GC5XZG3 Olympia
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: poolsharkycat @ | Hide Date: 06/21/2015 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 46.099 W104° 46.402 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0

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Olympia is the capital of Washington. The site of Olympia was home to Lushootseed-speaking peoples for thousands of years, including Squaxin, Nisqually, Puyallup, Chehalis, Suquamish, and Duwamish. The first recorded visit by Europeans was in 1792 when Peter Puget and a crew from the British Vancouver Expedition charted the site. In the 1840s, Edmund Sylvester and Levi Smith jointly claimed the land that now comprises downtown Olympia. In 1853 the town settled on the name Olympia due to its view of the Olympic Mountains to the northwest. It is also claimed to be the farthest point on The Oregon Trail. In 1851, the U.S. Congress established the Customs District of Puget Sound for Washington Territory and Olympia became the home of the customs house. Olympia is often associated with the Olympia Brewing Company, which from 1896-2003 brewed Olympia Beer. Olympia was once served by a small fleet of steamboats known as the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. Pulp fiction writer Raymond Chandler sketchily described depression-era Olympia as a town with government buildings in his 1936 short story "Goldfish". A 1949 earthquake damaged many historic buildings beyond repair, and they were demolished. Olympia suffered damage from earthquake tremors, in 1965 and the 2001 Nisqually earthquake. In 1967, the state legislature approved the creation of The Evergreen State College near Olympia. Because of the college's presence, Olympia has become a hub for artists and musicians, and was recently named one of the best college towns in the nation for its vibrant downtown and access to outdoor activities.

06/20/2019 By Son_of_Mt_Soma
#3592. 4 of 11 today. A quick C&D on the way back to the hotel after dinner.

06/12/2019 By fam2go
In Denver for the United soccer game tonight. Saw this from the car, kinda hid it a LITTLE better...just not so visible

06/04/2019 By Cutright21
TFTC

06/04/2019 By ThePerfectPair12
It smells yummy here. TFTC

05/10/2019 By scarletsapphire
Quick find on the way back from DIA. It was easier to find the cache than it was to find the lid to the CC after I dropped it while putting the log back into the cache. With the help of my fellow geocachers, eventually the lid was located and everything was returned to its rightful place. SL TFTC

10/23/2018 By DougCacher
Pretty easy. Although attached quite firmly.

10/23/2018 By wsims
TFTC!

08/24/2018 By Erusar
Tftc

07/20/2018 By heh324
Oh the attraction of a souvenir to a geocacher!! Curse you geo marketing people for doing your job so well. Evidently this great adventure has been going on for weeks, but in true form PayMeCache waits until the 23rd hour to call me up and say “let’s do this”….so we did. We knew we wanted to crank it out, so the plan was to hit an area concentrated with easy finds, unfound by both of us. Well we all know about best laid plans….our first couple of hours had their struggles, but the good news is if we weren’t quickly finding geocaches, we were laughing until it hurt and enjoying the adventures the universe was throwing at us. We eventually got our groove on and cranked out 80 or so finds for the day. My one piece of advice when caching just south of the airport….stop to watch the planes fly over. It was an amazing experience and the best part for me was watching the HUGE plane shadows sailing over the fields and right over our heads. TFTC

07/20/2018 By PayMeCache
The things we do for silly souvenirs...

I took a day off to try and bag as many of these souvenirs that I will forget by tomorrow. That being said heh324 joined forces and is chauffeuring us around. The heat is exhausting but we are getting through it one by one.

Found GC5XZG3 - Olympia on July 20, 2018 using Cachly for iOS.

Some may call me seriously mentally ill. Some may state that I am in a state of mind that prevents social interaction. Some may say I am in a state of mind that prevents normal perception and or behavior. I prefer to say that I tend to do the same thing over and over again, but I expect different results. That being said, I believe we only live one life and I am trying to make the best of it. I thank you, poolsharkycat for placing a fun geocache to fuel my "insanity" or addiction as I call it. I appreciate you bringing me here so that I can try and sign my alias on a piece of paper that you have hidden.

I look forward to finding more of your geocaches. I also look forward to potentially finding geocaches with you one day and sharing stories of our insanity... I mean hobby or addiction? Cheers!

07/19/2018 By Scouting4Ever
Visiting from Seattle, so of course I had to stop by and find Olympia. Easy to spot, but ignore the direction listed in the hint. TFTH.

07/19/2018 By cas7796
Easy find. Be careful of the hill. Hate the tree.