N.U.T.S. Campout Out Event Over...........

and we got home yesterday afternoon. Here's some pics of the event. Event was held at Red Bluff, CA in a nice little park managed by the Forest Service. They had an RV Park and picnic areas along the Sac River. A great place for the nature lover and hiker............neither of which I am. Weather was cooperating and even a bit "warm" for me. Pictures above are the picnic area where activities were held. "Rock" is one of the big guns behind the NUTS (Northstate Unusual Treasure Seekers) and I guess this accounts for his BIG NUT. Also, he's the one who makes them up. Members receive a "little" nut for 1000 finds and a bigger nut for finding 2000 caches. Becky and I both joined N.U.T.S. before the event so we were presented with our 1000 and 2000 nuts.

A local school teacher teaches Natural Resources at Red Bluff High School and his class placed 15 caches for the event. They seemed to be pretty independent in their placements and they were told NOT to place any caches in trees. So much for directions............The first one we went looking for turned out to be in the tree. Lucky for us Crystal (of RockNCrystal) made the climb for us Old Folks. It was nasty as well as other caches the high school kids placed. B & I didn't find too many of them as we were running out of time on Sunday and had to move the M/H before 1400. Lots of caches in Red Bluff so we'll be back from time to time to try and hunt them down.


This was the presentation of awards and a number of cachers received their "Nuts". Crystal presented the nuts and since I got two nuts I also received two big hugs. Eat your heart out Larry!

Everyone who signed the attendance log was also asked to sign a walking stick the events hosts had prepared. An interesting Travel Bug was the Event Crasher who only attends events. He originated in Maine and somehow or other has made his way to the West Coast.

It was a fun 2 1/2 days and there is talk of making it an annual event. Will have to wait and see on that. Met lottsa new faces and one cacher even gave me a coin. He had found my cache Muttley a couple of years ago and apparently enjoyed it enough that he presented me with an unactivated geocoin. A nice surprise.

Weather gonna be nice for a while so guess we'll get out and about and take advantage of it.

Later, W&B