Geocaching - 8/8/10

Last night my entire family and I went out for a little late evening caching! Seeing as how it is extremely hot during the afternoon, our only choice is to wake up at 5am and begin caching or wait until the sun goes down.  We left with a goal of locating 5 caches and succeeded in finding all 5 caches!

We parked at First Creek Trail, and began by finding 2 caches located inside the trail but not too far inside.  After picking up these 2 caches, we enjoyed some music from a group who seems to be on this trail every Sunday, playing drums and dancing.  We watched from afar, not wanting to get involved.  After 2 quick grabs we walked across the street and had to crawl through a barbwire fence which was quite a sight to see!

Once we all crawled through the fence without getting cut, we proceeded uphill towards the cache!  Once on top of a hill, which was a relatively easy climb, I spotted the cache under some broke Joshua Tree branches.  After removing and opening the cache, I was shocked to find many, many altoid cans!  The clue said it was hidden in only one cache, which confused me until I opened it! I spread the caches out and told everyone to start opening! Of course, Dad being who he is, found the log in the first cache he opened.  Out of 15+ cans, Dad picked the right one the first time.  Coincidence? I think not!  Either way we got the log book and I signed it and moved onto the next caches, which were a bit down the road so we had to drive down.

The next cache was called "Hamster Cache" and was home to, two little fury hamster dancing machines!  After playing with the little guys we put the cache back and headed to our last one for the day, which was not too far away! We were not sure if we should cross back through the barbwire so we decided not to and walk along it and see where the GPS takes us. And it took us to a point where it pointed....on the other side of the fence, so with a little muscle we picked the barbwire up enough off of the ground and crawled through safely! After getting through the fence, we found the last cache that was literally 3 feet from the road but nobody would know it.  That last cache ended our hunt for the day, and we from having 16 caches to 21!