I got my query ready and my clothes on. It was nice enough to wear shorts! I was excited. I drove over to Bev's house and decided to drive my car because it would have been in the way when everyone got home from work. Bev was the navigator.
The first one she told us to go to was out by Camp Arnold and Webster road. It was called Mooooo! (GC5J8N5) and we could see why it was called that when we drove up to it and parked. There was a giant rock painted like a black and white cow. We looked around the rock and didn't see anything then I looked at the fence and there it was, a micro attached to the fence.
Since we were over near Camp Arnold, I wanted to try and look for Camp Cook (GC20E1B) again. I've had this cache solved for many years and attempted to go get it about the same time but when I arrived I didn't think my coords were right. I went into the brush and was only 40 feet from the cache. I decided to turn around and try again another day. Bev said she doesn't remember if she came out here with Bob when they found it. So I went in and searched around a bit. There were sooo many things to look through. I found ground zero and looked everywhere...high, low, under, over. Then something caught my eye. A piece of the container was showing. YES! There it was! I signed it, put it back as I found it and swam back through the brush to the car. It was nice to finally get this one off the list.
There were a couple more caches outside of Eatonville to grab. The first one was one of the newer caches that published last night. We've been to Dogwood Park so many times to get caches. This visit makes it three. We got out of my car and we immediately took pictures of Mount Rainier in the distance. This park was also a great stop for the mountain viewpoint. In fact, two other sets of cars stopped to take pictures.
Bev and I looked for Dogwood Park (GC5Q23W) and found it quickly behind one of the signs. It was a magnetic reflector with the cache inside of it. The tape didn't do it justice. They really needed to glue down the magnets and tape. We signed it and put it back where we found it.
The next one took us on a one-lane unlined Ohop-Valley Extension Road. We took the wrong road and had to turn around. Neither of us have been down this road before. As we got closer to Hole-y G-rail (GC55VBK), we noticed that the valley would flood really bad if this area got a lot of rain. The small creeks were already as high as they could go without flooding the road. We arrived at the guard rail over one of the creeks, got out and knew exactly where it was. Bev added a trackable to it as I signed the logbook. We all returned to the car and followed it through back onto Hwy 161.
We drove up the hill into the town of Eatonville. Everyone was preparing to get out of school. The buses were on their way to the school, parents were in their cars waiting...traffic at the four way intersection was even busy. We put in the coordinates into Nuvi because we could not figure out what road to turn down. It redirected us to some back alley roads and then onto the Alder Cutoff. We then turned down a dirt road that led us to a trail head. The Bud Blancher Trail is a 2.3 mile non-motorized gravel trail that connects Eatonville to the Pack Forest. We parked and followed the gravel path to the river. We walked across a very nice bridge and started looking for Mossy Nook (GC5H20P).
From the look of the logs everyone has had trouble locating the cache because the coordinates were off by about 30 feet. That didn't say which direction. We looked at the huge stump first and did not see anything. We looked in every nook and cranny and did not find it. We probably spent a good 30 minutes looking for the darn thing. It was quite warm and Bev was getting tired and thirsty. She said to give it one more look and then we will walk back up. I looked at that stump one more time and I saw tiny plastic corner sticking out of the moss. "Are you serious!?" I pulled it out of its hiding spot and yelled at Bev that I found it. She was also amazed. We signed the book, put it back and walked back up the hill.
We got back up to the car and was very glad to have drinks waiting for us in the car. We got back on the road and followed Hwy161 to Hwy 7 near the Pack Forest. Target Practice (GC5Q24Q) was near one we spent a lot of time looking for a few years ago. It has since been archived. This one was found pretty quickly. It was a film canister stuffed in one of the sign holes. We signed it and walked back to the car.
We followed Hwy 7 to the turn towards McKenna. It was such a nice day I didn't want it to end. Because if it ended I knew I would have to go back to work the next day. Ugh. I took Bev back to her house and then went home. I logged caches, started a blog, watched some basketball with mom and got ready for work the next day.
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