Friday, June 20, 2008
DeLorme Section 28
I didn’t get many challenge cache finds on this trip but I was able to pick up Section 28 for the Oregon DeLorme Challenge with this cache. Sixty-four percent complete - slow but sure!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Starting Southern Oregon Vacation
Today Pat and I headed out on a 10-day vacation in the Grants Pass/Medford area. This was day one of six staying in Valley of the Rogue (VOTR) State Park. I had six caches found by the time we pulled into camp and setup including a virtual at Seven Feathers Casino and some micros in Grants Pass where we stopped to do some last minute grocery shopping. After camp set up we drove to nearby Rogue River (the town) to look around. I had five more caches found by the time we returned.
Tomorrow Pat goes to the little town of Ruch (roosh) to attend a Ladies Retreat with other women from our church at Applegate Christian Fellowship. The Blackwells will join us tomorrow here at VOTR in the space next to us and stay through the weekend. While Pat and Anita are at their retreat, Greg and I will join Chuck Knight and Bob Fanelli on Lower Table Rock for a half day of caching and good fellowship among brothers.
Oh, forgot to mention - I pulled a real good one this trip…...... I left home and forgot to throw in my geocaching backpack full of things like charging cords for phone, GPSr and PDA! At least it wasn’t the GPSr this time!
Saturday, June 07, 2008
Northwest Trails Project
I recently learned of THIS rather ambitious project mapping biking/hiking trails in the Pacific Northwest. The map is uploadable to Garmin GPSr’s in a format that allows me to see the trail track right over the top of the existing Topo map! Very helpful when hiking in unfamiliar territory!
Last month I submitted my GPSr track for the Bluebill Lake and Drift Creek Falls trails.
Today I walked the entire John Topits Park trail system (almost 4 miles) located inside Coos Bay city limits at Empire Lakes. I cleaned up the track a little then submitted it. The guy organizing this project acquired some nice gifts from the Garmin company for those of us out walking trails and sending in track data. One of the gifts is a new Garmin Colorado 300! Yeah, baby! That would be sweet to win! Everyone who submits acceptable track data during the month of June get a chance to win.
