Great Copper Rush August 1, 2010

So after an exciting time the day before, we decided to take an easy day and take the back road to Hedley. We did the Old Wagon Road cache and the Ancient Trails along the way. The Pictographs were really pretty neat. The Ancient Trail multi cache was worth the whole trip.

We started our Hedley Caches with BajaBetty's earth cache, did a little shopping in the local farmers and flea market and then headed for the hills. We found some very neat caches up the mountains behind Hedley. A house that had a river running through it, a Freaky Tipi and a great mine at the end of one of the caches. There were a number of people who explored quite deeply into the depths. We however were much too focused on getting on to the next cache. We also had to get back to town in order to pick up our takeout Chinese food for the potluck. We also had to get changed for the Turtle Wedding.

We headed back towards town, did another cache on the other side of Bromley Rock and found a very cool travel bug tag. There were coordinates for a mystery cache located somewhere in Princeton. After you found the cache you had to locate the travel bug in another local cache for someone else to find. We got back to the fairgrounds and turned in our weekend cache totals. Then BajaBetty and I raced to pick up the Chinese food and to get the mystery cache. We were in such a hurry that we even drove down the quad trail with the FJ Cruiser. We made it back in time for the Wedding, which was lovely. We also picked up a few prizes, as I mentioned previously BajaBetty won the Terrain Challenge and she got a handmade walking stick made by Pappy90. I won third place in the local cache challenge. I think that finding the mystery cache put me over the top. I won a really cool geocoin.

After the wedding we headed back to Mach 2003 and Pappy90 and Dyelo’s camp to have a few drinks and share some stories. After numerous fruity coolers and beers, someone had the great idea that we should do the night cache, so being the responsible people that we are BajaBetty and I jumped into TycoonAuto’s truck and headed off the cache. Getting in and out of TycoonAuto’s truck was difficult as it was a four wheel drive and had no running boards. Every time I got out, I got a wedgie. Luckily some people brought flashlights, because it is difficult to do a night cache without a flashlight. We managed to find the cache and make it back to the camp with no casualties. We ended the night on a high note and managed to crawl into bed for another good night sleep.

The next day I packed up all my gear and headed off to home to see my Lenny and have a nice hot shower and sleep in my own bed.