Monthly Southern California Hike and Hunt

[cacoseraph]

Well, did you pull it off?

I've heard of some great places in the Temecula/Murrieta area. I'm also very close to Lake Perris. Any ideas of doing one out here?

buthus and twirl and kill (buthus is one person, twirl and kill is one person) met up at my house and we drove to the wastelands (thanks for the ride buthus!) and then hit up the mountains just north of my house (thanks for the crazy ride, buthus!).

i am thinking the next monthly H&H should be on a sunday, as some of the other people that contacted me had work or school obligations on saturday.

if someone can give me (and possibly my room mate/ assistant) a ride i'm down to hunt anywhere

and even if i can't make it to one, but you can get people together, more power to you. i think it is a lot of fun to actually meet fellow bug people, and catching bugs with them is a big bonus

[cacoseraph]

this isn't the monthly hike, but i am most likely heading up into the hills above my house this sunday.

if anyone is desperate for some bug action and doesn't mind a sightly rough ~2 mile hike to the site and moderately rough terrain at the site let me know and i can give you directions to my house.

i would be shooting for leaving my house around 9:30 - 10 am, Sunday, April 1st, 2007.

edit: well, for much the reason i hesitated to try to organize anything, or invite ppl to my more regular hunts... i am not sure if i am going to be going this sunday or not after all. pesky real life.




oh yeah, for the next "official" MH&H i was wondering if Sunday, April 15 or Sunday, April 29 works better for people. let me know.

[buthus]

buthus and twirl and kill (buthus is one person, twirl and kill is one person) met up at my house and we drove to the wastelands (thanks for the ride buthus!) and then hit up the mountains just north of my house (thanks for the crazy ride, buthus!).
...

Didnt realize you had another thread going regarding your hunts.
As for driving ...glad to be a service. Hopefully i can make it to the next one ...and hopefully I'll have some new tires (jeese...and a new windshield) ...then we can really haul azz up that hill!

[cacoseraph]

in addition to the wastelands thread there is now a cacolands thread (that is what i call the area above my soon to be ex-house in Rancho Cucamonga)

http://www.arachnoboards.com/ab/showthread.php?t=90975


also, the next hunt is SUNDAY, APRIL 29th
meet at my house at 9am

contact me for directions and to let me know to expect you. email would be better as my PM box is constantly getting full.

[cacoseraph]

the next hunt is SUNDAY, APRIL 29th @ 9am @ MY HOUSE

be there or be square

email (preferred) or pm (deprecated) to get specific directions to my house, but to get to my street gmap or mapq or ymap
12201 Blue Spruce Drive
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739

[cricket54]

I do hope that once I get to Morongo Valley I can travel up I 10 to meet with you guys for these trips. That is, unless you mind a 52 yr old woman coming along. I'll be out there some time after April 16th and my husband flies back to Mississippi. Don't think he would be much into the hikes and flipping rocks like I am. I'll keep checking on her. I've got a nice Toyota Tacoma Truck with 4 wheel drive, and I think it will be able to handle off road conditions just fine.

Sharon

[NBond1986]

i'm there andrew! I'll see you this sunday.

[cacoseraph]

I do hope that once I get to Morongo Valley I can travel up I 10 to meet with you guys for these trips. That is, unless you mind a 52 yr old woman coming along. I'll be out there some time after April 16th and my husband flies back to Mississippi. Don't think he would be much into the hikes and flipping rocks like I am. I'll keep checking on her. I've got a nice Toyota Tacoma Truck with 4 wheel drive, and I think it will be able to handle off road conditions just fine.

Sharon

girls are yucky! no way!


i am teasing, of course. i will feel a little akward wearing my custom made bug hunting cod piece though


shoot me an email so i can add you to my fabulous list of locals. oh, and also give you my real house address. heh.
cacoseraph@yahoo.com

i'm there andrew! I'll see you this sunday.

sweet dude. looking forward to meeting you

[cacoseraph]

oh yeah

if anyone ever wants to bring bugs for trade or to show to the other ppl that would be very cool. we can leave them at my house while we are hunting so that way we don't have to worry about them

[cricket54]

Oh boy! Girls and Grandmas will be accepted . I am so looking forward to this!!!! Thanks.

Sharon

[compnerd7]

the next hunt is SUNDAY, APRIL 29th @ 9am @ MY HOUSE

be there or be square

email (preferred) or pm (deprecated) to get specific directions to my house, but to get to my street gmap or mapq or ymap
12201 Blue Spruce Drive
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739

So how did the hunt go? i just read this thread right now , or else i would have strongly considered comming up there for the day, but o well, maybe next time!

[cacoseraph]

So how did the hunt go? i just read this thread right now , or else i would have strongly considered comming up there for the day, but o well, maybe next time!

it was freakin awesome! i caught a species of scorpion that is new to me (i think).... and caught it by fishing it out of a horizontally oriented burrow on the side of the trail that resulted from the trail being cut into a hillside. all the YEARS of fishing for stuff in holes has finally paid off!



i think the next H&H should be on saturday. i'm thinking Saturday, May 19th

[compnerd7]

it was freakin awesome! i caught a species of scorpion that is new to me (i think).... and caught it by fishing it out of a horizontally oriented burrow on the side of the trail that resulted from the trail being cut into a hillside. all the YEARS of fishing for stuff in holes has finally paid off!



i think the next H&H should be on saturday. i'm thinking Saturday, May 19th

AWSOME! what species was it that u caught?

[cacoseraph]

AWSOME! what species was it that u caught?

dunno

there is a tiny chance it was Anuroctonus phaiodactyls but something doesn't look quite right. to be honest, i typically just post pics and see what some of the scorpheads say. locals can be ugly to get to species.

it is a pretty thing, and probably getting close to 4" from "face" to end of stretched out tail... by far the largest scorp i have ever caught. it was in a burrow that was at least 12" long. the burrow could have been longer but i bumped into the scorp and then was so excited after i caught it that i didn't even think to depth check afterwards. the burrow enterance exhibitted the very prounced horizontal-long-axiz oval opening i am coming more and more to associate with scorpions. we found probably 4-7 burrow shaped holes total, but only the first hole i tried produced a scorp, or evidence there of.

oh yeah, hey nerd... is that avatar an orc, a la D&D etc?

[compnerd7]

dunno

there is a tiny chance it was Anuroctonus phaiodactyls but something doesn't look quite right. to be honest, i typically just post pics and see what some of the scorpheads say. locals can be ugly to get to species.

it is a pretty thing, and probably getting close to 4" from "face" to end of stretched out tail... by far the largest scorp i have ever caught. it was in a burrow that was at least 12" long. the burrow could have been longer but i bumped into the scorp and then was so excited after i caught it that i didn't even think to depth check afterwards. the burrow enterance exhibitted the very prounced horizontal-long-axiz oval opening i am coming more and more to associate with scorpions. we found probably 4-7 burrow shaped holes total, but only the first hole i tried produced a scorp, or evidence there of.

oh yeah, hey nerd... is that avatar an orc, a la D&D etc?

cool! gets some pics when u can, i would love to see it.. my avatar is bowser from mario lol.. i think -_-