King of the Hill (or is that Queen of the Hill??)

Today was my last day off from work for the Christmas break, so I went geocaching in the morning with Zuleika at Folsom Lake near Brown's Ravine, an area of the Lake I had never been to before.

The cache pages said to park at Brown's Ravine for the caches, but I couldn't find a good access point to get to the trails, so after finishing one cache that was close to the parking spot, I drove down towards Folsom to park in a small lot off of Green Valley Road. Thank goodness I have my California State Parks parking pass; even though I bought it primarily for kayaking, it sure comes in handy for geocaching too!

One of the caches we found first was called "Blue Man Isle" (GCRBF6). I guess when the Lake is full, the cache location is actually an island. Not today, the lake is so low right now it was probably a half-mile hike to the "island". There was nobody out there today, so I let Zucchini off leash to run free for a bit, she loved that (shhhhh....don't tell CCI!). This picture was taken close to where the cache was hidden.

We found 4 other caches on a 4-mile hike, a total of 6 caches at the lake. I tried to stay on any game trails I could find, but it was a bushwhacking kind of day. Luckily with the recent rains the stickers weren't too bad. Zucchini was a good sport walking through the grass/stickers and jumping over/around a lot of logs. Two of the caches were called "King of the Hill", we certainly did make a go of going up and down many hills today, does that make us "Queen(s) of the Hill"?

After we came back home, there were a couple of puzzle caches I had solved that were located nearby. Since Zucchini got to cache in the morning, I took Hope with me to find the two puzzle caches nearby.

All in all it was a good day, we found 8 caches all together and both Hope and Zuleika got to go on some long walks to boot...a tired dog is a good dog!

After today's finds, that puts my total number of finds at 827, but who's counting?...