Today we (Larry, me, Cynthia & Mike) were headed for Gerlach, Nevada to attend an event honoring additional geocachers who have completed the Nevada Delorme Challenge. We started the day climbing rocks somewhere north off 395. The cache was a new one (Flying Fishes--GC12CNZ). We were able to get fairly close in our jeeps and then we climbed the rocks. We are getting quite proficient at climbing rocks. We keep practicing because we know that there will be another rock to climb as long as we continue caching in Nevada.
Once in Gerlach, we met up with fellow geocachers. There were about 20 of us and we all had stories to tell over a marvelous dinner of Bruno’s famous raviolis at Bruno’s “Country Club”. The event was to honor those people who have recently completed the Nevada Delorme Challenge. It was appropriate to give them the same recognition we had been given when we completed the challenge.
After dinner, we all walked down the middle of the highway (yes, the highway) to get to a park. There is a webcam on the nearby Burning Man Building. You are supposed to capture your picture from the webcam website and post it on a cache page. Unfortunately, the webcam was not working, so we took a picture and posted that instead.

In addition to the non-functioning webcam we were attacked by a zillion gnats. They were not the type of gnats we are used to encountering. They are vicious attacking man/woman eating gnats. We were all being bitten as we posed for our picture. According to one of the locals, the gnats will be around until the temperature hits 90ยบ three days in a row. Then the gnats disappear and the mosquitoes take their place. One reason not to move to Gerlach!
We ended the day with our usual geocaching glass of wine at Bruno’s Country Club Resort & Motel. The four of us discussed the joys of geocaching as well as how to best solve the problems of the world. How simple it would be if we were in charge!
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