Several days ago we tried to get to the area of a geocache and had to give up. Today, after looking at a detailed map of the area, we found the road to take us to the cache. The elevation was 7600 feet. We were able to look down on the “goat trail” where we had been on our original hunt. We could see where we had turned around. Had we kept going that day, we would not have been even close to the cache.
The one we were hunting today was in very rocky terrain. Bill searched for it a long time. I was even able to go part way up. Together we couldn’t find it. Bill tried several more times after I went to the car. We were really bummed about the DNF.
This is the type of terrain the cache today was in. If you look closely at the small kind of green patch in the center of the picture, you will see the little town of Lone Pine. The distant mountains are on the east side of town and are where we find geocaches in mining locations.
On the way back into town, we took a different road that went through a very nice development. After eating lunch at Carl’s Jr, we stopped to the Chamber of Commerce for info about the Film Festival and the drug store before going back home.
After naps, Bill and I had a project to figure out. How many Danes does it take to correctly drill four holes in a board? That was the problem. The answer would be zero if the engineers in our lives...grandson JP, friends Dwight or Paul...had come to our aid. Or Brent’ fancy new drill press would’ve been a big help. But for the two of us sitting here in the Alabama Hills, it took well over an hour. Oh, my!
Our evening walk was more difficult than last night’s, but we were gone about the same length of time. Tonight we climbed two small hills. One of the major challenges when climbing in this area is the loose gravel and sand. It can be very tricky!
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