Shady Grove Junction, Frosty Freeze, Viewpoint DNF

Instead of a bike ride this morning, I talked Karen into hiking in Sycamore Grove to find 3 caches before the rain started.

Shady Grove Junction is in an area well known to us, since we’ve often hiked there. The camo’d container fooled Karen, but in all fairness, this was her first geocaching expedition. Still, […]

Nuts N’ Bolts DNF

Nuts N’Bolts really stumped me. The location is easy enough to find–you don’t even need a GPSr. I walk there occasionally. We even parked there while taking Cortnie to the creek. And I looked and looked and saw nothing.

I came back a second time, and looked some more. Even after reading all the comments […]

Family vacation: McCall, Idaho

We wanted to spend a week in Idaho and friends pointed us to McCall as a beautiful location (and it is). Planning began back in March and we started searching for a 4 bedroom house to rent for a week. We settled on a rental by owner, and it wasn’t until after I had sent […]