Around Tuolumne
April 25, 2004
Geocaching Adventure #6
I can't believe that we've gone geocaching every weekend this month! Seriously, this is the one of the best activities we've found. We're exploring places that we've never gone to before, and most of the places that we're exploring have amazing views. Today was a great geocaching day!! It was very sunny out and bordering on too warm. We tried 5 caches today, and found all but 1. Another fun part is going over the pictures with our neighbor, Ron. Since he knows the forest like the back of his hand, he fills us in on all of the geography details.
link to the geocaching website
This cache was very nice. The trail was the old lumber railroad so there was very little incline. We hiked about a 1/2 mile before we found the cache. Along the trail, some of the plants had name markers. Also, lots of wildflowers were blooming. We could see the Tuolumne River much of the time. There was a lot of poison oak, but on the side of the trail, so no danger of coming in contact with it.
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This trail was once a narrow gauge railroad |
Poison Oak |
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Jimmy found the cache |
There it is! |
looking through the goodies! |
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Fern in this weather? |
View from the trail - that's the Tuolumne River |
Indian Paintbrush |
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Our Log:
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link to the geocaching website
We really didn't try very hard on this one. There was quite a bit of poison oak under the bridge and Jimmy was wearing shorts so we were handicapped a bit. There were also several families enjoying the river in the warm weather, so being stealth was challenging. I looked for about 5-10 minutes, but decided to give up. I'm sure we'll be back some other time.
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Bridge over the Tuolumne River |
Tuolumne River |
I'm checking out every Beam |
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The hint said: "Ninteen Fifty Six... and a little bit lower." But we still couldn't find it. |
Our Log:
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April 25 by
No pictures for this one today since we took pictures on our first attempt in March 2003. We're really happy that we found this one since it eluded us last year. We brought a mirror, as suggested by someone who found it last year, and that helped a lot. We looked for about 15 minutes and couldn't believe that we may have had to give up again and log a DNF but finally found the film canister in one last section. There was a lot of traffic, and we were very cautious with any neighbors this time.
Our Log:
April 25 by
jretz (10 found)
We have to admit, we tried this one in 3/2003 but couldn't find it and
didn't log our visit because it was our very first attempt at geocaching. We
couldn't bring ourselves to log a did-not-find for our first attempt and
have it show (0 found) after our name. We blame it on being so new to the
game.
This time we looked for about 20 minutes, fought off some huge bees, and
almost gave up again. But with the help of a shiny device (thanks for the
hint gumshoe9) we finally found it-just 1 though, not 2. Our curse of the
1st DNF is lifted! SL.
We were a little skeptical about looking for a cache in a cemetery. Is it a bit disrespectful? Well, it was very interesting wandering through the garden and looking at the old gravestones and we took caution on watching our step. It ended up being a very beautiful location, serene and peaceful.
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Tuolumne City was once called Carter |
This amazing tree houses the cache |
Beautiful lilac bush |
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Our Log:
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After Marble Orchard, we headed to Sonora to do some errands and on our way back to the cabin, we decided to do one last cache. There was a short hike, about 1/4 mile from the gate to the end of the road. We hiked up the embankment, and searched for about 15 minutes before we found the cache. The views from up here were, once again, amazing. At one point, this location was a dump. We're used to dumps being in ugly locations, not a place that would seem to have the 3 most important elements in real estate.
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The view from the coordinates |
There it is! |
checking out the booty |
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close up of GPS with coordinates and time |
Just and interesting dead bush |
wild lupines along the road |
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Our Log:
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