Jason Silver

Monday, August 23rd, 2004

Found Mount Albion Falls Cache

Well, I'm exhausted.

We live a kilometer or two from the area so it was well known to us... we parked, walked down into the falls, and then I turned on the GPS. It showed me the waypoint as being .4 klics from where we were.

I had little 2 year old Seth with me, so I was often concerned he was going to slip and bash his head in. It might have been smarter to leave him at home for this one.

We found our way to .04 klics from the cache quickly and easily. A bit of "jumping stones to cross the creek," but water was unusually low, so it wasn't a problem.

But then as I got closer, tree cover was dense-- accuracy was dubious, and my GPS was pointing me up a steep path. I scurried up ahead of the boys trying to get a sense of the cache's location by triangulating.

To make a too long story shorter, we made the mistake of scaling this cliff, when we should have stayed on the lower trail longer. At many points I had to throw Seth over my shoulder fireman-style, just to get up the steep trail!

When I realised my mistake, the boys didn't want to climb back down. So I went after the cache myself, finding it easily.

I broke the rules slightly, and took two items to make it up to the little guys. I left a Volkswagen Beetle toy car, and took a fish keychain and a flashlight key chain. Signed the log too.

~Jason