Geocaching in and around Missoula, MT

Published by Jane Appel on

July 28-August 3, 2021

As we’ve said before, geocaching takes us to some interesting places!

Capt. Meriwether Lewis and his dog Seaman, sculpted by Jim Rogers, 2002. The Douglas fir base was living in 1806 when Lewis and the Corps of Discovery passed through the area.
If you’re confident enough to open the lid . . .
. . . will you pull up the cables to get to the cache?
Apparently somebody needed these instructions.
This library car, built in 1921, served miners. It was 14 x 40 feet.
The librarian had an office and sleeping space in one area of the library car.
Haze was typical while we were in Missoula.
A geocache was hidden under the outlet cover.
Serenity
Kirby Grant Hoon? See the end of this post for more information if you don’t know who he was.
The log for the geocache was behind the number in the upper right corner of this door. We found it before we realized the number is the number of the geocache.

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 of the clear blue of the western sky comes . . . Sky King.” King died in an automobile crash on his way to a space shuttle launch.

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2 Comments

Alice Mcgregor · August 11, 2021 at 2:07 pm

I got Sky King’s photo and autograph when I was 11 in Green Bay. It was for some telethon and turned out to all be photocopied.

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Susan · August 14, 2021 at 12:47 pm

Did not know that was how he was killed. I just have very early memories of Sky King

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