357-Route 66 California, United States
By Team Steve Cat on 01-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2K02K

”Out caching with Whimppeys and finishing up the RT 66 series we started a year or so ago. Had a blast doing this power trail and enjoyed all the history of this area.”

”We had a great time finishing the Route 66 Trail with Barb N Gene. It was Mr. Whimppey’s Birthday weekend.”

Had a little run of caches this morning before the heat became unbearable. Nearly stepped on a sidewinder at #369. He was on the road side of the raised berm - please watch your step! Leaving the heat for the 80s of Las Vegas for a while. TFTCs!

Greeting from Quebec
We went in California when it was very warm, very windy and very sandy. In the car, we saw 102F.
We spent 3 days to find caches on route66.
Ginny & Stevecat, you worked a lot and we had a lot of fun. Thanks for all this series.
Les caches en série, c'est notre folie.
Equipe Pierre1944

Out on the power trail today. TFTC and the crazy, fun experience!

Holiday power cache run! We came here exactly a year ago to start the series, today we finished! Thanks to all that placed and maintain this series. All quick grabs even when we got punchy near the end!

We, the CIA team, left Las Vegas 4 am with route 66 as destination to do the route 66 power trail. After a smooth drive we had breakfast at an historical cafe. Then it started, jumping, running more jumping and running signing tiny logbooks, replacing damaged containers. Long story short, it was my longest day caching, more than tired but satisfied that we managed to do this series and a few more!
Thanks Team Stevecat for an unforgettable day on this historical road.

Team CIA left Las Vegas 4 am for Route 66 power trail. The drive to the Bagdad Cafe took around 1.5 hour and in one of the higher passes we went though a little snow storm. Had a quick,but tasty breakfast at the Famous or Infamous Bagdad Cafe and took a couple of photos of the group, then we were off on the longest day of caching I have ever done or most likely ever do again. Very memorable. Thanks Stevecat for this fun series.

The CIA, a team of cachers from Vancouver Island, BC, Canada, are having a great time on Route 66. Many thanks to Team Stevecat!

Found with the CIA team on the last day of our caching adventure. If anyone ever told me I'd get up at 3:00 in the morning to go caching, I would have said they were crazy, but that is exactly what I did this morning. It was worth it. This was my first time in California and caching Route 66 made it a trip I will never forget. Thanks to all for placing these caches.

Got up at 5:00 am, filled up the tank, filled up the cooler and off we went. I had my daughter driving and my son and I working as a team grabbing and signing the caches. We really got into a groove and were finding 80 or so an hour till we stopped for lunch at the crater. By this time we were getting tired and grumpy and it was hot. By about our 450th cache of the day we really started to slow down so we decided to hit 500 for the day and head to Needles for the night.

We will be back tomorrow to finish up the 200 or so caches before heading up to Vegas.

TFTC.


#4223 @ 9:27:00 AM

started the power trail today,2of the caches weren't there the pile of rocks were,so all i had was log and plastic bag, so used them. thanks for putting all these out think my wife and i got 419 caches today. SIGNED LOGS W26.

On holidays from Australia we had planned on doing a spot of caching whilst in and around Barstow and Las Vegas. One of our goals was to complete the Route 66 series. Early start, late finish was in order and after a long 15+ hours, we completed the series and some extra's along the way. Wow what an experience that was! FurfacesLL No 2 sprained her ankle on the Yermo series, and FurfacesLL No 1 was down with a cold, So we were very pleased with ourselves. A days' rest then off to tackle the ET Highway! Thanks to the cache owners for all the work in maintaining these caches.

Found in the company of Earthbound Chief, aka Dad on our 'Boys Own Adventure' after I spent the summer working in Michigan and before going home to Australia. A drive along the Route 66 was a must! TFTC

Getting our caching kicks on Route 66 with micaparamedic, Ozibgs and EB Contax


Thanks for the caching fun

Collected Ozibags from LAX today and drove straight to Barstow, motel arranged and then this contingent from Australia hit Route 66 for an afternoon of hot caching, coming from winter to temperatures in the low 100s saps your energy quickly. Plenty of water consumed, and an enjoyable experience caching on Route 66 was had. Thanks Team Stevecat for the series.

On a Route 66 power trail bash with micaparamedic and Earthbound Chief. Greetings from Australia. TFTC

Thanks for all the hard work and time it took to place all these caches. Ultrahide and I went on a 10 day epic camping adventure. We ended up with 1,744 caches including 32 virtuals, 6 WIGs and 5 events after 3,080 miles. We had a great time finding these caches and exploring the history of Route 66. Ultrahide did most of the work jumping out in the 100 degree weather. I appreciate the pre trip info and love the coins. Thanks again.

Found with emzernask while getting our kicks on. Stamped the log as Crazy Canucks.
tftc

12:34:00 PM: (Count: 371 of 602 )
After many months waiting we are finally here, we where fortunately enough to meet the cache owners at an event, but even more fortunate to have mild weather.
We completed the series plus a few side caches in about two days and loved it
More detailed log posted on 000-Route 66 ( http://coord.info/GC2Q8GK )
Signed our logs using team name: SAM : (Sol de Lune ,Albida and mtrax)
Hello from Canberra, Australia

US12. Wow, after what seems an eternity of planning Sol de Lune, Mtrax and I, signing as Team S.A.M. are here. Thanks for the huge effort put into this trail.

7066.459 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Cache Critters A#126

Albida

The next in the series of Route 66 for the S.A.M. team of Sol de Lune, Albida and Mtrax from Australia.

Thanks to Team Stevecat for the fun that it is.......and bringing us from Australia to complete it

By now we have settled into our rythem of making the finds and are moving right along. Britpitts and I are making all the finds and my wife, the supper muggle, is doing all the driving.

Thanks Team Stevecat for the effort in setting up this huge series in spectacular scenery. Had a great couple of days.

This was a fun day for us even with all the traffic and the high temperatures. Thanks!

I came from Australia to tackle this trail but until you do, you do not appreciate the time and effort that goes into putting this together. Thanks Team Stevecat for your work.

I teamed up with a couple of other out of towners - tumble3weed2 and rcbpasco from Washington State.

Between the three of us we came up with a system that worked even if we weren't the quickest around.

On Day 1, we found 500 of the 800 over 11 hours stopping at dark plus a few non Route 66 caches.

On Day 2, we completed the series albeit in the dark with flashlights plus more non Route 66 caches.

Enthusiasm on Day 2 wasnt the same as day 1 with the bodies working a little slower with 8 hours to complete the the series.

We had a good time, seeing bikes and bikers, military jets 'buzzing the tower' as well as refuelling above us. Also a lot of old Fords heading to Needles. The army were also making a racket over the range with their tanks. What we didnt see was anyone else doing the trail - maybe we started too late in the day.

And what about trains - I think it was around 40 over the two days but we probably lost count.

We also found 6 extra containers at some of the spots - all within a metre of the actual caches. These will be heading to Australia to start a mini Route 66 trail - number 802 to 807.

Thanks again for the experience.

Now for the job of logging all the finds .....