On Saturday, February 12, Mom and I invited john and Becky to go for a hike in Uvas Canyon County Park. Uvas means grapes, but I did not see any grapes. There are lots of hiking trails to choose in the park. Since one of our hiking goals is to prepare to hike to the top of Half Dome, I picked one that had some good uphill hiking and also some nice scenery. Of course, there were geocaches along the way. Becky posted some great photos and recorded the Ten Commandments of Geocaching in California Crapos.
We hiked up the trail along the stream. Here is hiker Mom looking good. This was her first hike with her new Camelbak and trekking poles.
We came to this fun tree. Mom was the first to climb up on the tree. 
We also found a few geocaches along the way. This is an ammo box cache that we found.
When we got back to the car, John and I decided to go look for one more geocache that was close to the car. It is called the Waterfall Cache for good reason. The cache was close to this waterfall.
The total hike was about 4 miles. We will be doing several other hikes with increasing difficulty to prepare for the big hike. And to answer Mom’s comment/question on Half Dome: Of course, there are geocaches to find while hiking up Half Dome. We found some of them in 2008, but most of them are virtual caches where you just log information without actually finding a container.
3 comments:
That place looks very pretty. Mom does look are decked out and ready to go!
Uvas Canyon was a very nice place to hike. The one thing I learned for sure after that hike is that I'm gonna need more training to prepare for Half Dome. Love my camelback and poles!
That was a fun trip! I really loved that waterfall area we hiked down to. That was my favorite place at that park.
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