South edge of Joshua Tree NP
Last year I attended a geocaching event in the Anza Borrego desert with some friends and had a reasonably good time (I waffle a bit because getting bounced around in the backseat of a Toyota FJ on rough off-road trails is sometimes painful). Since the same event (Roughneck Rendezvous) was being organized this year, I used it as an excuse to plan a 2,000 mile, 2 week trip to visit family, hike and explore new places, and find some geocaches. Plus, I talked Karen into coming along, even though desert conditions are not her favorite thing.
Future posts will describe the places we went and things we did, but here I’ll describe our first weekend, which was an enjoyable time with Karen’s brothers in Riverside and Anaheim. It happened that our visit coincided with Karen’s sister-in-law’s birthday, so we had a great time enjoying that celebration.
Sunday morning we did a geocaching hike before visiting Karen’s older brother in Anaheim. Our objective was Orange County Stash, an old cache hidden in the first year of geocaching, and the oldest cache in Orange County. Trabuco Canyon is an interesting hiking area and is worthy of another visit when we can spend more time.
This volunteer fire station is at the trailhead for the hike up the creek.
This is the terrain around Trabuco Creek
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