Sunburn sucks.
In any case. We woke, ate and left for another Jeep ride. This time I had picked Misquito Pass between Alma and Leadville. It was to be a moderate trail. We started out finding more caches on the smooth part of the road. The first was easy. As we moved up the road, things continued to get harder driving and also the caches keep getting more difficult to find.
The second was found in a tree near a creek. Not exactly what I was looking for but we were able to sign the log and move on. This cache was near an old mining log home.
The next was actually in a tree also and was only a 35mm film canister. We again signed and continued on to find our fourth one. This one turned out to be a hike above a mine about 300 yards. Did I mention it was uphill and at about 11.500 ft? We found that one after a bit and continued on the trail. We turned a few switchbacks and headed up above the treeline. It looked like we were on the moon. Nothing much grows up there and it was a pretty rough road.
We did manage to play a little catch up near the top.
Once almost to the top, we found a really tough cache on the side of the rock slide hill. It was hard to walk but Cam did great and liked the rock climbing. We met a few motorcyles, Jeeps and a few other SUV's which I wondered how they got up there.
Near the top, we had a quick snowball fight. Snow is cold.
Once to the top at 13,185 ft (the highest road in Colorado according to some website I read), we found another small cache and started down. We met a runner about an hour prior to this that was running the entire pass which was 14 miles. CRAZY. Then we met a mountain biker on the way up. He was tired and asking how much further. We gave him some general info and were on our way. We found only one more small film canister cache prior to Leadville.
It was a fun day of Jeeping and geocaching. I never thought that Cam would like it as much as he does and we both don't mind it also. A good family activity.
From there to Breck and the pool, dinner, and then downtown to buy a few gifts for some people. Packed up and ready for the trek home tomorrow.
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