Friday, July 24, 2009

Geocaching (by ourselves) - Custer, South Dakota

John & Terri had "missions" to do today, so we decided to try our hand at geocaching, without their assistance. We chose a couple of easy caches that were close to the campground. The first was a 1/4 mile hike down a US Forestry road. The GPS got us within twenty feet. We climbed around some rocks until we found it.
The second cache was a five mile drive that ended in an old timber harvest area of Custer State Park. It required us to hike about 300-400 feet up a hill covered with high grass and fallen trees. We found the cache and on the way down, spotted a bird (unknown species?), with a grasshopper in its beak.

We decided to do some exploring and took the Jeep down several USF roads until they ended. We returned to the rig just before a good rain shower.

Later in the evening, we went with John & Terri over to the Crazy Horse Monument cafe for some Native American Tacos. After dinner, we played several games of Pegs & Jokers, guys against the gals. Even though I had opened a can of "Whoop Ass", the girls beat us 2 games to 1.