Spanish Fork Foothills Hike

Saturday, 03 July 2010

JAC0B found Don Quixote's Worst Nightmare

I parked at the Spanish Oaks Reservoir and hiked around the hill the cross is on, over to this cache, I saw some deer on the way and enjoyed exploring a semi-new area to me, it was cool to see the windmills up close and I listened to one of my favorite songs, "Don Quixote" by Gordon

Lightfoot on the way.

I was the 7th person to find this cache and it was hidden over a year ago, people don't go for these out of the way hides often.

JAC0B found Dulcinea

I came to this one after finding GC1TM90 a little up the "road," this is a pretty cool area that I did enjoy exploring. This cache took me a while to find, I even started to wonder if it was missing but in the end there it was... it just blends in very nicely. I enjoyed seeing the windmills up close, I hadn't been this close before and I didn't realize how noisy they were!

JAC0B found Happy (to see the) Valley

I hiked to this one from "Don Quixote's Worst Nightmare" and "Dulcinea," when I showed up I thought "How can a cache that is rated small instead of micro be rated so difficult? Well, after a lot of searching I gave in and asked for help... oh! THAT is how... Well done very hard to find cache.

JAC0B found Tread lightly in the Wilderness

I came the hard way to this one, I hiked (bushwhacked) to it from "Happy (to see the) Valley," after my cut and bloody legs from all the scrub oak got me there I realized that it was a drive-up cache Oh well! Nice quick and easy find here.

JAC0B found The Unicorn Letterbox

N 40° 04.524 W 111° 35.971

I went straight up to this one from "Tread lightly in the Wilderness," after doing some bushwhacking down to that one I thought, "Hey, why not a little more?" and went right up the hill to it. I took a long time to find this one because the coordinates were off, at least for me and my GPS... When I finally did find it I snapped a photo and moved on back to the Jeep... a two and a half mile hike overall today.