On Sunday, the Notorious Nine went in different directions working on specific agendas; for me, I had no agenda and handed out with peanutpapa and GeoYakr. We went after Mushroom Rock, an earthcache and decided to park on a highway about 1/2 mile away so as to cross a suspension bridge. I soon realized that our hike would be a tremendous journey when I observed many close contour lines looking at the topographical map. We ended up hiking up one hill, down another and then up another. It would take us two hours to hike to Mushroom Rock. Along the way we stopped at the suspension bridge and took many pictures. As we approached our goal, we could hear small children and quickly realized that they did not travel the same way we did. Turned out, those two families hiked in from a soccer field that was not far away. We did find The Mushroom "Traditional Ammo Can" very close to the earthcache. We found out that the people we ran into know about geocaching and they found the cache as well.
We had lunch at the rock and the kids showed us where they found a cave nearby.
We made the trek down the hill and our journey back didn't seem to take as long as it did on the way there. At our next stop, we would get together with bitbrain, endorrider and Hoot Owl.
We first tackled Help Me Find My Keys, and We'll Drive Out!, one of the very few micros we would complete as a team. This was a cool site for a cache, since it appears to be a wrecked vehicle that was never retrieved due to the steep hill.
Our next cache was Hibernation, which took a very long time. From there, we bushwacked across the same elevation to Hawg where a lot of effort was made to locate that cache. I'll not that they cache is 12 years old! We stayed on the trail for one more cache, Hogskin, despite we were loosing daylight and temperatures were dropping. Hogskin was another old cache. We hiked back to the parking area and found Lost in Wilderness. There was some discussion to go after another cache, however, peanutpapa, GeoYakr and myself retired back at the cabin where peanutpapa make a great Cajun bowl for dinner.
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I thing that we were more rewarded by taking the long way! Just for reference, the parking area elevation was around 1310 ft and at the top of the fist mountain we hiked to was 1745 ft. That's where we found the prospective crevasse! Then, back down to the suspension bridge at 1300 ft and back up to 1750 ft at Mushroom Rock! The couples we met showed us a nearby cave that appeared have not been previously discovered. Thanks for taking the time to blog it!
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