Geocaching on Hwy 89A

Tuesday 9/28/10
Packed up my GPS and travel to Sedona (just passing thru) on Hyw 89A towards Cottonwood. Had my list of geocaches to work on. Wanted to drive on the Bill Grey road which has alot of caches. After doing the hike up the rocky hill I decided to do it at another time. The one stop was the Mother Earth garden. Very interesting. Did find 8 caches. Continue to hyw260 to I-17 with a stop at the Cliff Casino. They have great hamburgers. Was my lucky day, walked out with an extra 160.00. Paid for my gas :). Back to the RV by 8pm. Nice day with great weather.

1st stop. Hiked down to Oak creek

#2 stop. Cache container found to the right of the gate

Camp sites off of 89A. Just a short walk to the cache

Same place. Back to Jeep

This one was hard. Hiked up this hill but great views

Cache hidden in rocks- no snakes :)

self pic/ top of hill

Oh no have to hike up there to get the cache container

Right off 89A going into Cottonwood. Cool garden. Its called Mother Earth.

entrance to garden area

Right across the garden is this beautiful Church. Also a cemetery near by.

Geocaching near Wupatki 9/27

.....cont the days adventure 9/27
After leaving the Wupatki Vistior center I knew there was a new geocache near by. Driving back about 5mi I found a off road 787. Went in about .24 miles but it was getting to rocky. According to the GPSr I was 1.92 miles to the cache. So I decided to hike it. It took about 45 min (1 way). Arrived at the cache and it turned out I was "first to find". Took the Travel Bug/jeep, signed log at 5:30p and headed back to the jeep. Hiked thru meadows and cinder ash . Cool views.

cache container

cache was hidden at base of tree

unknow road near cache area

self pic of me

hiking back on rd 787

finish

Wupatki Visit Center 9/27

Monday 9/27
After doing some projects around the RV, decided to take off from the RV park around 1pm. One item I have on my list- to visit the Wupatki indians ruins. This Nat'l park is located off of 89 NE of Fagstaff. My first stop was at the Citadel ruins- great views. Then moved onto the Center. Nice Visitor center with a trail leading to the Wapatki ruins. So much history here. Its amazing that over 2000 people in this vast dry area engaged in farming but also in ceremony, trade and various crafts.
From here decided to go after a brand new geocache near by, see the next log entry.


entrance to Nat'l park

First stop, Citdel peublo

citadel

a walk up to the ruins

ruins at top of hill

center

art work of Wupatki - it housed 100 rooms

me, someone took my pic

tail back to rear of center

Winslow Fair

Fri evening at Winslow, downtown.
Its the annual "Standing on Corner" fair.
We (co-workers from meteor crater ) arrived about 6:30p . Hundreds of people were there, look like a good turn out. Great band music. The one band was called Hotel Calif. Lots of vendors. Had my dinner there, turkey leg, popcorn and funel cake. Diet food. :) Back to the RV park by 9p since I have to work on sunday..

Sunset Crater 9/22

Wednesday 9/22
Kenny/Scott, Cathy/Jim (co-wokers) and myself headed out to Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument located off of hwy89. First stop at the Visitor Center then a mile down the road. Turned onto a cinder road for a 1/2 mile. Parked and looked at where we are supose to go. Wow. Its .48 mile hike to the summit and elev of 7500. Up,up we go. Tough one but we did it. Getting to the top is a steep hike on volcanic cinders. Of course at the top was a geocache. Signed the log, great views and it started to rain - time to go. Much faster coming down. The cinder cone is part of the Sunset crater volcanic complex.
After this hike we drove back to hwy 89 to Forest service rd 546 for some geocaching. We found six of them. They were easy to get to and Scott was able to drive up to 30ft for most of them. Time was now 3p and its time to eat. Back to Flagstaff for a early dinner at Garcia. Fun day.
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wow we have to go up there!!

hiking up

yea got the cache--

Jim & Cathy

Scott/Kenny

great views

going down

getting closer to the bottom

I see you

me, Jim/Cathy

Kenny/Scott & truck

going back out


geocaching off of FS rd 546
chow time