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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.

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Saturday, November 20, 2010

Going out to maintain some geocaches

I hear that the geocache I have on Harvard has been muggled so I am going out today to check it and replace it if I need to. There are some others around town that apparently have been muggled so I am going to replace those today too.

Have not been doing any geocaching for awhile because I have been doing lots of paperwork for some things which have a higher priority right now.

Besides that ... have you seen the price of gas?

Monday, October 25, 2010

Geo-caching in Florence

We went to Florence for this past weekend and weathered out the HUGE storm over there and yet found 23 geocaches for the weekend. Nothing like running around getting soaked and getting blown around by the monstrous winds right off the ocean.

I thought our motel was going to blow over Saturday night the winds were so bad.

But Sunday was cold but sunny up to noon or so and then it started raining again.

It was a fruitful.

We dropped off one travel bug and picked up two in our travels. I have already dropped off the two bugs in the Ivy Hotel here near the Dixonville turn off from highway 138.

Friday, October 22, 2010

Downtown Published

4PAW published a new one and it is appropriately called DOWNTOWN ... we just happened to be down on Jackson Street when it went published into my email on my iPhone so we walked down the street to see if we can find it between the sprinkles.

The size is not shown and there is no hint just a very short description. It was too wet and we got a bad signal on the iPhone for it kept telling us that we were 16 feet north of it which meant it was inside the shoe store and I am sure it is not.

So we put that on our list of ones to find and gave it a DNF ... it must be a good hide for we tore the place apart looking for it (not really). There were plenty of muggles using the walkway and I can over hear the asking each other what the heck we were doing. So I will be anxious to see who the first to find is on this one.

So we went down the street and found Axel Rose by walking right up to it. The iPhone showed the coords to be right on the spot. That makes 430 for us now on our quest for the illusive 500 mark.

We are going to Florence OR tomorrow to get out of the house. I am feeling cooped up since going to ER a couple of weeks ago and being told by the doctors to not drive and not to do any work.

Of course we will both be doing some geocaching while over there and of course we will be getting some clam chowder at Mo's. There is some new geocaches north of the area we had geocached the last time we were there so we are going to explore the northern reaches of Florence.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

The 10-10 Challenge for UVGA

We had loads of fun even if we did have rain for the day. I would call it a very successful event and we will certainly have more for sure.

Just wait!

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Taking out a couple for 10-10-10 event next weekend

I am going out to place a couple for the 10-10-10 event that will be surrounding River Forks Park next Sunday around 10 am ... have done this for awhile and where I will be doing the hide I get a lot of bounces on my iPhone so they will be a good sized cache and not micros. Lots of swag for the kiddies will be in each of them. They will be clear tupperware type of snap on lids that will be yellow ... making a real easy find. No camo at all.

If I have time I may go up on Burnt Mountain and see if I can find the little treasures up there.

It seems everyone is heading west into them thar hills to hide and find caches.

It should be a good day even with all this cloud cover.

Thursday, September 16, 2010

His Newest FTF

Congratulations to Mickleson5 for being the FTF on Remembering the Axman down in Riddle, OR. He found on the afternoon of 9/16/2010 on his way home from work. It was there for so long that there was cob webs all over it, but just before he gave up on the hunt he found it. Way to go Todd!

Monday, September 6, 2010

Welcome Gundy5 to geocaching

Yesterday I was told by my son from a text message I received that he downloaded the geocaching training app onto his new smart phone and was out with his wife and kids looking for their first.

They are back in Little Rock, AR for a few months while he is going through some training in the USAF before he transfers down to Tuscon AZ this winter.

They had a very successful day by finding 11 on their first day.

They even found a geocoin on their first day out - way to go.

There are lots of geocaches in the Little Rock area and I am sure they will have plenty before they make the move to the desert.

Now that football season is here I will be watching games more on the weekends than going hunting for the elusive geocache. When the weather turns wet I will be working on building some new geocaches for the spring. I have so many being developed in my mind and physically right now. It will be a very challenging winter for sure to come up with new ones.

