IronMan - Atlas Shrugged Traditional Cache
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OK, I realize
this isn’t much of a REAL Ironman competition, but its about
as close as I’ll ever get to one… And since I have been called
FlagMan, NanoMan, AmmoMan, MamaMan, and countless other names, I
thought maybe I should throw IronMan into the mix since I love Iron
Mountain. I needed a little Sherpa training, so I looked on Google
Earth, found a few trails from Perfect Sunset into a new area, made
a route that looked feasible and loaded it all into my GPSr. Headed
out to Iron Mountain and started at the Poway Road TH, took the
lower cut-across trail toward Ellie Lane, then took the middle
trail toward Brownies on the Move and Itsy Bitsy up to Perfect
Sunset. Then couldn’t resist hiding one at Atlas Shrugged. From
there, I glanced at my tracks and promptly ignored them as I headed
down the backside towards Hansel following a steep streambed. (Note
to self and others, there’s a better trail to get down here from
there, or there from here…) Once I got to Hansel, I looked around
for some spots to hide a cache and spotted Monkey Love. But before
hiding that one, I ventured towards another nearby rockpile and
stumbled across the Tanning Booth. After getting some R&R at
this most comfortable spot, I headed over to Monkey Love and then
made the long, uphill climb to Just One More Hill. From there, you
have your choice of several trails that will either take you the
long way over to Ellie Lane or the short way back to the middle
trail near Itsy Bitsy, etc.
There are trails to all of these caches except the last couple
hundred feet to Just One More Hill is pretty rough. But most of you
out there are much better at this game than I am, so if a lame
llama like me can make it I’m sure you’ll have no trouble at all. I
usually find that the trails are much easier to spot on the way
back from a cache than on the way to it. Weird how that
works…
Of course, there is a better way to get to all these caches (except
Atlas Shrugged) without going to Perfect Sunset. I’ve added an
alternate TH waypoint to all except Atlas Shrugged, so you might
try that. And if you want my tracks, send me an e-mail and I’ll
send them back to you.
My stats for the trip were as follows:
Odometer 6.2 miles (10K)
Total ascent: 1990 feet
Total time: 3:05 hours
Stopped time: 39:48 mins
Take lots of pictures and bring the 10-essentials, of course. In
the summer, it will be very hot so bring plenty of
water.
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