GeoHiking

GREAT day to go for a hike and find some Geocaches with the Young Belmont Family.

Sunny day, snacks, water bottles, tradables, gps, camera: Check!

Now all of us came out of this day with a different sort of experience and as time goes on I'm sure we will all say "What a _____ (fill in the blank) day that was." and then laugh together.

First find of the day.  WAIT, STOP!  Is that poison oak?  YUP!  The big bush where the cache was hidden is our first plant and cache of the day.

Some finds were in dense areas.

Todd picked a bouquet of wild flowers for Corri.

Lizards!

Todd and Corri

The top of the mountain was just beautiful.

Jill & Tina

Just a perfect day for a hike.

Jo doesn't enjoy the caching all the time but she loves to be outside like this.

The flowers were wonderful too.

And another cache at the top of this hill.

I don't know how many we found this day but the geocachers logged a few tough ones!

The hike back down to the car was just as picturesque.

I just really loved all the views, weather and company this day.

Only one person in my family carried their water for this 4 hour romp in the wood, you're welcome family. (their water stayed in the car as I don't know why) Rationing was important and tough on the kids.  Brought enough snacks though note to self, bring more "moist" type foods due to granola makes you thirsty and with only one water bottle those snacks didn't help. The route back down the mountain didn't take us to our car so next time we should take a gps to show us where we parked and how to get back.  Oh, wait!  We did have the @#%& gps!  We might want to use the feature on the gps to mark where we started so we don't come out on the road a couple miles from our cars (ok, 1/2 mile).

It's been a few weeks now since this hike.  What a FUN day it was!  Looking back now that is.