My walk into work takes me across the Lenora Street pedestrian bridge, a walkway that goes under the Alaskan Way Viaduct and over the pair of railroad tracks running north-south through downtown. To the south of the walkway, and underneath the roar of traffic on the Viaduct, is the the fourth version of fence erected by the city […]
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After 3 3/4 years, I finally completed the 50k elevation challenge (for geocaching) in October with my friend Jes. I logged far more than than 50k of elevation over the period, but the challenge had so many rules that many of my hikes didn’t count. In fact, for a while I had kind of given up even tracking gain. I
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In the dark world the natives call “January in Seattle,” I was pining for a week-long bike ride as a “carrot” to entice myself to get back to riding. I’ve covered a lot of great spots in Washington, but was looking for something different. That something different – but not too different – was Ride
One of the more unsual geocaches I found recently is a puzzle cache described as thus: Even in a box of troubles, there is HOPE You may have some trouble with this cache. The container is waterproof because it may be under water at times. There is significant elevation change and you will have to
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All in all, it was a pretty sweet afternoon to spend a couple of hours meandering around the beach, removing trash.
Loci is a locomotive replica built and donated in 1983 by Oscar and Hazel Scherrer, about a block from the public park in Granit Hills, the hilly loop on the McClinchy Mile bike ride I did last weekend. (Not coincidentally, it also holds a geocache.) Considering this is my third ride since September, I was
My friend Rachael tweeted about a library geocache presentation during her Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) event. I was looking back among the geocaches I’ve done and found quite a few of them among my favorites: By George was my first library geocache, done during a conference visit to Penn State University. The multi-cache
