Steep hike, Cache Creek

Lately, in my geocaching adventures, I’ve been focusing on caches that have a high difficulty and/or terrain rating. (Caches are rated on two criteria. The difficulty (D) rating is supposed to indicate how difficult it is to find the cache, perhaps because of a hard puzzle that must be solved or very effective camouflage. The […]

Finished the well-rounded cacher challenge

While not actively caching anymore, I have continued to work on completing the requirements for the Well Rounded Cacher (The Fizzy Challenge) cache. I completed all the requirements a few weeks ago, and Karen and I hiked up the Pine Mountain trail in Big Basin last Saturday to log the final cache. The challenge basically […]

The Stacks geocache

I finally found GC11RGR The Stacks in Bend, OR, a cache that has been bugging me for 3 years. It’s a D5T3.5, and deserves it. Took me all afternoon, bouldering around in some lava cliffs. Karen was so patient. I had made at least two previous attempts, and even with extra hints from the CO, […]