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Catching up again
I *really* wish I'd managed to get caught up before last weekend. And when I didn't, I actually picked out photos, resized them and uploaded them to our server before I left so that I could work on getting things posted here while I was in Texas and, yeah, that didn't work out either (even though I had wi-fi on the plane on both legs of my trip). So, now I'm stuck again with the daunting task of writing things up about the last two weeks. Don't worry, I'll be combining posts again.
First up, we have Friday, 21 March.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rackham got off work early and we headed across to the other side of the state and down into Oregon for a Geocaching event called a Cache Machine (more on that later). I snapped this photo at a rest area on the way: The Fred G. Redmon Bridge over Selah Creek, just outside of Yakima, WA. At the time it was built in 1971, it was the longest concrete arch bridge in the United States and the highest bridge in Washington state. I've always found it really impressive... If you look on the right hand side of it, you can see the top part of a semi truck and trailer, to give you a bit of an idea of the scale.
Saturday, 22 March was the Hermiston Cache Machine... an event where the organizer had done a lot of research and chose over 100 caches around the town of Hermiston, OR that looked to be not too difficult or time-consuming to find and then mapped out an optimal route to take to hopefully find all of them in one day, ending the whole thing with a dinner event. I think there were 114 caches (including two events... a lunch held in a local park and the dinner as the finale) and we ended up finding only 70 of them (setting a new record for each of us for our most caches found in a single day), but we also slept in and didn't get started until almost 9:00am. So much fun though! And no matter where on the route you start, you end up running into other cachers who are also doing the Cache Machine.
At one of our stops, I took a shot of one of the Welcome to Hermiston signs... with Rackham looking at the GPS and trying to figure out where the cache was hidden.
On Sunday, 23 March, we decided to hit a few more caches around town... including one puzzle cache that Rackham wanted as his 3000th cache find. It was funny, because we headed out for this one, with our GPS unit being a bit flaky (it was having a hard time deciding on a direction), so we picked a small likely looking trail and started out for it. We ended up trudging through ankle deep mud, where it crossed the start of a small stream, and climbing over fallen trees... only to approach the final spot for the cache to find a VERY nice new trail that was practically a small road covered in gravel. *facepalm* We had apparently walked right past that trail at the very beginning of our search. Anyway, it was still a bit of a bushwhack to get back to the actual cache, and I snapped a shot of Rackham signing the log for his 3000th find!
Crossposted from my Livejournal.
First up, we have Friday, 21 March.
rackham got off work early and we headed across to the other side of the state and down into Oregon for a Geocaching event called a Cache Machine (more on that later). I snapped this photo at a rest area on the way: The Fred G. Redmon Bridge over Selah Creek, just outside of Yakima, WA. At the time it was built in 1971, it was the longest concrete arch bridge in the United States and the highest bridge in Washington state. I've always found it really impressive... If you look on the right hand side of it, you can see the top part of a semi truck and trailer, to give you a bit of an idea of the scale.Saturday, 22 March was the Hermiston Cache Machine... an event where the organizer had done a lot of research and chose over 100 caches around the town of Hermiston, OR that looked to be not too difficult or time-consuming to find and then mapped out an optimal route to take to hopefully find all of them in one day, ending the whole thing with a dinner event. I think there were 114 caches (including two events... a lunch held in a local park and the dinner as the finale) and we ended up finding only 70 of them (setting a new record for each of us for our most caches found in a single day), but we also slept in and didn't get started until almost 9:00am. So much fun though! And no matter where on the route you start, you end up running into other cachers who are also doing the Cache Machine.
At one of our stops, I took a shot of one of the Welcome to Hermiston signs... with Rackham looking at the GPS and trying to figure out where the cache was hidden.
On Sunday, 23 March, we decided to hit a few more caches around town... including one puzzle cache that Rackham wanted as his 3000th cache find. It was funny, because we headed out for this one, with our GPS unit being a bit flaky (it was having a hard time deciding on a direction), so we picked a small likely looking trail and started out for it. We ended up trudging through ankle deep mud, where it crossed the start of a small stream, and climbing over fallen trees... only to approach the final spot for the cache to find a VERY nice new trail that was practically a small road covered in gravel. *facepalm* We had apparently walked right past that trail at the very beginning of our search. Anyway, it was still a bit of a bushwhack to get back to the actual cache, and I snapped a shot of Rackham signing the log for his 3000th find!
Crossposted from my Livejournal.