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Geocaching: Pacific Northwest finds and a trackable on a mission

Geocaching started in the Pacific Northwest, after all, so it is only fitting that StringGrrl and Kam make it a point to log a few visits while visiting Portland and Seattle areas this summer.

Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach, OR
Geocaching is a global treasure hunt game, played by a community of GPS equipped individuals. Object is simple, place a weather proof container (a cache) of a variety of sizes out in the world, record its GPS corrdinates and register at https://www.geocaching.com. Other registered users will be able to look up caches near their location and try to find it. Sometimes these are easy, difficulty or terrain 1.0, or very hard, difficulty or terrain 5.0, on a scale of 1-5. 
Painted Rock Tributes decorating GZ
While in Oregon exploring the area before work requirements up in Seattle area, we went exploring Coastal Oregon. Visiting Cannon Beach and the famous Haystack Rock, before making our way to Tillamook (that will be another post) and its famous Cheese Factory. 
Signing the Log

Lots of loot
A Tracking Bug is a registered object with a unique code associated with it, that are often placed in the geocaches. Sometimes the object is a "Collectible" which can be kept by the finder, but more often the tracking bug is meant to be grabbed from one cache and re-hidden in a different one. Travel Bugs can often have missions, StringGrrl is a travel bug that i just carry with me and never place leave behind, while other travel bugs are intended to travel from cache to cache and have its movements mapped on the website. 
A trackable travelbug from Michigan, very close to StringGrrls home

It's mission? To find a lake or forestry watchtower in Washington State, where we are going next

This cache isn't large enough to house the bug 

But this one was

In the correct state now, just to find a large enough cache at a lake or watchtower

Not from the same artist, but similar idea, this one found at Mackinaw City

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