Rollerblading and Cache Maintenance

I had gotten some recent emails saying that my caches need to be looked at.  I will not go check up on caches if the log book is wet.  That seems like an unnecessary trip when we live in Western Washington.  Besides, cachers should have extra paper with them when they go out to find caches.  I always do.

I had some extra time to go and fix one that had been archived by Ice and Wind.  I found a new container, grabbed our rollerblades and off to Rainier we went.  We parked behind Rainier Market...or what was left or Rainier Market after the fire we had a few months ago.  Not sure what's going to happen to the little iconic store.  We got our blades on, got the Go Pro ready to go and grabbed my new container for the 507 Series:  Rainier (GC3AMVX).  I guess the area was bulldozed and I hadn't had time to come fix it with all of the holidays, weird days off, mom with car problems and it getting dark at like 5:00.  Now that I had some time it could get fixed.

We got to the cache site and could not find the old container anywhere.  It has become one with the ground.  All of the scotch broom had been flattened.  The only thing that remained was a tree, rocks and some brush.  We gathered some of the rocks and was going to place it on the back side of the tree with the rocks hiding it from view.  I put my camouflaged duct tape around my container, Ben wrote on the logbook, stuck it into the container and called it good.

We checked on my other one nearby, Gopher Barbecue (GC3HZPZ).  I was not aware that anything was wrong with it until Ben pulled it out of its hiding spot.  It was just a bag.  No one mentioned in their logs that the container was missing.  Who would take the container?  I was no prepared to fix this one so it will have to wait until a later date when I have some containers ready to go.

We rollerbladed down toward the military memorial so Ben could find Rainier Honors our Troops (GC58ZW1), which I found in August before the Block Party.  It took him a while to think outside the box but when he did he was impressed with the find.  He put it back then he saluted the troops.

On our way back to the Escape we had some rollerblade races.  My blades desperately need new wheels so mine didn't glide as well as Ben's did.  We still had fun though.

We went grocery shopping in Yelm, went back to my house made waffles and sausage for dinner and then watched The Butterfly Effect while we hung out.  He went home and I went to bed.

Next Adventure:  Super Bowl XLIX