If Don (KF6GQ) and Steve (KD6LAJ) are hiding, prepare to hunt all night

If your regular navigator, Tom (K6VCR), is busy, then Jim (AF6O)
Exhibit 1 -- is a fine co-pilot.


If you have a weak 72 degree bearing at the start point, go directly to Big Bear. Do not go up the 15 and chase the Wrightwood bounce.

If you run into two young men pushing their 1974 car up the steep gas station ramp at the Cajon Summit, do not immediately help them push the car. Instead, ask why they haven't parked the car and filled up a gas can.

If you plot a clean Lake Arrowhead bearing, do not spend hours driving around Lucerne Valley and Hesperia. Everything looks the same
see Exhibit 2.


Off road monsters, dune buggies, and low clearance Scions can be found along the Coxey Meadow dirt road on a Saturday afternoon.

When you drive through a puddle remember that your Nissan pickup truck may short out and throw the transmission into neutral.
see Exhibit 3



Lake Arrowhead is the home to deer, wolf, fox, bat, snake, skunk, and one very small tarantula.

Don's heart is back to 100% and he can walk 450 feet straight up a hill to plant a transmitter; however, his corrosive sweat will dissolve adhesive and the face off of a $20.00 bill.