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Post by ladybugkids on May 24, 2008 7:25:55 GMT -9
After nearly four years of caching, we're set to hit our 2000th find and we'd like to make it a family and cacher event. Our favorite type of cache is one involving an ammo can in the woods or on a mountain ridge/peak, so we've picked RidgeSeeker and Suzaru's A Lark at Grant Lake to be #2000. The trip involves a short canoe paddle across Upper Trail Lake to the mining road that will take us to Grant Lake. If you've got a canoe, bring it on down, but if you don't, we'll do as many shuttles as necessary to get everyone across. Once on the far side of Upper Trail Lake, a 1.5-2.0 mile hike via a mining access road will take us to the cache. The route climbs about 700' on the inbound trip and 500' on the outbound trip. We'll do this at the junior ladybugs' (ages 6 & 8) pace, so we won't be going fast and we'll be stopping often. Pack a lunch, snacks, drinks, and come ready for rain (it is Southcentral Alaska, afterall!), to make for a fun day trip. Other potential canoe caches in the area are "Trail on the Lake" GC14D6C and "So Near and Yet." GCW8AK if you want to chase some others after Grant Lake. We'll meet at the rotary snowplow at the Potter Section House (see SNO-BLO for coordinates) at 9:30 a.m. so we can all caravan down. Please RSVP to this thread or e-mail us at ladybugs@geocachealaska.org so we know to be looking for you. An alternate meeting spot will be the Moose Pass Post Office at 11:15 a.m. Watch this thread for any changes to the plan, especially if the weather doesn't behave. Sorry about the short notice, but between work travel, uncertainty about the weather, and getting laid low by a nasty GI upset, things didn't come together until this morning.
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mtboy
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Post by mtboy on May 24, 2008 18:09:15 GMT -9
I think the proper rule is the pater familias of the group must bring a bottle of champagne to celebrate 2000...oh, and for the mini bugs sparkling cider...
I'm in for tomorrow. Rain is keeping me off the high stuff.
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Post by ladybugkids on May 24, 2008 21:07:18 GMT -9
Gosh, MTBoy...I didn't know you were bilingual. You weren't brought up Catholic, were you?
We're still on for tomorrow, rain (sans junior ladybugs) or shine (with junior ladybugs).
Slight modification to plan since it appears there will be only two vehicles going down...Tundra Tim will call us once he has all his passengers rounded up and we won't stop at SNO-BLO. Our cell phone is 382-9036 if anyone else is going to join in on the fun. Otherwise, we'll converge on Moose Pass post office at 11:15, give or take the normal fudge factors for herding cats along eighty miles of highway with caches along the way. We'll be in a dark blue Ford Explorer with blue Coleman canoe on the roof. I'm not certain what TT is driving, but it might be a white mondo pick-up truck with a canoe lashed to it and MTBoy hanging his head out the window (or maybe MTBoy will be in the bed holding on to the canoe?).
Weather is looking good this evening and the forecast is still holding.
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