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Oregon City Covered Bridge
After visiting Phantom Falls today, we turned the Jeeps toward home. Just down the road maybe .25 of a mile is a sign saying covered bridge! Who passes up a sign like that? We sure don’t, so we took a right turn and about .5 down the little country road we came upon this little covered bridge! Being crazy Jeep people that we are, we parked all 3 Jeeps for a photo op.
I checked to see if there were any Geocaches in the area, to our surprise there were none!
I siezed the opportunity and placed one here, and after doing some research I found out that this is the youngest covered bridge in the state, built 1983.
My Geocache: GC6CBV1 Covered Bridge (Traditional Cache)created by Cali~Bear.
“Oregon City Covered Bridge, built in 1984, can claim it as the newest covered bridge in California. The bridge is near the Oregon City, CA, State Historical Landmark #807.”
Oregon City Covered Bridge, Oroville, CA – Covered Bridges on Waymarking.com.
Phantom Falls – February 28, 2016
Its all a luck of the draw to be able to visit Phantom Falls. Conditions have to be right, so we decided that this was a good time to try our luck. Hiked just over 1.5 miles, maybe a little more because we were Geocaching too, and there it was!! Beautiful, and the wildflowers that were blooming also added to the gorgeous terrain here. Its a moderate hike through lava rock and a high water table resulting in some muddy areas that almost suck your shoe off, but the day we arrived was just right for a hike down to the Falls.
Link with maps and weather to Phantom Falls: Phantom Falls hike
YouTube link to a great video of the Falls: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMeQqPt43f0
There are a total of 5 falls in the area, we saw 3 and picked up 7 Geocaches.
These are a few of the Caches we logged:
GC5P2KF Katy’s cache (Traditional Cache)
GC1BZ9C Table Mountain basalt (Earthcache)
GC5P4Y7 Table Mountain Wildflowers (Multi-cache)
Jeep Play on the Beach
Temperatures at home were up to 110 and above, where to go to beat the heat? The beach! Beautiful weather and playing in the sand was a blast. There wasn’t anyone on the beach, so I pretty much had the beach to myself, who doesn’t love that?
I did some Geocaching in the area, but mostly it was just great to be on the beach, and enjoy the cooler weather. One of the Geocaches that I routed to took me to the Samoa Speedway: Welcome to Samoa Drag Strip, so I stayed and enjoyed some of the races. Because my arrival was later in the afternoon I got in free!
Around Lunch time I headed down for some crab at the: Seascape Restaurant Trinidad.
All in all it was a fun day and much cooler than my hometown… how do you beat the heat?
#CaliBear #NorCalJeeps
Thank You S.R.R.
Had the best time ever last weekend with the Shasta Rock Rollers. This group knows how to rock and roll!! We met up on Fenders Ferry while they unloaded their off road vehicles and then we took off up the road from there. Took the right turn into Madrone campground and it was uphill from there. We stayed on the Curl Ridge Trail all the way up to North Fork Mt and had lunch up on the old North Fork Lookout site.
After lunch we headed down the Garden Jeep Trail – Steep and overgrown, these 2 seaters made it look like a walk in the park.
70+ miles later we were back at the parking lot, what a day, that was pure fun… thank you SRR!
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.
Munzees in Gilroy
What a fun place to Munee! Teamed up with YoursTruly, Hans415 and OldZee and headed South to Gilroy.
Munzee held an Event down in Gilroy at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in 2013 Lots of Munzee’s were deployed so there were a lot of Munzee’s to capture!
We spent the entire weekend tracking down Mystery’s, Diamonds and Virtuals, what a great weekend. Met up with Fisherwoman for lunch on the last day and then headed home. I was hoping to “Level up to 102” while I was there but by the time we started home it wasn’t in the bag. Looked at my numbers and OldZee and I put our heads together thinking maybe it was doable on the trip home??
Well I – or rather WE did it!! I leveled up to #102 – Very cool and it ended the Weekend Gilroy trip on an up note for me!!
Gilroy Munzee Team: Yours Truly, Hans415 and OldZee!
The above photo is Larry thinking he could fly AND capture a Mystery Munzee in mid flight…. lol
I did it!!!!!! This last stop had a Mystery Munzee that gave me the points to push me up to Level 102!!! Whoo hoo!!!
What does Stephen King, The Superbowl, The College Bowl & The Academy Awards have in common?
