It's butterfly season

Yesterday, I went on a hike in San Gabriel canyon along the San Gabriel River.  It was an up and back hike which was supposed to possibly net us 20 geocaching finds for the day.  Now, any self-respecting geocacher knows that if you start counting your geocaches before you find them, you'll probably not find all of them.  And we didn't.

Stats for the day:
2 did not attempt.  One was at the end of the canyon and we still had another 6+ miles to hike to get back to the Jeep, so we opted not to hike all the way back there.  The other was climbing up a rock wall that was very slick.  Yeah, no.  I'm getting to old for that kind of shit.

9 finds! - Yay!

9 DNFs - Boo!  Yeah, it was not a very productive day as there were lots of problems finding some of the caches.  Poison oak, poor coordinates, and caches that were just plain missing were some of the problems we encountered out there on the trail.  

However, the geocaching wasn't the only thing that was interesting.  If it had been the only thing, we probably would have come back pretty disappointed, but we were there to enjoy the outdoors and the outdoors didn't disappoint.  We spotted 7 different kinds of butterfly species while out on the trail.  Some included Lorquin Admirals, Swallowtails, and Gulf Fritillaries.  I wasn't able to get photos of every time we saw, but I did get this video.  This is what it was like through most of the sunny parts along the trail.