Fuller Falls

Fuller Falls

making the grab

Geocacher

 Well this one was quite the adventure. Rated 2 for difficulty and 3.5 for terrain. It was a beautiful day up by Idyllwild with the snow about 90% melted. We took off from the parking lot with only about a 1/4 mile distance from the cache, but quickly learned the reason for the high terrain rating. The Falls were flowing hard and high, as we entered from on the east side of the creek we ran out of trail, so we continued up about 200' scaling rocks until we could not go any further at the base of the fall.  Garmin told us that we still had over 300' to the GZ and there was nowhere to go but up. Also noted that the arrow was pointing just enough to the west showing us that we were on the wrong side of the creek/falls. So back tracking we went on the side of the rocks until we found a place we could jump the creek. I went first and Geo Hobbit was determined to find her own way across, but finally made the leap after tossing me all the items she did not want to get wet. 

Geo Hobbit

Then is was bush wacking and rock jumping up the hill west of the falls at about a 75 degree grade. No defined trail and rocks covered with dry leaves but we kept the climb going. Nearing the top, the trick was to find a passage over the huge rocks to the GZ. about 100' from the cache, we went past and around the huge rock wall to and came in from behind. We were both pretty tired by now and had to scale down the ace of the rocks to a large flat area closing in on the GZ. But we were too far north of the cache and could only get within 25'. So over another huge rock to another flat area and with reading the hint we were able to find the prize. The cache was not hidden at all, it was all but out in the open. 







Never know what you are going to run into. The find took us a good 2 hours to complete and it was a very satisfying find. We took our rest and drove into town for a nice lunch Then walked on the Ernie Maxwell Trail and found a few more, topped off with a refreshing snowball fight. 
Truly a great Caching Adventure!