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Montrose, CO

Montrose, CO
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My first Colorado geocache. Good choice too. Well hidden even out of the snow and right in front of my face.
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The View

The View (GC13FHG) was an awesome cache for a rainy Sunday afternoon. Outstanding hiding spot. There's something about geocaching in the rain that makes the task much more fun. It's an easy way to make some outdoor fun on an otherwise bleak day.

Springville Caches

We were treated to a quick cache evening over the Labor Day Weekend by my Sister-In-Law and our friend, Josh. A little time and a couple flash lights were all we needed to knock our three of our four targets. Incidentally, if you know where "Sign your life away" is hidden, we'd love the help.

High Quality

I love a well planned, placed, and hidden cache. One that's built to last. Domaine Cache (GCVDRJ) is just such a Geocache. Located just off Bountiful Blvd. Domaine is cut into the ground, built of a box of 4x6's, encased in an ammo can, and covered with a cinder tile. Awesome!

North Canyon Cache

My wife's Grand Cherokee got a decent workout as we tracked down the North Canyon Trail Cache (GCWWGT.) It's been years since I've driven up North Canyon and I don't think I've ever driven all the way to the trail head. The washout on the road has gotten worse over the years and there were a few place where I wondered if even in the Jeep we had high enough clearance to make it through some obstacles. In the end, the trip was great, the scenery excellent and we even saw some local wildlife (A large bull moose.)

Chicago

I've been waiting since Christmas to set a new travel bug on it's way and a trip to Chicago was a great opportunity to do so. Geocaching in Chicago was actually quite difficult. The narrow streets and tall glass buildings made it almost impossible to get four satellites at the same time. I got a little to the west of the city and was able to track down Rewards and Consequences (GCPDKB) and dropped my Pluto Travel Bug (TB18WVV) in one of the most unique cache containers I've yet come across. Pluto is now in Halifax on a quest to visit historic places.

USC

I had planned for a long time to visit a Star Wars exhibit at the California Science Center located on the campus of USC. I decided this would be a great time and place to pass along a geocoin I'd had for far too long. Turns out USC, specifically the area around the coliseum, is a great place to do some caching - an urban oasis. I highly recommend a visit.

The Ricks Creek Cache

Back and better than ever. This cache has seen almost as much pilfering as an urban wonder but we keep her going anyway.

Placing a Jeep Bug

Time to get this JeepBug on the road. I volunteered to help distribute one of the new Jeep Commache Travel Bugs a while back and decided I'd take to oppotunity to place it in a hillside cache that needed some attention. We placed it in the newly refurbished the Rick's Creek Cache this past weekend and got it off and running. I hope it's not narcassisistic to use a cache I own, but since it was badly in need of help and it was a cache that took a little hiking to get to, I figured it was an ideal place to hide a new JeepBug. Don't miss out on the chance to see the Rick's Creek Falls while you're up there either. I mjust say, it's really a bit of an honor to help in this little Jeep Distribution endevor. If you want to watch the progress of this Jeep visit Geocaching.com and lookup travel bug TB138JV or go directly to the bug tracking page.

Washington Wonders

Our trip to Washington State was a grand adventure. Lot's of sight seeing, and lot's of soaking up the fine Northwest climate. What trip could be spoiled when geocaching is involved? We logged our first Washington caches and hardly left the hotel. A short drive brought us to the fabulous Cornwall Park and other nearby treasures. (Check out jeepcruzer.com for the travel log.) The Bellingham area is replete with many caches covering all difficulties in both urban and rugged settings. It made for great geocahing by this first time visitor.

West Bountiful Park

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Dramatic visit to GCQ7N1with jshizzle and welchesweed as a LifeFlight Bell 406 descended on the park. This was the last cache of a caching contest this evening. jshizzle and company beat us to the punch and tracked down the cache just before the helicopter came in. Turns out a child was injured falling off a ledge onto a cement monument between the baseball fields and the Stake Center. Caching ceased whilst the 406 pulled a max performance lift off and zoomed out of sight. I find myself (a helicopter pilot) in a moral quandry where lifeflight is concerned. The aircraft are amazing, the piloting demanding, but the circumstances bringing them here usually horrific. Oh, BTW, that bird tried to take me out too. The fear that went through me was Poe-esque to say the least. Check out N751HC

KOGD

I've been itching to bring a new cache to life since resurrecting a few of my old caches. I attend a flight school at the airport in Ogden and a park near the terminal building has been begging for a cache. So we finally put one at the park and I decided to produce a quick welcome video to make you feel at home.

jestcaching

jestcaching visited my site from all the way out in Connecticut. Thanks for stopping by.

Cacheopedia

Some fellow geocachers introduced me to an encyclopeida side (a type of wikipedia/wiki ehow) for geocaching. Cacheopedia looks fascinating but I haven't had time to really check it out. I'll let you do your own checking and I'll get back to you on this one.

3 Caches Re-enabled

I've had run of bad luck with some of my urban caches in my home town. They've been pilfred, muggled, and in some cases absolutely demolished. So with the spring weather came the urge to take these dissabled caches and get them back up and running. We've replaced all caches with micro's (only one was previously otherwise) and we've made the hiding spots harder so we raised the difficult rating on a couple of them. It feels good to be back in the swing with these caches. I've like all the locals so I've been hesitant to archive any of these. Hopefully they'll be around for a long, long time.

