Boring Cache Report, But Cool Pictures
Oct. 17th, 2010 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deaneYou're probably all tired of my geocaching reports, so today I've included some pictures to suck you into reading yet another one.
Today I was wandering the trails around Flynn Falls. There were six caches in the area of which I was only able to find four. None of the caches were particularly interesting in their own right, but one was located halfway down the side of the Benson Creek gorge, along the steep switchbacks leading to Flynn Falls. The trail is so steep in spots that locals have helpfully provided ropes. I didn't bother with the first rope, choosing to crawl down on my backside instead. That would not have been possible at the second set of ropes as the incline was too steep. I wasn't keen to climb down there, particularly as I was by myself and fall could be fatal. Fortunately, I didn't have to as the cache I was after was located nearby.
On the way back to the truck, I happened to spot a cluster of coral fungi alongside the trail. Here's the biggest of the group:
And here's a detailed closeup:
It must be fungus season because there were all sorts of different fungi visible all along the trail, including this monster:
No, it didn't gobble down a hapless hiker: I included one of my gloves in the picture as a size reference.
The picture makes it look like the fungus is lying flat on the ground but actually its perched on thick stem about 3cm in diameter and maybe 5cm high. The rear edge of the fungus is touching the hump of ground behind it.
I failed to find the final two caches of the day. The first was an honest-to-goodness failure. I searched for over half an hour but came up empty handed. The second was mostly a default on my part. The forest light was starting to fade and some overcast had moved in, rendering my cellphone's GPS unreliable, so I only searched for about five minutes before calling it a day.
The four found ups my cache count to 147.
Today I was wandering the trails around Flynn Falls. There were six caches in the area of which I was only able to find four. None of the caches were particularly interesting in their own right, but one was located halfway down the side of the Benson Creek gorge, along the steep switchbacks leading to Flynn Falls. The trail is so steep in spots that locals have helpfully provided ropes. I didn't bother with the first rope, choosing to crawl down on my backside instead. That would not have been possible at the second set of ropes as the incline was too steep. I wasn't keen to climb down there, particularly as I was by myself and fall could be fatal. Fortunately, I didn't have to as the cache I was after was located nearby.
On the way back to the truck, I happened to spot a cluster of coral fungi alongside the trail. Here's the biggest of the group:
And here's a detailed closeup:
It must be fungus season because there were all sorts of different fungi visible all along the trail, including this monster:
No, it didn't gobble down a hapless hiker: I included one of my gloves in the picture as a size reference.
The picture makes it look like the fungus is lying flat on the ground but actually its perched on thick stem about 3cm in diameter and maybe 5cm high. The rear edge of the fungus is touching the hump of ground behind it.
I failed to find the final two caches of the day. The first was an honest-to-goodness failure. I searched for over half an hour but came up empty handed. The second was mostly a default on my part. The forest light was starting to fade and some overcast had moved in, rendering my cellphone's GPS unreliable, so I only searched for about five minutes before calling it a day.
The four found ups my cache count to 147.
