Six of us started with breakfast at Arnies..........gravy about a 2.5....I think maybe the waitress brought me country gravy instead of sausage gravy!! She forgot to bring it, I reminded her and advised her that her gratuity would be reduced as a result. Do you think she brought me the crummy gravy on purpose?? Maybe there are some occasions that I should keep my big mouth shut.
We headed for Glamis, "JJ" and La84fishn in the lead, Magimark and Ibeme66 in their jeep and "B" and I bringing up the rear. We hit the dunes, grabbed a couple of easy caches and then ran into trouble at another one. We tore up the tree, raked all of the sand, goosed the moose, howled at the moon and failed to find the cache. It was a micro cache and with the recent wind and rain it could very easily have been lost forever. We finally gave up.........it's really difficult for JJ to walk away without finding it. I logged a "no find" and JJ wouldn't until the cache owner checks on it to see if it is or isn't there. The guy just refuses to give up!
I had the paddles on the Rhino and was able to get around pretty well and JJ just had some mudders on his. The jeep was having some problems getting around. After our "no find" we continued on and drove right past Oldsmobile Hill, the local competition hill. I looked it over, it was all rutted out at the bottom so couldn't get a very good run at it; but, decided to try and climb it anyway. The first two pics are Oldsmobile Hill looking down from the top. I made it! Probably wouldn't have made it up but Friday rains changed the sand enough for me to make it. We got separated from the rest of the group when we went after some caches that were way to hell and gone and up and over the steepest dunes. We found a couple and then got skunked on a First To Find. We poked and prodded this clump of sand and bushes but couldn't find it. Wind and rain probably covered it up. Someone else had searched for it before we did and they couldn't find it either.
We continued on after getting separated and started finding caches after JJ and Larry had already found them. It got to be easier, we just followed their Rhino tracks when we found them and they led us to the caches. The rest were pretty easy, most were ammo cans to survive the desert, some were in trees and we found another one in a wash. Water was still standing in parts of the wash and the mud was slicker then snot.........I nearly fell into the mucky stuff and Becky did. She was quite a sight after taking a head plant in the mud! We pulled up next to an old tree, I said it's gotta be in the tree, a small one. Turned out it was a cleverly disguised container that looked like a rock. Kinda neat.
Since we hadn't seen anyone for some time I called JJ on the cell phone, we couldn't get reception on the other side of the big dunes, and told them we were heading for the car. They were working their way back also. It was then that we both realized that we had not marked the coordinates of the car! So we just headed East until we found the railway tracks and followed them back to the parking lot. At that time we were about 7 miles from the car. We got there before they did, broke out the sandwich fixens and had some lunch. When they returned we decided it was time to call it a day. We found 15 caches in the dunes and then grabbed three more on the way back to Yuma. Not a bad day for our first dune ride at Glamis!
We'll be back.
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