State of Wilderness

Category: HIking

  • Hill Country Highways: Burn it, Durn it! Episode 2

    I was thinking about this one part of our visit to Inks Lake that, in retrospect, was the best part.  The path to the Gneiss Oak cache turned into rock face at a certain point, and just followed along the lower edge of a hill.  On the way back, J went all the way up…

  • 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…

  • Oswald West State Park

    So this is one of the best places ever. We never would have gone to this place, either, if it hadn’t have been for Facebook. Both of us “like” National Geographic on FB, and they post a Picture of the Day. One day, the photo captivated both of us, and we were like, we should…

  • GC16

    So, our fourth day in to our vacation, we were in the heart of Oregon, traveling north up I-5 towards Portland. Our goals this day were some of the oldest geocaches in the world, including the site of the Original Stash (the very first cache, placed in May of 2000). I shouldn’t diminish the events…