Interesting little plan we implemented. Living in a rural area after a while you run out of caches. Except the occasional trip out side your hood. So rather than running and grabbing every new cache we let them build up locally. So all of a sudden we have 10 plus cache days again
There have been some good hides done in our absence.

When returning to for a cache yesterday the wear and tear on a hide area was a little disturbing, it was only a week since we had been there. Literally the surrounding forest is being denuded. Cacher's appear to just rip and tear (interestingly in the same places others had been)in their search. Looking at the spots since it was already ripped up it was obvious to us the cache could not be there. I bet if I go back in a week I would see even more ripping in places already torn up.
Then when we dropped by one of our own caches to check on it, the cache was just lying on the ground. The stump the cache had been in was in pieces, no longer able to hide the container. Seems as though cacher's need to rein in the over aggressively searches since the ramifications may be potentially future loss of places to hide caches. It's quite easy to see potential for local park's (or other public agency) to ban hides because of the damage and as the sport grows bad press causing potential private property permission to be hard to gain.

The map for western Washington which has topographical data at 20 foot increments is ready for download.
New map is 83 megs. I also just finished the entire state of Washington roads (major and minor), water ways ect. No contours though. I will place a download link

Over the winter I have been building a set of topo maps for Garmins. The maps from Garmin are only 1:100 these are 1:24.
What is ready at this point is a water and road map of the Western Washington between N48* 30 W 122*20 S 47* 30 without contours.
The finished maps will available from this site but for now you can download the current self installing version.
Install map

True the pacific north west in the last 10 days have received in some areas in excess of 12 inches of rain that rain is what is needed to bring the local streams out of the very low end of summer flow to the level needed to bring the fall salminoids into the streams.
We have placed 4 more salmon creek caches in the period.
The new ones are:
Chimacum creek East fork, Chimacum creek estuary, Tarboo lake and Tarboo creek estuary.
While visiting "Tarboo creek estuary" a few days later we spotted fishing (could not be sure of the species) in the stream. Try to time your visits to the estuary ones around high tide. That is when you have the best chance of spotting fish entering the stream.