Flagstaff Sci Fair 9/26 sat

Sci Fair in Flagstaff, AZ
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Was asked to help out at the Sci Fair by setting up a Meteor Crater Booth. This event is annual and today was the 20th year. NAU (many different departments), Fire Dept, Forrest Serv,etc. were there. About 25 booths. Took place in the old part of Flagstaff next to the City Hall. Huge lawn area. Many events use this area-- great location.

L>R. Rick (Mgr), Lanah (V-president), me

Set up - lets see A goes with A, B to B, etc :)

Booth is ready. Event from 10am -2pm

Kids playing in foam sprayed by Fire dept

Trip to Canyon de Chelly

friday 9/18 trip to Canyon de Chelly ( pronounced d'shay)
Archeological evidence shows that people have lived in these canyons for nearly 5000 years.
about a 2 1/2 hr drive from Meteor Crater. Traveling east on I-40 then exit onto 191. This area is Navajo land. The visitor center is outside of Chinle and operated by the Nat'lPark Service. From the center you travel on Hwy-7 to many overlooks points. The one at the end is Spider Rock - so awesome.
Did some geocaching on I-40. In Ganado stopped at the Fire Station to see a old flire truck which had a cache hidden in it. Fun. Great day.

Ganado Fire station

Visitor center

Tumble rock overlook

spider rock

Geocaching at Night. Wed 9/16

GEOCACHING AT NIGHT IN FLAGSTAFF with a ghost!!
Our first night of geocaching. Using a flashlight, shine it on the tree trunk for a reflector.
This reflector is only as big as a dime and only can be seen at night. But with the light on it, it really shines. Going down the trail, tree to tree we finally reach one that has two reflectors which means it time to leave the trail. In this case about 40ft (using a gps) to a tree stump. Inside was the cache. Cool.
AT the parking lot we took some pictures of us. Look at the first frame. Top left hand corner is
a Orb. We are told by some ghost hunters at work that this a human engery Orb . In the next
picture, no Orb--- interesting.





First frame - top left corner, a Orb

Grand Falls AZ tue 9/8

Tue 9/8 geocaching & Grand Falls
We (kathy/derek, kim & myself) headed off for some geocaching around the Winona area
about 15 mi from the crater. First stop was a place called Young's canyon and then further west towards Walnut canyon. The dirt road here was rugged and in some area 4 wheel drive was needed. Back to I40/Winona and then we decided to do a Earthcache at the Grand falls about 25 mi from here. Its on Indian reservation and directons were very limited. Then we came to the canyon but no water. But we could see the awesome views. The water flows during March -april.
The following is a wirte up on the Falls............

The Grand Falls formed when lava flowed into the Little Colorado River channel about 20,000 years ago. The lava came from one or more of cinder cones and vents located a short way off to the southwest. The flow completely filled the river channel and continued a short way across the channel northeast. Some lava also flowed about 15.5 miles down the river channel.


Photo taken from some documentation -- this is what it looks like when water is flowing.

The canyon steps that the water travels over...

Jeep did great going to the second cache

Youngs canyon for the 1st cache

County Fair sun 9/6

Flagstaff county Fair
After work on sunday. A group of us went to the Fair in Flagstaff. Drove
to NAU campus to catch the shuttle bus to the fair grounds which was a smart move.
Nice fair-- lots to see. Fun evening


Entrance area

Toni, Summer, Kim, Kathy/Derek and myself



toni/summer

old tracters they actually still run

Derek getting ready to ride the Bull

Derek gets tossed from Bull -almost made it back to the start line

Rainbow

Meteor Crater hike into crater

Wed 9/02 at Meteor Crater
Our site manager Chris Y schedule some time for us to go down into the crater. It was two fold; do some trash pick up and replace the american flag. Unfortunetly he couldn't go at the last minute do to a lighting strike (at the visitor center) the day before..... which fried the circut board on the elevators and a few computers. Hike down was really cool. Using the old trail that goes back to 1910. Once at the bottom, you really get a different view on everything and a strange feeling. Anyway we got our projects done and then came back up ,taking 45 min.

the line up :) - ready for the hike
L>R Phil,Darrell,me,Kathy/Derek,John,Kim,Toni/Summer

going down

Toni--- smile

looking down from the trail

made it

Me by the old flag

guys only

steam machine for the cable into the mine

new flag-cool

Kim, going back up

at the top, a tour group watching us come up

Vistor center