So the Bubs, having the summer off can do things like go camping on weekdays, while the rest of the world is slaving away at thier unfulfilling jobs.
We reserved a campground a few weeks ago, and thus begins the tale.
A few mistakes were made on this camping trip.
Mistake #1 I thought I had reserved a campground in American Fork Canyon, turns out I accidently reserved one by Strawberry Resivour. Here's a visual.
The red car is where I thought we were going... the green car is where we were actually going.
Not bad, I was only off by 40.2 miles. I included our house and dad's house as reference points.
Mistake #2
Taking the baby... this was compounded by Mistake #1. When we got there, I asked the guy if it got cold. He said it was 36 degrees the night before. Our tent is built to be cool in the summer, it isn't necesarily a winter tent. Apparently we lucked out, because it was only 38 degrees. Nevertheless, Lincoln was awake at 3 am with a soaking diaper, and it was so cold. We eventually got in the car, and drove around for 3 hours with the heater on.
On the positive side, we did get to see Duchesne.
This was our campsite.
40 degrees 07.379 North, 111 degrees 02.203 degrees West. 7,715 feet in elevation.
Mistake #3
My sleeping bag is broken, and so I just brought some blankets. Again, I didn't know how cold this place was. I think we're going to have to restrict our tent to 7,500 feet or below.
Mistake #4
Didn't bring any firewood, matches, and even worse marshmellows, so when we were way cold in the morning, the car was the only way to go.
So those were the major bummer points of our little trip.
In good news, we did get to go geocaching.
We found our 8th ever geocache in a place called "Big Hollow" south of Heber. It was a pretty easy find, only about 70 feet off the trail, so Lincoln could come with us.
It had a nice view of the Heber Valley.
This is a picture of the geocache we found.
Our 9th ever cache was easy also, as long as you could find the right road to take. It was just west of Jordanelle, and it had all sorts of kid toys. You can see the cache in its hiding place in the picture to the right. It's the ammo box on the ground. You can also see Lincoln working on my hair.
I'll leave everyone with one more picture below, of the contents of this geocache, and some advice.
When you go camping, make sure you know where you're going, what the temperature will be, and bring along supplies.
Yes, those sunglasses Link's got on are from the cache. In other news, Lincoln is crawling around like crazy, and I just made an heroic save as he tried to go down the stairs. They should invent something that prevents babies from falling down stairs, or make a video game about babies falling down stairs.
In conclusion, Bubba now, Bubba now.
3 comments:
My Dad was really into geocaching several years ago. He said that he has gone throughout this state finding them...so if you find a dollar bill in one of your finds, it might be from him.
We did a couple of geocaches while at the cabin. There were quite a few really close.
Plus, I am currently laboring under the assumption that you lost to the Salt Lake Blues. If you would have won the results would have been posted.
Way to go.
Yes we lost to the Blues, I'll try to have it posted by today.
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