"April Snow Showers"

“April showers bring May flowers” is certainly a hopeful phrase, but according to Accuweather, the hamlet of Mt Hood will have a minimal number of rain showers the first few weeks of April.  The heavy precipitation of March did encourage the flowers and left the skiers with a bountiful supply of new snow on the mountain. Now to warm things up for the fruit tree blossoms!

Windy Mountain Morning

One of the newest adventures that whole families can enjoy was invented in Oregon just over 10 years ago.  Geocaching uses a global positioning system (GPS) receiver to hide and then seek and find containers (called “geocaches” or “caches”) anywhere in the world. A typical cache is a small waterproof container (often a tupperware container or ammo box) containing at least a logbook. Larger containers can also contain items for trading, usually toys or trinkets of little cash value, and “travel bugs”, items which can be tracked from one place to another.  A geocache hider (geocacher) will record the cache’s gps coordinates.  These coordinates, along with other details of the location, are posted on a listing site such as geocaching.com.  Other geocachers obtain the coordinates from that listing site and seek out the cache using their GPS handheld receivers. The finding geocachers record their exploits in the logbook and online. Geocachers are free to take objects (except the logbook, pencil, or stamp) from the cache in exchange for leaving something of similar or higher value.  Currently there are 47 active geocaches within a 10 mile radius of Mt Hood Hamlet B&B., some of which have been located by the innkeeper.  For more information visit  Geocaching – Official Site