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Hidden near where we lived in Altadena, Another Way was our first cache hide
located along the El Prieto Trail. We had originally planned to place
a cache near the site of Owen Brown's grave,
a neat discovery made while dog walking in the area, but we learned that it
was private property and settled on a spot with a cool trail sign. Sadly,
both the sign and the cache disappeared in the next year.
While travelling in Tibet,
we couldn't resist placing what might be the highest
cache in the world. It's located on the 8km stretch between
Everest Base Camp and Rongphu Monastery, a common route taken by
tourists. Hidden on October 6, 2002, it was first found on April 4, 2005
by Chris Kletterlemmi.
I've learned that
Kletterlemmi died on July 16, 2005 in
a climbing accident on the mountain Dent D'Herens (4171m) in Italy, 4
days before he reached his 32-nd birthday. He was surprised by a
stone avalanche on his way down.
Hidden while working at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
on the Pearl River Delta air quality study.
This cache was inspired by the existence of several extra tupperware
containers not needed by the project, the awesome views at HKUST,
and the low density of caches existing
in Hong Kong. This was the first cache placed in the New Territories.
This is one of our nicest cache hides. Located on a regularly
deserted strip of beach in Ventura County, we always find this
a relaxing spot to touch the ocean and play with the dogs.
A month after getting into geocaching, I
wanted to place a micro cache on the Caltech campus where I work.
I picked out the perfect spot but didn't have a container ready.
Work took me to Hong Kong for two months,
and by the time I returned, a fellow geocacher had hidden another cache
in the exact spot I had chosen for mine. Still wanting a cache I could
see almost everyday, I chose a spot in the now defunct Baxter Museum
Sculpture garden. I archived the cache when I retired from Caltech
in 2004.
Sculpture
Before geocaching, we never made it more than half way up the Mount
Wilson Toll road, though we often hiked part way up and turned around.
Finally, thanks to geocaching, we got all the way up to Henninger and
commemorated the better shape we're in with a cache hide. This is another
fairly private spot where deer can sometimes be seen.
John and Mav
A simple multi-cache, mainly intended to introduce people to the
world's first frisbee golf course in Hahamongna watershed park.
Contents
Having spent a few hours puzzling over codes to find other
caches, we wanted to make a code-breaker of our own. There have
been several finders, but few noticed the connection
between the cache name and its fake coordinates. The original contents
also tied into the cache theme.
After moving to New York, it took nearly a year to get settled in a house
in Chappaqua. This simple hide in Hardscrabble Wilderness is about a
mile away from where we now live and takes people on a nice walk in the woods.
I planned this one back in California, but had to wait until I found
"the perfect spot." It's near a trail where I run/walk the dogs regularly.
The puzzle isn't really that vexing, unless people make it harder than
it really is.
This cache was hidden on the longest day of the year in a small preserve
in Millwood. It's a short, 1.3 mile loop walk with an easy find.
A bit bittersweet for us, this was Maveric's
last cache before he died a week later. We had made some exploratory
treks during the winter looking for the perfect spot
for a cache, and knowing how much Mav loved the water, chose this spot over
looking the pond.
We frequent this wonderful wooded preserve near home and decided it could
use a second cache. Our other cache is located near the highest point,
this one is a bit lower near a swamp and can be part of a nice loop hike.
This cache began as an introductory example of of multi-cache for a
Sawmill Audubon Program on May 20, 2007. It's meant to be family
friendly, and I enjoyed placing it enough to turn it into an official
geocache.
We became aware of a small park near home and decided to share
with the geocaching community. Being "the salmons" we naturally
like fishy themed items, and started this cache off with plenty of
fish related goodies. Near the cache site is a a dam over the Pocantico
River and the remains of an old pump works and what was probably a
house for the dam worker. Inside the pump house were a lot of abandoned
data sheets from 1963 carefully detailing flow rates and other details
of the river/dam.
