Meteor Crater C.mas party 12/7

* Meteor Crater Christmas party  12/7/13
at the La Posada hotel in Winslow
Great turn out. Lots of fun. 

Cake for our desert

Charly and I got there early to setup table

train

our servers- it was buffet style

My co-worker Ferando & Megan at rv park

Jenny, Brad (president of MC) & Lanha (vice-P)

Kathy/derek

summer/toni

Bunny (my Mgr),me, Charly

Eduardo (tour director) and Me

Geocaching trip W/H/S 11/16

* 11/16/13
Us: me, Kathy/Derek, and Kathy's mon and dad Kathy/Bob. We  left Winslow @9am
This geocaching trip took us on hy99 from Winslow then onto FSR34 , FSR300 to hwy 260 to Heber, and Show low and back to Winslow on hwy77. Lots of stops getting our caches.  They showed me where they will be camping /hunting after Thanksgiving.  At the higher elevation it was windy and temp was 39.  A stop at Woods lake, awesome.  Late lunch (3pm) in show low. Shopping at the CAL store.  More geocaching. Back to the Rv park around 7pm.  Fun day, new adventures.

1st stop-Derek signing log sheet  Hwy 99

Geocache at the cattle guard. Also the area they will be camping.

Water tank created by the Boy Scott's many years ago. The water flows into the tank for the wild life.

Called the "Blind" for hunting

Hunters camp site.  Geocache was 30 ft from then. We talked to the hunters and explained about geocaching.

Water tank.  Elevation is about 8000

Another cache.

Geocache site.  Great view looking down to Hwy 260

Woods lake

Woods lake store which was closing for the winter this weekend

Woods lake

Late lunch in show low

Geo-Pagesprings- Cottonwood 11/9

* Nov 09 2013
US: Me, Kathy/Derek and Bob (Kathy's dad)
Travel down hwy 17 to Cornville. Then to Page Springs. Wine places and Trout Fish Hatchery. Lunch in Cottonwood .  Then Dead Horse Camping area for more geocaching. To Sedona and back to MC Rv park. Fun day.

Signing log sheet

just Me

our limo - Right :)

Inside Winery

A little hike to geocache

At

At  the fish hatchery
 



Fun place to learn about fish in AZ

Us

Bird finish eating a fish

At Dead Horse ranch - great park and rv camping.  Geocaching.

Sedona - tree with cache  in the NUTS

Trip to Yuma

* Nov 2-5 2013
Trip to Yuma
Friday 11/1
Right after work left for Yuma a 5  1/2 drive.
Sat 11/2
Great to be here.   Andy & I went to the Swap Meet and did some geocaching.
Then a movie with Bob/Derek then dinner.
Sun 11/3
Went to a geocaching Breakfast. Nice turn out.
Then a visit with Les.
Mon 11/4
Trip to Mexico
Dinner at Scott & Kenny's house.
Tue 11/5
Headed back to meteor crater

geocaching

geocache in the bird house

geo breakfast

Scott/Kenny back yard - great view

playing Pegs & Jokers

mexico

Andy

me

Meteor Crater Wind study

*10/28/13 evening

During the summer  a wind study was taking place here at Meteor Crater!
Last night the group invited the meteor crater employees to come to the trailer located behind the crater to understand what they are researching.  Great team of people. Unfortunately do to heavy winds only 4 of us showed up. The group will be packing up this coming week. 
  Lots of equipment is being used. Three towers in the area. Many sensors placed around the rim and inside the crater.  A team would go into the crater before dark and stay overnight before coming back out in the AM. 

 The team of people are from ASU, The University of Utah, Unv of Germany and several other groups are all a part of this study titled METCRAX II.  A  piece of equipment used during the experiment,  is a wind Lidar.  It shoots out a laser that is scattered by aerosols and cloud droplets in the atmosphere.  The back scattered signal is then received by the Lidar, giving the operator a look at the wind speed!  For more information on this study go to: http://www.inscc.utah.edu/~whiteman/metcrax2

pic of the Lidar

Inside the trailer housing all kinds of computers

Me

Snowbowl 10/28

* Monday 10/28/13
Flagstaff/snowbowl
Drove up to Snowbowl to see the aspen trees hoping to see the bright yellow colors.  Nope to late. Should have gone several weeks ago.

Aspen corner

Here at Meteor Crater Rv Park, our trees are changing color.  Pretty cool.

Main gate into the Rv park