Our Geocaching Adventure

We've been geocaching in every state we've been in.  Most of them have been quick "grab & go" cachesat rest areas, visitor centers and even the RV parks we have stayed at.  While Randy was searching geocaching.com for caches near us he found a multi-cache close by with the intriguing name of "Wiggens Fork Outhouse".  It took us a little while to find the road we wanted, but when we did we found ourselves "heading for the hills". 

We followed the map display on the GPS and my iPad and we were getting closer...except we weren't.  We couldn't get there from where we were.  We took the wrong fork in the road and ended up on a massive and beautiful plateau at roughly 9000' elevation.  We had to retrace our steps and take the other fork.

Massive Plateau

I think I have been using the term "road" rather loosely.  We have been following tire tracks that have huge rocks and huge holes.  They are also very steep and scary (to me).  There are sharp corners and no room for error.

After taking the other fork (this turn around took over an hour).  We were finally heading in the right direction.  Since the hint for the first cache mentioned a tree it made it a little easier to pinpoint.

The next set of coordinates lead us to another tree and another set of coordinates which would lead us to the final location...an outhouse...in the middle of nowhere.  We determine the location but the road is very frightening...a hump in one tire track that could dump us over the cliff...not meant for me.  Randy finally backed up and decided to walk.

This adventure took us about 5 hours.  We had a lot of fun and the scenery was spectacular.  We want to find out more about this homestead on the Wind River.  We will be doing some research on it's history.