Cache Hiders Trail 011311

Today we went on a trail placed to honor all of those cache owners who provide us so much fun. These represent San Diego’s top cache owners – those who hide the caches we love to find.

TLC and I left my car at the furthest parking possible and drove to the other end, near our first cache of the day and met today's Thirsty Ladies, The Lost Clan, Luv2bake, lovesflowers, Lionhouse 75, Trixxster and me, six of us today! We set off about 8:15am and walked the sidewalk along the parkway a nice easy trail today. It was a fun trail with lots of variety in the size of the caches and the hiding places and as there were 30 or so caches everyone made a find or two!

We had a couple of side trips to find a cache hidden in the canyons either side of the road, one sadly we did not find but the other was safely found and logged.

We met some other cachers doing the trail in the other direction and stopped for a quick chat. They wondered which cache we were at as they didn't have it on their gps but we explained that TLC had found a cache she had hidden but never got round to publishing. They asked if they could sign the log as 'beta testers' So TLC said that would be OK!

TLC realised it was too close to the newer caches so she moved it two hundred feet north to another site but unfortunately when she went to publish it there was still a problem as it was now too near a waypoint for a multi cache which none of us knew about. We will go back and move it again next week.

We finished the trail at about 11:30am. The last cache was Honorable Mention for all the local cachers who had placed 40 or more caches, TLC was happy to be in that list! We had walked almost five miles, mostly down hill except for the two side trails and had a lovely morning. Now we all got into my van and I drove back to where the rest of the cars were parked stopping for just one more cache along the way.

We decided to go to a favourite Thai restaurant not too far away and had a well deserved and delicious lunch together before going off our separate ways.

It took me almost as long to log them all as it did to walk the trail as the CO had asked that for each cache we could mention a favourite cache that the titled cacher had placed. It was fun though to go back and research the old caches as it brought back memories of fun cache hunts and adventures.