452-Route 66 Amboy, California, United States
By Team Steve Cat on 01-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2K0K6

Found with pounce44 and blakenocache. Thanks.

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. Thanks for all the caches and great fun!!

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!

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 enjoyed the first half of this run on our way to Yuma so decided to return on our trip to Portland and spend a few days adding to our finds. We will be back to finish next winter. Thanks!!

I had wanted to finish this Series for sometime. After a discussion with some fellow cachers we formed a group of three ; Cache O' Plenty, Larry The Pool Guy, and Pars18. Cache O' Plenty put together a plan that would complete the Route 66 Series for both Larry the pool guy and Pars18, but he would still have to return another day in the future to finish it. We ended up getting all the numbered caches plus some extra ones that were added or had originally been there . This was the most caches that all of us logged for one day. Once we had gotten used to the routine of stamping the logs we averaged over 50 finds an hour. We started at 6:30am and finished around 5:30pm. The weather was perfect for this type of run between 50-70 degrees. I had packed sandwiches and chips for lunch. We brought 24 bottles of water to stay hydrated and Cache O' Plenty had almost enough coffee to get half the run done. We were kept busy just trying to stay with the routine through out the day, but did have time to take in some of the sites. The trains just continued to go by all day and traffic was minimal until later in the day when it got heavier. Thanks to all the CO's especially Team Stevecat for placing this fun but exhausting series. We really had a great time thanks to Larry (Larry The Pool Guy) and Steve (Cache O' Plenty) for joining our team.

Pars18, Larry the pool guy and I headed out to the Route 66 series today for a full day of power trail caching. Since pars18 and Larry the pool guy had already completed the first half, we started at #381 and headed east. That allowed both of them to complete the series. I, on the other hand, will have to return to complete the first half. We also augmented our run to include all of the Non-Route 66 caches along the way. Made for quite a long day and a new one-day record for me. As we proceeded, we repaired any that needed some TLC and replaced some broken ones. Now I need to resupply my stash of containers!

Had a great day and perfect weather. Thanks to Team Stevecat and the other COs for all their work in setting up this run. Got a great history lesson along the way.

Also was amused to note that the number of trains we saw greatly outnumberd the vehicles on the road. Trans = 7, vehicles = 3 for the first three hours.

This was just one of the many caches found by us today. TFTC-SL

My day started out at 4:00 am when I first got in the pool truck to drive up to the meeting spot at McDonalds near the Lake Silverwood Exit. Sitting in their cars ready to go was Pars 18 and CacheOPlenty. At 6:30 am our group starting finding hides and stamping logs this pattern continued till 5:30 pm. The desert was kind to our group today with little wind and cool temperatures. Thanks to all that placed caches for me to find. I now have a new one day record !

This was our 3rd trip back to do this series and finally completed it. Thanks for all the effort put into setting up and maintaining the run. We had fun and are happy we completed it.

2nd day of power trail,we finished it off just the 2 of us wife and i. signed log W26,we are sure glad that it is over because by the end of the 2nd day i was getting sore from jumping berms and running up and down little hills. thanks to all the C.O.'S who put these out did 440 today (399 from rt66 the rest from various C.O.'S ) . i can say with great clarity now i will be doing more power runs.!!

Out caching and camping in the desert. Thanks for the series!

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

2:26:00 PM: (Count: 469 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.

7164.557 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & Las Vegas Benchmark A#111

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

Second day of caching along Rt 66, We are having a blast!!. Britpitts and I are making all the finds and my wife, the supper muggle, is doing all the driving.

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452-Route-66 is probably the best cache of the series! A must do! Coming up the road from Twentynine Palms, run out of etrex memory regarding pocket queries (somewhone must have placed 800 caches or so in the area), we hit the road at Ambroy direction Kelso. Upon my trip to San Diego, back in February this year, I dreamed of these desert trains at Border Crossing, well before I met YxZd, now being here together!

A particular situation, as I said, no waypoints in hands, passing the road, I saw a geocacher. Stopped the car, backed up, and who it was: Noone else but bgecco from Hungary! He first seemed uncovered as I approached him so directly, then we introduced each other, excitedly - or maybe he was half dead after already 300 finds this day - and he showed me his gps, with the cache shortly in hands. Thank you so much, mate, saved: At least one cache of this great series: The best one! Still logging myself and YxZd, bgecco moved on and stopped 160m further down the road - at the place where we found the shoe tree.

Driving and stopping in moave is fantastic. Fell like Out Of Rosenheim or Bagdad Cafe! Just no bavarian music today! As passing 11 years ago, I stopped at the salty Bristol lake. This time, I put my shoes on, as I remember, the calcium fluoride salt gives a peculiar feeling on the skin. Salt is good, conserves! We have walked on Lake Eyre, last year, with the clouds of a thunder storm above... Bristol Lake was pretty dry, but the desert experience tells, be careful, as it may be humid mud underneath. Always laughing of these tracks of bogged 4WD... hahaha!

These salt tiles of the crust are so amazing. How do they generate? How is the border growing? Water coming through these cracks, from the underground, carrying salts and evaporating - growing the crests! How the water in the mine is greenish blue! So different from NaCl concentrated water, which turns pink through halophilic archaebacteria - here the mineral is CaCl2 which seems to be sterile!

And of course, excellent motives for photo shooting. All 5 of us had great fun!

TFTC, mate, time to hit the road - and hoping to finish the series one day,
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Caching Team:

* The Arkaroo

* YxZd

* LZ

Travel Bugs visiting:

* Together with YxZd (TB45WPW)

* Arkaroo's Treasure (TB38AN6)

* Bessy jump home (TB3M2G5)

* For Sale (TB2VXWY)

* Mystery Micro Geocoin (TB3JYZ2)

* Signyred’s Mega Special (TB1EPR2)

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

Another fun day of inching along route 66 finding caches and carefully dodging the many cars, truck, and RV's traveling the route.

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 .....