September 24, 2004, 9:43 pm After hiking today, we stopped to try to find Slick Rock (N 44° 57.111 W 115° 56.638). Unfortunately, I had failed to download the waypoint into the GPSr, so we just navigated using the lat/lon coordinates. Not too hard since it was clear it was across the road from Slick Rock.
Four of us went up the hill, and the ammo can cache was spotted in short order. Cortnie took a glass butterfly and left a hot wheels car we found hidden away in the house we were staying in.
 
Slick Rock is a large granite face that’s fairly imposing (but not like El Capitan) and is popular with rock climbers.
September 23, 2004, 9:36 pm Most of our days in Idaho (when it wasn’t raining) were spent getting the kids ready, driving to a trailhead, and hiking. By Thursday, we were ready for a little downtime (well, actually, the women wanted to go shopping), so I loaded up the eTrex with a couple of close-by geocaches and went to try my luck.
The first one I searched for was PONDEROSA (N 44° 56.949 W 116° 04.459). This required a short hike around a small pond. At the destination I wandered around for a while because the tall trees blocked GPS signal reception, and so the GPS readings were inconsistent. Finally, I started paying attention to other clues (like where would someone hide a cache and other visible clues). That got me right to it.
McCall Scrabble Scramble Three (Blackberry Bay) (N 44° 56.487 W 116° 04.301 ) was nearby. It wandered off trail near a downed tree and a couple of other pines. I had to search for a while for this one because the eTrex zeroed out several feet away from the actual hiding place. The next day we brought Cortnie and let her follow the arrow on the GPSr, and then gently steered her to the cache.
September 17, 2004, 10:12 pm Having purchased a Garmin eTrex GPS receiver before our vacation to McCall, Idaho, I thought it might be fun to try to find a few geocaches in the McCall area.
There is more information here at Geocaching.com
A geocache is generally a container that is located at a specified latitude/longitude. You might think, “What’s the big deal? The GPS receiver can get me within 20 feet.” It’s that last 20 feet that’s difficult, since the caches are hidden and/or camoflaged. I’m sure one learns the various hiding techniques, but right now (as a beginner) I think my learning curve is going to be kind of long and drawn out.
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