Category: Grandfather Caches

  • GC18: Tarryall

    To get to Tarryall, the oldest cache in Colorado and twentieth oldest active geocache in the world, one would take the Ute Pass out of Colorado Springs.  Heading west on Highway 24 will take you past the turn offs for the North Pole, the Pikes Peak Tollway, and Green Mountain Falls.  You’ll be tempted to…

  • Grandfather Caches of Massachusetts

    I found myself in Massachusetts over the weekend, and I had some time on my hands to go exploring. What else would I rather do than go find grandfather caches in the woods? In case you have missed the definition of the term, a “grandfather” cache is one of the active original caches hidden within…

  • Something Wicked This Way Comes: Snoqualmie Version

    After our disheartening defeat at GCD, we drove across the highway and found the parking area for our next quest: to travel through the Snoqualmie Tunnel to the other side to get another grandfather cache, one called “IronHorse”. Jason had already found this cache, but I had not. Both of us had been to this…

  • The Original and Un-Original Stash and Misadventures in Molalla

    I’ll just say that perhaps our plan for this whole day was overly ambitious, this fourth day in our vacation. This was the same day I wrote about in the post below, where we left Ashland in the morning (after dwelling way too long at a posh hip diner in town with terrible, annoying alleged…