My Adventures and Places Life Takes Me: Finding Bigfoot?

Monday, February 13

Finding Bigfoot?

This happens to be one of those times when you're in the right place at the right time.

Bob, Bev and I set out towards Elma for some geocaching. I've only done maybe a handful here during my trips back and forth to the ocean. We started near the fairgrounds and worked our way around. They already had most of them so we stopped for the ones they didn't have. Since they were nice and we drove by some they already had, Bob stopped and let me grab them. I hit my 2100th milestone while we were there. We headed up towards one of the hills, a dirt road off of Bushnell, near the ball fields. There were four up the road so we went for them. It was muddy and cold outside. Since the storm, people have been up this road because it was easy to navigate. There weren't too many downed trees in the area. We saw a guy in a truck drive past us and thought maybe he was geocaching too. We got to the last one called War Zone (GC3AV4V). It was called war zone because it was all chewed up from quadding, mudding and shooting. We saw a truck and a guy looking down at either a phone or a GPS. We asked if he was a geocacher, he said no, but he's heard of it because his friends do it back in Portland. He introduced himself as Cliff. He was actually here looking for Big Foot. He had visited a lady who lived in town because she had a cast of an unknown foot print that was cast back in 1980. She had a few casts and let him have one for his collection. He showed it to us and let us hold it as we talked. It was pretty cool to meet some one who worked for the Animal Planet and actually had a TV show! Who would have thought we would meet him in Elma of all places? He had to go south near the power-lines where they found the footprint back in 1980 to see if there was anymore evidence. It was great meeting him. He gave us his business card and he was on his way. We looked for the cache and found it a few minutes later. We went home grabbing more caches as we headed southeast. Ironically, when I got home, that very show Finding Bigfoot was on TV. I'm not kidding!

I grabbed 17 caches in Elma and had a FTF later that evening in Roy.