Riverside Park

One of Spokane's coolest features is the river that runs right through town. The heart of downtown is Riverfront park, 100+ acres with the river running through the middle. Just to the west of town is Riverside park, a large natural conservation area. This is where we went treasure hunting today.
One of the great things about Geocaching is that you get to see a bunch of places you'd have never thought to visit on your own. Riverside park is one of those places. It's beautiful. Jeni asked why she'd lived in Spokane for 4 years and had never been out here.
Here's a 180 degree panoramic of Jeni by the river.Ok, after some sight-seeing it was time to get down to busines and start searching. The first thing we found was this pair of SpongeBob sandals. However, since we weren't looking for them and there was a chance their owner would be returning to retrieve them, we let them be.
Our search took us away from the river and into the wooded park. Here's a 360 of the woods partway to our goal. You wouldn't believe from that picture that we were just half a mile outside of a major metropolitan area, would you?
Kidz Cache, full of toys and in a very hip ammo can with an official Geocache sticker. Quite cool.We started to head back from Kidz Cache when we spotted another cache on the map. Just 500 ft. away we found Pretty Plese. (These flats are called the Plese Flats.) In case you're wondering how accurate this whole GPS thing is, the pic shows just how close it got us to the cache. And yes, Jeni did have to uproot that tree bare-handed.The char marks on the trees puzzled us at first, but then we learned from the logbook that the parks service uses controlled burns to keep the undergrowth from getting out of hand. There are a few caches elsewhere in the park dedicated to a bad forest fire that happened some number of years ago.

On the way out, we found a coyote skull and vertabrae!

By the way, if you want larger versions of either of the panoramic shots, just leave a comment and I'll email you one.