Welcome to Pine Ridge Park. This park has nice gentle trails through the woods. The cache is hidden off the main trail on a side trail out of view of the backyards. The most direct route is to follow the main trail past the yellow gate until you come to a chain link fence on your left. At the fence take the minor trail to the right up a little hill and the trail curves to the left. Please use the hint and spoiler photo. Be gentle so no vegetation is trampled and no geo trail created. The day I placed the cache two very large raccoons popped out of the bushes on the trail looked at me and kept going into a back yard. Unactivated Ape Cache coin for the FTF!
I have visited GZ two different times and took GPS readings using my Garmin. Coordinates are still jumpy on the phone. I am adding a spoiler photo so no one should have a DNF (if they read the cache page). LOL
CONGRATS TO EMMILLIAN FOR THE FTF!
In September 2002, a group of 19 concerned geocachers scheduled a meeting after hearing that the Washington State Parks was considering banning geocaches in the state park system. Out of this meeting, the Washington State Geocaching Association (WSGA) was "born" with its core values of promoting geocaching as a fun, family-oriented outdoor activity that increases awareness and appreciation of the environment and our parks and trails, provide opportunities for participants to enjoy geocaching and to socialize with other geocaches, educate park systems and land managers about geocaching and its benefits, increase awareness and support of the geocaching through interaction with other outdoor groups and the public, encourage low-impact geocaching and promote stewardship of our natural resources, and support "Cache In Trash Out" activities to help maintain parks and trail systems.
In 2022, the WSGA turns 20 years young. To celebrate this milestone, the WSGA is hosting a 20th-anniversary GeoTour. This GeoTour will give you the opportunity to travel to all corners of the Evergreen State while you search for 140 GeoTour caches. To make it easier to tackle such a large GeoTour, each of our 7 regional chapters will host 20 chapter-specific geocaches in bite-sized GeoTours with the entire GeoTour consisting of 140 caches. To learn more about our GeoTour, please visit the GeoTour page on our website which you can find HERE. We hope that you enjoy getting back out on the road while touring around Washington State. If you have any questions about our GeoTour, you can reach out to us via the contact tab on our website.
