August 11-18, 2021 The weather wasn’t bad while we were in Bridgeport, but the air quality was awful. Two days we didn’t venture out because smoke from distant fires made the air quality index into the hazardous range. On other days, however, the smoke and haze made for some interesting Read more…
August 11-18, 2021 We chose Bridgeport as a base for exploring Grand Coulee Dam and the surrounding area because it had an RV park that sounded nice. Bridgeport was settled in the late nineteenth century by Chinese miners. Developers from Bridgeport, Connecticut purchased the town and named it after their Read more…
August 11-17, 2021 We’ve looked for (and sometimes found) caches in areas burned in last summer’s forest fires. Dry Falls Dry Falls was formed after ice dams collapsed during the last Ice Age about 13,000 years ago. The falls were three and a half miles wide, five times the width Read more…
August 16, 2021 65 million years ago lava flowed across 100,000 square miles of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon and pushed the Columbia River into its present channel. Two and a half million years ago glaciers repeatedly blocked the river and its tributaries. When the ice dams broke, a rush of Read more…
August 12, 2021 We woke to a gray day, a result of fires in British Columbia. (The Canadian border is about 80 miles north of us.) We looked at a map of interesting geocaches, chose a direction, and took off. The Wells Dam was built in the 1960’s by the Read more…
August 11, 2021 Our route from Liberty Lake to Bridgeport was mostly two-lane, a little hilly, and often very straight. The hardest thing about today’s caches was the 104-degree heat, although Jane had minor misadventures at each of the three sites. The first cache was hidden in a blackberry thicket Read more…
August 4-10, 2021 Liberty Lake is between Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and Spokane, Washington which are only about 30 miles apart. We thought it would make the perfect base for exploring the area. Friends from Casa Grande, Ron and M.J. Raynor, live in Coeur d’Alene and kindly introduced us to the Read more…
July 28-August 3, 2021 As we’ve said before, geocaching takes us to some interesting places! Kirby Grant Hoon was a professional musician but those of us who were young television watchers in the 1950’s know he was also an actor who went by the name of Kirby Grant. “From out Read more…
August 2, 2021 The Lewis and Clark expedition stopped September 9-11, 1805 to rest before crossing the Bitterroot Mountains. They called their camp Travelers Rest. It was in the homelands of the Salish and Kalispel people and was a hub in a network of trade, travel and culture. Shoshone and Read more…
July 31, 2021 We knew we wanted to see Lolo Pass. It’s an Indian road through the mountains that Lewis and Clark took when they realized they still had ranges of mountains to cross before they would reach the Pacific Ocean. We thought the story we would tell would be Read more…