We got off to a slow start today because we had to do the laundry. The dryer took two 40 minute cycles to get our heavy load dry so that put us a little behind. We left camp about 9:45 and made the 60 minute drive to our first geocache along ET Highway.
The caches today were in a flatter part of the desert and we were able to drive off road with the Jeep alongside the highway. We did not encounter any problems with the caching but the weather proved un-cooperative. It started snowing lightly and the temperature was around 36. The wind was also blowing about 20 MPH so it was very unpleasant to get out of the car and fix up the caches. Most of the ones we found needed attention, new logs or new containers, or both. For containers we are using shotgun shells. If you take an empty 20 gauge, put the log inside of it and then slide it into an empty 12 gauge, it makes a nice weather resistant container! We used a lot of them.
We found 90 caches and then decided that it was time to head back to camp. The picture below shows the stormy looking clouds hanging over a nearby hill. It was pretty in a blustery sort of way.
When we arrived back at the RV, we discovered that the portable electric heater had died and that we were also out of propane. I switched tanks and then we started using the built in heater to warm up the RV.
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| Elevation is about 5600 or so |
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