The Train Tunnel Cache

This tunnel started in August 1883 for a train to go through the mountain.

It only goes back about 150 feet to the back wall, and very tall, about 30 + feet high and about 20 wide. The work lasted about 6 months all end on Feb 8, 1884, run out of money.

Buck Rock Tunnel More Buck Rock

About 3 miles round trip and was able to miss the rain and snow, but the high winds was blowing pretty good.

I need to go back and find the other tunnels. Cache.

I did not go in it was to wet and muddy.

Salt in Salt Creek ?

To the left is Salt Creek Falls.

Nice falls, dropping about 60 feet or so.

And a cache there also Salt crek Falls.

Up the road is a place called "Salt Creek" and why is it called Salt Creek?

The old timers (1900) would take water from this spring that dumps into the creek and make salt from it by boiling it down till all that was left was salt. And then take it into town and sell it.

The spring to the right is about 3 feet above the creek and about 25 feet from the creek.

Below you can see the salt build up on the rocks and the other to the lower left is the build up of salt, it must be about 3 feet deep.

The Great Amazing Cache

The Great Amazing Cache July 2011.
They had this great caching event in Central Point, Oregon.
Had lots of placex and trophies
And had a 15 stage Multi-Cache.
You had to find all find 15 legs whitch had one number in each find, to make up a coordinate, at the end you had to put together all the number and find the last spot or box.
There was about 50 people that show up.
I joined up I-seek 1 and I-seek 2 as a team, and did pretty good.
We went after the avage time it took to find and finish and complete.
We need to match 1 hour and 13 minutes, our team came at 1 hour and 24 minutes, so we came in 2nd place.
There was a young couple who showed up with no GPS, so the guys that was running the thing set they Cell phone up so that there could go and play.
They had a great time for the first timers do this Event.

Save the Retiles, Day

I kept coming across little animals that needed saving from cars.

This one was laying across the road up in the mountains and I just missed him or her with the car, went right under it, right between the tires.

I stopped and got out to get this guy out of the road and He would not move, then I bumped him with my foot, then He was moving pretty slow.








Then a day later I went out jogging and at the mail box was a blue belly lizard on the road.
Again He would not get off the road.
Then I bumped him with my shoe and off He went.


So when I get round the corner, and up Redthorn road, there is this box turtle in the road, walking really slow. He is about 6 inch across his back.

Will he was moving any ways, even if it was slow.

And you know when I bump Him with my shoe He just stopped right there.

I pick up the turtle and and was carrying Him across the ditch, when I slipped and fell down and drop the poor thing, but lucky for the turtle He has a hard shell, and all was alright.
That is the day of the great Reptile migration

Geocaching

I still doing this game/sport.
I'm up to 2300 finds, but my standing have slipped some.
I'm only the 135th out of 1600 in Oregon, these days.
Here are some of the last cache I got before going on vacation.

Lucky # 13
A Pleasant Crossing
Ditch This Cache
A Pleasant Game No More
Dixie Cache

I'm adding this funny picture of a cacher at a stingray park.

The GPSr, will work down to 9 feet for about 30 minutes with out any water damage, will, they don't really work because of the water will blocking the satellites
signal.
It looks like he is just below the surface, judging by the person in the back ground.
This is one of the those caches that require a picture to claim the find, but normal not under water.
LOL
Stingray City- Grand Cayman Islands

Railroad Gap cache.

Saturday, I drove up and pike up the cache.

Geocaching Road Trip

Fort Rock.

A nearby tuff ring has a water-formed cave, called Fort Rock Cave, where in 1936 Dr. Luther Cressman from the University of Oregon discovered sagebrush sandals and human artifacts dated approximately 9,000 to 10,000 years ago
More Info.

I made my way by going into K falls and came up hwy, 97 and cut over the hill to Fort Rock and camp about mile away.

It is pretty cool rock formation.
It was getting late when I got there so I did not hike that far into as I would like to have.
I did find about five cache in the area before heading up the road.

