team caching

On Sunday morning I felt like going home as I was so cold!! But I soon warmed up with a nice cup of hot tea and one of dh's super breakfasts. We used the camp toaster and it make sll the difference having a hot toasted sandwich for the eggs, bacon and sausages. We had decided to pack up and do some easy caches along the way home but while at the restrooms we met Miss Marbles and ChuckB who were planning their day and invited us to go along with them. MM seemed a little vague and led us astray! She took the wrong turning into little Blair valley desert road but as we had'nt found the cache that was there we were happy. Then at the stagecoach route she didn't know a cache was right by the road so dh showed MM and CB that one and dh found it first! Then we marched up the track she told us to, but that led to a house!! Dh decided to take the lead and talking to MM's ds A, we found out this sort of chaos was par for the course!!
Anyway, I had noticed a trail leading off into the desert in the general direction so we decide that was the way to go, only .75 of a mile to the cache!! The trail was not too well defined, so most of the way we were bush or rather cactus wacking (no cactus were actually wacked!!) We followed a wash up a little valley and while MM and I rested in the shade the others went on, only to find it dead ended with no trail and a steep canyon between us and the cache, still only .17 of a mile away. So we backtracked a little way and dh decided the only way was straight up the hillside and up to the ridge. MM and I thought that was too much for us and said we would wait albeit impatiently at the wash. After some considerable time MM and I decided to backtrack a little more and I marked an arrow in the wash pointing the direction we had gone in case we missed the rest of the team, but we had hardly gone 50 ft when we heard voices and looked up to see the others coming along down the ridge, it was then we noticed the trail up another wash that they were coming down!! They had found the cache and the proper trail was more evident from that end so everyone was happy. Back at the cars a swarm of bees had left their hive and were swarming around a bush, that was pretty scarey but we managed to take a couple of photos of our team before taking our leave to resume our original plan. We found 3 more caches alomg the east side of Blair Valley before having a nice picnic break and a quiet read prior to our journey home. We also did a little bird spotting and I saw a woodpecker!!
Birds seen:
wren
sparrow
dove
raven
phainoplea
woodpecker
2 unid'ed!
Heard:
Owl, probably a great horned
Whip poor will.