On the Range 12/30 fri

Friday 12/30/10
Thirty mile trip (1 way) into the desert on the Barry Goldwater Range. The BGR is a military training area which requires a Permit. Three vehicles and 6 of us entered the range from the Foothills (Yuma) about 9:45am. Our gold was to check out the Tinajas altas Pass and do some geocaching. Cool day with sun and a little wind. The dirt/sandy road is really very good. Going in & out of desert washes. Came across 5 Border Patrol vehicles which two of them stopped us to find out our destination since we would be getting close to the Mexican border. At the Pass entrance we stopped for lunch. BBQ hot dogs with all the goodies. The Pass will take u thru the mountains, placing one into the Welton area. We will come back on another day to go all the way. So we turned around and continue doing geocaching. Fun day with friends. We found 21 geocaches. Finish at 5:30pm



About 10 mi in we stopped to take some pictures

A little further down, stopped to take in the sights of Yokaville which a military training town consisted of train box cars for buildings. One cannot go there.

Yokaville in the foreground

Mmmm tire at the base. Our book indicated the tire was placed around the catcus many many years ago.

Just great views

At marker A9. These are Rescue Beacons. Border Patrol vehicle

Desert wash on the Pass.

Time for lunch

me

Looking for geocache

Into a wash

Merry Christmas 12/25/10

Merry Christmas

My geocache containers

Geocache Containers here Yuma/Foothills.
Thought I would share my geocaching fun. The following containers I have placed (hide) for other geocachers to find. Here's five new ones I have placed in the last week. Each container contains a log sheet for the finder to sign. They all have been found. Each one has a title created by me. You can click on the picture to enlarge it then backspace to come back to the original.

Tilte: M for mmmm good. Its a plastic round container that looks like a M & M. It was filled with MM's

Title: Wilderness gourmet. Name on the label of this round tin. Placed on the BG Range.


Title: Foothill Village. Hard to see. Container is a 1" tube wrapped in duct tape and place in the center of the bush.

Title: Ten-E Name refers to the location. Ave 10E which goes onto a dirt road to a bush. This 2" tube is just hanging on branch.

Title: Wally World. Placed besides the Wal Mart store off of 32st. Container is a magnetic key box put under the top part of the drainage.

Title: Rockable. Container is a key box which looks like a rock. This one take some searching per the comments on the geocaching web page.

Title: Happy Holidays. Neat container filled with pine cones and colored oraments. The log sheet is inside Mr Peanuts. Getting lots of fun comments.

geocaching-BG Range 12/19

Sundday 12/19
Trip to the Berry Goldwater Range to do geocaching. Morning weather was cool but sunny. Drove a few miles to meet up with Bill (geo name: foothillbill). We took the Terex ATV for the 7 mile ride into the range. There was a new series of caches call "Snow White" (seven caches). Ride is so cool. Traveling on the dirt road and going thru different desert washes. We finally reached Post B6 to starting are searching. Encounterd a Boader Patrol guy asking what we doing so far out here. Explained about geocaching. Found all seven caches plus a few more. Came across another team of gecachers. We found a total of 21 caches in four hours. Fun Day.

Me on the range

Bill

cool mountains

one of the snow white caches

more views

Click to large pic--- there's a tower used for marking the area that its a survival tower for water, first aid, etc

This cache was called Mr Lizard

Meteor Crater Christmas party

Left Yuma friday morning 12/10 to attend the Meteor Crater Christmas on saturday. The drive was smooth, meaning traffic was light. Arrived about 4pm. Staying with co-worker Eduardo's apt at the center. That night we went to the RV park for dinner given by Bunny & Jim with friends Faith & Paul. Saturday morning into Flagstaff for some shopping. About 630 we headed to Winslow for the Party at the historic hotel/rain depot called the La Posada. Neat place. Great buffet, games and door prizes. fun evening.




La Posada entrance

dinning room

train set

cool tree

me

calling out ticket number

buffet line

Yuma-event tue 12/7

Tuesday 12/7
After a nice buffet breakfast with some friends. We head to Yuma (old part) for the annual event call "Welcome Back snowbirds". Its put on by the various business. Lots of vendors. Fun

geocaching-Pole Dancing 12/6

12/6 monday. 100 geocaches were plublished this morning, called Pole Dancing. Bill & Berta set these out in line with telephone poles or power poles in the Foothill desert and some in Welton east of Yuma. Some areas were very sandy. Found 59 caches my highest number for a given day. During my adventure I connected with some other geocachers. Total of 4 hours. Fun day.

Yuma Balloon Festival 11/20

saturday 11/20 Balloon Festival
A early trip to the Wetlands Park, located at the Colorado river, border line between Calif & Yuma Az. A great Park. Lots of people here at 6:30am. About 15 air Baloons. Fun to watch them do the setup. Always wanted to take a ride on one. Its on my bucket list.

Trip>san diego 11/15

Trip to San Diego 11/15-17
Left Yuma monday morning to go and visit my brother Dick & Diane. On tuesday Dick & I went to SD downtown to area call little Italy.. Lots of sidewalk cafe's. Did some geocaching in the area. From here we went to visit a friend Gary who just moved into a high rise bldg on the 13th floor with great views of San Diego. Then into the Hillcrest area for a late lunch. Unfortunately Diane had to work. Fun day.

Borther/Dick, Me & Gary

Little Italy

Found a geocache