Peak Cache Series

I started a cache series about a month ago.
In my MTB-ing, I come across a peak or two, so I'm thinking I should place caches on these cool places.
The fist one is about about 2.5 mile hike, and then a .25 mile up a steep hill to the top.
Mule Mountain Cache
But the digital camera is died after its rough life, so now pictures of my own.
And the past week I got out and place a cache up Birdseye creek, that had a great view of the Rogue Valley look into Grants Pass and Rogue River area.
Tail Hold Cache (peak cache #2)The name I gave it because of the tail hold on the top that the Yarder equipment hook there cables to, so they don't turn over when pulling log up the hill.
There logging in the area right now but, there be gone in 3 or 4 months.
I did place another cache that is a none peak, but is on a point of a hill over looking Birdseye valley.
It's called the Big Bald Spot Cache, over look this 50 acres of grass, going down a very steep hill side.
Again no pictures, but I'm looking at a digital camera that I can use on the MTB and for diving, called the Hero Camera.

Cool J Ville Trails

Monday I hike on the Jacksonville trail.
I had a motivation to hike there was 5 geocaches in the area.
If you look at the map to the left, the parking right at the trail head.
If you can find it (TH) right behind the Britt concert bowl.
It all one way roads in that area, so good luck.
I did find the five cache and see the old mining areas.
Not to steep and nice and open, lots of trails to follow.
The area I was in is the blue area.

What Falls?

I had been to Butte Fall only about three or four times over the years.
But I never new that there was really a falls there.
Its about a 10 foot drop, but it is a falls.
The town is name after, this little falls.
Butte Falls is located west of Mount McLoughlin really close to the base.
Its a little logging down with city park in the center and the school on one side and gas station and store on the other two side.
Very red neck type, much more so then Wimer.

The World Famous Cache Machine

Here DrDan at the cache machine.













Out caching in Butte Fall and came across the only Cache Machine.
Its an old ATM machine.

There Is Crystal In There Hills

A friend at work told me about this place
were crystal rocks are laying around on the ground.
I got this area pen pointed on a map and seat out to found some.
I had been in the area geocaching, so I new the area some what.
I got there and found a locked gate, so I off loaded the MTB and road the mile or so in and hiked from there.

I hiked for about an hour and found some.
This one above, was in a crack in a about 600 pound rock in the middle of a skid road. The area you see is about 6 inch long.


The next piece I found in the middle of a deer trail, I was able to bring it back, It weighs about 5 pounds.
A little tricky riding the MTB with one hand and holding the rock in the other, through 2 inch of snow, I got back with out crashing.

This one is surrounded by an iron deposit with the crystal in the center,
I cleaned it up when I got home and looks much nicer.
It seem that you only found crystal in broken rock not hole or round ones.
I found out later that I was to high on the hill, also that I my be able to drive in much closer.

Can You See In The Dark?

Out caching late the other night and I found this really hard one.
This is cache that you look for reflector to guide you to the cache.
This one had 16 reflector to find.
Can You See In The Dark?
On the way back from not finding "one more time"
I pick up one of the reflectors, or returning reflectors.
I thought, if I can see these, just maybe I can spot the the in ward reflectors.
So I hunted around a little bit and find one, then I found another one.
All was going will, then I saw two reflectors side by side, I was think this must be the last one.
But then IT started moving around, (it is Halloween season), then there was two pare moving around.
I started moving closer the then I saw it was a three point deer, they continued to follow me, the rest of the time till I got back to the car.
I continued to find the reflectors alone the way, then I came back around were I stared, but I continued to find, till more,A then I came to the last one.
This is a fun cache, this is about the third one of these I have done.
Sorry if I didn't follow the rules.
I have a very bright head lamp I use for hiking.
But I did go back the parking lot and locate the first one, just so I would know were is was.
T= egg
L=pencils sharper.
Thanks for the hunt.

My Big Ant

I was out caching north of Grants Pass

on Dollar Mountain and came across

these two really big ant homes/nest.

The pictures don't do the nest justices,

so you need to click on the pictures to

real see the size.

There are about 2 feet wide and

about 12 inch to 16 inch high.

There were these little red and black

bode ants.

When I stepped in closer to take the

picture they didn't like me being that

close and started coming after me.

It didn't take long to get this part

done.

Big Pine

This is really big pine tree.
250 feet tall, that's 3/4 of and football field.
The tree started growing in 1787 when the constitution was being signed.
The trees in our front yard are only half as high as this one.
click on the pic. to read the details.

