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Turtle Gorge Cache

GC18EA - November 15, 2001

It dawned a beautiful day, too beautiful for Lorri to go to Jazzercize, according to her. Jazzercize is held inside an ice skating rink; not my idea of where to spend a beautiful morning either. So, after making her beg and plead and promise to buy me lunch, I let her come with me to on this short hike. What a nice guy I am!

This Cache is located about 300 yards easterly I-15 between Scripps Poway Parkway and Poway Road. We parked at a side street off Sabre Springs Parkway, which is off Poway Road, and found the trail by going down some steps toward were the creek goes under a bridge. It turned out to be a 1.9 mile hike to the Cache from this point and a little shorter coming back because we took a shortcut along a maintenance road.

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The trail winds around toward the freeway and then more or less parallels it heading south. This is  the Cara Knott Bridge I think, and maybe the smaller bridge is the old 395 route. I don't know, just guessing.

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Here we are at the Cache site. Lorri was able to spot it from the trail. We put it back in the same spot when we left but put a few more rocks on top to make it less visible from the trail below. It still should be easy to find.

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This is the view looking up the canyon above the Cache.

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The End!

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