Way Outside My Comfort Zone!

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Friday was memorable! A group of geocachers were getting together to tackle a 5 difficulty and 5 terrain cache. The meeting place was chosen (plenty of parking) and a time was set. My youngest daughter invit e me and I cleared my calendar to make it possible. Pictures of other cachers finding the cache were previewed......oh this looks like someplace I'm not going to be comfortable. I was advised to bring sturdy shoes...a hard hat....and a strong flashlight, preferably a headlamp. We will be with a crowd, so I guess I'll be okay. The first leg of our search was easy. We walked along the MerrittTrail, beside the Twelve Mile Creek. We found the first cache with coordinates for the second or final cache. This is where it became challenging. One of the group had the forethought to bring a step stool. This boost d us up enough to crawl into a short tunnel. The tunnel opened up to an wide but shallow expanse, where I could walk along if I was bent over. Soon we had to crawl through another short tunnel, followed by another shallow wide expanse. We were in the belly of the beast.....the bridge under the 406 (4 lane highway), where it runs along and overtop of the creek. Eventually we found ourselves crawling through yet another tunnel to daylight and fresh air.......oh this was a relief. The cache was quickly located, signed and returned to it's hiding place. Now for the return trip.. Knowing in advance the smells, the dust and the complete darkness made it almost harder to go back. Finally we were through. We all cheered, and headed to our separate homes to log our finds on the website.