When our original Winona Code cache went missing, I decided to make a similar
puzzle cache on the opposite side of the country closer to our current home
coordinates. As luck would have it, a new nature preserve was inaugerated in our
town in mid-October so we had a brand spanking new set of trails to explore
at the Burden Preserve. A field of what might be bamboo (or at least looks like
bamboo to me) inspired adding panda to the name.
After exploring all the trails in the new Burden Preserve in New Castle, I
couldn't decide between a couple of spots for a cache placement, so decided
to just put out two.
My mother lived in Las Vegas, and I was caching there on visits a few times a
year. I regularly ran shopping errands while
visiting and I was told to get something at Smiths on Jones and the old TV show title popped into
my head, and I thought of Alias Smith and Jones for the rest of the week. Thus this cache.
Alas, the cache went missing after my mother passed away and I opted not to replace it.
I'd been wanting to name a cache this for some time and was looking for a nice spot.
This cache can be found after a short walk along the North County Trailway.
We saw ducks in the river and the frogs were very vocal on our way to the cache.
Home Coordinates
Caches we have hidden:
Our first hidden cache
Another Way (GC6C93)
on July 4, 2002:
7/4/2002 
12/1/2002 
Roof of the World Cache (GC9A9E) on October 6, 2002:
HKUST Cache (GC8875) on September 2, 2002:
9/2/2002 
Mumu's Mr. Magu (GCA968) on November 16, 2002:
Art or Jungle Gym cache (GCD63D) on February 16, 2003:
Contents 
Henninger Ridge (GCD6D3) on February 17, 2003:
Location 
Contents 
HaHa Mumu (GCECDD) on March 26, 2003:
3 weeks later 
Winona Code (GCGX6R) on September 15, 2003:
Easy Scrabble (GCR1Z3) on October 21, 2005:
A Vexing Puzzle (GCVCGB) on April 12, 2006:
Short Walk on a Long Day (GCWPR4) on June 21, 2006:
Whippoorwill (GC11BT9) on March 10, 2007:
Hard Scrabble 5.6.7 (GC12PJ1) on May 6, 2007:
Pruyn Swamp (GC132KN) on May 21, 2007:
Fish You Were Here (GC14Y5M) on August 5, 2007:
Crouching Panda, Hidden Venona (GC1HR4K) on November 1, 2008:
Just for the Halibut (GC1HR6M) on November 1, 2008:
Alias Smith and Jones (GC1M0TA) on January 22, 2009:
Salmon Chanted Evening (GC1TF2X) on June 6, 2009:
Our travel bugs:
GC4D19
GC1A8F on 2/14/2003.
GC7A1
More information about the Leatherman can be found at
this link and
more info here.
This was his 365 mile route.
Hidden on 11/19/2000, this is one of the oldest nearby caches
that we hadn't yet found. We found a couple of other caches from the
early years while marking this milestone.
One of a number of creative puzzles caches hidden by Lostboy1966.
One of the oldest caches around, still going strong after six years.
A cute puzzle with a blaa final location in a parking lot. This makes 100 finds in 101 days, or
200 finds in 197 days so I seem to have a cache a day pace lately.
It's always nice to mix things up, so I chose this earth cache for #1400.
This multi cache covers almost every section of Central Park and is well worth the
effort it takes. I spent a couple hours on this in June, then returned for a final
marathon session to celebrate my birthday with a milestone cache find.
This cache in the Hemlock Hill preserve of Ridgefield, CT can be a short walk in the
woods, or one can spend hours walking the extensive trails in this area.
I've seen Jamm's cachemas series caches pop up every year and they look like
they'd be a lot of fun. So, I decided this would be an excellent choice
to mark another milestone and set off on a quest to find 6 caches ending at
this one today. I picked number 4 in the series because it was closest to home
and looked the most challenging. A challenge it was, but I luckily found yoda dog
and master + mistress in the act and we searched all the possible hiding spots,
talked to a neighbor, and used phone-a-friend before finally finding the ammo box.
