July 8-9, 2021

Geocaching goals can be as simple as finding a cache or as complicated as finding a cache hidden in each of the months since geocaching began. Dave is working on his bank of old caches and we set out to get two of them on our way back from our visit to Mt. Hood.

The specific caches are along forest trails only a mile or so from each other.

Dave dropped Jane off to hike to one while he went to get the other.

“Dave’s” trail

Jane got to her destination first and was very surprised when Dave showed up there a few minutes later! She had been looking at the path to Dave’s cache on her phone and had neglected to reorient. Both walks had been downhill but the car was at the top of Dave’s trail, so they walked back together.

Dave had had to cross this little creek. Jane had come from the opposite direction.

Soon the cache was in hand. (This is its top)

Jane insisted on driving back to the area the next day so she could get the cache she’d agreed to find. Her walk took her to the top of a ridge filled with blooming bear grass and a view of Mt. Adams.

Bear grass, Indian paintbrush and (maybe) lupine. Red, white and blue! Okay: Red, white and purple!
Mt. Adams, another of the Cascade volcanoes

The route home took us by Little Zig Zag Falls.

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