Bev and I worked on a few puzzles in the area just so we weren't grabbing traditionals all the time. We got three of them done, one in Buckley and two in Enumclaw. We went the long way around, went up the 410 hill from 167 and to Bonney Lake to grab a few along the way. We got the one behind a convience store and tried to find one at a small park and a dog park behind the elementary school. No luck with those two. We had to DNF them.
We decided to just skip some and head straight to Buckley to get the puzzle. We really didn't know our way around with all the little random roads here and there so we ended up at a church and a huge Jesus display. The cache was easy to find. I high five'd Bev for solving the puzzle correctly.
We went to the park, where Ben and Jayme had some of theirs. I was the only one who could log the 410 Streak so I grabbed that one quickly and caught up to Bob and Bev, who were on their way to the other two in the park.
The next two caches were very creative. I gave Ben and Jayme favorite points just because they made us think outside the box. One of them almost tricked us.
From there, we went to the NW of Enumclaw, out by the farms to get a few inside really rough looking parks and quick park and grabs.
Then we saw the big group of them in "downtown" Enumclaw, we were on our way. We parked the car and walked to four of them. One of our puzzles had to do with Winnie the Pooh and it was at an ice cream parlor. The cache was cute.
We didn't go into the ice cream parlor because it was still too early and we had a lot of caching to do. One took us to the fire station, where they were doing CPR training, another took us into a parking lot and the other took us across the street near the library.
Enumclaw is known for farming so they had this sculpture showcased in the middle of town.
The other puzzle we solved had to do with the famous NASCAR racecar driver Kasey Kahne, who is from Enumclaw. I had the puzzle solved the night before and it took me a while with the math because it was confusing. I took a break from it and went back to it about an hour later and saw the problem. The math was actually easy, there were spaces in the equation I did not see the first time. We walked towards the library and followed the coords. They showed along a street in some bushes. It took us a few minutes to pinpoint the cache but we found it among the brush underneath the bushes. We used the restroom at the library and walked back to the car. We then figured out why the cache was on that street, it was dedicated to Kasey Kahne.
We went to another one and it was actually missing. We saw the velcro it was strapped to. Sad day.
We went to the next closest one and it was at a veterans memorial park. We parked along side the road and a blue van pulled up in front of us. I said out loud to Bob and Bev, "hey, I recognize that van..."
A bald chubby guy in a pink shirt got out. Sean actually found us in town. We chatted with him for a bit while we found his cache in the tiny park. We did a few others around that part of town. They were a lot of park and grabs. One was near a dead end road, we found another Ben and Jayme cache at a storage facility and we found an area that was pretty cool. The cache itself wasn't that great, it was the decor that surrounded it.
We headed east on 410 towards Mt. Rainier. We stopped at the ranger station to check out the life of a tree. It started growing in 1600 and was ruined in a large storm in the 1990's. We got the others along the road until we decided to turn around. We figured we would probably come back this way when it wasn't winter. We grabbed some at a really cool stadium, a TB hotel along the road and Bob and I hiked a short walk up to Boise Creek to grab an ammo can.
We took a road north of 410 that took us to another small park and the dump. The dump actually had art outside of it. The cache was a little further down the road under a road sign, that was my 4700th cache. I have now gotten my 4500, 4600 and 4700th cache in the month of January. The last time I did that it was in May of last year.
We drove back into town and stopped at the pizza hut for some warm delicious pizza and a restroom. We only had to wait a few minutes for our juicy pepperoni pizza. We got back in the car and headed north out of town towards some state parks. One was on a nice walk next to Deep Lake, while I ate my piece of pizza. It was still frozen from the very cold days we had the last few weeks. The cache was an ammo can and it was crammed with TB's and coins.
We went and go another one about a mile from here, it had been recently fixed. It took a while before Bob and I could locate it and we found the broken one. A few seconds later I spotted the new one about 40 feet from where I was standing. We signed the new one and left the old one next to it for the cache owner to come and get.
Bob had somewhere to be this afternoon so we called it quits and grabbed two others as we went home through Orting. We came home with about 20-25 caches. They dropped me off, I logged my finds and enjoyed the evening.
Next Adventure: Wilkeson/Carbonado, Wash.
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