We were then joined by wuster2 and happyhelpr making it a very sociable find.
I really got on a roll while spending 2 weeks in Las Vegas. The cache density is
so high, that it's easy to do 5-6 caches at a pop without driving more than a couple of
miles. So, I did just that everytime I went out and found myself with 89 finds. I did push
myself on the last day to reach this milestone, and chose a nice stretch of Pittman Wash to
go for a long walk (in contrast to most of the drive-up Vegas caching). Pittman Wash has
at least 27 caches stretched over a few miles. I've done some sections in the past, but a
new series of caches that filled in the gaps were placed a week earlier, so it was an obvious
target area on a day when I wanted to have 13 finds. Most of the caches along the way were easy, a couple
harder ones were helped by running into other cachers, Witter and Purple Lady, who have a lot
of determination when it comes to searching an area, and they came up with 2 caches that I probably would
have had DNF on.
I spent 3 weeks in Las Vegas organizing my mother's stuff and generally saying goodbye to the
place we've been visiting for the last 15 years. While there, I found exactly 100 caches
including milestone #1900.
We were originally planning on heading out for a long hike on the weekend, but the weather forecast
was uncooperative. Instead, I decided to come into the city on a beautiful Friday afternoon and
picked one of EVFs puzzle caches as a worthy 2000th milestone followed by a pre-anniversay (#26
is on Sunday) dinner. It turned out to be a little tricky
and I spent some time searching on the wrong street corner before getting John involved on the phone.
He actually located Stuyvesant's pear tree plaque on google street view before I found it across the
street. Today would have been my mother's 80th birthday.
We found 3 caches in Irvington Woods on a warm summer afternoon. Two were micros that we expected
to be difficult finds, but we had great caching luck today and found everything we looked far quickly.
Looks like it's been 100 days since milestone 2000 making it an average of a cache a day.
It was a rainy day, but I decided that would be a good choice for caching in some muggle prone areas.
Worked like a charm, and I had some pleasant spots all to myself.
GC6435 
GC646E 
Our 100th find on Mt. Lowe:
Our 200th find
at
Vasquez Rocks:
on 6/21/2003
What a difference a year makes (30 lbs less):
June 2002
June 2003 
Feb 2003 
Our 300th find:
Las Flores on 12/13/2003.
Our 400th find:
Angel's View of the City of Angels on 3/27/2004.
Our 500th find:
Bug Eyed on 8/27/2004.
Our 600th find:
Leave it... 'cause you can't take it on 4/16/2005.
Our 700th find:
The falls at Amawalk River on 12/31/2005.
Our 800th find:
Leatherman's Circuit - Helicker's Cave on 5/10/2006.
Our 900th find:
Rested Here on 10/9/2006.
Our 1,000th find:
Boston Cache on 1/21/2007.
Our 1,100th find:
Indiana Geones and the Horde of Odin on 5/29/2007.
Our 1,200th find:
Ninham Mountain MUA on 9/2/2007.
Our 1,300th find:
Koala Kache Redux on 12/12/2007.
Our 1,400th find:
Monsey Glen on 4/16/2008.
Our 1,500th find:
Bridges and Arches of Central Park on 7/16/2008.
Our 1,600th find:
Interstellar Overdrive on 9/30/2008.
Our 1,700th find:
Four Sock Puppets, Cachemas 2008 on 12/29/2008.
Our 1,800th find:
Round the Bend on 1/24/2009.
Our 1,900th find:
Sunrise Mtn Trailhead on 4/16/2009.
Our 2,000th find:
Stuyvesant's Orchard on 5/15/09.
Our 2,100th find:
Microphobia 2-Security on 8/23/09.
Our 2,200th find:
It's a Small World 8 - Belgium on 11/12/09.
OUR COMPLETE LIST OF FINDS
MILESTONES
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