Right now I want to concentrate on the series about my ship I served on back in 1970. One is active and I have two more that are just waiting for a location so I can take the coords but the geocache is ready to go ... so I will concentrate on the locations for those. Coach Beau (CanfieldClan) is going to be taking his "Success Class" out from Roseburg High School to find the first in the series to find and I may go into the classroom before they go out hunting to talk to the kids first.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

TWO DNFs

I want to thank Gpsees for giving me a couple of DNFs on two geocaches of mine, Numbers Blitz 4 and 5, for I went out to check on them on my while to and from Glide this morning and 4 was muggled and the prescription bottle, the lid and the log sheet were laying on the ground and scattered about just down the slope from the guardrail. Number 5 was just plain missing so I replaced it. They are all back in working order now so that is good thing.

This is exactly, I mean exactly what I what I was talking about at the business meeting before the UVGA meet and eat on August 22nd. If you don't find a geocache, instead of just leaving and NOT leaving a DNF and the owner thinks all is well, leave a DNF for the geocache may be missing. It is not like you are having points taken away from you or you are ruining your perfect run. If it is a DNF play the game and leave a DNF for the sake of the owner.

Took me all of about 5 minutes to maintain these two geocaches ... no skin off my nose out of my day.

Thank you Gpsees for letting me know ... they are up and back in action again thanks to you.

The question remains - how many geocachers looked and walked away from these two and for some reason did not have guts to leave a DNF? ... I wonder.

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.

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Wolf Creek and Golden OR





Today we went south for a successful day of geocaching in Wolf Creek, Golden, and a quick stop in Glendale for one and then at the north bound rest area to grab "back in the woods".

Back in the Woods eluded us once before with the iPhone with the over head being so dense. This time Dawn came up with it after about 15 minutes ... all I could hear was I FOUND IT - real loud .. she get's so excited on these finds that are challenges.

Golden was really peaceful. We could not find one of them and that is so frustrating. It is supposed to be a small lock and lock and we could just not find it anywhere. We looked everywhere that one could be, under the steps to the old church; under the porch to the church; we picked up every rock in the area; looked under the bench; looked everywhere and gave up on it after an hour or so ... must have been muggled.

The other three in Golden were successful and so was all the ones in Wolf Creek. What a neat little cemetery we found in Wolf Creek where "Historical Place" was placed.

We had to laugh at speed limit sign in the county park walking out to retrieve "Home Run" ... of course Nosey Rosey sniffed them both out from the their hiding places.

A little side benefit to our trip today was filling a quart container with Blackberries in Wolf Creek. The berry bushes are all over the place.

Then on the way home I checked our geocaching email and saw that a new one from "themasonfamily2" was published at the exit coming up on our drive northward on Interstate 5. A short exit to retrieve that one was all Nosey Rosey needed to finish our day of geocaching off.

Pictured ... the speed limit sign in Wolf Creek County Park, Dawn in the old ghost town church in Golden Dawn at the Golden General Store (this ain't Walmart). Another picture is of the motor in the Wolf Creek cemetery ... very unusual in deed.

All and all it was a great day and we had loads of fun and had a great history lesson in Golden.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Riddle to Glide Loop



This morning I got up EARLY and headed south before sunrise and headed out to the Riddle - Glide Loop where I was the FTF on a new one that has sat there for 2 days without being found. I just could not let it go for someone else to be the FTF so I looked for it and after the iPhone settled down with it's GPS it pointed right at it. Ah ha .. find # 1 for the day.

My next find was at the Spawning Beds upstream ... this was a quick one and off to the next one. It was called ROCK PIT and I wish all my geocaches were this obvious, pictured. The second picture is at West Fork with a tunnel going through the mountain leading to the bridge over Cow Creek. It really stood out even though the area was one big rock pit. I passed right by the POND and went to Pioneers Graves ... read the history marker. There was history markers all over the place. I had no idea there was a ghost town up there called West Fork that served as a railroad spur back in the 1880's ... and the Chinese helped build the railroad up there. Interesting Drive!!!

