Wild desert cacti are vicious buggers. And apparently they don’t like me.
I got stuck several times while geocaching off-road near Primm, NV. Desert geocaching is surprisingly fun, even though the routine is pretty much: drive 0.2 miles, look for pile of rocks, sign log, rinse, repeat.
Even though we’re really not meant to take the rental car off road, the four-wheel drive Jeep Patriot was much better suited than the little Toyota we had last time.
My natural reaction to a hostile cactus attack was to take pictures first, remove the sharp things that had sunk into my skin later.
Thankfully I didn’t meet any snakes. I don’t think this strategy would have been good enough.
How far did you venture from the road?
http://bit.ly/bAOmqS
From Primm we drove on the east side of the freeway, across the white blob you see on the satellite map (a dry lake bed) and then turned almost due east, passing the first set of mountains on the north side. You can just about make out the track. The deepest we got was: http://coord.info/GC2758Q (you’ll have to log in to see the details and map though)
Might be worth blatting out the plate, unless you fancy a bill from the hire company?