Great Copper Rush July 30, 2010

So up the next morning, a quick, very hot shower, meet up with the group and head out to our first cache. We grabbed our root beer float ticket and then headed off to A&W for breakfast. We then took our traveling gang on the road. We started off with a few easy ones and then headed over to the connector road. This was a fun little cache. The road had I am sure the only standing water anywhere in the Princeton area, and of course it was full of mud. BajaBetty being the mature individual that she is and having so much respect for her vehicle decided that she would daintily drive through the mud puddle, thus keeping her vehicle clean, NOT!!!!! Note the only vehicle which is dirty.

We then headed to August Lake. Tycoon (Auto)Otto was the first to find on this one. We had a great dayof caching with our group. It did get a little warm out there; everyone started to take their clothes off. Luckily it ended before we saw too much. We tried our own version of naked cacher.

Now to get back from August Lake we had to come back on the same connector road and I being the bravesoul (nuts) that I am decided that pictures had to be taken going through the mud. BajaBetty was off again. Now of course everybody had to get in on the act. TycoonOtto(Auto), ClintsTaurus, and Groundhog and Shadow( a little timid). Everyone has a little bit of inner child in them. Oh and TycoonOtto(Auto), I still have the other pictures to show the car rental company. Thanks OilCanMan for one of

the best caches of the day.

We then headed further up Copper Mountain for more caches. We were caching machines this day. There were five vehicles and we followed each other over hill, over dale, over roads with varying degrees of wash boarding and dust clouds. It was a great day had by all. We all survived with only two flat tires and a long scar down my arm that I acquired while tripping over my own feet. It really isn’t a good caching weekend if you don’t go home with any battle scars. We left the group as we headed back to town with BajaBetty and her Mom and I staying out a little later caching until it was dark and then tried to find a place in Princeton that stayed open past 9:00pm. We managed to convince the local Booster Juice to stay open for 10 more minutes so we could get a smoothie and a sandwich. We liked them so much we went back the next day for another energy smoothie. Then it was back to the fairgrounds to check in and mark down our first to finds for the day.