Cache On The Counter
Posted by Bubba on July 23rd, 2008
Today’s ride after work took me to the southside of town and I planned in advance for a long ride because I won’t be hitting the road tomorrow because of an odd anniversary (more later).
I batted .500 today, finding one out of two caches. There were more wayward points programmed in the GPS but I figgered these two would be good for today. There was no love at the first one but I did get this pix from the general area. Carsonites will probably guess almost immediately where my feet are in this here picture.
Then it was back on Dollar and northward. I don’t mind admitting I was pretty winded getting to the first spot but the second half of the ride was gloriously downhill and, coincidentally, the destination was next door to my old workplace. My good friend and former boss was still at work and we got some serious BS time in. She was very interested in the whole geocaching concept and helped me find this one. We may have another neophyte for our cult.
All in all, a good treasure hunt with fun company and nice miles of cardio on top of that. Fun times.
(By the by, Thursday is my birthday. Y’all can have the day off to celebrate.)
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:11 pm
Congrats on your ride and birthday! It looks like you had a lot of fun!
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Is that a deliberate letter “S” in the background on the mountain, or is it just some weird formation of rocks? I looked at the larger version and still couldn’t figure it out haha
July 24th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Thanks, FPinLV. Another year older and deeper in debt. :)
Jill - That’s a deliberate “S” on the hill. Though it wasn’t started here, Nevadans have an odd tradition on painting letters on hills. In Reno/Sparks (about 30 miles north), there are four hills that I can think of with an “R”, “N”, “G” and “S”. We need some cows to tip over.
I devoted a Flickr set to “C” hill. Here’s an example.
July 25th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
That “S” on Prison Hill stands for the Stewart Indian School. A bit more info here: http://firesignfarm.blogspot.com/2008/03/prison-hill.html