We contacted our new geocacher friends, Chris and Shelley to see if they wanted to go since they seemed interested the other day. Chris was exhausted that week at work and needed the weekend to rest. So they decided not to go. I was to meet Derek at 8:30 in the morning to head down south.
Morning came, I got dressed, grabbed my stuff and some food to take with me. I hopped in the car and headed towards the school. I was almost into Rainier when Derek drove by in his car. He turned around. I asked why he was here and why wasn't he at the school like we discussed? He said, oh, well I didn't see you there so I started to drive to your house. I was on my way like I said...oh well whatever. I put my stuff in his car and we headed off.
Our first stop was Toledo. I have never been to the actual town of Toledo and they were in our league in high school. Their school was outside of town so there was no reason to go into town. We stopped by the jail and grabbed the cache there.
We went to Splunker because we thought it was a cave. It wasn't and we were disappointed. Tons of people were not finding it so we tried our luck at it. We turned the rock over and found a snake. Then we called Bev to ask if we were in the right spot. We were. We turned the rock over again and I noticed a black tube really squished into the ground. I grabbed it and opened it up. It was the cache. Yes! We grabbed the rest of them in town and headed off to Hwy 504. I've never gone this way to Mt. St. Helens, we always go through Castle Rock. We grabbed a few as we headed east to the mountain.
Once we got closer to the mountain, it started raining. That bummed us out. It's almost not worth going up to go see it if it was cloudy. We stopped a couple of times getting caches and learning about the earthcaches along the way. By that time the rain stopped and the clouds lifted up. We could actually see the mountain this time. I love coming to this area.
We did all the earthcaches all the way up to Johnston Ridge. Wow, they sure changed the place. We had to pay $8 each to go inside the visitor's center and to walk up the hill to do OhJoy's cache. It was quick. Most of the stuff I already knew.
We made it short and sweet because we still had to do the Monopoly Series down the road. There were 30 of them and we were already getting tired. We got back to the car and had our sandwiches, chips and Pepsi's. We grabbed a few more down Hwy 504 and finally made it to the series. We did not realize it was going to be up hill but we should have assumed with logging roads and the elevation change. Each section of road has at least 4 caches. The first section was all the utilities. The next few sections were the properties. It was getting late and we were getting tired but we didn't want to come back so we HAD to finish it.
We got them all and headed home towards Castle Rock to get on to I-5. Derek still had to get one more for our 40 no micro challenge. We grabbed one near Toledo-Vader. Then we headed back to Rainier, where my car was. Long day. My feet hurt. I need to get better hiking shoes.
Next Adventure: TBA
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