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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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????: