Moriarity's Revenge

This is the most challenging, and in some ways most rewarding cache hunt I have yet experienced. See that little bare spot at the arrow? Remember that - we'll be returning to it shortly. And if you look just to the right of it, not the long horizontal bare spot, but just at the top of the ridge, you might make out some rocks. Remember them too. And to the right of them - the radio tower. No need to remember that - it's tall, but otherwise boring.

This time I brought the lad, who, I admit, beat me up the hill and found the damn cache! Note the haze on day one, and the clarity on the return trip.
This is me, exhausted after my first attempt.		This is the victorious team. Oh, by the way, that's he on the left!

Remember that bare spot by the arrow? It's this gravel run. On the left - going up. Above - the lad on the way down. It's a scramble either way!

That round thing is a geodetic survey marker; the high-techie thing is a Geographic Positioning System (GPS). If you look closely, you can see that the GPS says it's 14.5 feet away from that marker. Not bad for a bunch of satellites! That's how you find the caches - the GPS tells you when you're there (or close). Then you just gotta look.

And remember that line of rocks I told you about in the first picture? Here they are. And below is what you see from up here.

This is the reason I love geocaching.

We went down by a slightly different route - we went through the Twilight Zone. Look closely - it's Santa Clause and his reindeer. Michael started humming Dueling Banjos. We did not tarry long here, contemplating just why we might have come across Santa in the woods. But I did get a picture to prove it. Spooky!

As always, even when the scale of what you have seen is so huge, don't forget to look for the details.
With thanks to renegadejane and Moriarity for a challenging and rewarding hunt - twice!