41 South Summit Road, located in the Okanogan Wenatchee Natural Forest is a forest service road named 41 South Summit Rd. which runs from the too of Loup Loup Pass to Paradise Hill and is approximately 17-18 miles in length. This is mostly asphalt/black top road but now has many sections where the asphalt is crumbling causing some holes. As driving from the Paradise Hill Road North, happen to come upon a very unique rock formation close to the road. Immediately this was a great place to place a cache for the WSGA Geo Tour. With the Container and GPS in hand, went to find a great spot. Well not so great of a place as there was already a geo cache placed right at there. Driving along this road there were many more interesting rock formations worthy to hide this geo-tour cache.
Finally, one spot was found which was off of the road a short uphill distance. The nice thing about this section of the Okanogan Wenatchee Natural Forrest, there are many active geo caches within a short driving distance (approximately 30). There are a series that are related to the fire look out on Leecher Mountain. This lookout is manned during the fire season. The lookout is a gentleman who’s name is Bill, or more commonly known as “Lightning Bill”. He has many years’ experience being a fire lookout and has been in the lookout towers when lightning has struck the tower.
In September 2002, a group of 19 concerned geocachers scheduled a meeting after hearing that the Washington State Parks was considering banning geocaches in 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 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.
