vacationing fun!
Aug. 14th, 2003 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdwell, the public service announcement post is out of the way (see previous post).
I'm out in Seattle this week, and it's being wonderful. I've been replacing planks on the deck of my house out here - stained them on Monday, swapped in a few on Tuesday and will swap in the rest today and/or tomorrow.
Caching so far on our vacation: Claudia and I made another pass at the Freeway Cache which had foiled us when we tried it in April -- the listed coordinates had put us a ways away, and we hadn't brought the alternate coordinates that someone had previously logged. We tried the alternate coordinates this time, and they put us right on top of the cache.
We also did the first several hops of the Bothell Landing multi-cache, and scoped out the Secret Log cache (for which we had coordinates but no other information with us).
Weds, we headed out towards the North Cascades Highway, and ended up in the Mt. Baker area, hitting three caches. First, WE WERE FIRST! The Bear Cache had been activated a few days before and had yet to be logged, so we headed up there and were awestruck by the incredible views of Baker from there. We also met a guy who was about to go hiking for a few days there who mentioned that Baker has been bulging several inches per year -- it's a very active volcanic system that's due to go any time now.
After eating our lunch in the car with the windows rolled up (too many mosquitos and biting flies!), we headed off to bag both the Silent Sentinels cache and That (Baker) DAM Cache.
At that point, we decided it was too late to head further east into the Cascades, so we went back to Bothell and hung around watching televised poker (televised poker with the hole-card-camera is nail-bitingly cool) with our hosts.
I'm out in Seattle this week, and it's being wonderful. I've been replacing planks on the deck of my house out here - stained them on Monday, swapped in a few on Tuesday and will swap in the rest today and/or tomorrow.
Caching so far on our vacation: Claudia and I made another pass at the Freeway Cache which had foiled us when we tried it in April -- the listed coordinates had put us a ways away, and we hadn't brought the alternate coordinates that someone had previously logged. We tried the alternate coordinates this time, and they put us right on top of the cache.
We also did the first several hops of the Bothell Landing multi-cache, and scoped out the Secret Log cache (for which we had coordinates but no other information with us).
Weds, we headed out towards the North Cascades Highway, and ended up in the Mt. Baker area, hitting three caches. First, WE WERE FIRST! The Bear Cache had been activated a few days before and had yet to be logged, so we headed up there and were awestruck by the incredible views of Baker from there. We also met a guy who was about to go hiking for a few days there who mentioned that Baker has been bulging several inches per year -- it's a very active volcanic system that's due to go any time now.
After eating our lunch in the car with the windows rolled up (too many mosquitos and biting flies!), we headed off to bag both the Silent Sentinels cache and That (Baker) DAM Cache.
At that point, we decided it was too late to head further east into the Cascades, so we went back to Bothell and hung around watching televised poker (televised poker with the hole-card-camera is nail-bitingly cool) with our hosts.
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Date: 2003-08-14 12:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-08-14 01:38 pm (UTC)I need a cool nickname like that.
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Date: 2003-08-14 02:32 pm (UTC)your cool nickname could be DEVIL CLOWN. and you could get two rings - one for each hand that said DEVIL and CLOWN on them, like devil fish's.
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Date: 2003-08-14 09:22 pm (UTC)