July 14, 2006, 8:54 pm Since hotel prices in the Tahoe were so high on the weekend, we moved to Reno to spend Friday night. On the way we went for a long hike starting at Meek’s Bay up to Lake Genevieve (9 miles round trip).
Just before crossing into the Desolation Wilderness, I hunted YOU LIED (10:35 AM). This was a near disaster as I went for the coordinates without carefully reading the description (which told exactly where the cache was hidden). On the way back from a fruitless search, I tripped in a bunch of downed tree limbs and fell flat. Hurt pretty bad for a bit. Scratched up my right leg badly, and significant bruising on my left side. After I recovered, I easily found the cache.
On the way back from Lake Genevieve I looked for Majestic Giant, but the coordinates weren’t good, and there were several large trees in the area. I couldn’t find it, and besides I was hot, tired, and being sucked on by hungry mosquitos.
After dinner in Reno, I looked for SHM #227 Mansion? (8:21 PM) while Karen did a little shopping. This turned out to be a pretty easy find at the Reno Convention Center.
July 13, 2006, 8:52 pm Up highway 89 to the south, the Tahoe Rim Trail crosses the road. We started a hike there, went through Big Meadow and then to Dardanelle Lake. It’s a lovely little granite enclosed lake. BPC Wilderness Trip Cache is located here, but we couldn’t find it. The coords don’t match the hint, but more importantly, the previous logs indicate it was easy to find and see using the description. We couldn’t find it.
After finishing this hike, we drove on over Luther Pass and stopped at the Walker River in Hope Valley to find Gone Fish’n (2:54 PM). Close by was Hope Valley (3:11 PM), which I hoofed up the little hill to find while Karen read in the shade of a tree (it was pretty warm).
After dinner we walked a little bit down by the lake and got the virtual Lakeview For You (7:07 PM) and manram (7:19 PM), which was pretty easy to spot, but more difficult to retrieve because of other people around.
July 12, 2006, 8:50 pm With not much going on at work we headed for Lake Tahoe for three days. We always enjoy a hike at Wood’s Lake (near the summit of Carson Pass) so we headed up highway 88. We were just a couple of weeks early for what looks to be a fabulous wildflower display. Lake Winnemucca still had ice in it. We hiked on up to Round Top Lake, but had to cross a few easy snow fields to do it.
After returning to Wood’s Lake, we hunted CH’s Birthday Surprise. Wasn’t too hard to find and it inflated my terrain difficulty cache numbers. It’s rated a 5, but it’s more like a 3 rating.
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