Sunday, April 4, 2010

I like Big Buttes

The cacher who placed this cache wrote:  The Chelan Butte is a prominent landmark in this part of the valley. From the cache location on the north side of the lake, you can watch the seasons change on the side of the hill. You can see the snow line march its way down in the fall until the whole butte is covered in white. Then in spring the snow line moves back up the hillside, to be replaced by the green of spring and early summer, then the brown of the height of summer, before the green slowly returns, and the snow line appears once more.
You can see the butte quite well (a 'butte'-iful view) from here and you can catch some breathtaking views of the lake itself from this "High Point." 


When our trip began Spyder Cacher's GPS (Betty) glitched and we weren't able to use it.  He was able to load all the trip and cache information to Blonde Spyder Cacher's GPS (Wilma) which saved our trip.  However, since Blonde Spyder Cacher doesn't use her GPS to the same capacity as he, she didn't know there was an option to "turn off" dirt roads on the GPS, hence Wilma took us up this steep dirt road.


We were wondering if the "no trespassing" signs just meant the orchards since they were set at the corner of the orchards by a tree, or if indeed it meant "no trespassing" on this road.  When we arrived at the paved road we were suppose to be on, everything became clear.

A view from the paved road a little closer to the cache location.  
Look at that house and heli-pad!

Little bit of a uphill climb to this one...



Jr. Spyder Cacher found this one.

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