Geocaching-Saturn series#2

Saturday 5/28   Memorial Day
We (kathy/derek, kim, Bob (kathy's dad) & me) made plans to do some geocaching.  Headed back, near Flagstaff,  at  800am to work on the geocache SATURN series.  Our second time.  About a 4 mi round trip hike. But we had to go up and down into canyons.  It was tough.  We only got 9 caches. Have to go back for trip#3 to finish up. Lunch in Flagstaff. Returned to RV park about 4pm.  After a quick shower had to take a hr nap. :)

First stop called the D-ring cache

Bob finding the cache under rock

Hiking up- derek

Great view near a cache- now we have to go down

girls taking a rest. Kim on the cell phn

Me.  Great view at elev of 7400+

the team

me- returning cache back to branch

Derek sitting on the rock

Tough hike in the canyon

Going down again- 1/2 mi to go yet to the truck

Yea-finish. Group picture

map of geocaches for the Saturn series.  The smiley faces are the ones we found so far.

Polaris trip 5/23

Wednesday 5/23/12
I was given the day off with paid (wow) do to the new  5 day summer schedule. Therefore my co-worker Faith and her husband Paul was able to get out on their utv/Polaris to do some exploring and geocaching in remote areas.  We left the Meteor Crater Rv park around 7:30am and headed south behind the crater known as Chevez Pass (20mi).  First stop was a geocache at a water tank. From here to Long lake (with stops along the way).  Then over to Mormon lake resort for a late lunch. Checking the map we decided to explore another way back.  In total, a 118 mi trip. Eight geocaches. Fun adventure.  Back at 5:30pm.

1st stop-water tank - geocache

Faith/Paul

geocache

Long lake

interesting area-blue/green grass

Kinnikinick lake

top of hill to get this geocache

Faith/Paul

Polaris-we can go anywhere  :)

driving thru the trees

Grapevine canyon

signing log-me/faith

I hid a new geocache behind big rock

Do we have to move??

gate-rocky terrain

Going down into canyon

In canyon

cave

another canyon

Egar/Greer geocaching

Sunday 5/20
Left the condo about 830am to connect with Bill/Chuck to some geocaching.   Going to the Egar/Greer area. This is were the big fire was last yrear. Lots of small  hikes and great scenery.  In Greer, a small resort community between two mountains.  The community was spared from the fire but alot of cabins on the hillside are gone.  Lunch there , which was sooooo good.  Three caches that we found there.  Then into other areas. One being the Horseshoe Lake campground. Awesome. Lake on one side, campsites in the middle, the canyon on the otherside (more sites) with a running river.  More stops. Back at Bill/Chuck's place to play cards with other people at 6pm.  Another awesome  day.

geocache here at Elk's pond

Horseshoe Lake campground-awesome

Horseshoe lake

Neat flowers

Cabin in Greer. Fire line behind cabin

Greer in middle of town

Cafe where we eat lunch

Greer.  See the fire results

Memorial for 3 guys were the smal plane crash in 1994

Off of hwy 261- over looking Egar & Springerville

Called Est Baldy trail- our last geocaching stop

Payson-geo event 5/19

Saturday 5/19
Up early for the 2 hr drive to Payson. Attending a geocaching event.  Arrived about 8:30am at Rumsey park. Big park. Fun meeting local Payson geocachers and others.    After a two hr greet/meet and donuts it was time for the raffle.  Won a prize.  Was given instruction sheets for 4 new caches in the area.  One was a 2 mi hike that I did-- like wow.  Late lunch, more caching. Then headed to Show low to stay at my friends condo.  Arrived there about 530pm.  Fun exhausting day. Logged about 10 caches.

Ramsey park- our geo sign

geo event at park

my winning prize

?, blackcat and me

looking at geo travel bugs

Hike to cache-2mi around trip

cache container

great view at top

going  back down

Stump cache container- coold