If your a Geocacher, then it’s a Power Trail!! East of Sacramento are more than 3 Power Trails that have 160 caches combined. Easy? hmmm no…. these are Mystery Caches, all 160 of them. You have to solve the puzzle, or answer the questions to be able to get the coordinates to these caches. It usually involves hours of research online to get the answers to solve the puzzle. The Cache Owners did an incredible job of research to put these series together. All of them are quality caches and it’s very rewarding to say that you have 160 Mystery Caches solved and logged!! So sit back and pull up a Puzzle cache or two, after you have solved it enjoy the journey to the cache, log it and look for the next one, or in this case the next Series.
We started out at 3:00 am from Redding, CA heading toward the first Mystery cache on the SKH Series. Arrived at 6:30, Uh-Oh…. whats this? No road? No problem we have a Jeep!!! Headed through the construction zone towards the first cache, got it!!! All was ok until we me up with a Cement Barrier…. again, so glad we have the Jeep!! We squeezed through the barrier and a telephone pole and now we find the road!! Wouldn’t recommend driving on the first part, a bike or a walk might be a better way, well unless you have a small vehicle that you can take off roading!
First cache on the SKH Series: GC3B3DA SKH – Desperation by Voodoo Crew
When we started the College Bowl run there was another barrier, it seems there is a lot of dumping going on in the area, very sad to see. Saw some Bald Eagles in the area and a couple of Hawks too! It was really a pretty area if you can look past the trash dump. This place needs a CITO, and I would love to join in on cleaning it up.
First cache on the College Bowl: GC39HC3 The Rose Bowl by Voodoo Crew
We moved along at a fairly good pace, about 2 a minute average, then moved along to the Superbowl series. I grabbed my 6000th caches on the Superbowl Series, pretty cool. It was great weather and wasn’t too hot, we started early enough that we didn’t hit the heat until about 3 pm when we were on the last part of the Academy Awards Series.
First Cache in the Superbowl Series: GC3A1WB Super Bowl XI (Raiders vs. Vikings) Voodoo Crew
First Cache in the Academy Award Series: GC3C770 The 1st Annual Academy Awards (1929) by Voodoo Crew
A big thank you to the Cache Owners!! All the caches were in good shape, and there was parking available if you came in from the right direction, nothing to dangerous. Your on a road, and traffic goes fast so you need to be careful, but hey we are used to that since Power Caches became popular. We found all but about 2 of the Geocaches on all of the combined Series.
After finishing the Mystery Cache Power Trails we headed over and did the Family Guy letterboxes and a Virtual.
Letterbox cache: GC3ABC2 Cleveland Brown – Family Guy (Letterbox Hybrid) by Voodoo Crew
Not a bad day – My accomplishments for the day: 178 caches total for the day, 4 cache types: Virtual, Traditional, Mystery and Letterbox, and I found my 6000th cache!! Calling it a day and turning off the GPS‘r … oh wait… isn’t that a cache close by…. maybe one more???
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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Rescuing Snow White
BIG BEAR has a series here locally that is know as his “Snow White Series.” You have to “rescue” Snow White from the 7 Dwarfs which are 7 caches in the series that contain the pieces of the coordinates that once you put them together in the right sequence get you to the location of cache location called Snow White. I failed to find Snow White, it seems I was about 200 feet off. One of the Dwarf caches got muggled and so it is missing its numbers and I guessed, but I guessed wrong and I was losing daylight.
I started at 10:30 am and went until 4:30 and still had to make it back to the Jeep. The terrain wasn’t hard but you did have to manuver through a couple of canyons and the wind was gusting up to what felt like 40 mph at times, so I didn’t want to be finding my way back in the dark. It was a nice hike though and my finds for the day totaled 20 Caches for the day, with some really nice views of the snow capped mountains of Mt Shasta, Mt Lassen and the Trinity Alps.
The Caches in the Series (Not in order):
GC1NP3V THE EVIL BIG BEAR.
GC1NP25 CANTSEEM
GC1NKT9 GRAMPS POSSE
GC1NP4Y SNOW WHITE
GC1NKV5 NR. TEACHER
GC1NKW1 Teco Mac
GC1NP2E MR. Dice
GC1NP3F DAIRYVILLE
GC1NP2V SHASTA SAM
Tru2Cntry doing the Snow White Series
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San Francisco Virtuals, Webcams & Earthcaches
BIG BEAR & T2C at The Golden Gate Bridge
Nov 27, 2011 – We had a blast on our continued hunt for all the Virtuals in San Francisco. Starting out on Thanksgiving Day on the East Side of San Francisco and continuing our hunt today
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