Finally made it to Glendale and found THE GAZEBO and GLENDALE # 2. Coming back with Dawn to find GLENDALE # 1 and THE CART PROJECT. Even though Glendale is small there are lots of muggles around early in the morning.

A real nice loop from Riddle to Glendale.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Out to Gravel Bin Raft Launch


This morning I got up and headed east on highway 138 out past Steamboat Inn. I found 7 geocaches for the trip and really had to use my geosenses since my iPhone has limited GPS use outside the AT&T service area. But, I have so many county geocaches saved to my iPhone I can find them outside the service area.

I ventured all the way out to Gravel Bin Raft put in location (pictured) and found one right off the bat even if my GPS was bouncing all over the place. It helps to read the hints... LOL.

I started my morning out by climbing the steep hill up the 14th tee for disc golf to find WHISTLERS and what a hike it was. I do not recommend it to anyone who might have bad knees .. mine was killing me. If you have a bad heart I would avoid this one too. The rating for terrain is not so accurate and should be increased. Certainly a 3 at least. But I logged it.

Sunday I am going to drive down Little River Road and go out to Hemlock Lake and hope to find all the geocaches along the way. This area looks pretty interesting for geocaches and I have not been out to Hemlock lake for about 13 years or so.

We will surely get to 340 tomorrow ... but feeling so lonely since Nosey Rosey is doing her shifts over at Mercy Hospital. We won't be able to team up until next weekend when we plan on going down to Golden, Oregon - a ghost town with lots of historical sites from what we have heard.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Umpqua Gold and others


Today we want to venture out for a couple of hours west of Melrose and OMG .. what a day we had. Probably the toughest day yet since started geocaching in March.

We found Umpqua Gold clear at the top of the Callahan's Range and what a view we had. Pictured is the scene from up there on the crest of the Callahan's where we found Umpqua Gold and Where the Ferns Are .. we tried to find Reforest Lookout on the back side of the mountain but alas a DNF for us after searching for this ammo can for about an hour. All we found was lots of slippery soil, poison oak, berry bushes, Madrone, horse flies... but no ammo can. That is three DNFs in a row for this one and something tells me it is MIA. We wandered around all over the place and finally gave up when my iPhone got down to 20% power for the day.

Nosey Rosey needs to work at the hospital tomorrow but I will be getting up with her to bail out and head up the north Umpqua River to see how many I can find out where I have no signal with AT&T but I can still find geocaches using the saved button for all the caches out there.

I hope to find plenty. My goal is to make t iout Diamond Lake and beyond. I hurt my knee today climbing around the side of the mountain looking for Reforested Lookout but I don't care. I am not going to let that stop me from looking for more east of here.

We also found Eternally Eden just outside of Melrose and and another in the Umpqua Valley Winery Tours too. It was at Hillcrest Winery ... one of these days we are going to need to stop in and sample some wine while on this tour looking for geocaches.

It is all in the numbers ... FTF is just a bonus ... if it happens it happens. Maximize the numbers.


Saturday, July 17, 2010

Fun in Grants Pass


Today we went to Grants Pass to do some geocaching in a new region ... did we ever have fun. They are all over the place in Grants Pass and they were there for the pickings it seems. We were 18 for 18 in our finds. The only reason we quit was because my iPhone went dead in the battery because our car charger went bad. So, we went to Walmart and bought a new car charger for iPhones and now it holds a charge a bit longer. I wish we were spending the night in GP so we could find even more tomorrow.
Pictured is Dawn logging in her find on a bridge spanning over the Rogue River where she found a geocoin.

On way home we stopped at Safe House off I-5 so I could show Dawn what it looked like and she could not believe it. She loved it.

Tomorrow we are getting up a bit earlier to find some in the Tyee area and west of Sutherlin before it gets to HOT. It was 97 degrees in GP ... and very humid. We are wiped out tonight.

