Looking out over the valley from GZ on one of the caches (with quite a few farm workers in the field)
We’ve been doing other things for most of the vacation so thought we’d have another day caching as there are so many caches to find around here.
Where's the F in hill? 😉
I’d been looking at the 126 on 126 series before we left the UK as it was in a more rural area and there were tons of caches to potentially look for. It’s about a 45 minute drive north of where we are staying in another valley and is essentially 126 caches set along Highway 126. The caches themselves are set on quiet adjoining roads as the 126 itself is way too busy to cache comfortably along.
Signing the logbook at a cache earlier in the day
On the way we stopped off at an unexpected Earthcache we spotted on TomTom as we passed. This turned out to be great fun and a really interesting spot with lots of unusual geology. Link: Grimes Canyon Burnt Shale.
Huge cactii near to one of the caches
Once on the 126 on 126 series itself, we got off to a quick start at #39 in the series. The numbering of the caches seems to be a bit random so we just took the route that looked best to us on the GPSr. The whole area was really scenic, with lemon, lime and orange groves along with quite a few palm tree and what looked like cactus farms.
Which cache do we go for next? So many to choose from!
The caches were great fun with a HUGE variety of hides and containers. Quite a few of the caches involved climbing down into gulleys or stretching high up for the cache. You never knew what to expect next :-).
Love the graphics on this sign - a "really" rural farmer 😉
Along the way, we did various other stand alone caches, including two virtuals in beautiful and historic Fillmore. We stopped here for a look around the lovely old town and some much needed drinks.
One of the virtual caches in Fillmore - a lovely wooden statue of a Chumash native American.
Towards the end of the day we ended up in Santa Paula and opted to cache our way round town, doing quite a few non-series caches as we went along. Apart from a string of about 5 DNF’s in the foothills, nothing was too difficult here.
Signing the logbook at one of the caches towards the end of the day
We ended up the day with 131 finds and a really fun time was had by all. We really enjoyed the massive variety of cache hides and the challenges actually getting to some of them.
Hello there!
I stumbled across your blog in one of the 126 on 126 caches in Fillmore/Santa Paula, California and started to read. We recently did the 126 on 126 in 1 day as well and had a blast. We had 6 people with us and managed to get 122 of the 126, a few of them had road construction or other barriers getting in the way.
We had a great time! Have you seen the mega-caches in Nevada? There is a road that has an unbelievable number of caches!!! We’re doing those this winter (when its not 100F oops.. I mean 38C degrees).
Anyways there’s a chance my family will be out to the UK next summertime to visit London and head north to Scotland to visit some friends. I hope to get some caching in whilst we are out that way.
Happy Hunting!
Patrick