Spent Saturday up on the LPPT – translation: Lemurian Playground Power Trail! A series of Geocaching Power Trails that intertwine all around the McCloud and Mt Shasta area logging roads. The Link: GC4H8J1 LPPT–Starts Here!
I had some favorite caches that I came across too:
Checking for Geocaches on the way home and saw that there might be a chance to grab an FTF (First to Find) so I mapped it on the GPS and headed towards Hedge Creek Falls!! And YES! I scored the FTF!!
Temperatures at home were up to 110 and above, where to go to beat the heat? The beach! Beautiful weather and playing in the sand was a blast. There wasn’t anyone on the beach, so I pretty much had the beach to myself, who doesn’t love that?
I did some Geocaching in the area, but mostly it was just great to be on the beach, and enjoy the cooler weather. One of the Geocaches that I routed to took me to the Samoa Speedway: Welcome to Samoa Drag Strip, so I stayed and enjoyed some of the races. Because my arrival was later in the afternoon I got in free!
Around Lunch time I headed down for some crab at the: Seascape Restaurant Trinidad.
All in all it was a fun day and much cooler than my hometown… how do you beat the heat?
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Had the best time ever last weekend with the Shasta Rock Rollers. This group knows how to rock and roll!! We met up on Fenders Ferry while they unloaded their off road vehicles and then we took off up the road from there. Took the right turn into Madrone campground and it was uphill from there. We stayed on the Curl Ridge Trail all the way up to North Fork Mt and had lunch up on the old North Fork Lookout site.
After lunch we headed down the Garden Jeep Trail – Steep and overgrown, these 2 seaters made it look like a walk in the park.
70+ miles later we were back at the parking lot, what a day, that was pure fun… thank you SRR!
Apr 7
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Spring is showing up all over in Northern California, and a new Geocaching Series showed up also! Off to grab the newest series in our corner of the Caching world. The series was just above Shasta Lake on one of the arms or rivers that feed Shasta Lake – the McCloud arm. Known world […]
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Had a great time today out exploring the mountains of Northern California. Sean came up to take delivery of his new Jeep and we just had to go off roading and get some dirt on it. He picked a 4 door Rubicon in the Baja Yellow with all kinds of options on it. The destination was Harrison Gulch Ranger Station up on Knob Peak – see the link for the posted Geocache we placed.
If your asking me, I do not… 😉
but there is a Geocacher or two in our area that has the lowdown, or should I say the rundown on the Scientists and he recently published a series of caches with names as titles and gave a brief description of each one. I enjoy when a cacher puts this much time and effort into a cache or a series of caches. I usually pickup a piece of knowledge that I might not have known, or as in this case I added a few names of scientists that I never knew about. I spent yesterday with my Geocaching buddy Cantseem on the hunt for the Scientist Series.
We had rain clouds all around us, not a drop on us, that is until we finished the last cache, jumped in the GeoMobile and started heading home 😉
GC1X37W *Almost On Top* by Olcowboy-N-Eyesofice2Us.
What a fun place to Munee! Teamed up with YoursTruly, Hans415 and OldZee and headed South to Gilroy.
Munzee held an Event down in Gilroy at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in 2013 Lots of Munzee’s were deployed so there were a lot of Munzee’s to capture!
We spent the entire weekend tracking down Mystery’s, Diamonds and Virtuals, what a great weekend. Met up with Fisherwoman for lunch on the last day and then headed home. I was hoping to “Level up to 102” while I was there but by the time we started home it wasn’t in the bag. Looked at my numbers and OldZee and I put our heads together thinking maybe it was doable on the trip home??
Well I – or rather WE did it!! I leveled up to #102 – Very cool and it ended the Weekend Gilroy trip on an up note for me!!
Gilroy Munzee Team: Yours Truly, Hans415 and OldZee!
The above photo is Larry thinking he could fly AND capture a Mystery Munzee in mid flight…. lol
I did it!!!!!! This last stop had a Mystery Munzee that gave me the points to push me up to Level 102!!! Whoo hoo!!!
So honored that my best friends and fellow geocachers SeanStafford&GCWidow invited me along to capture their 10,000 cache!! Sean wanted to hike the Black Butte, with this Geocache as his goal:
GCJJGZ Black Butte-y (Traditional Cache) in California by MtnMike
I am posting the honoree pictures first, as this was our goal for the hike. Sean and Melissa’s #10,000 Geocache! I was honored to be present!! Scroll down for pictures of the beautiful hike to this goal.
Today is the day! We set our GPS‘s towards Black Butte and head out. The weather looks great, we have water, snacks and Sean is hard to hold back at this point. Sean and Melissa had attempted this geocache on a previous trip up Black Butte, however they encountered some muggles (non-geocachers) on the path down to the cache. For whatever reason they would not move, not having much room to maneuver up there, and not having another way to the cache they had to abandon the goal. This was not going to happen today, Sean was going to get his cache, and nothing was going to stop him!! We parked at the trailhead, which was also a challenge to Sean and Melissa on their first attempt. They never found the road into the trailhead, so they ended up hiking another mile just to get to the trail head. This day is already off to a great start!!
To the top of Black Butte!
Here we go… change the shoes, grab the water and we are off. Melissa is in the lead, she was soon out of sight! Sean and I are stopping to take pictures and making sure we are well hydrated. The views are immediately gratifying. Its a gradual hike up, the elevation gain is 1850 ft.
For more information here on the trail: http://mountshastatrailassociation.org/trails/west-of-mt-shasta/black-butte/)
Picturesque Muir’s Peak (Black Butte, 6500 ft.), northern California, U. S. A., by H.C. White Co. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Sunset over Black Butte (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Black Butte, California. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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haha.... ok your on!!
Thanks! Maybe sometime when you're not sliding down mountainsides hoping to hit the rock between you
You are so sweet, you don't have to go with me, just share my adventures vicariously with me? But an
That looks like too much fun for me! What an exciting hobby - and it takes you all over the place. I
oh yeah!! ;)
No way! :) \o/
wish I had more time to tell about the adventure, because it was YOU who encouraged ME!! love you to
NorCal Jeepz 
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