Friday, July 16, 2010

Grants Pass

We will be heading to Grants Pass for the weekend and spend the night to look for some new geocaches in a new region in Oregon. I have been to Grants Pass many times but I am sure we will explore parts of it that we have not seen before. We hope to make our goal of 300 with this trip. We got the notice about the UVGA Meet and Eat on the 22nd of August and we will be attending for sure. Will be telling all my friends that are in the valley including those that want to find out what geocaching is all about first hand. This is a good way to get introduced to all us high-tech explorers and discover how much fun it is.

Be sure to click the link for Meet and Eat to the right to get details.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

We found our first time early morning, in the dark, FTF this morning. We got the notice that a new geocache went public while watching Late Night on TV and I slipped my jeans and a shirt on and Dawn and I drove out to see if we can find it. It was the second place I looked. Dawn received the honor of filling out the log. Did not even have to use a flash light since there was so much light from the parking lot. So cool.

Going to Florence tomorrow to visit with some Boy Scouts at Camp Baker south of town. Of course I will be hunting for geocaches to camp on the way to Elkton and then in Florence in the afternoon when I pick up a leather duffel bag at the the store that sells all leather items for $20.

This weekend we will be going down to Grants Pass and do some hunting for geocaches that are there. This city is just filled with them and it will virgin area for us to hunt. Looking forward to writing TFTC on a lot of new logs there.

I received another DNF on DROP IN THE BALLOT BOX - NOT on Diamond Lake Blvd. I took Dawn over there last night and she found it right away. Of course she new what it looked like. The point is that it is still there. Since we got so many DNF's on this we upgraded the difficulty to 2.5 from 1.5 at the recommendation of one of the latest DNF. It is not your typical Micro. Look for it - not only see. It is right in front of you.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

EARLY MORNING

Got up early and went down to the Glendale area finding only four geocaches and found six travel bugs in total. Dropped all six of them off at my IVY HILTON TRAVEL BUG HOTEL out towards Dixonville. It should have 12 TB's in there already from the six I dropped off yesterday from our trip to California.

I fell three times, poked in the face and in the back while looking for SAFE HOUSE off Boomer Mountain Road off of Interstate 5. I laughed all the wait out. SAFE HOUSE is probably the most expensive and most thought out geocache yet. Great job guys.

Now to go hide some more and perhaps find some more too.

If you are looking for the BALLOT BOX geocache I went to check on it this morning and it is still there. A couple who claims to have over 900 hides between them from Grants Pass complained because they do not like DNFs and felt I should have given them more of a hint. How come other local geocachers can find it? It is a bit more challenging. Also, I replaced A STEP ABOVE THE REST because it was muggled already since July 4th. Now it will be really easy to find.

Friday, July 9, 2010

IVY HILTON TB & GEOCOIN HOTEL

Dumped all my latest TBs and Geocoins that I found in California in the Ivy Hilton Travel Bug and geocoin Hotel here in Roseburg. Get to it and collect some TBs and coins to pass along their way.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Home from California

We are home at last. A very productive trip. We are up to 263 finds now and still have some days left until I need to get back to work. We have one travel bug and two geocoins that we need to get rid of soon so that they can travel on their way. Tomorrow is another day.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Wednesday Night

Will be leaving for Oregon tomorrow morning and will hopefully find many, many geocaches on the way home. We are up to 256 now and we want to reach 300 before the end of tomorrow. It has been a fun time seeing several new geocaches in California. I will be taking them back to Oregon and using them in my new hides. Really unusual hides in deed.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Douglas County Numbers Blitz series

After 4 PM today the DC Numbers Blitz Series will go public from geocaching.com and all geocachers from DC area will be able to be the first to find of at least one of them today and perhaps still over the weekend. I understand that "A step above the rest " and "Drop your ballot here" are a bit tough to find according to Whitetail and Traveler, but mickleson5 was the FTF on "Drop Your Ballot Here". Congrats Todd for being the first to find. Not my typical hide was it?

