Playing with the kids on Friday evening. Running around the house. Managed to bash my right pinky toe. Boy did that hurt. Still a little swollen today - and achy. I've got my foot up, watching Johnny Mnemonic. Made it harder to Geocache over the weekend. But we did anyhow. Went around shopping at the outlets in Castle Rock. Huge number of grasshoppers in Castle Rock area. Geocaches seemed pretty sparse - but it was a neat find. I've started using Google's Earth program even more. It crashed on me once, but luckily I saved most of my locations to files. Looked at the file format that Google saves in - it turned out to be a zip, with an XML file - cool. That has the potential to allow saving coordinates for easy download - perhaps an enhancement on geocaching.com - I hope!
So Christmas day Sunday, but we don't do Christmas. And a day off Monday. No real plans until Sunday evening for Channukah. My toe finally feels well enough for a hike. Blodgett Peak has been calling to me for months - especially since I learned there was a geocache on top. So I get up a bit early - early for a day off from work - and head out for a hike. I don't know how far I'll get - but I want to at least get to the top of Blodgett Peak. I've got about 8 geocaches I can try for, depending on how I do. A couple are up in Pike National Forrest, past Blodgett Peak. It is slower going than I expected. I spend more time than I wanted looking for the first 4 geocaches - I only found 2 of them. The trail is Icy and muddy. It is not a great trail - it is not well prepared like the trail going up Pikes Peak. It is very easy to lose the trail - subtle paths seem to go off in many directions. In many places, the trail seems to go up very steep, loose gravel. Step
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