Let’s Cache to the Coast for Lunch!

BIG BEAR and I were having Pizza with OldMrZ and his lovely bride on a Friday night when the conversation turns to Geo-caching and we are all in town on a Saturday!! Well that means a Geo-trip to somewhere. BIG BEAR and OldMrZ open up the laptop and start searching for somewhere that we can do a Geo-run. After a few minutes of searching at Geocaching.com their attentions turn to the Coast and the route on the way over. Looks like we get to have fresh seafood for lunch!! Now to run the queries and get some sleep and we will meet back at 0700.

The forecast calls for rain and it was right, no worries thought, we cache in the rain, snow, and wind it may slow us down a bit but we still get the cache! We have fresh batteries in the Garmin‘s, Butch the Geo-dog in the van and we are heading west for a fun day with Geo-friends. We will have lunch on the coast and we will be back to join up with Shampoodles and Ponytails for a Ride for Life Benefit Auction and Chili Feed.

Our route takes us on 299 from Redding to Arcata and all Geo-caches in between. As we get towards the summit the rain turns to snow, we keep going, stopping on the way of course. OldMrZ is driving and BIG BEAR is navigating…. 500 feet, 400 feet, 300 feet… looks like you can park at that turn off right over there.

Our First Stop: GC3CJY9 Fern Point by BRUHN – a very cool rock wall that used to be the Old 299 Hwy! wow… we actually took the hard way up, I saw later on the Cache page that you could have driven up to this one an easier way but we made it a 3 terrain, isnt that what you usually do when you Geocache?

We have more caches to get… so jumping back into the GeoVan and headed down the Hwy!

GC31ZT2 Anticipate This! by BRUHN

GC2BZ6H South Fork View by BRUHN

And of course there was a BIG BEAR cache to grab – a favorite for sure and it was published in July of 2004!! : GCK4ED BIG BEAR WHERE ARE YOU by BIG BEAR

I took some pictures here – it was a really pretty spot! Nice place for a cache.

Tru2Cntry & BIG BEAR at "BIG BEAR WHERE ARE YOU"

BIG BEAR at "BIG BEAR WHERE ARE YOU"

We did quite a few more caches – another favorite was GC32MZK The Fish Ladder by thedawdlers.
There was a Fish Ladder 100 feet below this little bridge built in 1923, it was very cool and worthy of some pictures. It was raining though so some of the pictures are blurry, still really cool little spot!

1923 Bridge

OldMrZ at the Fish Ladder

BIG BEAR, Tru2Cntry and OldMrZ at the Fish Ladder

OldMrZ looking over at the Fish Ladder

A few more caches to get by one or our good Geo friends: Humboldt Flier: GC223BH ” X ” ( X OUT ) by humboldt flier, GC223BW ” Y ” ( YEPPER – THAT BE A MIGHTY FINE VIEW ) by humboldt flier, GC223C4 ” Z ” ( ZEE, OR IS IT ZED )by humboldt flier and a few others that were great fun to get.

But now its time to put the GPS on the Seascape Restaurant for Lunch, a favorite place to get your fresh seafood fix on.

Afterwards we went for a hike around the Trinidad Trailheads and grabbed the caches on the trail, beautiful views and we worked off our lunch!!

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Caches on the Trailhead:
GCWTGP KING’S CROSS by Arse&Hemi

GCV7HT Trinidad Trove by hidegoseek

GC3A1R2 A Spurious Cache by BRUHN

GC3A1PZ Hairpin Defender II by BRUHN to name a few…

its after 3 and we have to be back for a Chili Feed put on by our GeoFriends Shampoodles and Ponytails so we head back to the Geovan and start the trek back home, what a great day!