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Hidden : Sunday, June 17, 2007

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Size: Size: other (other)

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Beep Beep, it's a Jeep!

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You are invited to join MooseMob and Company for a picnic lunch (tailgate style) on the top of White Hill at 11am on Sunday, June 17th to celebrate bringing the "White Hill" (NV) GJTB to it's home peak. Bring whatever picnic supplies you have and bring food (or hope that someone else has brought extra to share). There may be other stuff happening too - depending on how dry the Jeeps tank gets.

The recommended approach is from Spooner Summit as it is by far the most scenic of the roads. The road from the Forest Service Station is a lot shorter, but fairly straight forward and relatively boring. If you have the time, I also recommend leaving by heading towards Kingsbury, not only picking up all the caches along the way, but also enjoying a ride far more interesting that just taking Hwy 50 to South Shore.

This is the story about a little green Jeep. This little Jeep had a home high in the Sierra Nevadas of Western Nevada. But on it's journey north, the little Jeep was awed by the lights and sounds of Southern Nevada - and so stopped for awhile to explore that beautiful place.

There, it discovered (or was Discovered by) a bigger green Jeep and a friendly Moose Mob, who invited the little Jeep to go bumpity bumpity bump throughout the southwestern desert. The big Jeep had such a fun time with the little Jeep that Moose Mob adopted the little one and the big Jeep began wearing the little one's number.

The new friends found lots of roads to play on throughout Clark County (and experienced a few deflated Moose hooves, err.. flat tires along the way), and ventured to far off Utah, where they met a lot of great geocaching friends.

But then, in early May, a little devil and a wonderful angel discovered the trio - No! more than Discovered, outright Grabbed the Jeeps and took the bunch (kidnapped is more like it) through a wild ride across Southern California.
Lil Devil "Taking over the wheel." before they arrived at Water World
Moose Mob "Give me back me Jeep!"
Lil Devil "It's mine!Mine! Mine!" as he drove to Gusher
Moose Mob "No, it's MINE I say!"
Angel "Get out! I'm driving now!" taking them to Pioneer Trail Micro Vector
Eventually Lil' Devil dropped the Jeep and Moose Mob was able to return the road weary pair to Vegas. Course, then he had to go play around Mt. Charleston...

But, still, the little Jeep's home kept calling. So, Moose Mob scrounged up some gas money for his big Jeep and the three of them will traverse the vast empty Nevadan desert (picking up caches along the way) to arrive at White Hill, the little Jeep's home peak. Rising to a height of 7,636, this peak sits just west of Spooner Summit along Hwy 50 and overlooks Spooner Lake and beautiful Lake Tahoe. A large clearing caps this peak, providing enough space for the little Jeep and it's big brother and all their friends to come up and enjoy the view that the peak has to offer.

A rocky dirt road climbs up the backside of the peak, and provides a starting point for a wheeling adventure in the Carson Range between Spooner Summit and Kingsbury Grade, where many trails cut through the Humboldt-Toiyabe forest and lead to vistas, other peaks, and of course caches! This is 4x4 country, but while you may not need it, the high clearance will be necessary. If all you got is your family sedan, this is also near the Spooner to Kingsbury segment of the Tahoe Rim Trail, so bring your hiking boots to go explore the area.

Fun, Friends, and Food await you - if you aren't too tired from the other events happening during the weekend.

There are several caches accessible from here, two of which have a lot of history behind their location. Nearby (see The Wood Nymph cache) is an aspen grove where Basque sheepherders spent their time and carved their names, special dates, and longings in the bark of the trees. Further down the road to Kingsbury is another site (see "Baily's Air 4" cache) where, on March 1, 1964, a plane carrying 85 people from the Bay area to South Lake Tahoe crashed in a snowstorm, killing everyone on board. The wreckage is still strewn about the face of the ridge.