Sunday Morning Hiking Series #39 - Little Mountain, Trail of the Challenged
8am-12pm
Series Description
For those new to this hiking series, these are social hikes around the Salt Lake area for the purpose of caching, enjoying the outdoors, and getting to know fellow cachers. There tends to be a range of fitness levels that show up for the hikes. As the emphasis is on being social, don't worry if a steep leaves you puffing. I'll be right there clinging to a tree and puffing with you. Our usual meeting time is 8am, and we leave the parking area by 8:05am. The other primary feature of these hikes is that they are short and can be accomplished by noon. Trails tend to be a little emptier on Sunday mornings and we'll be done in time for anyone who has Sunday obligations to attend an afternoon service. If you don't have to be anywhere in the afternoon, there's frequently a longer trail to take. If you would like more information about the whole series of hikes, check out the others in the series in the bookmark list at the right.
NOTE FOR NON-CACHERS: Since there has been a trend toward non-cachers joining us due to cross posting of hikes on hiking groups, just a heads-up. Yes, it's a hike and you are certainly welcome to join us. However, it is a caching hike which means if there are caches along the trail we are going to go search for them. That may mean stepping off the trail briefly or an involved search and/or bushwhack off trail. We are happy to teach you about geocaching. We like to spread our obsession. Just come with the expectation that there will be detours from the trail and it will likely take longer to do the hike with this group than most other groups you've gone with. Searching the woods for a piece of paper in tupperware using billion dollar satellites is fun. Try it, you might like it.
Description for this Hike
Little Mountain is where the hike is going to happen. It's a pretty mellow trail. Couple of up hills but nothing too terrible. We'll hike about 2.7 miles north/northwest from the parking lot. About 5.5 miles round trip. Some shade, some exposed, dogs allowed.
Now as to that second part of the title. There are two aspects of caching I love, hiking and challenges. During this event it will be possible to combine those loves. I have it on good authority that a series of caches will soon be appearing along this trail that will allow people to earn 8 or 9 icons in a day, depending on whether someone has previously logged the virtual in the parking lot. (If there's a webcam you can do on the way home, you could even make it 10!) Additionally 6 or 7 sizes will be available to be logged; once again depending on that virtual size in the parking lot. The date of the hike is 9/9. Even if you can't get 9 caches on the trail you could certainly grab another on the way home and qualify for another challenge.
All the SMHS hikes are fun but I think this one may just be a bit more interesting than usual.
Come on out and have some fun hiking and caching with the Seventh Day Adventurists! Make a Sunday morning caching hike part of your month! Cache you there!