This morning, we had met up with Mr. ClueFinders for a day of caching around and about in the area. He had left his car in Concrete and hopped in with us, so at the end of the day, we dropped him back off in Concrete and then checked out the local playground. There was lots to climb on and Charlotte also enjoyed riding on the space shuttle - though she wouldn't let me take her picture while riding it! There is a fairly major road nearby called Challenger Road, so combined with this play structure, I wondered if one of the Challenger astronauts had been local and I looked up the crew of the ill-fated shuttle. Turns out that one of them, Dick Scobee, was from Cle Elum, Washington and there is an elementary school named after him in Auburn. I don't think that he is the reason behind the playground and Challenger Road, but it was interesting anyway. I had not yet moved to Vancouver at the time of the Challenger disaster and wouldn't have heard of Cle Elum at that point. There were no caches at the playground, but we were near the end of a 129-cache power trail that I hope to do some day! The playground is located at N 48.32.283 W 121.45.496 and is point no. 124 on the map at the bottom of home page.
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