Number One Son Traditional Geocache
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Located south of Lake Hodges on a hill overlooking the lake with a killer view!
Primary parking at N 33° 03.088, W 117° 04.597
Closer parking at N 33° 02.394, W 117° 05.294
Number One Son is the first offspring of the BREEDER cache.
See the BREEDER geocache site for a description of the whole BREEDER/CACHE
LARVA process.
The cache has now grown into its final adult form and is ready for
visitors. It is a dusky green 30 caliber ammo can measuring 11"x7.25"x4".
SteveL was the first one to place this cache. He placed it at N 33°
2.938, W 117° 5.258 Coincidentaly gcalland1 placed his cache
called "Steven's Cache" about 60 - 70 feet away later on that same day.
Feeling that the young cache larva would be inhibited in its Metamorphosis,
Bikedog offered to move it up the road a-ways so that it could have a little
breathing room. He was assisted in this by Howling Wolf & Tired Bones.
I must say that Number Ones Sons final resting place is very nice. After
retrieving the cache there are many nice rocks on which you can sit on
and take in the view as your making out your cache log.
One way hiking odometer distance from the primary parking to the cache
is 3.22 miles. I'm in rather poor shape, getting better though, and it
took me one hour and forty minutes to hike to the cache. Coming back took
an additional 30 minutes cuz me and Gromit often paused in the shade.
Other people have described the hike differently than me. Here is a
quote "The hike was about 6.9 miles and fairly easy, despite what the profile
looks like. It's exaggerated." This quote coming from fellow geocacher Stork's most excellent webpage showing a description of Number One Son as one third of his South
Lake Hodges Trifecta. The other two caches being
Steven's Cache and Lake Hodges Picnic. Click here for a topographic map of Stork's route.
I'm sure that you can cut down on this distance by choosing a closer
parking spot to start the hike from. I'll have to verify this later but
it seemed that there was a trail coming down from the houses around the
same general vicinity as the waterfall. I'll look into it and add it to
the parking locations.
If you have some extra time you might check out the waterfall located
at N 33° 02.691, W 117° 05.267 I was totally surprised that this
existed only 10 miles from my house. I wonder how many people even know
its there?
A big thanks to SteveL, Bikedog, Howling Wolf & Tired Bones
for their help.
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P.S. Bikedog's definition of Metamorphosis: A change in the form and
often habits of a geocache during normal development after the embryonic
stage. Metamorphosis includes, in insects, the transformation of a maggot
into an adult fly and a caterpillar into a butterfly and, in amphibians,
the changing of a tadpole into a frog.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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