***** Saturday, 10 June 2006 - Grand Reopening Announcement
*****
Announcing the grand reopening of Sea to Sea #1 Top of the World,
the first in this historic series of caches originally placed back
in 2003 before the disastrous Cedar Fire burned the top of El Cajon
Mountain. The new container is a 10-inch diameter decorative tin.
To provide appropriate offset for the new summit cache, the
placement is 115 feet to the west of the original coordinates. The
new site is adjacent to an open area 70 feet from the summit trail.
No bushwhacking is required. Replacement swag includes a number of
items reflective of the Sea to Sea theme, including one of our bead
geckos that Flagman quickly turned into the “Sea to Sea Geocache
Challenge Gecko” Travel Bug . We hope you enjoy your trek to this
memorable site.
-Gecko Dad for Team Gecko and the San Diego Geocaching
Community
***** original Sea to Sea Challenge text *****
DeepOutdoors has donated cool prizes for the 25 caches that are
hidden along the Trail. The Challenge is being launched midnight
June 6, to help celebrate National Trails Day on June 7.
So what do the caches look like? Believe it or not, they’re
Underwater Kinetics' amazing
#613 dry cases. They’re black (with a handle) and measure 13.4
x 8.9 x 5.6 inches. They also have the geocaching.com green &
black ‘official geocache’ stickers on them. PLEASE DON’T TAKE THE
CACHES! Please leave them for others.
So what’s in the caches? In every cache you’ll find a waterproof
logbook, courtesy of Geocaching.com. Please write your discovery in
the logbook. Every cache has an assortment of goodies – in 20 of
the caches there are voucher prizes for DECO fleeces and
Vital Access
daypacks from DeepOutdoors. There are lots of extra goodies
from REI and Magellan. AND, in two of the caches are two
vouchers for the new all-color $500 Magellan Meridian GPS!
One of the caches may not have a logbook in it – sorry! (I found
one left over.) Could you PLEASE let me know which one it is as
soon as it’s found and I’ll get out and put it in.
One of the caches is a false trail – just to make it all that
bit more interesting!
Do take photos! Send them in and we’ll devote a page on the Web
site for them. And send in your hunting stories as well!
Here are the directions for
the Trail. If you’re out in Anza-Borrego Desert (or anywhere
for that matter), please take lots of water.
FINE PRINT: As always, please take care out there – it’s hot and
there are snakes, cacti, poison oak etc. Thus, the Foundation and
sponsors take no responsibility for any injuries (physically or
psychologically!) that may occur while you are participating in the
Challenge.
Good luck!