Desert Micro California, United States
By mcattk on 30-Jan-11. Waypoint GC2N5AW

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. Clan Mac!

Amazing adventures with f0t0m0m as my guide

Thanks for the fun !!!!

Wendy

Our third day on the "Route 66" powertrail. We found the rest until nr. 800 and some other caches in the surrounding area. It was a great pleasure. Thanks a lot for giving us this good time. TFTC.

cats unlimited

Quatorzième journée de géocaching à la mode américaine accompagnée de Le J, Ordimic et Maitre Jack. Pas trop difficile, il suffit de trouver le bon tas de roches et la cache est dessous!!! On peut même faire du géocaching sans GPS maintenant, on repère les tas de roches à distance!
Aujourd'hui, on avait planifié une série de 400 caches en avant-midi par un chemin de sable non entretenu. On a essayé, mais rendus à la cache 87, on a du rebrousser chemin avant de rester pris avec la petite voiture. On a quand même pris la bonne décision parce que la Jeep a fait une crevaison peu de temps après (la deuxième depuis le début du voyage...). Les chemins dans la région sont rocailleux et difficiles pour les pneus...
Malgré ces petits imprévus, on a quand même terminé la journée avec 300 caches trouvées. Le voyage tire à sa fin, la fatigue se fait sentir pour moi, mais il ne faut pas lâcher!!
MPLC

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!

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 one of the extra caches we logged during our 66 run. I had jumped out of the car and made a dash to grab this one. I actually kicked the container but missed that it was the cache. Larry happened to look alttle closer and found it. Thanks to Clan Mac! for adding to our fun today. 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 !

Found out I was coming to Las Vegas a few weeks ago to go to The World of Concrete 2013 show. Of course when I found out, I was trying to figure out if I'd be able to get out to the desert and do some geocaching. Turns out I got into town a couple days early, and decided to tackle the PTA series, and then if that went well, I'd work on at least 1 piece of geoart, and then finish off the remaining 200 caches I missed on Route 66 last year. Turns out there are A LOT of caches out here! Worked out the PTA series from 6am right up till 10pm and had to call it a day with about 100 left to go, actually I had the state/capital series left, but I grouped it with the PTA since they're all connected. Also managed to grab about 75% of the Motor Home geoart, I think I could have finished it, but then I'd be in no shape to go to the tradeshow so I figue I'll finish it when I come back to work on the new Peace Sign geo-art. Finished up the PTA Series on the 5th, by about 10am, and headed over to finish the RT66 series, of course there were several more caches on the series now, and grabbed as many as I could. All in all this was an awesome 2 days of power caching. Managed to grab 806 caches in a total 32.5 hours of cache time! Thanks to everyone who place caches in these series, or near these series, I really enjoyed finding your cache, and the work you put into maintaining these caches. I had an increible time, and the weather was perfect! Saw lots of wildlife, and fortunatly no rattle snakes this time Thanks again for a fabulous 2 days in the desert!

Drove out from the Avi casino to grab a few caches on historic Route 66....started where we left off last year....walked about 7miles and found 57 caches from this series plus a few other extra ones....thanks for placing this great series of caches!

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.

US12. US12. It just goes to shoe you can find all sorts of things out in the desert. Some of them even are not film canisters ! Thanks.

7401.794 TNLN
Visited: World Traveling Gold GC A#6 & GCC anniversary edition A#34

Albida

10:32:00 AM: (Count: 103 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

Found while caching along Route 66.

Thanks for the cache...

During a business trip I take the opportunity to find the cache

TFTC Paranaut1

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

The geo-hubby dropped me off so I could walk to the cache while he turned around the cache-mobile. When I got to GZ, I was cracking up. While walking out there, I was rehearsing curses in my mind to people who leave "junk" and "trash" in the desert. Ha ha ha ha! A Desert Micro! Good one! I laughed and laughed! Got it!! TNLNSL

Picking up a few caches in the area as we head out to Nevada this week with GoGoJo. Back in the area again to clear out some of the route 66 caches that came out after we were here.

This was our second day out making the run on Route 66 and took the time to pull up here for a bit of a rest and grab this "micro." Looks like something else likes this mico too because something has been nibbling on the top. Thanks!

An interesting diversion from the Route 66 Power Trail and an interesting container. TFTC.