Friday 9/30 6pm
Meteor Crater End of the Season BBQ
This event was held this year at the visitor center after we close. Brad the President gave his
Thank You for a job well done during the summer season. Business was down a little but over all management was please with the outcome. Meat & chicken, provided by MC, were BBQ. We all brought a side dish. Lots of food. Unfortunately weather turned bad late afternoon. Therefore it was cold and windy. But we had fun.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Faust Opera 9/28
Wed 9/28/11
Left Show Low about 6:30am in order to get to Scottsdale by 10:30am for the Opera in Cinema/Faust performing at 11am. Its a LIVE performance broadcast from London.
Faust Synopsis- Fasut, an aging philosopher, trades his soul to the Devil in exchange for youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite.
The three main characters are Faust, Mephistopheles (devil) & Marguerite. Composer-Goundod created in 1860's.
Left Show Low about 6:30am in order to get to Scottsdale by 10:30am for the Opera in Cinema/Faust performing at 11am. Its a LIVE performance broadcast from London.
Faust Synopsis- Fasut, an aging philosopher, trades his soul to the Devil in exchange for youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite.
The three main characters are Faust, Mephistopheles (devil) & Marguerite. Composer-Goundod created in 1860's.
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| cell phn pic- royal opera house, London |
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| cell phn pic- Faust, singer V. Grigolo |
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Show Low 9/27 tue
Tuesday 9/27
Drove up from Meteor Crater RV park to Show Low. Arrived at Chuck/Bill's place around 9am.
After some coffee & do-nuts headed out to show low lake to do this special geocache. Hiking a neat
trail around the lake to a small rocky hill. We found the area to remove a stack of rocks and ply wood to expose a hole into a shaft. I climbed down about 5 ft to get the cookie tin (geocache) in order to sign the log. Kind of scary going down into the hole.Bill/Chuck were here a couple of weeks ago.
From here we headed to Pinetop and travel along FR 117 to area call Greens Peak. Elev there was over 10,000. Got some rain and hail. Did some great hiking and geocaching. Got back to show low to meet some gals for Mexican dinner. Will leave early morning for Scottsdale.
Drove up from Meteor Crater RV park to Show Low. Arrived at Chuck/Bill's place around 9am.
After some coffee & do-nuts headed out to show low lake to do this special geocache. Hiking a neat
trail around the lake to a small rocky hill. We found the area to remove a stack of rocks and ply wood to expose a hole into a shaft. I climbed down about 5 ft to get the cookie tin (geocache) in order to sign the log. Kind of scary going down into the hole.Bill/Chuck were here a couple of weeks ago.
From here we headed to Pinetop and travel along FR 117 to area call Greens Peak. Elev there was over 10,000. Got some rain and hail. Did some great hiking and geocaching. Got back to show low to meet some gals for Mexican dinner. Will leave early morning for Scottsdale.
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| Sow low lake |
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| climbing to the top |
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| rocks & ply wood |
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| Oh no- have to go down there!!! |
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| geocache cookie tin |
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| show low lake |
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| yes donkey's |
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| aspens changing color |
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| Greens peak |
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| in the forest off of FR 117 |
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| top of Greens peak |
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| top of greens peak |
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| Hiding our new geocache base of rock |
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| in the aspens |
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| hello there |
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| FR 117a |
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| Bill- we are walking back to Jeep |
Monday, September 26, 2011
Sedona/schnebly hill 9/26
Monday 9/26
The four of us, kathy/Derek , Kim & myself left for Sedona. We travel the Schnebly Hill rd from I-17. Doing geocaching and replaceing our geocache at S. Hill vista since it when missing. Stop for lunch at the Red Planet cafe in Sedona. Back to Flagstaff to pick up Kathy's dad truck. Then back to Meteor Crater RV park. Fun day. The weather was good to us.
The four of us, kathy/Derek , Kim & myself left for Sedona. We travel the Schnebly Hill rd from I-17. Doing geocaching and replaceing our geocache at S. Hill vista since it when missing. Stop for lunch at the Red Planet cafe in Sedona. Back to Flagstaff to pick up Kathy's dad truck. Then back to Meteor Crater RV park. Fun day. The weather was good to us.
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| Derek finding the cache |
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| replacing our cache at schnebly hill vista. 1st one went mising. |
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| going down schnebly hill rd |
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| Kim finding a cache |
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| Kathy/Derek |
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| Derek |
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| View of Bat View rock |
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| View from schnebly rd looking towards Sedona |
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| Later lunch-Sedona -Red Planet cafe |
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| Me and new friend :) |
Monday, September 19, 2011
Show Low 9/19
Mon - wed am 9/19-21
Headed to Show Low monday morning. Stayed with Les in his condo. He was packing up for his trip back to Yuma. Gave me the keys to close up his place later in Oct. In the evening went to Bill/Chuck for dinner with Martha & Kim.
Tue:
Les left. went to Bill/chuck for our geocaching day. That evening attended a geo event with local geocachers. Fun. Mexican food, vey good.
Wed:
Left very early in order to get back and say "good bye" to Jim/Cathy. Co-workers for the season. They headed to San Diego.
Headed to Show Low monday morning. Stayed with Les in his condo. He was packing up for his trip back to Yuma. Gave me the keys to close up his place later in Oct. In the evening went to Bill/Chuck for dinner with Martha & Kim.
Tue:
Les left. went to Bill/chuck for our geocaching day. That evening attended a geo event with local geocachers. Fun. Mexican food, vey good.
Wed:
Left very early in order to get back and say "good bye" to Jim/Cathy. Co-workers for the season. They headed to San Diego.
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| woodland lake-Likeside |
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| Bill finding cache |
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| Pinetop-its called a pond |
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| in the forest |
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| Bill/chuck |
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| me |
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| Me & Chuck |
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| a water hole near a geocache |
Monday, September 12, 2011
NASA Desert RATS 9/12
On saturday a group of people came to Meteor Crater from the NASA RATS (research and technology studies) training ground outside of Flagstaff. We found out that on sunday/monday would be a open community day to see the setup. This is a annually event in the Arizona desert to test rovers, robots and habitat demonstrations. A get together for NASA scientists, engineers, astronauts to test some of the future technology. The open house was for the public/ media before NASA packs up to leave the area. Learn more at www.nasa.gov/desertrats
Monday 9/12
Kim & I headed out to Flagstaff and drove about 40 miles north to the NASA desert area. We spent over two hours seeing and learning so much regarding technology for future space adventures. The Habitat unit was so cool. We got a guided tour. It's where four humans can live very comfortable. It houses the living area and work labs. Attended lectures and were able to speak to some of the reserachers.
What a great experience.
Monday 9/12
Kim & I headed out to Flagstaff and drove about 40 miles north to the NASA desert area. We spent over two hours seeing and learning so much regarding technology for future space adventures. The Habitat unit was so cool. We got a guided tour. It's where four humans can live very comfortable. It houses the living area and work labs. Attended lectures and were able to speak to some of the reserachers.
What a great experience.
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| arriing to the parking lot |
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| Lecture hall |
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| demos on the robot |
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| Habitat Unit |
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| Roving vehicles |
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| me next to a vheicle |
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| Command center |
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| small units for the researchers to relax in |
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| the Desert area where the test is being held |
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