Before driving home from our motel in Santa Clarita, we decided to take a little hike (and find some geocaches), even though it was lightly raining. Since checkout time wasn’t until 12 noon, we could hike, but still shower and change into dry clothes. We started our hike at the end of the public road in Pico Canyon and hiked up a paved trail to Mentryville, and beyond. Mentryville is now a ghost town, but was founded as a very early California oil town. Wikipedia has a brief article. There are a number of caches along the trail. We found six before we decided we were too wet and cold. It’s and interesting place and worth getting a docent led tour. Besides there are a lot more caches farther up the canyon.
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I took advantage of a trip to a birthday party in Riverside to pick up three fizzy square type geocaches (the kind where to qualify you must have filled the 81 squares of the Difficulty/Terrain rating matrix). Two of them were in Riverside along the Santa Ana hiking/biking trail and one was near Sedco Hills east of Lake Elsinore. I learned that when I hand enter coordinates to the GPSr, I need to double check them because for the cache near Sedco Hills I was off by a couple of miles. The interesting thing is, it was a perfect place for a geocache. Anyway, it was a nice little side adventure. Following this afternoon activity, we drove north only as far as Santa Clarita, hunted up a Mimi’s Café, and stayed the night in a comfortable motel. This way we didn’t have to fight any of the morning commute traffic. We visit with the family in southern California too rarely, so when we got an invitation to Eileen’s birthday party in Riverside we decided to make a quick trip—down and back in a long weekend. We had a good time, and Karen enjoyed time with her brothers and cousin and nephews and nieces.  The Bloom kids and their spouses |
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