Hunt for Red October
It took three visits to the preserve to find the 14 wp and final cache of this reincarnation of an old cache called Chupy #4 The Walkabout. The first visit I knew that the first wp would be up a very steep trail to the top of the mesa but swore I would not go down that way whatever the cost! True enough after a couple more wps it looked like that going back down was on the cards, however we know the area quite well and knew of an alternative albeit longer way round and as the evening was drawing in knew that was the way we had to go not only to find the next wp but to get back to the car. When S found the wp we punched in the coords and ironically it pointed back the way we had just come. But the light was going so it was back to the car. Our next chance to collect a few more wps was on Wednesday, the park is still 'closed' but it has not rained for days so we felt ok to continue our quest.
It was 3/4 mile as the crow flies to the new wp we had just entered but that would mean going up and over and down the mesa so we walked around found the next wp which again was up another steep slope but luckily a zigzag path made it easier. I noticed that a couple of caches we had not found were close by so while S concentrated on the main objective I set my GPS to goto the nearest cache and we passed right by it so we were able to stop and find it. a very clever hide that we had not come across before. Next wp led to another famlier area where an archived cache used to be but we came to a Y in the trail my GPS said the another cache was just off to the left but our prime objective was to the right, so we split up I found the cache and S found the wp. We met up and the next co-ord led down into the canyon past the pond and up the other side so we decide that again it would be better to go back to the car the long way round as time was getting short and there was no telling where we would get to if we carried on. When we were home we studied the map and decided to approach the park from the north instead of the east and I found a cache that had the parking coords for that side although the cache it's self was one of the 3 or 4 puzzle caches that I can't do. Grrr.
As I sat looking at this puzzle cache I suddenly found the answer! Sunday we made our way to the new parking area, as we had never been I used the GPS to direct us for the first time. It was so cool beeping at every juction even when we missed a turn it directed us to do a u turn as quick as a wink!!
To be continued!!
It was 3/4 mile as the crow flies to the new wp we had just entered but that would mean going up and over and down the mesa so we walked around found the next wp which again was up another steep slope but luckily a zigzag path made it easier. I noticed that a couple of caches we had not found were close by so while S concentrated on the main objective I set my GPS to goto the nearest cache and we passed right by it so we were able to stop and find it. a very clever hide that we had not come across before. Next wp led to another famlier area where an archived cache used to be but we came to a Y in the trail my GPS said the another cache was just off to the left but our prime objective was to the right, so we split up I found the cache and S found the wp. We met up and the next co-ord led down into the canyon past the pond and up the other side so we decide that again it would be better to go back to the car the long way round as time was getting short and there was no telling where we would get to if we carried on. When we were home we studied the map and decided to approach the park from the north instead of the east and I found a cache that had the parking coords for that side although the cache it's self was one of the 3 or 4 puzzle caches that I can't do. Grrr.
As I sat looking at this puzzle cache I suddenly found the answer! Sunday we made our way to the new parking area, as we had never been I used the GPS to direct us for the first time. It was so cool beeping at every juction even when we missed a turn it directed us to do a u turn as quick as a wink!!
To be continued!!
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