A Geocaching Holiday - Day 2

My Second day starts and the first thing on the list to do is a hike around Hicks Lake.
So we take about a 45 minute drive up past Harrison Lake and over to Hicks Lake.

This little trail is quite nice, just a round the lake thing.
We started off and it went pretty well. Only 1 DNF the entire time.
Once we got half way round, the trail got alot better (in my opinion).

Now we get cool bridges...

Also got to use sardis two's GPS, which is a lot nicer than mine. Has all the cache info right on the GPS.

An interesting find along that trail was a cache called Thogards Secret Burnination Cache.

This one was a traditional on the site, but it had the makings of a letterbox. 

You had to draw a dragon.

And then we quickly grabbed a few nearby ones before heading home.

So after having lunch, i was off to go and bike the one side of the trail that circles Cultus Lake. 

There is a series of caches along this route called, Give R Take, with a total of 26 once you do the whole around the lake trail. 

For this part i did the last 13 of them.

Most of them looked like this.

No problem. The only problem is that this side of the trail goes like straight up and then straight down and then staright up and then straight down and then... well you get the idea.

These people had obviously never heard of switchbacks. Or just staying at the same elevation. 

Despite all the hills, this trail was a fun bike. There were also a few short side trips you could make for nearby caches too:

Teapot Hill

Taking a quick break

Buttermilk Cache

The Bejeweled Cache was a quick jog into a seriously mossy spot! 

--->

And finally the letterbox at the end

Now that I finished the trail, I'm off to cache in Cultus until nightfall, when we'll do another Night Cache.

So I managed to do a few more finds before dark, although i also had about 4 DNF's in here too. 

Of course I couldn't resist doing a cache with this nearby!

And so here's the found cache

This Nightcache was way simpler than the other one, although it was no less fun.

Love the ending!

Feel Watched?!?

It was rather creepy. All the trees had eyes

All in all a great day. Set a new GeoFrenzy record, of 38 caches in one day! W00T!
Now to get some sleep before tomorrow's caching