We had a
rough start Saturday morning. My wife (KA6TAS) realized that
she had given away her orthopedics to the Salvation Army
the day before. So instead of getting an early start to the
hunt, we had to wait till they opened in the morning. This
slight detour created several more "slight" detours getting to
the start point. Caltrans seems to been busy closing on/off
ramps on our convoluted route to Ronald Reagan Park. Somehow
we ended up in the large landmass called Cal Poly Pomona! I
didn't realize how confusing all those parking lot streets
are! We entered on the lots going from the 10 freeway to the
57, somehow the indicated exit took us into the Cal Poly
campus. Oh by the way I had forgot to take my Garmin GPS, so
was flying kind of blind. While on campus, all the road signs
were baffling at best! Finally after about 10 minutes of
driving down several dead end streets, we exited onto Temple
ave., which took us back to the 57 freeway only about .5 miles
from where we would of gotten on from the 10 fwy. Now I knew
where we were, an easy shot to start point. Got to park (it
was almost empty), took a bearing of 50 degrees (I thought
most likely a Baldy Bounce), got on the 60 fwy and headed
east. My phone map app said go to 15 fry north (this was using
Arrowhead Lake as a destination), that was fine until we got
to the exit to 15 north, and there was another temporary exit
to the 15. Well as I drove down the exit looking like I was
heading correctly, until I realized that I was heading back
onto the 60 fwy! So next best route was the 215 only 16 miles
ahead (I'm sure glad we weren't taking mileage! Had good
signal(s) all the way to the T's. Based on info from N6AIN I
knew that he had been heading north on route 330 to big bear,
so that's the way I went. Soon another glitch in our progress,
a road closure with a wait of about 10 minutes, I couldn't
believe all the traffic going up to Big Bear! This became
acutely obvious when we passed by the first MI T, and had to
do a U turn about 1/4 mile up the road and to now cross
traffic to ge into the road turnoff which had the hidden T in
a tree. Now getting a break in traffic to get rolling again,
we had th pass the gauntlet again. All 7 T's were found
with no major backtracking. I'm still not sure of how many T's
there where, but finding these during daylight was definitely
a plus! We continued west to Lake Gregory, where we have a
friend with cabin and stopped in to visit and have a late
lunch. Got home at 5:30, a great day (well almost) was had by
all. Thanks Scott & Jim.
