19.4 Miles Dune Hiking with family explorer!!
Rod and I had the day off and decided to get a start on mackie’s new Oregon Walkabout 3 cache.
We thought we’d be really efficient and hunt two other newer caches before embarking on the BIG ONE. So we parked in Duck-n-Deedy’s parking lot and headed out for Beale Lake cache and another new one nearby. After a couple of “short-cuts” trying to avoid sand roads, one back-track, breaking my favorite hiking staff and Rod getting his feet wet crossing a small boggy area so he could find a better place for me to cross........ we had those two caches found and logged and headed over to the beach to start the BIG ONE. We had logged over four miles already as we approached the initial waypoint!! It was going to be a looooooong day!!
Now I’m not going to reveal too much about the rest of the day since we have not finished the trek but I will say we got as far as waypoint #7 (of 11) before calling it for the day. When we finally arrived at our pre-positioned vehicle I checked my GPSr trip meter - 19.4 miles on the day! Yikes! I don’t think I’ve EVER done that much walking in one day - let alone on sand!
It was a grand adventure - and yet to be completed........so until then..............