travisl found Paul Bunyan's Tylenol (Traditional Cache)
Sometimes, after a cache machine, when I'm logging finds, it's hard to remember specific caches. This cache, however, is definitely memorable. The perfect tie-in of unique container and great cache name.
I didn't need a Tylenol until Sunday morning, when the margarita from Saturday night had left it's traces in my head.
travisl posted a note for GOD BLESS AMERICA (Traditional Cache)
Ahh.. now I remember. Big park. Really tall grass. I think one of YeOldImposter's kids found this one.
travisl found GOD BLESS AMERICA (Traditional Cache)
Hit this one on the PCM, but even though I'm looking at some of the photos, I'm not remembering it. Sorry :(
travisl found the ONLY spot.... (Traditional Cache)
Just when I think I've seen every way to hide a cache, one like this comes along. Very creative -- good jorb.
travisl found Shambling Mound (GeoHack Encounter) (Traditional Cache)
GeoHack? Munchkin.
I attacked the Shambling Mound, but did so with the assistance of four other adventurers. I used my pointy hat of power to cast ''your shoe's untied,'' while my comrades attacked it with a Gentlemen's Club, a Swiss Army Polearm, a Hammer of Kneecapping, and a Limburger and Anchovy Sandwich.
The Shambling Mound was still winning, but then we bribed the cache owner with food, and it died instantly. Sadly, we had to split the treasure 30 ways, which gave me a logbook to sign, and that's it. Oh well.
travisl found It's a Jungle Out There (Traditional Cache)
It is a jungle in there! I followed a herd of monkeys to the cache.
travisl found Rock Solid (Traditional Cache)
Once we got near the cache location, there was really only one spot it could be. In spite of that, someone else found it after I looked there. The curse of TravisL strikes again!
travisl found Fairviews Wooden Wildlife (Traditional Cache)
Had to avoid the sprinklers, but made it across the cool bridge and down the trail and to the spot where the other cachers had already gathered. Stickered the logbook and speedwalked back to the car.
travisl found Where there is a will, there is a (Airport) Way (Traditional Cache)
Saturn of Olympia
6/25/04 9:36 AM
Customer states he hears a clunk noise when accel around corners and over bumps. Road tested and confirmed noise. Found noise coming from hood support. Insolated and test drove again. No more noise heard. All operating as designed.
Repair 1, Road and/or clip, hood support - replace.
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Glad I did this yesterday, because today I took the geo-Saturn off-roading to get to this cache. The difference between road and grass out here is so fine as to be non-existent. Eventually, I and the others parked our cars and strolled to the cache.
On the way back, I tossed a rock into the pond. That's a lot of scum out there!
travisl found #1 (Traditional Cache)
Of all the caches on the PCM this weekend, this is the find that I feel the least proud of. Ripcord, if you think this shouldn't count as a real find, please delete my log, and I'll repost it as a no-find.
I arrived here at about 5:30 a.m., and the park wasn't due to be open until 8:00. No problem. He-who-shall-not-be-named jumped the fence, got the logbook from the cache, handed it through the fence, and I stickered it from there.
If Seth gets wind of this, I'll never live this one down. I'm so ashamed.
travisl found Mental Floss (Traditional Cache)
If this was an evil telephone pole cache, hidden discreetly yet obviously so that muggles would overlook it but cachers could spot it, then my GPS would have led me right to it, and I would have found it.
It wasn't, though, so somebody else got the find for our PCM sub-group. Bummer. Stickered the log then jaunted back to the car.
travisl found G Dog1 (Traditional Cache)
Gee, do you think the cache might be somewhere around where all those geocachers are parked? Maybe? It's an easy find when you drive up and RomulusNR is holding it.
travisl found Althaus Forest (Traditional Cache)
Sadly, I know I did this one, and my navigator RightWingWacko logged it, but I don't remember anything about it. That's one of the hazards of doing a hundred caches in a weekend. Sorry :(
travisl couldn't find Hidden Pond 1727 (Traditional Cache)
RightWingWacko and I drove all over the place looking for the park entrance, but eventually gave up so that we wouldn't be too far behind everyone else on the PCM. We talked about hitting it at the end of the route, but by then I was tired and wanted to take a shower instead. Maybe I'll get this next time I'm in Portland, whenever that is.
travisl found Beaver Creek Canyon (Traditional Cache)
The sun was just coming up when we headed down to get this one on the PCM. After looking for about 10 minutes in the wrong spot, Pepper, who I knew was going to kill me when she saw the switchbacks in the trail, found it. I stickered the logbook and high tailed it out of there before she had the chance to take me out.
As I drove off, I waved to the lady in her fluffy white bathrobe who was standing in the driveway opposite the trailhead. She didn't look amused, but if I remember right, the park hours were dawn to dusk, and although the backlight on the Etrex was a necessity, it was clearly dawn.
travisl found Star and Bird Bane (Traditional Cache)
4:34 a.m. What in the world am I doing here with 20 people at this ungodly hour?
Getting my 700th find, that's what.
The nearby cash machine made it a perfect start to the two day marathon that was the Portland Cache Machine.
Looks like the sun's just about up.
travisl couldn't find Jared's Lacamas Park Cache (Traditional Cache)
This would have been my 700th find, but as it was, I'd driven down from Tacoma, checked into the hotel in Troutdale, hit two other caches on the way here, was quite exhausted on the hike back to the car from ''Watch Out For the Steeps'', and was hoping for an easy one. I saw the instructions about parking at the church, but mistakenly figured I'd be better off parking near the cemetery and walking in.
Nope. The cache was downhill, about 400 feet away. I wasn't willing to scramble down there, so I headed back into the cemetery, sat on a memorial bench surrounded by dozens of gravestones (why would someone's stone say 1948-1848?), and pondered my next plan of attack. There's five more caches in this park. Dinner's in three hours. I'm tired, and I'm gonna be doing two long days of caching on Saturday and Sunday. OK then; it's decided. Back to the hotel to take a nap.
travisl found Don't Kiss & Cache (Traditional Cache)
The cache was only 45 feet away. Should I go for it? I take a step forward. It feels as if it could be my last. I head back to the car, and try to find another way in.
This one? No.
This one? No.
This one? No.
This one? Yep. Easy stroll. Found it, logged it, left it.
travisl found Short and Sweet #4, Watch out for the 'Steeps' (Traditional Cache)
This cache would be amazingly cool to do on roller skates. And then, when woke up in the hospital, someone might bring you the logbook to sign.
Easy find; tough hike back to the car. Oy. Glad I had water. Wish I would have parked across the street from the trailhead.
travisl found Gee Creek (Traditional Cache)
The third cache I ever found was at this rest area, which was also the first intact cache that Geogrrrl and Dragonfli ever found. This was way back on December 30, 2001. (visit link)
This cache is in a different area of the rest area, with a lot more nettles and a lot less underwear. I attempted to approach the cache from three different directions before finding a relatively painless way in.
Those spiders sure like building their webs in my way. Bleaugh.
