Azucar Mine Offset California, United States
By NF5 on 24-Nov-00. Waypoint GCC2

So much easier than we SnoopyRocks and I made the trek! We parked near the ridge and started to billygoat up! Fun cactus marks the box on his Jasmer

Coordinates: Well... they got us into the ZONE.

Cache Condition: Cache is in perfect condition.

Log: Log is dry, protected and good to go with room to sign.

Muggles: Nobody anywhere near the cache.

OH MY! Without palmdalepea's help I wouldn't have EVER found this one. The search area was vast! ... but with such an old cache, I HAD to find it. Thankfully pp's memory was outstanding and we soon made the find.

We even picked up two TBs

TNLNSL

TFTC (1394)

Love being out here!! Thanks for a great cache!!

Made the find.woth Treatsntech! Gorgeous area. Really enjoying being out 52nd Birthday.

I have had my eye on this cache for a very long time, the little blue ? in the sea of mostly-green traditionals on the y2k list always catches the eye. Anyway, I felt a little nervous going and didn't try for years because I was nervous about the projection. I've done projection waypoints before, but never one this far or have I had to worry about the magnetic/true north thing. And to be honest, this part of the cache hunt wasn't fun for me. I tried my best and followed all the directions, did reading up and experimenting before, and tried to be prepared. I ended up being about 200 feet off, which isn't bad all things considered. However, when you are also talking about elevation and the possibility of it being higher or lower on the hill than you thought, 200 feet is a really big deal. We were there for well over an hour because of the many, many available hiding places and had to resort to a PAF of a previous finder. But now that I've gotten my complaining out of the way, I can tell you that there were many aspects of this cache find that were awesome. The area is really cool and in a part of the state that I've never been to before. I grew up in CO and I loved visiting old ghost towns from the mining boom. Also, we recently adopted a rescue dog and we are learning that he is happiest in the desert. Since we were remote enough, we just let him run around and he had the biggest, dopiest grin on his face. As is the case many times in caching, we discovered a nice, lightly-used trail on the way OUT after finding the cache. So if any future finders want advice on finding this cache...don't go too high and look for the nice little trail. We took lots of pictures and reveled in the beauty around us. Plus, the weather was really pleasant, warm in the sun and just a little chilly in the shade. Perfect! This was a really nice change from our day before, where we traveled across CO and UT in the snowstorm. There were no travel bugs inside so I dropped 2, all y2k caches should have TB's in them! Thank you for keeping this cache going all these years!

As part of our 2015 Block Party adventure we decided to also grab a few older caches, this one caught our eye and we decided to have a look for it today We made our way in from Camp Rock road with Kab navigating as the in car GPS wanted to take us an "alternate" way. We soon parked up close to the mine and made our way to the entrance and had a look around the area. With the projected we moved on [^]



We soon found ourselves heading up to where we thought the cache was. We looked and looked and looked again, but were not coming up with anything We started reading older logs and looking at photos but still were coming up empty handed. It was very hot in the sun so after a bit more looking Kab head back to the car for a drink. Hmmm maybe we are too high she thought upon descent, whilst at the car Gaz was making his way down to the lower level to have a look. Within moments he yelled the magic words "Got it" With our name in the logbook, we headed off [^]



TFTC NF5, a fav point from us!



Gaz'n'Kab