Step 1: Make sure it's a hot day.
Step 2: Get some cheap-o goggles (or not).
Step 3: Grab some friends/family for a day of cliff-diving.
Step 4: Take the dive 25 feet down into the water to unhook a
carabiner, thus releasing a geocache.
Step 5: Log Cache, trade something for a hotdog.
Step 6: Close up cache and re-hook it to the bottom of the
waterfall.
Step 7: Go home and nurse that new sun-burn!
Really wanna do all this?? Good, cause this cache is not only
highly original, it's in one of the most tranquil spots this side
of the Mississippi!
WAYPOINTS:
#1 39°18.084N 120°39.648W EMIGRANT GAP ROAD (START)
#2 39°17.171N 120°40.504W SERVICE ROAD MIDPOINT (REF
ONLY)
#3 *NO COORDINATES GIVEN* MILE 5½ NARROW BRIDGE
(PARKING)
#4 39°16.206N 120°39.454W TRAIL HEAD (FOOT TRAIL TO
CLIFFS)
#5 39°16.014N 120°39.722W CACHE LOCATION (OVERLOOKING
CACHE)
This cache is do-able for the whole family w/o any off-road
driving, but a good set of lungs is required for the 25ft dive
under a waterfall to get the cache. (Sounds AWESOME Huh?)
So first off make sure that the day you'll be doing the hunt is
in the 90°s. This is a must to ensure the perfect swimming
temperature.
Now....Get to Waypoint#1, follow Emigrant Gap Rd down past Fulda
Creek, Sailor Ravine, and park just after mile 5½ at a "One Lane
Bridge". This is waypoint #3. Park your vehicle, and walk across
the bridge. Take a right into the Tahoe National Forest Campground,
and walk west along the established gravel road toward waypoint #4.
If anybody asks what you're doing, tell them you're headed toward
the cliffs.
Get to the foot trail at waypoint #4, and meander your way along
the trail to waypoint #5.
You're now overlooking the cliffs. To your right is the big 45ft
drop into a pool (Jump wisely with your hands tucked in, and this
is safe to jump into and FUN TOO), and to your left is a Wider,
Shallower pool with a 15ft drop if you were to climb down to the
overhanging ledge just above it. It is under this wider pool that
the cache is located.
Get your goggles on, and look into this wider pool to see a
floating cache 25ft down located under the minor waterfall.
To release cache simply undo the carabiner underwater, and allow
it to float to the top. *DO NOT OPEN CACHE
UNDERWATER*. All contents should be waterproof, but let's
not chance it.
Cache Contents
I've included seven of these Weinerschnitzel antennea toppers
for you to take, and a squishy whale waterball for the FTF. What a
prize huh?! Contents also include: Log, pen and pencil. Well i
figured the cliffs themselves were the "real cache". (Rock on
Blocko).
Advised Things To Bring Along (but not
100% required):
• Goggles (Unless you really enjoy
rooting around underwater w/o them)
• Swimming suit (Unless you're attempting
to re-live your hippy cliffdiving days!)
• Sun Block (Unless you've got a thing
for pain)
• Pen (Unless you cache w/o them and
always trust the cache pen to work)
That's it! And with all the cliff jumping you'll be doing, don't
forget to save energy for replacing the cache eh? Team Big Geeks
Rules!
CACHE WAS REPLACED 06-30-06, but i
forgot to put the Geocaching note in it. Could next finder be so
kinda as to place a note in there? Thanks!