Fossil Rock and Geocaching with Jon

With my new found outdoor hobby I was invited by Jon to accompany him to Fossil Rock. It was a very warm day.  I drove out to the gate and met Jon.  We made sure to park our cars away from the gate just in case Weyerhauser needed to get in and out.  I really didn't want my car towed away especially out here.  Once we got started on the gravel road portion of our walk I kinda wished we would have brought our bikes.  The walk was hot!  I am glad I brought water with me.

We got to the gate that lead up to Fossil Rock.  This is where the elevation gained slightly.  We walked past a giant rock and then wrapped around one more time to a forest of Madrona trees.  Because the Madrona bark flakes off in chunks, it really made it slippery trying to hike up a 45 degree angle.  We basically had to grab the trees and pull ourselves up.  Since he had the GPS I followed him to the edge in which the cache was hidden.

This is what I wrote in my log:  "I've been familiar with the area since 2005. I worked at Camp Cascades for two summers ('05, '06) as kitchen crew, which is just north of fossil rock near Elbow Lake. We made the food that went out to the various satellites on the camp grounds. I made some good friends, whom I still talk to. Many of the counselors and some of the kids took a hike every week or two out to fossil rock for the view and for something different to do besides crafts, swimming, canoeing and horseback riding. I never got to do any of the hikes because we didn't have the time to go out there. Four years later and a great day for hiking I finally got to see the view and to add my tenth cache to my growing list."

We walked back to our cars and thanked him for the cool hike to a very iconic spot with a great view of Mount Rainier.  We discussed another time to go caching and that we would catch up very soon.

Next Adventure:  TBA