Los Angeles County Quadrangle Challenge
Yesterday, Wendy and I drove through the northern half of Los Angeles County, collecting quad and caches for my Los Angeles County Quadrangle Challenge cache. We drove 333 miles, in 12 and a half hours and found 39 caches and 26 quads. It was a great trip. 39 caches in one day is a personal best for me.
I had 1 DNF–fotomom’s Piru Creek cache. It is the only easily accessible cache in the Cobblestone Mountain quad. It’s an ammo can, hidden under a bush, but I had no luck with it at all. I’ll need to go back for it.
Here is a list of the caches that we found:
[Note on April 28, 2008: I made a mistake on Saturday and didn't find a cache in the Newhall quad. Luckily, the missed quad was a close one and not located in the wastelands of the northeast corner of the county. After work, I drove to Santa Clarita and found a few caches in the Newhall quad. Dead End Oak is the qualifying cache.
I am also almost certain that the Piru Creek cache is MIA. I got an annotated photo from Journeymnn showing where he found the cache. It is in a place that I checked out several times. If it is really gone, I'm going to need to either ask for permission to replace it or go on a much longer hike to get the PiruMid View cache so I can get credit for the Cobblestone Mountain quad.]
Here are a few photos from the trip:
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April 28, 2008 at 5:50 am
Diggin’ pictures 2 and 3. Could totally have done without the snake, though. Maybe I need some good therapy to get me around that fear.