Mike's Geocaching Blog

Friday, May 22, 2009

Rare Terracache Found

Found my seventh terracache today - Terracrostic.

It is always satisfying finding a cache that hasn’t been found in a long time.  The last finder of this TC was August of 2007!  Even more noteworthy was the fact that I had the required acrostic puzzle solved in February of 2007 and was just now getting around to finding the physical cache!

I can see why it doesn’t attract much interest - it’s a tough, though fairly short, bushwhack up a creek bottom with no trail.  In addition, accessing the creek bottom from the parking coords is a steep jumble of moss-covered rocks.  That said, it’s exactly what makes for a very satisfying hunt and find.

I’m thinking it’s about time to put out my own terracache in the Coos Bay area - there are so few in Oregon (36).

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Terracache No. 5

Mountain Bike Hill terracache.

And a FTF to boot!  Found at 0900.  (Had left Coos Bay around 0645)

I love this area of the coastline - especially the hiking through the mature conifer stands of the Cummins Creek Wilderness.  Granted this cache is not within the wilderness boundary but it REAL close and has a trail head nearby.  This cache, in fact, is on Oregon Dept. of Forestry property at the top of a fairly new clearcut (oh sorry, bad word for some folks!).  Great view of the Yachats River valley from here - also can see NW to the ocean and the forested hills west of Yachats.

Drove up USFS Road 55 about three miles to a point where a blocked-off logging road went up the hill to the cache.  Walked in from there - about .6 mile.

A view NNE of the Yachats River valley

A view NW to Yachats from cache location.

Monday, February 18, 2008

Terracache #4

Got this virtual terracache while driving back down the coast from a weekend camping at Beverly Beach SP.

Feel the Power of the Sea

It was a nice multi-legged adventure.