It was a cold December afternoon so we bundled up. I grabbed my backpack with all of my trading trinkets, GPS, notes, magnets, etc. You never know what you'll need or what you'll encounter. I put 5 caches on the GPS. I figured that was plenty for the day. I was trying to get to 100 caches before December 31st. I had 12 days to get about 50 of them. I had to go out every day and get at least 4 of them. Game on!
We jumped into the car and drove out towards Tenino. The first one was called T.R.Y it. You'll Like it! (GCPNAR), which basically stands for the Tenino Rainier Yelm trail. There was a pull out off of the 507. We fit the car inside the spot and walked the short distance to the cache. It was hidden amongst a bunch of small tree trunks.
We got back inside the car and blasted the heat.
The next one was off of Military Road. We parked in the small lot off of the road and made our way to In Basalt's Shadow (GC1M4MZ). The GPS took us to the opposite side of where we actually found it. It was a nice view of Hwy 507 down below. When we found the cache, it was so wet, we couldn't sign our names. I even dumped water out of the container.
We walked back to the car and drove back towards Rainier to find the next one, McIntosh Lake (GCPMVC). This is a very busy spot during fishing season. You will always find a bunch of cars and trucks parked in the pull outs. We found the closest pull out, parked the car and carefully made our way down. The hill was very compromised, one wrong step and you could slide down the hill and hurt yourself. We got to the trail and followed the GPS to where the cache was suppose to be. We found it within a few minutes.
We walked further east on the trail to Trails to Rails 1 (GC1M4MJ) and found a micro hanging off some rail road ties that someone had nailed into a tree. It didn't take us long to find it. We walked back to our car up the muddy hill and found the nearest driveway to get to Cajun Tree (GC1KZR7) without having to walk really far. It was getting colder by the minute.
We had a tough time looking for it. Back and forth on the trail we looked from side to side, under and over, up and down...nothing. Then I saw this tree. It had broken and fallen towards the trail. For some reason I was compelled to look under the trunk and there it was!
We walked back to the car and went home to get warm. I had gone with Grandma a few days ago to Gerrit's Greens to pick out our Christmas tree. When we got home we decorated the tree and wrapped a few presents to stick underneath.
Next Adventure: TBA
