I got my stuff ready the night before. Tuesday was going to be busy. Shauna had given me some free tickets to the Storm game and we were getting this cache in the morning. I had a very small window between the two. I had to time it right.
I went and picked up Bob and drove to the parking coords Jacob provided us with. It seems all of us needed to grab this quickly and head out to our other things we had planned for today.
We got to the spot, a place I have been to before a few months ago with Bob. We had finished our 2x2 challenge and the final for the cache was up the opposite hill. I texted Jacob letting him know we were at the parking spot. He called me a few seconds later telling us that they were on their way up.
The Kia Soul rolled in and Jacob and another guy got out. His name was Brian...we later found out his caching name was Qaz&Kids. I shared my caching name and he told me that he needed to apologize to me about the state park thing. I said it was cool because we got it done and on time.
Because we were short on time...we thought there was an easier/shorter way in, turns out you should use the given parking coords from the Mima Falls trail head and not the ones we created, lol. I don't mind the bushwhacking but others in our group weren't too keen on the idea...especially on the return trip. It was shorter but we turned a 3 terrain into a 4ish, by crossing the creek down below 3 times and scaling up a hill with lots of downed trees and brush. Haha, whoops.
When we finally got to a road we found the Mima trail and followed it to the first waypoint.
We read on several of the logs that the first waypoint was the hardest part of this multi. We found it in maybe ten minutes or less of searching. I was the lucky one who spotted it because of previous pictures that were posted on past logs. I noticed an area, went to it because I recognized it, and found the first waypoint with Qaz.
We looked at the instructions and converted it with the help of Jacob and Bob. We plugged it in and made our way to the final.
The final took us longer to spot. After about 15 min or so and staring at a printed picture of a previous finder, Qaz made the discovery. It was literally sitting there with a rock on top of it. We took some time digging through the ammo can, signing our names and taking pictures with it.
One more down and several more to go. Qaz and I went back the way we came and we met Bob and Jacob down at the given parking lot. We got to the cars in about a half hour and Bob and Jacob showed up another half hour later in the other parking lot at the given coords. All and all it was a successful day even though we created our own way of getting to the Green Beret.
We drove back to Rainier and I dropped off Bob at his house. Now time for a shower, lunch and getting everyone for the basketball game in Seattle.
I got home and dad was taking the roof apart. It was damaged from the bad storm we had back in January 2012. I got clean, made myself a sandwich, grabbed the tickets and went and got Grandma and Lindsay. We went into Yelm, topped off the gas and picked up mom from the office. Surprisingly traffic going north was not that bad today.
We got to the Seattle Center just before 6, parked the car in the front lot near EMP and went into the Armory, where all the food and restrooms are. I had eaten already so Grandma, mom and Lindsay all found something for dinner. Once we got inside Key Arena, food would be expensive. We saw the Berlin Wall, looked at brochures in the travel kiosk, got our tickets from will call and took a few pictures near the fountain.
It was almost 7 so we made our way inside. We used the restroom and then found our seats. It was weird watching the game from that point of view. I had gotten used to where Shauna seats are. I think everyone enjoyed themselves even though the Storm didn't play that well and lost to the Minnesota Lynx by about ten points.
We walked back to the car, it was a warm evening, made our way to the freeway and headed home. I had to drop mom off at her car at the office and then I took Lindsay and Grandma home.
Next Adventure: Boat caches on Lake St. Clair
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