Geocaching The Badlands in Central Oregon

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Geocaching in Central Oregon: The Trail to Flat Iron
The Badlands east of Bend, Oregon

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My Geocaching Log for 03-29-03:

"Found this fine cache with pals Cougarmeat, Calliopal and Little Max.

We all enjoyed the stroll across new open Badlands, seeing lots of coyote, deer, rabbit, horse and cow tracks and following some excellent geo-tracks from point to point. The tags were great: not to hard to find, big numbers stamped in copper and just enough brain work required to make sure you had your wits somewhere about you.

I have visited the Flat Iron many times over the years but under an assumed name. I had been looking for the famous Flat Iron for all those years and here I had been climbing all over it.

Big Eddie's comment about a car shuttle was good, except that he never did say where to park the second car. We are not going to say either, nor note just exactly which caches are nearby. If you figure it out and want to try them all, better add about four more hours to your six.

The actual ground distance track we covered was seven miles, 2134 feet. With four checkpoints to find and frequent stops to take on and drop off water, it took us six hours.

But we had an ace in the hole: a cell phone and a support group! Mrs. Max was in reserve and we cut a carefully calculated 1.04 miles off the total round trip by calling in our support shuttle. Thanks Mrs. Max and thanks for the idea, Big Eddie.

Little Max finally wore down a little and stopped exploring and fell in line when he figured out this hike was serious. We took a packet of nice obsidian arrow heads and left a bouquet of spring flowers. TFTH logscaler and Red!
--Baron Max, Mrs. Max and Little Max"

GEOCACHING
Geocaching introduced to Central Oregon in 2002
I-Butte Cache on the summit of Black Butte
Geocaching the Top of Black Crater
Belknap Crater in the Mt. Washington Wilderness
Tam McArthur Rim
Geocaching into the Hole of Inaccessibility
Three Buttes Cache
Trail to Flat Iron in The Badlands near Bend
Picnic at Hanging Rock above Smith Rock
Geocaching with Z21 News with Molly Graham in the high desert

ENVIRONMENTAL
Photos of the Alvord Desert side of the Steens WSA in eastern Oregon
Access Fund's Adopt-A-Crag event at Meadow Crags on the Deschutes River near Bend Oregon
USFS Trail Crew builds a log bridge over Fall Creek near the Green Lakes Trail Head
Photos of Central Oregon from an ultralight aircraft
Weather Spotting during an Oklahoma spring
ONDA's Wilderness inventory of BLM area near Juntura in eastern Oregon
USFS Five Buttes Healthy Forest fire reduction program in Central Oregon
Bob McGown, AAC Section Chair, builds a telescope pad at Pine Mountain Observatory
Becoming an Outdoors Woman classes in LaPine, Oregon with the ODFW
Pulling barbed wire fence at the Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge with ONDA
A tour of the aftermath of the B & B forest fire with the Sierra Club
Adopt-a-Road with TraditionalMountaineering
The Bend Bicycle Festival 2004
Wolves introduced to the High Desert Museum
Twenty old growth Juniper stolen from The Badlands WSA More information
A sustainable way to use feathers to adorn my lady
ODFW clinic - Becoming an Outdoors Woman
Dutch Oven cooking at GI Joes parking lot in Bend Oregon
President Bush holds photo opportunities
Trail Crew builds a log bridge over Spring Creek
Sierra Club holds a Christmas party
Tour fire ravaged Davis Lake
IMBA helps COTA build trails
South Sister climbers trail relocated
President Bush hopes no child will be left behind
Adopt-A-Highway with TraditionalMountaineering
Department of Inferior dumps wilderness protection
An ODFW juvenile steelhead sampling project near John Day, Oregon
The ODFW juvenile steelhead survey in the stream
Owyhee Canyon wilderness study area in south east Oregon
ONDA's Owyhee wilderness inventory camp near Rome, Oregon
Touring The Badlands with ONDA
Riverfest river cleanup in Bend Oregon
USFS Mud Bog poster
A Pay to Play bust
President Bush reassures us that SUVs do not damage the environment!
President Bush overlooking the environment
Al Gore and his young son summit Mt. Rainier
Fee Demo demonstration in Central Oregon

CASCADES SUMMITS
Photos of a South Sister snow-climb in June 2006
Photos of Central Oregon from an ultralight aircraft
Views of the Oregon Cascades in the summer and fall
Views of the Cascades from the ridge above Three Creek Lake
Summits of the Oregon Cascades from Tumalo Mountain in February 2005
A snowshoe summit of Vista Butte off Cascades Lakes Highway near Bend, OR
Mt. Bachelor, the Three Sisters and Broken Top
Photos of the Three Sisters Wilderness Summits form Sparks Lake
Geocaching the Top of Black Crater
Overlooking the Three Sisters from Mt. Bachelor
Three Sisters summits
Scott shares his summits of Middle Sister and Mt. Thielsen

Geocaching in Central Oregon: The Trail to Flat Iron The Badlands east of Bend, Oregon

Geocaching in Central Oregon: The Trail to Flat Iron
The Badlands east of Bend, Oregon