(GCJ2GK) Barnard Creek Cache by JeepCruzer

(GCJ2GK) Barnard Creek Cache by JeepCruzer is back in business.

(GCHW86) G.C. Penny Cache by JeepCruzer

(GCHW86) G.C. Penny Cache by JeepCruzerIs back in action. All the fun of the old cache without the dangerous construction machinery.

(GCHKTM) George in Centerville by JeepCruzer

(GCHKTM) George in Centerville by JeepCruzer is back in action. We placed a new micro container in a new park across the street from the original cache. You're all invited to check it our on your next cache extavaganza. It's hidden in a slightly more difficult place and I've made the hint much harder as well. You can read the hint here (Job 30:7)

G.C. Penny Cache Tumbles Down

The landscape of Centerville changes once again as a long vacant building topples under a wrecking ball and steam shovel. The former home of JC Penny on the border of Bountiful and Centerville has long been void of retail sales and has for more than ten years served as records storage for the company. The JC Penny catalog call center served in the upper floor of the building until mid 2004.

I placed a cache here after spending a christmas season working part time the CCC (Catalouge Call Center.) When the building and property were sold to a developer earlier in the year, the cache was closed off by a temporary fence. I was fortunate enough to grab an opportunity to breach the fence and retrieve the cache container and it's log just a few days before it's demolition.

I attended the public demolition event on Halloween afternoon along with about 1,000 other onlookers. It was barely worthwhile. For all the buildup the marketing company went through you'd have thought they were going to blow the thing up. When we arrived and the crowd was a mear 100 feet from the building, it was clear no explosives were to be involved.

Even with the lack of pyrotechnics the show was good enough to make me feel like I didn't complety waste my time in coming down and fighitng the crowds. Here's the video from the demolition:

• JC Penny Demolition 1 - A last look and the first blows.
• JC Penny Demolition 2 - The brick busting breaks into high gear.

Now that we have the cache container back and the future of the structure seems to be fixed for the near future we'll try to relocate the cache and re-enable it. Keep an eye on the cache and the blog for info.

Bouncy Balls in The Mush

I've tried to find Bouncy Balls in the Brush by Big Red's seven dwarfs twice now with almost a year between attempts. Both have turned out badly. First time I was trying to navigate the creek bed with an 8 month old. This time I brought my dog (who had a blast) but couldn't get to the cache. The recent rains had forced the creek over the edge. As long as my GPS was accurate, it was pointing to a spot under at least a foot of water. As I said, my dog loved it, but I was saddened. You can see in this photo the log bridge in the distance that has been washed about 50 feet down stream, and the other washed across to the opposite bank (out of frame).

Seeking The Mystery Machine

I've decided that the camera phone is the best geocaching additive I've found since the pocketquery. I was out seeking GCQJNF but didn't have any luck. So I figured I'd snap a photo to send to TheMysteryMachine to make sure I was on the right track. Turned out to be a pretty good picture of the White Banshee (White Jeep). We'll need to get a picture of the Red Barron up here soon.

JeepCruzer Strikes

We're back to geocaching after a hiatus and the fist cache the JeepCruzer chose to strike is AimHigh!'s "Just Another Cache" (GCNG8K). AimHigh! has been a great geocaching friend and UTAG advocate so it seemed fitting to make the return to geocaching at a AimHigh! cache.

Cruzin' Again

After I exhausted my search for my missing eTrex Venture I decided it had definatly been lost away from home and not just misplaced. I've gone most of the year without that handy tool and have had a number of instances when I wished I had it. My wife took pity on me and for my birthday replaced my missing GPSR with an identical model. What a great present! I couldn't belive how nice it was to have it around and how much I missed having it at my side. To top things off my Birthday landed in the middle of our most recent trip to Disneyland. I used my GPSR to track where we walked and monitor our mileage (would you belive we walked about 9 miles a day?) So now we're back in the saddle and looking forward to some new geocaching adventures!

SLC TB Crash Pad Hit By Bomb Squad

SLC TB Crash Pad has been permanantly archived due to the fact it has been blow to smitherines by the bomb squad. Here's a log from the cache page:

This cache was blown up by S.L.C. Bomb Squad on 3/22/2005. While poking around inside the round cement culvert end "poisoned well" a gentleman from the adjacent office building came out and reported the demolition that occurred yesterday.

It seemed like an extreme measure but if my memory serves, a plane was hit by a laser from the ground that same day so I'm guessing everyone was on guard. I'm planning to bring the crash pad back nearby (but not too nearby.)

GCN4EV "66" A Copletely New Cache!

GCN4EV "66" by JeepCruzer

SLC TB Crash Pad returns to service

SLC TB Crash Pad is back and better than ever. It's only a short jaunt down the road from where it was before but in a area where you'll stick out less to the police. If you've found this cache before, go ahead and log it as a new find as the coordinates are quite different from the previous ones. The spot is in a strip of public land next to a horse pasture. Take care to avoid the electified fence coralling the horses. We're placing Goatee the Goat TB and Flying Eagle to intiate the cache. All bugs that were in the cache before it's dissapearance have thus far been unretrieveable.

Barnard Creek Cache is back in business

I realized why the cache container dissaperared. The tree/bush it was hiding under no longer exists. The rocks I'd hauled to cover the cache were still there, so I re used them to cover the new cache placed just mere inches from the original location. Good luck in your search!

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