GeoTran 10 had been hidden on Mulholland Drive but had been muggled. I
was going out of town and asked Deryl to go see what happened.
(actually I had asked Dave, as he was the only one to have found it so
far, but he couldn’t go and told Deryl where it was). Deryl had re-hid
it and I didn’t know where it was. Knowing Deryl, I knew it was
somewhere on the west side of LA. So it made sense to find it on the
way to PV.
But, as I fired up the 4Runner to leave home, I hear a transmitter
coming from the north (Cajon pass) iding “N6MI”. Time for a big
decision: do I go to the start/GeoTran 10 or go north to the
transmitter?
I’m an old fat fart and tire out on these all-days before finding very
many transmitters. I have a strong feeling that I am going to be the
designated winner no matter what as I haven’t hid in over a year and
hunters don’t like to hide as much as they like to hunt so I have to be
made to hide sometime. It is only fair. Plus it would be nice to finish
an all-day hunt and maybe an early start would help. I went for Cajon
pass. Technically I can’t win, not having started in PV, but that is a
160 mile round trip from here, another reason to go for the
transmitter.
Breakfast in Barstow (I’m sure this is a movie title) at 8AM. BunBoy is
not the same at all. Off toward Baker. I planned to be in Baker by the
start time at 10AM. Whoa, the transmitter is now to the NW. It had been
to the NE on the way to Barstow. I turned around and went up Ft Irwin
Road decided it was west of there and wormed my way over to Owl Canyon
and on to Rainbow Canyon and found the second transmitter. It was now
9:45AM.
The main transmitter was further in. It turns out it is 1.8 miles away
from the second transmitter, but there is no road between the two. Here
is where my experience in T-Hunting took a new turn.
I had bought a neat touch-screen GPS (Garmin nuvi 360) for the Saturn
and had brought it along on the hunt. It showed Rainbow Canyon just
find and where I was. I then poked on its screen causing it to move
along the direction of the bearing I measured until it came to some
road. I poked the screen to make it make that a waypoint, and told it
to route to it. In about 10 seconds it was blaring out instructions on
how I better get my butt going south (away from everything and gave me
nice verbal directions for some 18 miles and four dirt roads and a
short stretch of paved road between the two transmitters). It was dead
on. I took a couple bearing but obeyed that talking box right up to the
little very sandy dirt road it wanted me to go down.
Down is not the way one usually goes to find a hidden transmitter. Down
a very loose sandy narrow and bumpy road is not a good thing to do. But
by this time I was under the power of the little box and down I went to
the end of the road. There was the transmitter. Little nuvi is my new
“naviguesser”.
It was now about 10:45 and I was all done. My nice new tires went right
up that sandy road in 2WD like it was paved and I had lunch in Barstow
and went home.
I really enjoyed the view, the fact I got out of the desert before noon
and found all the transmitter for once. Good hunt..
Jippy