glide where I have not been for years.

I captured a three geocaches (Artesian?, Stumper and Sasquatch Scratch) while I drove around and just looked at the beauty of it all. I wish I took more pictures but I did not so the two here are all I have.

One is a shot of Little River from the top of the bridge at Wolf Creek Falls trailhead and the second is of Cavitt Creek Falls swimming hole.

Only 3 for the day but it was worth the drive.