GC429D1 Traditional Cache Mondo's NAT #219 - Hoh
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro Micro | Difficulty: 1.5 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 12/01/2012 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N40° 00.122 W104° 58.764 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Takes less than an hour  No Significant hike  No Difficult climbing  Available at all times 

Native American Tribes series.
Hoh.

Hoh is a Native American tribe in western Washington state in the United States. The tribe lives on the Pacific Coast of Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. The Hoh moved onto the Hoh Indian Reservation, 47°44'31?N 124°25'17?W at the mouth of the Hoh River, on the Pacific Coast of Jefferson County, after the signing of the Quinault Treaty on July 1, 1855. The reservation has a land area of 1.929 square kilometres (477 acres) and a 2000 census resident population of 102 persons, 81 of whom were Native Americans.

The original Hoh language was actually the Quinault language. Though Hoh are considered to be a band of the Quileute tribe, they are originally related to the Quinault tribe, but after marrying together with the Quileute tribe, the Hoh tribe became a bilingual tribe, speaking both Quileute and Quinault, until, ultimately, just speaking Quileute. The lifestyle of the Hoh, like many Northwest Coast tribes, involved the fishing of salmon.

The Hoh people were created along the river. Mythic narratives called kixI’ recall the origin of Those-Who-Live-on-the-Hoh (Chalat’, as the Hoh call themselves). According to these accounts, the ancestors of the tribe were “created by transformation” at the Time of Beginnings by K’wati the shape-shifting “Changer” who went around the world making things as they are today.

When K’wati got to the Hoh River he discovered that the inhabitants of the area were upside down people, who walked on their hands and handled their smelt dipnets clumsily with their feet. They weren’t very good at it, so they were famished and skinny. K’wati set them rightside up and showed them how to operate their nets with their hands. For that reason, Hoh elders still sometimes refer to themselves as p’ip’isodat’sili, which means “Upside down people”. After he had set the Hoh upright, then, the Transformer told the Ancestors, You shall use your feet to walk… Go and fish smelt. You shall catch much fish when you fish smelt.” Ever since then there is much smelt at Hoh.

So important is the river in tribal lifeways that there is also, not surprisingly, a mythic narrative for the origin of the river. The Hoh River and the headlands along the beaches (Toleak Point and Hoh Head) were created by K’wati, as well. According to the story, K’wati killed the chief of the wolves, and then tried to escape from the other wolves, who were bent on revenge. The wily Transformer had grabbed his carved comb and a container of oil when he fled from his house, even though the wolves were in hot pursuit. According to the story, Then K’wati ran down the beach. Then the wolves followed K’wati intending to kill him. As soon as the wolves were about to overtake K’wati, he used what had been hanging in the house [i.e. the comb] and struck the ground with it on the beach. No sooner had K’wati finished striking the ground on the beach with his comb and there appeared a cliff. Of course, the wolves had to swim around the cliff. Then the wolves would be left far behind. Once more the wolves were about to overtake K’wati and he spilled on the ground what he was carrying [i.e. the oil], there appeared a river. Of course the wolves had to swim across the water. Then K’wati kept on going and as soon as they would be about to overtake him, he would … make cliffs and rivers. So, he went around the country and K’wati was never overtaken by the pursuing wolves. Ever since that time there are cliffs and rivers.
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11 Logs: Found it 11  

Found it 06/15/2019 By richman667
#4 for the day team hot sauce

Found it 01/04/2019 By Koolcash
Quick find while traveling east. TFTC!

Found it 12/13/2018 By mooseyaround
TFTC Rnjoyed the view of the snow capped mountains from here.

Found it 10/06/2018 By Lucka Black
I am traveling with my daughter Lucinka mudlinka across the USA.  We are from Prague, Czech Republic. We will visit the states of Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska and Georgia.  We love "geocaching", the main target is caches :))

Day 1 - Detroit – Denver – Laramie
Day 2 Laramie – Hells Half Acre - Boysen State Park – Dubois
Day 3 - Dubois - Yellostone NP (Old Faithful, Morning Glory Pool, Grand Prismatic Spring) - West Thumb – Saint Anthony
Day 4 - Saint Anthony – West Thumb – Yellostone NP (Grizzly Lake, Sheepeater Cliff, Mammoth Hot Springs, Boiling River) – Bozeman
Day 5 – Bozeman - Yellostone NP (Tower Fall, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Mud Volcano) – Cody
Day 6 – Cody - Yellostone NP  (Fishing Bridge, Lake of Yellowstone, to visit everything we did not get) - Jackson - National Elk Refuge
Day 7 – Jackson - Grand Teton National Park – Cody
Day 8 – Cody - Bighorn National Forest (Cloud Peak Skyway, Tensleep Canyon, Meadowlark Lake), Devils Tower – Gillette
Day 9 – Gillette - Mount Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial, Sylvan Lake, Needles Eye Tunnel, Wind Cave – Chadron
Day 10 – Chadron (EVENT - THE GREETINGS FROM PRAGUE) - Chimney rock, Scotts Bluff National Monument, Pawnee National Grassland – Aurora (Denver)
Day 11 – Atlanta

