Into the Gold Country

Today I took Karen and her Mom to visit Nancy in Pine Grove. While they visited I hunted a few caches, and as it turned out, most of them were in cemeteries.

The first cache was Pioneer Cemetery Series #2 in the Sutter Creek cemetery. It was pretty straightforward to find, which I did at 12:23 PM. The second, Pioneer Cemetery Series #6, is in the adjoining Odd Fellows Cemetery. Had to hunt for this one a bit, and never did find the grave marker mentioned in the cache description. Found it at 12:41 PM. I fell prey to 2 dimensional hunting on this one, but finally noticed a camoed peanut butter jar in plain sight.

There were another couple of caches close by, but I didn’t care for the locations. So, I drove north to Amador City and found the virtual cache Watch where you are stepping!! at 12:58 PM.

Bryan was painting at the gallery where he displays, so I stopped and talked with him for a little bit, and got a tour of the gallery. Then I drove back to Sutter Creek to grab Earth Angels. This is a little planter garden right next to highway 49, so I was expecting the worst, but I found it easily at 1:40 PM.

Next I drove out to a modern day cemetery on highway 88 which was well maintained and very interesting. The cache, Sunset View, was easy to find (1:58 PM), but I spent quite a bit of time taking pictures and talking with a visitor who really seemed to want to talk.

It was time to start back for Pine Grove, but I made one stop in Jackson to hunt for SOSO. This was a great photo op. After I had taken a couple, I checked the GPSr to see where to go, and it was zeroed. So I just looked, and there it was. It’s a magnetic nano-cache on the fence. Since this church was marked as historic, I thought I might be able to claim the Time to find something Historic! locationless cache. After getting home and checking, it had not been claimed yet, so this was a two for one stop.