756-Route 66 California, United States
By Team Steve Cat on 01-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2K68Y

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 great caches and good fun! [^]

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

It is just really too bad when a business trip is planned in a place like Las Vegas and I have an opportunity to come early to do a little caching before the meeting. When I found out I was heading to the south west, I made arrangements to do just that. Come down early and hit the Route 66 power trail. I have wanted to do this trail for quite some time. Last year I was down in the area and managed to get the E. T. Highway cleaned up. Of course, I will need to plan a return trip to that trail at some point since they have added quite a few more caches since I got the 1500 that were there last year. For this trip, a good friend, Vulcan64, was able to get some time off and join me for a caching adventure. So we flew down on Tuesday from Sioux Falls and then we worked our way down to Barstow, grabbing a couple of caches along the way. We tried to focus our attention on virtual caches and earth caches for the first night, but there were some terrific targets of opportunity that we could not pass up. In the morning, we took a little walk to grab a nearby cache since breakfast was not ready to be served. Once we got a quick breakfast, we took off for the trail. Once again, there were a few nice targets for us to grab before we made our way down to cache 001. From there we hit the trail with gusto. We did get a couple of other nice caches along the way as well, but our goal was to get the Route 66 trail done in a day. We managed to get it done. What a great trail! We had a lot of fun and we managed to stay safe. Only a few cuts and bumps along the way. By the time we the moon was starting to rise, a beautiful full moon, by the way, we were still about a hundred short of completing the trail. The light of the fading sun was precious, but fleeting. We went as fast as we could, but we ended up finishing in the dark. Good thing we brought flash lights along with us. We signed the logs as VB for Vulcan64 and Beta59. Thanks for all of the great caches, on the trail as well as before, after and in between.

Beta 59 and I flew into Las Vegas on Tues. afternoon to start our adventure. We headed out to Barstow, Ca. as this would be our starting point to begin the Route 66 caching trail. Our goal we set for ourselves was to try to get all the trail done in one day. This was my first trip to the area. Certainly different than South Dakota. Warmer and drier. During this trip I was able to make some new records and add to some current ones. I appreciate all the work involved in making this trail. I enjoyed the whole day. Doing a trail like this with a good friend really makes it go so much better. We signed the logs as V B. TFTC. Ginny & Stevecat

Together with Hallén, joy.se and TMT68 on a two week trip to the US. We logged all caches with our initials HIJT unless logged as our single nicks.
Target was to visit some trails and inbetween do some limited sightseeing. We limited the caching hours to daylight time only but days became long anyhow.
Trip was planned already 6 month back in time and a very good preparation work on the details made this trip widely exceed the targets we had set.
Weather conditions were excellent except the day with 108 degrees F we faced in the Mojave desert. Not one single drop of rain, only sun and a mostly cloud free clear sky all the time called for quite some dust to face !

Many thanks go to all CO who made this trip become real with so many caches at nice places including the great power trails .

TFTC from Ingabo in Sweden.

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 finishing the run.. Thanks!!

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

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 over 460. 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.

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.!!

Alaska's Team KLM is having fun and getting our Kicks and Kaches on Route 66! We enjoyed the warm weather, scenery, and history along the roadway! SL, TFTC, [red]Li1gray[/red]

Found on a Geocaching adventure from the UK with j4pos & Quiddle. TFTC Snake Plissken

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

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.

7485.878 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & 2010 Julius Quintilus A#177

Albida

12:11:00 PM: (Count: 187 of 266 )
This is our second day after managing about 600+ caches yesterday.
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 001-Route 66 ( http://coord.info/GC2Q8GK )
Signed our logs using team name: SAM : (Sol de Lune ,Albida and mtrax)
Hello from Canberra, Australia

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.

Last Friday we flew to Los Angeles. We mainly came for the ET and Route-66 series and to collect points for our statistics. We pick upped our rental car and drove to Barstow. That evening we did one cache nearby the hotel.

On Saturday we drove from out hotel in Barstow to our hotel in Tonopah and did some caches on the way.

On Sunday, a bit confused about the right time, we explored the beginning of the E.T. series and found the first 60 caches.

We went to bed early and the next day on Monday we started just after midnight for our 24 hour run. It was hard work especially in the dark but we did over 1200 caches that Monday.

After a good night rest we finished the next day on Tuesday the series. Afterwards we did the caches on the route back to Tonopah.

Before leaving for Barstow again we visited the oldest cache of Nevada. When we past it in the evening it was too dark to go for it. On route we also did some caches.

On Thursday from Barstow we did Route-66, beginning at sunrise until deep in the evening we managed to do the whole series plus the extra caches at the beginning and at the end of the trail.

The Friday was our last whole caching day. We started with an 2000 cache in the mountains near Barstow. After that we did the "Yer-Mo" Run!. After that we tried - The Phonetic Alphabet trail - but the road was too bumpy for our rented car so we headed for the - Planes Trains & Automobiles - . We did enough cars and planes and a lot of trains for the bonus cache.

Saturday on the way to LAX we did one cache on the route. The weather was terrible with sand storms and heavy rain but we managed to arrive safely to the airport and flew home.

This cache was found at 20:16.

All CO thanks for the caches. We enjoyed them very much!

Then we must to make a new plan.
Are we going to the united states or do we stay in The Netherlands. After a long talk we disired to go to the states.
The flight was booked for 8th of Marth.
Now we must to get a hotel to sleep. In Henderison we booked our Hotel.
We have an option to place a extra bed in this room.

A few weeks for we are leeving we come together.
At that moment Geonauten was on this conversation and told us that he going with us to the United States. So we are with tree.

The days before we get to Vegas was Twitter the way to speak.
On the day we left we did a cache in the Netherlands and go with the train to Schiphol Airport.
After a long trip we arived in Las Vegas. We must get a car for all terrain. We desired to rented a Jeep.
We drove to the event of the germans and did some caches.
Then we checked in the hotel and we must sleep. The next day we want to start with the E.T. caches. 4.00 AM we left the hotel and drive for stamp many caches
In the evening / night we are on number 1000. Were we did sleep in the jeep. In the desert is it very hot, but in the night very cold. In the morning we marked 1000 with stones.
After 2 days we finished the trail and al of the 1500 cache are loged. With some other caches we drive to the hotel for a nice sleep.
The next day we do not many caches. Only some oldest GC-numbers.In the evening we had our own event "Meet the dutch". At this event we have sirupwafels from The Netherlands for all of the people.

After the E.T. trail we have not enough from caching, we want to do the Route 66 on one day.
This trail is not so easy but good for the points. Halfway we have make "NL" in stones.
The next day was a toeristday, we did some of caches.
Wednesday we did an other state with many rock caches.

The last day we bring the car back and go back to the Netherlands.

This was a week with nice days new records, great weather, jeep trips, climbing and a lot of fun.

Holiday with Geonauten and Hopmaniak

Al owners thanks for placing all off this caches

Mlvdburg
The Netherlands

Back to finish Route 66 today and to get to my 5000th cache! It was a great day. Thanks for bringing us out here for all the exercise and fun!! TFTC TNLNSL

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 .....