The Blitz series will be very easy to find and is meant to boost your numbers by at least 12 if not more by finding some that will be nearby a few of them at the same time.

Tomorrow morning we are off heading south on I - 5 to drive down to Travis AFB for a couple of days to find some geocaches all over the Fairfield and Vacaville, CA area before heading off to San Jose on Monday. In San Jose CA we will be going out and find as many of the geocaches as we can in that area too. Perhaps we will strike gold with the geocaches.

I will try to make an entry into the blog from California if we are near a wi-fi spot somewhere.

Until then Have a Happy 4th and be safe.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Thursday Morning

The other day started the blitzkrieg bombardment of geocache hides around the county. One, Douglas County Numbers Blitz # 9, was published last Tuesday by mistake. It is located in Sutherlin and congrats to lostswedes for the FTF. This morning Tyler's Eagle Project was published and it appears that lostswedes are the first to find again.

When the bombardment strikes this weekend it will be a little challenging to be a multiple FTF for these I am sure since they are all over the place.

We will be on vacation when the blitz happens but I will be notified by email on my iPhone on who will be the first to find for each of them while we are geocaching in California.

From my notifications it looks like there are a lot of people from points further south who are going to GeoWoodstock up north. They are all passing through our area and picking up a few geocaches along the way through our county. You can just follow them northward when they log their finds into geocaching.com. That means those same people will be coming through here going home from GW8 in a few days to make the return trip. More than likely they will be competition for the FTF on those of the blitz later.

Have a great 4th of July weekend geocaching.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Trip to California

Just three more days till we go down to California and do some geocaching in the Bay Area where there are thousands of geocaches.

The Douglas County Numbers Blitz will be published very soon and there will be even more of the local geocaches to be found by the local geocachers here in the county. We will be back next the following Thursday from our trip so that Nosey Rosey can get back to work. But guess what I will be doing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday while she is working? LMAO

You guessed!

I expect to have at least another 100 when we return if not more.

Monday, June 28, 2010

BSA Geocoin Update

One of the geocoins launched at Camp Mooney Boy Scout Ranch are on their way north and south. One of the coins is now in Lassen National Park in California and the second one is now in the Portland area. Hopefully they both will be moving along on their travels soon.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

A Fun Day in Sutherlin


We went out and only found six today, but then we were only out for a little while in Sutherlin. That brings us to a total of 206 to today. The hide blitz campaign is in full swing and so far we have hidden a total of 10 to date. I plan on hiding a few more and then fave them all published at all once. I hope to hide another 10 or so during my drives around the county to meet for an appointment for the Boy Scouts.

We found one of at Coopers Creek Reservoir this afternoon and what a beautiful walk through the woods it was too. We found hundreds of good locations for a geocache to be hidden and one of them just happened to be it. Pictured is Dawn (nosey rosey) with one of the finds for the day at Coopers Creek.

Dropped a Travel Bug in one geocache in Sutherlin also and picked up one at the Ivy Hotel to take with us down to California when we drive down on in a couple of weeks.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Geocache Blitz


I am going to be dropping another BSA Geocoin and a NEW BSA Travel Bug (pictured) in a location locally and send them on their way. I will be sending updates on the movement of the TB and geocoin as they travel around the world (hopefully).

Still no reports on the BSA Geocoin that has traveled down to Lassen National Park 10 days or so now. Future updates on its movement will also be coming. Would like to see it move on now that we are in the middle of GCing season.

I am going to be publishing a bunch of NEW GC's all over Douglas County to help build up the numbers for everyone around here. Some will be easy and some will be a bit tougher but none will be a 5 on the difficulty scale. Some may be a 5 on the terrain scale however. LOL

There is a rumor in the wind about an upcoming GC event in the fall sponsored by the City of Roseburg... do I smell GEOCOINS ????

