Fernhopper
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Owner:
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Forest Engineer & Sunny Daze
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Released:
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Wednesday, November 6, 2002
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Origin:
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Washington, United States
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Recently Spotted:
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In Kenna was here
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Fernhopper likes to roam in forested areas--loves the coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest, especially west of the Cascades. Also, loves cloudy weather, especially when it's raining... Fernhopper hates cities and dry flatlands!
"Fernhopper" is the nickname for forestry students--and alumni--in the College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. Ferns, particularly sword ferns, are a common groundcover in the coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest west of the Cascade Mountain Range. Thus anyone working in these forests has to do a lot of "fern-hopping." Forest Engineer completed his forest engineering studies as a Fernhopper in 1960, and spent the following 25 years "fern-hopping," interspersed with a lot of "riding herd" on desks, and followed by 15 years of land survey project management. It is hoped that "Fernhopper" will endure a lot less stress than Forest Engineer...
The travel bug consists of the TB tag attached to a hopping green frog. Actually, Oregon Staters are beavers, but beavers aren't known for hopping, thus we attached a frog which is known for this mode of movement.
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Tracking History (8879.5mi) View Map
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soccerbughailey posted a note for it
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jpd43 placed it in Kenna was here
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California
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jpd43 retrieved it from Birdsong
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California
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Although I did not actually get this from Birdsong, it is much easier to just say I did, (I actually took it out of a cache about 50 miles from Birdsong that had never been activated.
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2 for the road placed it in Birdsong
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California
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2 for the road retrieved it from Deer John,
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California
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There were six of us after this one: the TwoFers, Eric and Marianne, Ski and Skeeter. After a nice hike into the park from our campsite, we had to piece together a proper approach from below. We spotted a trail and Eric and MrTwoFer followed it to the meadow, the log, the oak, and the cache. Watch out for poison oak (red in autumn). Eric found the cache in good condition. Took TB, signed log, continued back to Roaring Camp for more caching fun.
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Mulder&Scully placed it in Deer John,
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California
- 170.62 miles
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Mulder&Scully retrieved it from Iva-Kay Each-Bay
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California
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Picked up this TB from cwsoots at the Iva-Kay Each-Bay cache, as we stumbled on each other trying to find this cache. Heading towards Bay Area later this month.
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cwsoots placed it in Iva-Kay Each-Bay
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California
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cwsoots grabbed it
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Fernhopper is continuing its journey to a new forest. Look for it in the upper Sierra Nevada soon...
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willie1 retrieved it from I-90 - Olallie
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Washington
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On his way to a distant forrest.
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