I am still amazed how many kids out here already know what geocaching is. And no, we don’t teach it at school.
One of the girls said she saw me in town this weekend standing by a tree with my phone in my hand. I told here I was placing a geocache. Most of the class started talking about how fun caching is. A couple even know started comparing their log in names! They wanted me to choose which one was cooler.
The next hour made me feel old. One of the junior boys wanted to show me where he went over the weekend. Google “Gearhart Mountain”. They hiked it. For fun. Five guys. Six hours up to the peak at 8000′ and 4′ of snow. He said coming down was fun because they could slide and jump.
I told him next time to let me know and I’ll give him a cache to place 🙂 he said they found one! Not at the summit but at the parking lot, in pieces and he left it there. Nothing comes up as an active cache, the closest one would be GC2R6HA but they found it at the gravel pit NE of the lake. That was their starting point. Amazing hike, and just for fun.
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