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Celebrating the 4th of July
Fireworks on the Beach
It’s a 3 day weekend and temperatures are hitting between 105 and 115 in Redding! I know the coast is much cooler – Eureka is in the 70’s and 80’s much cooler than here in my hometown. The problem is it’s the 3 day weekend and Eureka and the entire coast is very popular in the summer as well as when the temperatures go up around here. Put a request out for anyone that wanted to join me and Maricela texted me and said she was in! YAYY! Packed up the Jeep and left knowing I had a few friends that live over there and I also had some friends camping there too!
Received a warm welcome from Liz who has a little place over there and so Maricela and I unpacked the Jeep, popped open the tent and made our way to all the fun things to do up and down the coast!
Day 1: Arrived at Eureka and heading south to set up camp, we grabbed Geocaches here and there when there was a place to park and was a quick on and off the road cache. If was great just getting over to the cooler weather!
Day 2: Ahhh it was nice to sleep in and it was really nice to sleep in the cooler weather! Headed into town for breakfast and supplies for the 4th of July fireworks. Grabbed the usual, chairs, ice, water snacks and headed into Ferndale for the 4th of July parade and festival!
While we were enjoying the festival some friends called us up and asked if we wanted to go on the boat ride in Eureka! Rounded everyone up and headed up to Humboldt Bay and did a great little boat ride around the bay. Great way to see the Bay!
Humboldt Bay Harbor Cruise Motor Vessel MADAKET
After the boat ride we walked over and had dinner at the Lost Coast Brewery and came back to enjoy the Festival while we waited for the Fireworks
Lost Coast Brewery | Welcome | Enjoy your visit!
4th of July Festival | Eureka Main Street
Here they are the FIREWORKS!! HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!
Day 3: No hurry today, we packed up everything first thing in the morning and headed up the coast. First stop Founders Grove on the Avenue of the Giants Redwood Forest – WOW are these huge trees!! So beautiful and majestic!! Great place to explore the forest!
After exploring the Founders Grove we headed up Hwy 101 to the Ferdale Bridge: Fernbridge (bridge) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moving on – we visited the Loleta Cheese Factory, sampled some yummy cheeses!
Its getting close to lunch time… cheese samples held our hunger at bay until we got up to Woodley Island. Woodley Island Marina | Humboldt Bay Harbor District , There was a Geocache there that I wanted to get, we had seen the island from the boat tour the day before, and it looked like a great place to explore. We found the Geocache and visited the Memorials and the Table Bluff Lighthouse and then started out again when we noticed the restaurant! We were craving some seafood so this was just the place! We sat out on the patio and had a great lunch!! Elvis the Seal showed up and entertained us. Welcome to Cafe Marina in Eureka, California
We were close enough to the Samoa OHV park that after lunch we took the Jeep down and played in the sand for a minute before heading home.
Time to head for home… we will be back!
Last stop of the day on the way home, grabbed a great cup of coffee and sat on the patio: Wedding Venue & Retreat Center in Junction City, CA near Trinity River |Strawhouse Resorts
Do you know your Scientists?
If your asking me, I do not… 😉
but there is a Geocacher or two in our area that has the lowdown, or should I say the rundown on the Scientists and he recently published a series of caches with names as titles and gave a brief description of each one. I enjoy when a cacher puts this much time and effort into a cache or a series of caches. I usually pickup a piece of knowledge that I might not have known, or as in this case I added a few names of scientists that I never knew about. I spent yesterday with my Geocaching buddy Cantseem on the hunt for the Scientist Series.
We had rain clouds all around us, not a drop on us, that is until we finished the last cache, jumped in the GeoMobile and started heading home 😉
The highlight of the day was when we found our way into another Lookout Tower Cache, one of my favorite type of caches to do! The views are always amazing and this one didn’t disappoint:
GC1X37W *Almost On Top* by Olcowboy-N-Eyesofice2Us.
Honoring a Fallen Soldier: Chad Regelin-Earned 16 medals; Anderson High grad was Sailor of Year
Shampoodles called me and asked me if I wanted to stand on horseback with the Redding Rodeo group for Chad Reglein’s funeral procession… would I? Absoulutly!!
Tru2Cntry, Shampoodles, Ponytails & Heather
We were honored to stand by on horseback with flags held high, while the funeral procession wound it’s way from Anderson to the Igo Veterans Cemetary where Chad was laid to rest. We stood by with hundreds of people who lined the streets to honor this amazing young man that gave his life for our Country. We waived to all who were taking part in the line of cars, some were very decorated Military Officers, some were family in black limosines, and some were just part of the many friends and family that knew him and grew up with him. Most waived back and gave us a thumbs up too, some waived their kleenex and even some saluted, we tried to hold back our tears but they came anyway. Such a privilege to honor this young man and the life he gave up for me so that I have the freedom to live in America. Thank you Chad Reglelin, I did not know you personally but I wish I had and thank you for all you did for our country: The United States of America, may God Bless America!
