MORE ADVENTURES OF THE DYNAMIC DUO

After a good night’s sleep we got up early and had cold cereal for breakfast. It was just a short trip to where we parked the truck and off loaded the 4 wheeler. Our objective was to find geocaches at 3 lookouts. I had waypoints in my GPSr for all of the roads we would have to take. A good portion of our journey was to be on the Lolo Motorway which has been used for centuries for commerce and trade among several Indian tribes. Our starting point was on Saddle Camp road which was about good enough to take your family auto. I figured the famous Lolo Motorway would be at least as good – wrong. I would not enjoy taking my truck on a good portion of the Motorway. We were in 3^rd and 4^th gears most of the time on the 4 wheeler.

We arrived at Castle Butte Lookout about 9:30 and found the geocache immediately. We were only the 3^rd party and the 2^nd this year to log this cache. We looked around the lookout and area and took a little break before departing.

Our next destination was Indian Post Office Lake which not only has a lookout but a geocache that Ken and I placed there seven years ago. We had to do some back tracking before arriving at the lookout site (the actual lookout is gone) about midday and again found the cache along with a benchmark right away. This cache was placed in 2008 and we were the first to log it. After a brief look around we traveled the short distance back to my cache (Indian Post Office Lake View) which Jack found and logged. We had lunch right there and enjoyed the beautiful view.

After lunch we had to back track a ways west before turning north toward Horseshoe Lake Lookout. We arrived at the lookout site (the actual lookout was long gone here too) in about an hour. The rock formations at this site were absolutely fantastic – very much like something you would see in southern Utah only a different color. Unfortunately, we did not find the geocache. I had seen recent 4 wheeler tracks up to this area and I’m pretty sure the cache was stolen. The same party owned this cache as the other 3 lookouts we visited and they were all well done and easily found.

We arrived back at camp before 5:00 after having traveled 65 rough miles on the 4 wheeler. That gave us plenty of time for a refreshing swim before supper. I had planned on this being a longer day than it was so we had a cold tuna/chicken macaroni dish for supper. Again Jack made us a nice camp fire for the evening. We turned in fairly early and Jack hung his flashlight up in the tent so we read for a while. I slept even better this night than the one before. To be continued. M/W