A certain Roseburg City Councilman (who I hooked into GCing big time) is being very good about creating some very creative GC locations over the past several weeks. Thanks for helping out build the numbers for everyone around here. I know that a certain Cubmaster in the Camas Valley area is also building our population of GC's from CV to Winston ... thanks for all your tricky hides.

Next weekend we will be traveling down to the SF Bay Area and of course we will be doing some GCing along the way and all over San Jose area when we visit the family. And of course we will be stopping for some GC's on the way home along 5 also. My brother will go crazy over this Geocaching - it is right up his alley. He loves to explore the foothills in the Bay Area and he will go nuts when he sees how many GCs are right around his area of San Jose.

We are going to introduce Geocaching also to my USAF son and his family and I hope that the grandkids will want to do this after they transfer to their new base in Tuscon, AZ. Hmmmmm... I smell a trip to Arizona sometime in the future to Geocache. I understand AZ is loaded with Geocaches because of all the retired people down there hiding them everyday. A GEOCACHE GOLDMINE from what I hear.

Sunday, June 20, 2010

IVY HOTEL - TB AND GEOCOIN HOTEL


Today the new Travel Bug and Geocoin Hotel went active. No swag permitted only trackables. I had to run out to the cache again to get the correct coordinates because my iPhone sent wrong ones because of the dense tree cover. The correct coordinates are:

N 43.12.676 W 123.15.648 and the cache number is GC2AG4E.

It was loaded with a bunch of different TBs and one Geocoin and I want to congratulate "mjbaker65" for being the "first to find". He took the coin.

Spent the day up in Glide yesterday and only found five more. I am thinking on going down to Grants Pass area today and try some GCing down there because from the looks of things the area is just loaded with hundreds of GC's.

Would like to go with my son but he would rather skateboarding with his buds so we will see.

Happy Fathers Day

Monday, June 14, 2010

Hid a New One

Okay ... could not resist. I hid another one in the Rice Hill area of our county. I was coming home from Drain, OR and stopped off at Rice Hill for some lunch and it was just calling out to me to hide another one ... so I did.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

One find and one hide

I think this is the best hide I have done so far. Not your typical grab and dash for sure. I also found another one in the Winston area to add to my collection.

Showed Nosey Rosey where I wanted to hide the latest and she totally agreed. The hide has been made - just waiting for it to be published now.

Two more to be added to the hides should be published to the list any time now.

Plain tuckered out

The week off because Nosey Rosey was in Clearwater FL and she did not get to geocache at all to drop off a geocoin she had with her while she was back there. From doing a zip code search on geocaching.com I see that GCing is big back there and they are placed every where. A micro was only 473 feet from the house she was visiting too. Oh well - she tried. Nice to see her home again. The team is complete once more.

While driving up to Portland Airport yesterday to pick her up was able to find 9 geocaches and took 3 travel bugs. Will transfer those TBs along to other cache locations along interstate 5 as we travel down to San Jose in a couple of weeks.

The Boy Scout geocoin is now in Lassen National Park. It is now 200.1 miles to the south of us as the crow flies. Looking forward to watching its travels as it goes from cache to cache along its way around.

I only hid one yesterday on my way up north on 5 to the airport and just put in for its publication this morning.

I think I will go geocaching for a little while today and hide another before tackling the front lawn.

Monday, June 7, 2010

Not today

Not going to do any Geocaching today or for the rest of the week by the way I am so busy for the rest of the week with work and all. I will be back next weekend.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

CACHE FOR A CACHE

I found two more this morning so I am going to start practicing "cache for cache" around the Burg. Every time I find a cache I hide a cache. Just think if we all practiced this ... the inventory in the county would go way up for all of us ... new caches galore. So since I found 2, I hid 2 more.

Check that ... I went back out again and hid one more.

I also went out doing some cruising and found some neat containers for future geocaches and also now have three environmental geocaches that just need a little help and they will be ready for placing in the wild.