More on Chad Regelin via Redding native Chad Regelin earned 16 medals; Anderson High grad was Sailor of Year » Redding Record Searchlight.
Thank you Shampoodles for asking me to be a part of such an amazing morning and thank you for letting me ride Goldfish, what a beautiful horse! I was honored to stand with you and Ponytails to salute Chads funeral procession
After the funeral procession Shampoodles & Ponytails loaded up the horses and we all headed out to the Jelly’s Ferry area for a great afternoon of horseback riding and geocaching. The days are still short but we managed to get 5 Geocaches before heading back to the barn… Thank you Shampoodles was a great day!
GC1PKPC Moose Rides Again by Rocky, Bullwinkle & Moose
GC2AAKZ DBMC-Water- by denihike
GC1N7DW Lava Stronghold & Pool by Biojava
GC2AAKM DBMC-Air-by denihike
GC39Q17 Ponytails & Shampoodles Go Riding by ponytails
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New Year – New Caching Adventure!
New Years day typically starts off with getting together with friends and family and watching football, or just relaxing after a hectic Christmas season. This year we fired up the Jeeps, called our Geocaching Friends and said the weather is perfect lets go off road and grab some 5 star terrain Geocaches! 5 Star Terrain ususally means you need a high clearance 4 wheel drive vehicle which is why we all have Jeeps!! What a blast this was, 7 Jeeps, 12 Geocachers: BIG BEAR, Lookout4 and Anna, Teco_mac, Cantseem, Playcache 1&2, JeeperJones 1&2, Crowshoot & Floflower… oh and Tru2Cntry, 2 non Geocachers (hey they have a Jeep, they qualify!) Lets all meet at 12:00 at the OHV4 Staging Area.
Ok, we are all here… let the fun begin!
Playcache
Teco_mac & Cantseem in my Jeep
Don & Liz
Crowshoot & Floflower
Now that we all made it up the gnarley part of the road, lets get to the Geocaches!!
GC2T00Z dakotas wreck site by cheater rick.
GCQEDE Route 4 – Most Difficult by dzdiver
GC2QADG T2C Hits 3000 by BIG BEAR.
GC396G7 WELCOME TO 5000 TRU2CNTRY by BIG BEAR.
GC396G1 HANG GLIDING by BIG BEAR.
The off roading continued up to the Hang Gliding Cache where we all broke out the food and had a picnic, the view from here was incredible and we were blessed with a beautiful day, great weather and the chance to share it with great friends!
The road back…
Larry’s trying to find another way out…
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Sean Hits 5000 Caches and gets an FTF!
July 23, 2011 – Just a great weekend from start to finish. Sean our good friend and fellow Geocacher drove 7 hours to come up to Red Bluff and do the Leap Frog Series. He finished that on Friday got a good nights sleep then met up with us to head north to the Apostle Series where there was still one left un-found after being published for a month. Well we packed up, loaded up and hit the trail. It is about an 60 or more mile trip up to the Ai-Di-Na Unpaved Road all the while picking up caches along the way and confirming with Sean “Just how many more do you have left until your 5000th cache?”
He was counting them down, 9, 8, 7 then we were down to 3 more. BIG BEAR had a brilliant idea… lets make the Geocache that has been un-found the 5000 find for Sean, that’s if we figured right and could find it. BIG BEAR had done the reconfiguring on it and felt it was off by one number on the coordinates, he is good with figuring those things out. And Sean was in total agreement, Sean doesn’t see much First to Find action in his neighborhood in Palo Alto. When something gets published the Geocachers are all over it. This would be his 4th FTF if we could pull it off. We were losing daylight, so we decided to head to the campground after finding 2 more and unpack our tents then head back up to search for the illusive Thomas Cache.
We did just that, unpacked the tents and the sleeping back and set up a quick camp. Loaded Sean into the GORF (our Great Off Road Fun vehicle) and set off back up the unpaved dirt road in search of Sean’s 5000th Cache!! About 10 minutes later we arrived at what we thought would be the likely area to search and in 5 minutes Sean had the cache in hand!!! WHOOO HOOO SEAN!!! Way to go!! Well we whooped and hollered and made a bunch of noise, broke open the glow sticks and congratulated Sean on his 5000th find and his 4th First to Find!!!!!!
SEAN HITS 5000 CACHES!!
