Cayucos/Morro Bay and San Ardo

February 18, 2008, 8:34 pm

This weekend Karen and I went to Cayucos, first to be with her brothers in a beautiful beach house, and then for another night with Dan and Janet at Mom’s place.

The beach house was a large 4 bedroom that Jim got the use of because he had done some plumbing repair for the owner (Mom B’s neighbor and an old family friend). It’s a beautiful place right on the bluff overlooking a long sandy beach. Duane and Jim left on Sunday, so we moved over to Mom S’s place where Dan and Janet were staying until Monday.

Sunday we picked up a couple of caches in Morro Bay (on Black Mountain above the golf course) and then did a moderate hike up the hill at Cerro Alto campground just off highway 41. Then we went offroad on TV tower road at the top of Cuesta Grade (highway 101) for a number of caches. This is a really rough road, full of potholes. It used to be paved but has not been maintained. We ended the day watching a beautiful sunset and then driving out in the dark.

Sunset from TV tower road

Sunset from TV tower road


On Sunday morning we went separate ways—Karen and I went to Cambria and then drove up Santa Rosa canyon, picking up 3 caches. Then we met Dan and Janet at San Ardo for another off road excursion and a few more caches. This was fun—different terrain, reasonably graded road, just a bit too narrow in places (pinstriping).

February 18th, 2008 | Category: Geocaching | Leave a comment

Linekiln and Priest Rock Trail Death March

February 9, 2008, 8:24 pm

13 miles, 26 caches, 3,000+ ft elevation gain, 12 cachers in the group, qualifies as a GBA Death March, ’nuff said.

But here’s the details. Dan, Karen, and I drove over to San Jose this morning to join a fair sized group of cachers for a long hike in Sierra Azul. We met at the Limekiln trailhead by Lexington Reservoir and headed up the trail just before 8am.

Yesterday I felt completely energy-less, so I was unsure if I’d be able to complete this strenuous hike. There were times on the upper portions of the mountain that my arms and legs felt pretty leaden, but not enough to turn back.

When we reached the spur at the top, I chose to sit and rest. Dan and a few others did the difficult bushwhack out to the cache. It will still be there for me if I ever come up the trail from Woods Road to get more of the caches in this park.

I thought I had the Calculatus Eliminatus puzzle worked out, but my solution was the wrong one. I worked it out after I got home—it was a little more complicated than I thought.

I did have a good solution to Priests Rock puzzle.

February 9th, 2008 | Category: Geocaching | Leave a comment

A small upgrade

February 8, 2008, 3:20 pm

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The upgrade was not exactly painless. I couldn’t get the old G4 to mount the boot volume in firewire mode, so I had to use a complicated migration process. Somewhere in that process I messed things up (I think). Almost everything works fine, but some applications still want to reference files on the old G4 (like Photoshop Elements).

February 8th, 2008 | Category: Computing | Leave a comment
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