5:30 PM ... just could not stand it ... went out to hide 2 more. On both sides of the freeway.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

4 MORE FOUND AND 2 HIDDEN

Two more are now active and I found 4 this morning ... one I could not find and will be taking Nosey Rosey out to the bridge where it is to see if she can "sniff it out" like she usually does. I saw one this morning that I had never seen before that gives me ideas ... oh oh ... smell the smoke ?

So now I am up to 165 found and 21 hidden

Friday, June 4, 2010

Stairway to Heaven - FOUND

Found it tonight after picking up Nosey Rosey home from her shift at the hospital. But before we did we drove over to a new location I found to show her where we can do our next hide. I told her what my idea was and she fully agreed that it would be a good location and a good place for a hide. We are going to go shopping now over the weekend to make this geocache and see how it turns out. Perhaps it will be active sometime over the weekend.

After that we were able to get some gas at the new ARCO station where premium was selling for $2.59 a gallon because they ran out of regular gas so they were selling premium for the regular price. I think my engine got a shot in the arm of some high octane stuff and is purring like a kitten from it. LOL


Number 19 is now active

As a PREMIUM MEMBER geocache ... another easy one but you will need to get some walking in to get to it and there muggles all over the place.

18 hides

There are now 18 geocaches out there that we have hidden that are active in the local area and number 19 should be active later today after I do a correction on the coordinates for it, now that the weather has shown some improvements. Both Nosey Rosey and I are always thinking of new locations for future placements for geocaches and one thing for sure your observation ability is always being tested for up and coming locations.

According to geocaching.com there are 151 active geocaches with a 10 mile radius from the center of town. I would like to see at at 200 by the end of summer. With all the geocaches that we plan on planting and with all the other geocaches that I hear through the geocaching grapevine that will be planted we should easily make the 200 goal on time.

With any luck a HUGE geocaching event will be held here possibly around fall that will draw lots of visitors from all over and give a boost to the local economy by filling hotel and motel rooms, shopping and for the restaurants too. So getting 200 geocaches out there by the end of summer is going to be our goal. I know that the local city will be placing some geocaches for this event too so there should be plenty to keep all the visitors very happy indeed. Now the goal is to make it fun and challenging too.

The inventiveness and the creativity of some of the local people are too much. I am always explaining to first time geocachers or muggles interested in geocaching what things to look for without telling them where the location is or its name. Several are standouts in my mind. The longtime geocachers are really testing the geosenses on us newbies in the game.

I can't wait to get down to California next month to hopefully find some new types of geocaches and use them up here in the future. Where we are going is a small town by California standards but within a ten mile radius of the center of this town there are 1,580 geocaches hidden according to geocaching.com. About 10 times more than we have locally. Talk about saturated. We will just about be stepping on them everywhere we go it seems ... lol.




Thursday, June 3, 2010

First to Find (FTF)

LOL ... there is one individual in our area who is the FTF (first to find) for all my new geocaches just minutes after they go active and online ... he has been the FTF to find no more ... now when I plant a new one and before it goes PUBLISHED (active) I text the coordinates to my geocaching buddies and let them in on so they can get a head start to find the cache before this guy does become another FTF ... it worked ... MJBAKER was the first to find on the hardest I have planted so far and DUKFAN was the FTF on another one. THEY both beat this pest ... we wonder how he is the first to find on so many of mine ... the text will be going out to my fellow geocachers I know just so they will be beating this guy to the punch time after time.

I would love to see his face when he is NOT the FTF on all my futures geocache hides.... LOL

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Troop 195

Went out with Boy Scout Troop 195 from Roseburg and they found four geocaches as a new Boy Scout activity. I don't know who had more fun, the boys or the adult leaders. As one adult leader said to me as we found the fourth one at Mercy Hospital, "This could get addicting."

"Yes it can!"

Dreary Day

A raining again today. I am meeting with a Boy Scout Troop tonight and taking them GCing, rain or shine. I hope it stops raining just to enjoy the evening GCing over some old ones that I have already found in the past when I first started but it will be an introduction to them. They should get a kick out of it for sure.

