Frank's Log Book: January 2011

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Borrego Springs

Sunday 1/30
Heard about these sculptures at the Geocching Event in Ocottilo Wells. Did the 15 mile drive
to Borrego Springs. Of course near each site was a geocache.

A series of Borrego steel artworks by Ricardo Breceda.

These sculptures, commissioned by Dennis Avery, are placed all over the desert floor of Borrego Springs and range from eagles to mastodons, to dinosaurs. Maps are available at the linked web site and well worth the day it will take to see all of them.
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Map from the web site

Just a neat picture

Geocaching Event 1/27-30

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Jan 28 - 30 thur > sun Ocotillo Wells CA
Second annual Geocaching event- Roughneck Rendezvous
Over 300 geocachers participating in this desert event. Just awesome. Very organize.
Arrived thur late afternoon. Setup camp with some of the people from Yuma. By friday afternoon we
had 12 rigs in our group. Thur eve we enjoyed a big camp fire. Friday, I spent 4-5 hours with Wayne/Becky & Robert geocaching. Some wild rides in Wayne's Jeep '03 liberty. In the
afternoon we had to get register. A buffet dinner at camp with a nice fire. Went to the
Ranger's station for a lecture on Ocotillo Wells history.
Saturday 7am. The event started with the firing of a cannon. Then to the booth to get the
co-ordinates down loaded into your GPS. Over 100 caches and a book. Each page had a puzzle containing 9 caches. 10 puzzle pages plus some earth caches and in Park exibits. At the end of the day your book was turned in and you were awarded tickets for your finds. That evening tickets were drawn for the prizes. Some prizes were worth hundreds of dollars. After that a movie was schedule but for me it was getting late and cold. So back to the RV camp.
Sunday- had breakfast with Bob/Judy & don/sally in B& J RV. Getting windy so our buffet breakfast was cancelled. After breakfast we took off to do some other caches in the area. Came back about 1pm (wind slowed down) and had lunch. The group was breaking camp. I decided to go to Borrego springs. Next blog. Returned about 5:30. Getting windy again.
Great, fun weekend.

thu: driving on hwy 78 passing thur Glamis CA sand dunes

thu: arriving at camp area

our circle

fri: caching with Wayne,Becky & Robert

fri: where's the water?

fri: top of a hill. Cache at bottom of cross. Got there in Wayne's jeep liberty.

fri: eve, learning the history of Octillo wells

fri evening: signal the frog, mascot for geocaching

sat am: waiting to down load co-odinates into your GPS

sat am: firing the cannon signals the start of the event---very loud

sat am: cover of the cache container. Each one had the name of the event

sat: neat flower in the desert

sat: view from a hill.

sat: preserve area in the park

sat: education booth. Got our book stamped here

sat eve: turning in our books for drawing tickets

sat: my geocaching book

sat eve: drawing for prizes

sun am: our circle

sun am: caching with Bob/Judy & Don/Sally

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Quartzsite 1/20-26

Jan 20-26 Quartzsite AZ
The annual get together with Rainbow RV & TOW on BLM land in Quartzsite. Dry camping (no hook ups) with the other 1000 +++ RV's in the desert. Activiates included geocaching, ATV riding, hiking, shopping at the big Tent show and buffet dinners. Spent 7 days there and on 1/27 thur packed up for my trip to Ocotillo Wells (CA) for the Geocaching Event. Took about 2 1/12 hrs to get there.

breakfast on fri am

taking a test ride

in front of my RV

going up

top of hill

Bill

hike to the top

dinner line

Chuck & Bill- another outing

geocache at base of bush

old mine

Took a ride to see this geoglyph

carved into the earth over hundreds yrs ago

Our circle of RV's

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Hike in the Foothills 1/13

Thursday 1/13/11
Decided to go for a small hike (6mi) here in the Yuma foothills. Wanted to use my new hiking stick. And of course to search for some geocaches. Found four of them.