I was honored to be a part of being on the hunt with Sean, we had a blast that day and into the night. We headed back to the campground after a signing the log and basking in the glory of such a fun achievement. When we got back to the campground Sean popped the cork on the Sparking Cider and we toasted to his accomplishment! BIG BEAR put together the biggest hamburgers I have ever seen and grilled them on the grill, we sat down and had a well deserved dinner. Then busted out the marshmallows and taught Sean how to roast them. He is from Ireland and had never had the opportunity before to roast marshmallows.
T2C Hits 4000 and gets a Heart! ♥
S & J's Valentine
June 12, 2011 – So for my 4000th Cache we went over to Susanville and did the Valentine Heart Series. We started a 11 and ended at 5:30, a 10 mile hike. It was a great hike and BIG BEAR was with me, cheering me on, he is my best friend, my biggest fan and he is my Sweetheart too! We hiked in to the middle of the Heart Series to get the Valentine and I made that my 4000th cache… it was awesome!!! We celebrated with P-Nut M&M’s !!
ROUTE 66 – Video Update
January 2011 – Very cool video of all the cachers that have done the Route 66 trail
2010 – NOV 24th – NOV 26th – ET Trail
ET Trail – November 25-28th
WOW! What can be said about the ET Trail that hasn’t already been said? A LOT!! This was an amazing experience. So much that I couldn’t say on a Geocache Log page so I thought I would Blog our experience.
I had heard about the ET Trail from a fellow Geocacher – BIG BEAR.
I had listened to others talk about the ET Trail too, but I never thought that I would get the opportunity to go. Ok…. I have a few days around Thanksgiving, and no plans so could that possibly be enough time to put plans together for this run? Yes it was, we read previous posts which were really helpful and our plans started to materialize. I was going!!
Big Bear and I (Tru2Cntry or T2C) set out on November 25th to drive the 610 miles that night, we got to Alamo Nevada just before 3 a.m. Sean had already flown into Las Vegas and rented a car, drove up to Alamo to the Windmill Ridge Restaurant & Lodging (best accommodations around) earlier in the day. He had rented a room so we knocked on the door and quickly grabbed pillows and blankets and tried to get some sleep, all agreeing to get up at 6 a.m. and get out to the Trail and get started. It was hard to fall asleep, we had driven in from the North West end of the trail and saw that they were just flying by us as we drove, well… we did stop to check out one of them, we couldn’t help it. Then back in the van to find Sean and get a few hours of sleep.
Our day started at 5:59, grabbing GPSr, we were out the door and headed down the road! We did an incredible 700 caches on the ET Trail itself that first day! It was getting dark so we decided to turn around and head back to Windmill Ridge for the night. Had dinner at the restaurant there and reflected back on that incredible day. Tired but eager to start the next day early again we all headed back to our lodges to get a good nights rest. It was hard to fall asleep! Morning arrived and we were back on the road, no time for breakfast, we headed down the road to start back at ET 701.
We hadn’t planned it but we each took an hour at running and it ended up that we each had our own personal best, Sean had the first hour where he did an amazing 101 finds. I took the 2nd hour and grabbed my 82 just as we were counting down the seconds on the hour. And Big Bear blew us away with an amazing 124 caches grabbed in the last hour!! Amazing!! We all jumped out on the last cache, signed it, signed the pole, took pictures and reflected back on what an amazing experience this was. Thank you to the COs’ of this incredible run: Clay4&whtwolfden!!
After finishing the ET Trail we headed back to do the Alien Head. We walked it, it was 29 degrees and there was a strong wind, we had to hang on to the logs to keep them from blowing away! We did the Alien Head in about 2.5 hours. Jumped into the Geovan and headed back to the Ale-Inn for our Ale-Inn Burger to celebrate!! Met up with a few of the colorful locals there, finished dinner and headed back to the Windmill Ridge Lodge for a hot shower and a good nights sleep.
Got up the next morning, to SNOW!! It was beautiful, went up and had breakfast and reflected on one of the most amazing weekends and journeys that I know I will never forget!!
So… we definitely broke some records this weekend, how many caches in one day, how many miles to drive for a cache, the numbers went on and on… one of the biggest records we achieved on this trip was that BIG BEAR. reached his 10,000 cache!! I also got to my 2000th! Not only did we break records it was a weekend I lost a ring, and we almost lost a GPS out the window! Whew…. backed up and grabbed it and it was ok, and Big Bear replaced the ring with one that commemorates the ET Trail, with the dates we did the trail and our Teams initials… BB T2C SS, very cool.
After saying Good Bye to Sean, and promising to meet up with him soon to do more Geocaching, and off Big Bear and I went back to Redding, California.
Big Bear, Tru2Cntry, SeanStafford
ET Trail # E.T. 1021
NorCal Jeepz 
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