I cannot wait to out over this weekend and find more geocaches. Nosey Rosey will be taking a Travel Bug or a Geocoin back to Florida for her nieces graduation from High School. She will search for a geocache and place the trackable into it to move it on its way ... who knows where it will go after that.... CUBA????:

Monday, May 31, 2010

Later on Memorial Day

Just could not stand it ... I hid one more .. so that makes five for the day. I only one found. That is a first.

Took the time to LOG IN all my geocoins and travel bugs that I have found and am building a TB Motel of my own to place here town to help the transfer of TB's up and down Interstate 5. I need to buy some more cammo tape because I went through the whole roll already with the ones that I have prepared as hides that is in our geocache backpack.

Another day of geocaching fun.

Memorial Day afternoon

Just a few sprinkles today so I thought I would plant five geocaches around town to see I can get the numbers up around here. This time I made them just a bit harder to find. No more of those fast grab and dash for me ... now those that find my caches will have do some walking ... I am not saying the LPCs are out of the question but all mine up to now have been too easy to find.

Those that I planted today are called:


I am just waiting for them to be published.

One will be a real challenge and so might another one ... I know they took me places I have never seen here before.


A Dreary Day So Far

Well, here it is early in the morning on the 31st of May, Memorial Day, and the ground is wet, it is sprinkling and my plans for some yard work early has been changed. Nosey Rosey is working for the day so I have some things to do here I am sure. I do plan on getting some containers prepared for a quick drop off all over the city. I do need to archive the one we placed yesterday because when it went active last night I looked at the map and the coordinates were about 100 miles off from where it actually is. I knew I would have a problem with all that tree canopy in getting an accurate reading on the iPhone GPS. I had no idea there was that much of a problem with the cooridinates. I will be sure to find a placement in the future that has a clear sky so I will not collect any interference from overhead trees.

I printed off some new official geocache logo log sheets. I got them at a web site that I found that is giving them away at http://techblazer.com . A fellow geocacher helping other geocachers. I highly recommend this site for no other reason but to get the log sheets for your own geocaches that you may be placing.

I will probably place about 3 or 4 geocaches around the area and get closer to our goal of 50 personally placed by us around the county to raise the numbers of geocaches by that much more to make this county of ours even more desirable to go geocaching in by others geocachers in the Pacific NW.

I am also thinking of a new container to be used as a geocache in the future. I want to make unique and unusual and place it around here soon. Probably will be large enough to be a Travel Bug Motel so I can use it to place the TB's that we find so that they can be sent on their way. I don't recall seeing any TB motels anywhere in our city. I found one yesterday and had our choice of taking many travel bugs and decided to take one from the Tallahassee Fire Department. But that was 35 miles south of us. I also know of one about 15 miles north of us - but not here. So the search is on to place one here.

Well let's see how the day goes and what will transpire for geocaching on Memorial Day.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

May 30, 2010

I was introduced to the sport/hobby of geocaching on March 6, 2010 when I used my iPhone with the Geocaching Intro free app to find my first geocache. The first one my son and I found was near a duck pond and had a "travel bug" in my very first find. That was a MARIO and is heading north the last time I checked on it on my watch list on geocaching.com.

As of this date, Dawn (Nosey Rosey) and I have found a total of 157 geocaches and we hid our 14th geocache in the southern end of our county. All of the other ones we hid were EASY ... now we want to hide some that will be a bit more challenging. Starting with our 14th it will become a bit harder to find in the field. We want to create more ENVIRONMENT blending caches for both urban and rural. Both of us are now looking everywhere and thinking "that would be a good spot" or "there should be one here".

On June 1st I will be speaking to a local Lions Club group about geocaching since they want to learn about it as much as possible so that the members of the club can enjoy the game too. That will be great getting more people involved so that there will be more hunters as well as developing "hiders" since our town is getting pretty slim on good quality geocaches.