Many beautiful caches, amazing and unforgettable experiences, thank all owners, TFTC :))

Found it 09/06/2018 By Casper&Aero
Notre périple a débuté le 22 août dernier et nous amènera à visiter douze états Américains et deux provinces Canadiennes... Notre départ s'est fait à partir de Baie-Comeau, une ville sur la Côte Nord du Québec pour ensuite se poursuivre quelques jours à Québec où nous avons fait un peu de Géocaching.... Par la suite, nous avons fait un arrêt à St-Eustache et Ville de Laval, toujours au Québec, pour ensuite prendre l'avion et arriver à Portland, Oregon... Nous avons fait un arrêt le 28 août à Umatilla toujours en Oregon, le 29 août à Boise en Idaho, le 30 à Twin Falls et le 31 nous sommes à Salt Lake City pour deux jours... Le 2 septembre nous étions à Rock Springs, Wyoming, le 3 nous avons fait un arrêt à Laramie, Wyoming... Le 4 et le 5 septembre nous étions dans la région de Colorado Spring, CO... Aujourd’hui nous nous dirigeons vers Fort Collins, CO...

Pendant tout le voyage nous avons ciblé quelques caches qui nous aideront à atteindre nos objectifs personnels et nous découvrirons certainement de nouveaux endroits que les Géocacheurs d'ici voudront nous faire découvrir... Nous préparons ce voyage depuis plusieurs mois et savons que nous ne pourrons pas tout voir par manque de temps... Il y a beaucoup de caches mais devons fermer les yeux ne pouvant toutes les trouver... Mais c'est avec plaisir que nous apposerons notre signature sur certaines d'entre-elles...

Merci pour la création de ces caches qui ajoutent des sourires à notre profil et qui nous font passer du bon temps peu importe l'humeur de Dame Nature... Notre log sera le même pour toute la journée et s'il y a une particularité nous l'ajouterons au début du texte... Des favoris seront ajoutés ici et là pour tout le travail accompli... MPLC

Casper&Aero de Baie-Comeau, Québec, Canada


Our English is not perfect, we use Google Translate to help us ...

Our journey began last August 22 and will take us to visit twelve US states and two Canadian provinces ... Our departure was from Baie-Comeau, a city on the North Shore of Quebec and then continue for a few days in Quebec City where we did some Geocaching .... Then we stopped at St-Eustache and Ville de Laval, still in Quebec, and then flew to Portland, Oregon... We made stop in Umatilla on August 28 still in Oregon, August 29 in Boise, Idaho, August 30 in Twin Falls and August 31st we are in Salt Lake City for two days... The 2nd of september we were in Rock Springs. Wyoming and the september 3 the road brought us to Laramie, Wyoming... On September 4th and 5th we were in the Colorado Spring area, CO ... Today we are heading to Fort Collins, CO

Throughout the trip we have targeted some caches that will help us achieve our personal goals and we will certainly discover new places that Geocachers here will want us to discover ... We have been planning this trip for several months and know we will not be able to not all see for lack of time ... There are many caches but we must close our eyes can not find them all ... But it is with pleasure that we will put our signature on some of them ...

Thank you for creating these caches that add smiles to our profile and make us have a good time regardless of the mood of Mother Nature ... Our log will be the same for the whole day and if there is a particularity we will add it at the beginning of the text ... Favorites will be added here and there for all the work done ... TFTC

Casper&Aero from Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada

Found it 06/30/2018 By Davis'Rule
Didn't sign, forgot my pen. TFTC!

Found it 06/28/2018 By WindAtMyBack
Found with@LostinDenver TFTC

Found it 06/28/2018 By LostinDenver
Second day of the Hidden Creatures campaign. Today I'm out with @WindAtMyBack making as many finds as possible. Its been 104 degrees today! Tftc!

Found it 06/27/2018 By COpackrat
Out searching for some Hidden Creatures today, and decided to look in this area as I hadn't been caching up here in a while. Thanks for all the hides - found lots of caches and creatures!

Found it 06/17/2018 By actualsize
Fast find. Today I’m out getting counties and DeLorme pages. This cache is also helping me raise today's overall total to 26, the number of caches necessary to turn a given square in the 366 grid a second shade darker. The first such change occurs at 11 caches, and I've already done that for the entire grid. 26 caches is a whole 'nuther ballgame. Wish me luck! And thanks for the cache!

Found it 12/09/2017 By dustyriver
An mid-day find with BriGuy on this great day of caching North - Best Wishes, DustyRiver