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SD Rowdies

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Maybe they graded that loop since Harmon was there last.....

Shoot, looks graded and paved now. Looks like the really big rocks have been removed. Next thang will be a McDonalds.

 

Where's the shot of the locked road gate and it's lock mechanism?

As you mentioned before, Harmon, that gate is a fortress and with cliffs on both sides to boot! However, if you slide the gate latch as far out as it will go the lock is in range of a special opening device...But we opted to turn out and skip the last 4 caches on the other side of that gate. I still wonder why the heck the BLM locks the gate in the first place?

One might wonder why that road gate was put up since you can drive up to either side of it. It sure is a major gate.

 

Of course they put it in to stop illegal traffic trying to bypass the INS checkpoints down on Old 80 and I-8. Must be an easy way to drive around the lower gate down on Buckman Springs Road but I've not explored that issue.

 

Illegals just don't get it, use a horse for cryin' out loud.

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TrailGators

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Maybe they graded that loop since Harmon was there last.....

Shoot, looks graded and paved now. Looks like the really big rocks have been removed. Next thang will be a McDonalds.

 

Where's the shot of the locked road gate and it's lock mechanism?

As you mentioned before, Harmon, that gate is a fortress and with cliffs on both sides to boot! However, if you slide the gate latch as far out as it will go the lock is in range of a special opening device...But we opted to turn out and skip the last 4 caches on the other side of that gate. I still wonder why the heck the BLM locks the gate in the first place?

One might wonder why that road gate was put up since you can drive up to either side of it. It sure is a major gate.

 

Of course they put it in to stop illegal traffic trying to bypass the INS checkpoints down on Old 80 and I-8. Must be an easy way to drive around the lower gate down on Buckman Springs Road but I've not explored that issue.

 

Illegals just don't get it, use a horse for cryin' out loud.

Chuy called the border patrol and they said it wasn't them that locked that gate....

You can read his post here.

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SD Rowdies

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That was the one rocky stretch that Harmon was talking about. You need to get as far right as you can for that part (unless you have a Jeep or something like that). Anyhow, once we got past that part, the rest of the road was easy. I think Ahimsa took off before we headed down to the SE loop because Harmon had him worried, but it wasn't that bad at all. Maybe they graded that loop since Harmon was there last.....

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smilinglady13

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Maybe they graded that loop since Harmon was there last.....

Shoot, looks graded and paved now. Looks like the really big rocks have been removed. Next thang will be a McDonalds.

 

Where's the shot of the locked road gate and it's lock mechanism?

As you mentioned before, Harmon, that gate is a fortress and with cliffs on both sides to boot! However, if you slide the gate latch as far out as it will go the lock is in range of a special opening device...But we opted to turn out and skip the last 4 caches on the other side of that gate. I still wonder why the heck the BLM locks the gate in the first place?

One might wonder why that road gate was put up since you can drive up to either side of it. It sure is a major gate.

 

Of course they put it in to stop illegal traffic trying to bypass the INS checkpoints down on Old 80 and I-8. Must be an easy way to drive around the lower gate down on Buckman Springs Road but I've not explored that issue.

 

Illegals just don't get it, use a horse for cryin' out loud.

Chuy called the border patrol and they said it wasn't them that locked that gate....

You can read his post here.

I am wondering about the theory that on the other side of the gate only street legal vehicles can go but the non street legels were crossing over so the gate was installed in a big way

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SD Rowdies

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This just in ....

Honk if you know where this is.

Balboa Park

Yowza! across from the Veteran's Museum ... but you didn't honk.

I may know that area well but after looking at $kimmer's logs, that would have been my guess as well. :anibad:

Just across Park Boulevard from the terrific new B-24 Liberator sculpture. Now if I can just get $kimmer to enter my logs as well.

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SD Rowdies

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This just in ....

Honk if you know where this is.

Balboa Park

Yowza! across from the Veteran's Museum ... but you didn't honk.

Hey Cowboy....honk if you want a San Diego Geocoin! :anibad:

Honk! Honk! Honk! put me down for one right away. Is that the trackable version? If so then I get to name it right?

 

Last question is ... what must I do to pay for it and pick it up from you? I'm a neophyte in the coin realm. Wait a minute, I think I saw that movie.

 

Thanks PW

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SD Rowdies

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This just in...

Ryanontopoftheworld.jpg

 

MikeAlishaadmiringview.jpg

Terrific shots. Thanks for posting them. Some nice shots in your profile gallery as well.

 

Love Morrow Bay. Sandy and I kayaked the southern end of the bay two or three times where the resident sea otter would swim alongside with us. Remind me of the name of that terrific Italian restaurant one block above the tourist strip.

 

Must get back up there soon.

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Fattuhr

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Wow...the lurkers are coming out! e-mail sent :lol:

I'd be interested in a couple of those coins as well.

 

Yes I have been lurking in this thread, but I have a few posts in the Banter thread. I even have all of Harmon's photoshop lessons saved. I've had time to do a few of them as well.

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TrailGators

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Wow...the lurkers are coming out!  e-mail sent  :ph34r:

I'd be interested in a couple of those coins as well.

 

Yes I have been lurking in this thread, but I have a few posts in the Banter thread. I even have all of Harmon's photoshop lessons saved. I've had time to do a few of them as well.

Your tick magnet avatar is a crack up! :lol:

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Oreo Pony

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Terrific shots. Thanks for posting them. Some nice shots in your profile gallery as well.

 

Love Morrow Bay. Sandy and I kayaked the southern end of the bay two or three times where the resident sea otter would swim alongside with us. Remind me of the name of that terrific Italian restaurant one block above the tourist strip.

 

Must get back up there soon.

You must mean Sabettas. Good food, but we always end up at Great American Fish Co. for their calamare.

 

Speaking of kayaking, SD's Dr. Boggis was just up here for Thanksgiving weekend and snagged the strand cache that's only reachable via kayak (that or a very long, sandy walk up the strand from Los Osos).

 

Glad to have fellow Californian's up here sharing our caches... amazing how similar the countryside looks in your area to ours.

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blonds run amuck

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I just saw (I think) pqmommy on the main geocaching page doing Comprising Positions!!

Is it the person you can just see the feet or just the hands of? I think the pictures were posted on one of these threads a little while back.

I haven't figured out how to post pics here but I do know if you double click on the pic on the main page you getto see the whole thing!! I suddenly don't feel so"Blonde"

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Oreo Pony

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This just in...

MikeAlishaadmiringview.jpg

So are there any caches out there on that rock? ;)

Those are some nice pictures. One of these days I should actually wander outside the San Diego area again. That looks like a nice place to visit.

Looks like Morro Bay...is that where it is?

Yep, it's Morro Bay.

 

Both taken from Black Hill (former volcano). One facing west, one facing the north. See, link for interesting geology lesson on the Nine Sisters.

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