A Hike and a Flash Mob

I took a lovely hike with f0t0m0m on Friday, in the hills near Whittier. We found these caches:
Rue Bourbon
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Heart Attack Hill Bypass
Shaken not Stirred
Dirt Track Date
Buddha’s Feast
WestwardHo’s Booty Cache find #15,700!
Godzilla vs Creosote
Hansel & Gretel This was my favorite of the day, as we had to follow a trail of small white stones to the gingerbread ammo can!
Pixie Stix
Marzipan Alligator Krewe
South Specific

Legless Muggle (NO rattles):

The Buddha greets us:

The weeds are THIS tall!

Purple thistle, golden sticky monkey flower, and - yikes! - a big bush of poison oak with berries:

On Saturday, I hosted one of 167 concurrent World Wide Flash Mob Events:
Worldwide Flash Mob with a view! (WWFM)
I’ll let the photos tell the tale…

The View:

The Mob:

There are many more photos on the event page.

My next report will be of Ottawa (Ontario), Charlottesville (VA), and Washington (DC).

Geocaching Among the Fauna

Sycamore Canyon

OLdweeb and I headed out there on Friday for an 8-mile RT hike that yielded 11 finds for me.
A cache for Mrs Richmond’s Class
Sibling Rivalry
Crack Up
Time Out Log
She was Wrong!
“Bent”
Two Foxes Burnout
Mugu Zoo
Hideout
Got H2O?

There were lots of animals out there with us:

Lizard

Squirrel

Tadpoles

Here’s a closer look at the tadpoles:

Snake

(NO, it’s not a rattlesnake.)

The next day, we went to see animals of a different kind. We attended the SoCal Spring Fling Event!
SoCal Spring Fling

There were a few caches in the area to find, but the best hide was this one:
Don’t Throw That Away - I really don’t want to give it away….

I’m spending the next few days in/around Medford, OR and Yreka, CA, but it’s raining and snowing up there, so I hope to at least find one or two. Until my next blog entry…. happy caching!