Desert chillies

We went camping in the desert with a group of Geocachers this w/e. It was a great day, perfect desert temps with a cool breeze just taking the heat off. We climbed to the top of Ghost Mountain where in the '30s and '40s a Austrailian lived with his Russian born wife and their 3 children. What a harsh environment to bring up kids in!! It was lovely up there today but that must be an exception, most of the summer the temps are in the 110* range and no water or power. We found 4 caches while up there, even the hardest, which had not been found for 6 months, lucky for us we met todays finders on their way back down the mountain and they gave us the coordinates that they had found the cache at!! We also played a game of geocaching poker and found the 3 caches that needed!! At the camp they had organised a Chillie cookoff and potluck. I chose a v. hot chillie, nearly too hot but v. tasty. We enjoyed the fun at the campfire and chatted to some interesting cachers, some of whom had found 26 to 30 caches that day!! Mad loonies!! A lovely end to the day. It was very cold during the night. It must have been almost down to freezing point both Friday and Saturday night. One of the campers Rotten R had slept in the back of his truck and his sleeping bag had a light coating of frost!! On Sunday morning I felt like going home as I was so cold!! But I soon warmed up and we had a great day, but that's another blog!!