Fri and Sat - Aug 16 & 17 - page 2

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The big day... Orginal cache and HQ! The original cache is way out in the boonies! There is a physical container and log for it but like 90 feet away is nother cache called "Un-orginal Stash" which is in a beautiful pine forest setting! Gorgous!! With that done we headed into Seattle to get to HQ for our 1 p.m. appt. Made it, spent a little time in HQ and then took the HQ tour walking the streets near HQ. Some cool finds! We got eight of the nine caches and would get the virtual the next day. Next day got up and grabbed some nearby virtuals and earthcaches and then got the last HQ tour cache which gave us a souvineer! We actualy were done by noon and I suggested that we go do the APE cache today so we can get on the road faster after the APE Mega Event tomorrow... Bob agreed and we headed up that way! Here are some hightlights: Click on any photo to see an enlarged version.
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		The Museum of Glass
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To get credit for the Virtual you need a picture near one of the glass wares		Then off to the Earthcache "Wigwam to Wetland"
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This took us a lot of time (about 45 minutes) to get all of the info
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		Then off to get a Wherigo... Bob wanted to get 10 different types of caches in Washington state (We got 12 instead!) Can you see the cache?
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I've seen these for sale but never saw a 'live' one! Cool!	Finally to finish the HQ Tour... the virtual "HQGT: Gas Works Park"	Lots of pictures needed, the W on the compass here with you in it, the sky line, the compessor machines below...
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Bob in Seattle	ddv in Seattle	Ships and the police boats
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An old rusted complex	Bob at the compressors	Big machines!
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So we decided to head to the APE cache a day early since we had half a day left!	Bob is obviously excited!!	This ex-train (now walking trail) tunnel is 2 1/2 miles long to take you to the other side of the mountain
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While in the tunnel we worked on the Earthcache "Iron Horse Speleothems" It was very dark (and cold) in the tunnel!!	It took us 50 minutes to walk non-stop to go from daylight to daylight!	My hand brushed the wall while in the dark and not knowing I covered it in old soot from the train smokestack, I put my hand in my pocket, scratched my face. wiped my brow... sigh... guess how dirty I was on exit!!
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The other side we still had 3/4 of a mile to walk... but stunning flowers right on the side of the trail.	So I decided to get some new background shots for my computer screen!	Some you may have seen, some unique to the area
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