Our first stop was a few miles south of Scappoose, in the small community of Burlington. The cache was part of a 35MM series by a local cacher named Blazingthrewthewoods, this one was 35MM23 (GC2BZE3). It was a quick park and grab. We found a few more of the 35MM series as we drove north.
The next cache took us to a "Marker" (GCQP12). Fort William was a trading outpost built in 1834 and was the site of the first Euro-American trial because of a murder at the fort. The murder was a disagreement between two "friends" who fought over a Native girl. They believe alcohol was also involved.
Just Between the Two of Us (GC2NNAP) was a pretty cool location. There were cement structures and no one (even the cache owners) have no idea why they are here or what they used to be. My guess is probably a structure from the old forts along the river.
We found one as we got closer to town. After we found it, it was archived. We were last to find. Then we came to one that irritated us to no end. It was called 11 Alone (GCGKNC) and there were grave sites. I couldn't find any history on the location but the tree the cache was hidden in was difficult for some reason. We were either not looking in the right area or it was hidden very well. We were getting irritated after searching for twenty minutes for something we should have found within minutes. Finally, we found the beast. The flowers were pretty too.
We could even see the landmark Scappoose was known for from this location, the Peace Candle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Candle_of_the_World
We found Crown Zellerback Rd or Columbia? (GC25ZAK) we found a nano, Tram-law (GC27DNB) was a pill bottle we found in a tree bunch at the local Walmart, 35MM12 (GC2BA8H) was a film cannister hidden in a guardrail and the Not So "Kind" Fishing Hole (GC16MAF) which was a cache inside a stump you actually had to fish for.
From there, we picked up a few more along Hwy 30. I Hate Hwy 30 #2 Rock of Ages (GCG0RW) which was an older cache from 4/27/2003, Fiona's Cache (GC2K6B4) which was tucked inside the base of a tree and was really hard to grab plus we had a muggle watching us the entire time. Sadly the cache is now archived. River Queen Rock (GC22BDF) has always intrigued me. When I was seeing someone in Oregon, I would drive this route often and noticed the old river boat along the river. I always wanted to stop and look at it and now I got my chance.
We found ourselves at Trojan Park just up the highway. I really want to do their disc golf course some day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Nuclear_Power_Plant
We found a parking spot and looked for My Evil Micro #3 (GC2V7VB). There were several others but we didn't have a lot of time to walk around the park. After some ground petting, I managed to come up with the evil little hide.
We continued north and found The Whistling Swan (GC1GNT0), On the Way to the Beach (GC2V93T), two more of the 35MM caches and we couldn't leave Rainier, Oregon without finding a cache at their sign. I am from the other Rainier in Washington. Welcome to Rainier (GC1XYP1) was a quick find in the tree nearby.
We drover over the Lewis & Clark Bridge and the Columbia River into Longview. We stopped in Kelso to grab Food Break (GCK58Q) near the Taco Time. That one was hard to get with all the people watching us. We ended up grabbing some food at the McDonald's before we drove up I-5 towards home. We did make one more stop at the Toutle River Rest Stop. That was number 3 of the Road Rage series by Charlie Trail Duster (GCK58Q).
We got home just before dark. I unpacked my stuff and logged my finds from the trip this afternoon. It was a great cache machine weekend.
Next Adventure: 4th of July
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