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…
July 30, 2021 The Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site is an operating cattle ranch that demonstrates and preserves the heritage of ranching. It’s located about 80 miles southeast of Missoula and includes buildings, furnishings, decor, operations, skills and records. The first owner of the ranch was Johnny Grant who recognized Read more…
July 29, 2021 Getting to Missoula The direct route from Clarkston, Washington to Missoula, Montana is via U.S. 12, a winding mostly two-lane road that goes over the 5,233-foot Lolo Pass through the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains. The Nez Perce Indians used the route in the 18th century, Read more…
July 25, 2021 We took an air boat ride on the Snake River through Hells Canyon. At 7,993 feet deep, Hells Canyon is the deepest canyon in North America. Our ride took us from Clarkston upriver to the Hells Canyon Dam, 122 miles south. Canyon views The rapids got bigger Read more…