geocaching

Good eats in Oregon

It’s been ages since I’d had one of these. But, on our last evening in Ashland, we went to the all-organic place, Grilla Bites. Though they offered burgers, I opted for the portobello sandwich, substituting the bleu cheese for mozzarella. It was awesome: The second best meal was a potato gnocchi at Green Gables in

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John Day Fossil Beds

I was going through yet another hard disk of photos to find an appropriate “timeline” image for Facebook.   Had a lot of fond memories of a geology-themed vacation through southern Washington and central Oregon.  The first stop was at Mt. St. Helens, home of the ‘sploded volcano from 1981: Very close by is Ape

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My first iPhone hide

As GPS-enabled phones become more popular, there have been a lot of geocaches placed by people using phones.   Many of these will have serious “adjustments” to their posted coordinates because the person placing it just took a single reading, using whatever their phone was reporting and called it good.  Usually these adjustments are anywhere from

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Geocache Queries

I like to keep my GPS pre-loaded with as many geocaches as possible so if I’m out and about with a few minutes to kill, I have info on what’s nearby.  The phone application seems like it would be ideal for this, since it can query on-the-fly, but the implementation has a lot of problems,

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Snowshoe 101

On Saturday, I went out with a local “Hike of the Month” (geocaching) group on the redux of their “Snowshoe 101.”  (Yes, despite living within 30 miles of a snowy mountain, I have never gone snowshoeing before.  Or skiing.)    The goal was Gold Creek Arches, with an optional trek out to Snowshoe 101.  A

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Belfair Cache Machine

A “cache machine” is geocaching social where someone sets up a route that people can follow to make a high number of geocache finds in a relatively short period of time.  On Sunday, I attended one in Belfair, WA. Since Belfair is not too far from home, I planned on driving up the morning of. 

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