The Story of the Lost Camera

Some time ago I was geocaching in the Little Applegate area and I hiked in about half mile in twocaches.

Will on the way in or way out, I'm not sure witch it was, but I did know till I got back to the car, I lost the camera.
So there was not trail in or out so I was walking all over the place to get were I was going.
I thought I would never find it, so I started down the hill to go home and got to thinking, and remember that I had the GPS on tracker.
It copies a trails to the GPS so you can follow it if lost or walk on the same track to find something like a lost camera.
At about 2 miles a ways I turned around and went back and about 1/4 mile from the parking spot.
Now the fun starts.
A red dirt bike just misses the front of the car my inches, and just as I was in the clear, a white quard come in about 30 feet behind the dirt bike, by now the car is in the buck brush and stopped and right next to the driver's door the quard hit the brush and flip over head first.
I tried to get out really quick but the seat belt is one of the that move alone the door when you open, so I'm waiting for the seat belt to move and I get out and start to grap the quard to pull it off of the rider and started pulling when I found a hot pipe and had to let go, and find another hand hold.
An of course the car was to close to turn the quard on all fours, so I held to the quard till the rider could get out from under the machine.
It turned out that the rider was a little girl about 4 feet tall, she was about 18 or so.
She was ok, with no injuryes.
If the first bike would hit me, the quard would have hit me as will, and what a mess that would have been.
I went up the hill and followed the GPS back about 1/4 mile and found the camera.
What day.

Side note: at church today, the lesson was about tenthing.
When we pay our tenthing.
The Lord watches over use when we least exspeck it or need it.

Sterling Minning Ditch

This is a view of the Little Applegate valley.
Pick up about 4 caches along this trail.
I don't know these flowers
but look new
to me.

This is the Sterling Ditch it was dug by 400 Chinese workers in 1877.They needed to get water above the creek to wash out the gold that was stranded on the slopes in the ancient river gravel.This ditch is over 26 miles long and three feet deep. Nowadays this trail along the ditch is 17 miles long.

The Hit and Miss cache

The Hit and miss cache is above the city of Ashland.
Nice little hike up the jeep trail.
and great view down the valley. looking south.
About 1 mile hike, up.

Nugget Butte

Saturday April 4 I hiked to two geocaches above the city of Gold Hill, Oregon.
It took me about 2.5 hours to get this.

The hike to the "Not There Yet" cache is on top of a knobe about .75 miles from the parking area.
This a link to cache page.
Not There Yet

The view north is up I-5.
If you look close you can see the Rock Point bridge in the center.
Most of the boys from both families have jump off of the thing.
I just dive under it. LOL

Link to the cache page.
Nugget Butte

The big fields in this picture is the Del Rio farms.
Not to many years ago this was a very big pair farm.

It now the Del Rio Winery.
A 100+ acres of grapes.

The picture south is of both table rock mountains and Mt. McLaughlin.

Maty the Tri-Pawed Disc Dog

This is a Travel Bug coin, that I pick up in a geocaching. The coin travels around to different places collecting miles, and some are to travel from one place and back home.
Most get lost along the way.
Maty TB coin suite.
The Link.
The Three Leg Dog
Maty is the Humane Society of Central Oregon's goodwill ambassador. She visits schools, groups and community events as a key member of the shelter’s humane education program.

When Maty's not visiting schools and groups, teaching them about responsible pet care, animal safety, and many other animal-related topics, she's busy demonstrating the "abilities" of a disabled dog.

Maty is also well-known for her amazing feat of catching Frisbees high up in the air - with only 3 legs! She is the first 3-legged dog to qualify and compete in two Skyhoundz Worlds Canine Disc Dog Championships. Her spirit and determination inspire those with or without physical challenges of their own.

Maty’s been known to dress in costumes that play off her missing leg such as a peg-legged pirate ala Johnny Depp and a surfer dog that survives a shark attack. She’s always willing to go paw-to-paw with four-legged dogs in competitions like Frisbee, skijoring, fastest runner, best trick and fastest eater..

Wherever Maty goes, she gets lots of attention and affection. For those facing the decision of amputating their companion animal’s leg, Maty’s abilities provide hope during a difficult time. She’s an inspiration to everyone she meets!