Mtn Elden-hike 5/27

Monday   5/27
John and I headed to Flagstaff to do a hike and get a geocache.
John lives here at the RV Park and is in the Army.  Army recuiter in Flagstaff.
Arrived at the trail head of Elden trail.  The hike took us over 5 hr and going up from 7000" to 9000+   .  Great views.. Near the top found the geocache.  Then back down.
Stopped at Sizzler for a early dinner.
My legs hurt. Going to take 2 advils and go to bed early.  :)

Starting point

john checking out a cave

rest time

self pic.  The geocache was located in the crack of the top rock

John replacing the geocache

coming back down

Back at the trail head.  View of where we hike to top

SL/geo/BBQ 5/26

Saturday 5/26
Left RV park around 10am and headed to Show Low.
Spent afternoon with Coni.  Out to lunch, Mexican food. Back to Coni's place and watched a movie. Later went to TJ's condo and spent the night there.
Sundays 5/27
Contacted Bill/Chuck.  We decided to have breakfast at Denny's and then off to do some geocaching off of Porter mtn rd.  Left show low about 230p.  Have to be back by 5pm.
sun afternoon
Arrived back at Rv Park.  Set up for BBQ with co-workers. Then we played poker.  I won 2nd place. Cool.  Nice evening at Kathy's / Dereck place.

geocache - nut/bolt attached to guard rail

Chuck showing cach container that was in pipe

geocache site:  House built in 1900

geocache- hard one. Hole drilled in rock.

Bill/Chuck signing cache log sheet

geocache: fun one.  Its a remote with log sheet inside

another geocache. Log sheet wrapped around a pen

Yuma /Graduation 5/18

5/17/13  friday
After work (meteor crater) headed to yuma for the 6 hr drive to attend the Derrick's graduation.

5/18/13 saturday
Graduation party was held at Bob/Derrick's house. Nice turn out. Friends and family. 
5/19/13 sunday
Bob's brithday.  At our house for dinner and cake.
5/20/13 monday
Headed back to MC

 

 

 

 

Signs out side of house

cake

sunday: Bob's brithday cake

Show Low 5/11

Saturday 5/11
Packed up early and left Meteor Crater RV park and headed to Show Low.  Arrived at TJ's condo about 9am.  Called Bill/Chuck to determine went we would start our geocaching hike. We had a nice breakfast at Denny's before hitting the trail called the Cave Trail. Of course nine caches to find.
At the cave site we met a family that just came from the cave.   The area was the last cache. Around trip was about 5 mi..  Back to Bill / Chucks  to clean up before going to Dinner at Darbe's. The hiked tired us out.  We only found 7 caches out of 9. Two we couldn't find.
Sunday 5/12.
Nice morning at TJ's enjoying coffee and reading my Kindle out on the deck.  Headed out for 3 more caches before heading back to Rv park.

Trail head

hiking thru the pond area

Riding stable near by

searching for the cache

ice cave -people unknown

Taking to a family that went into the cave

Chuck getting the cache

trail by Scott's reservoir

pond area

sunday 5/12 looking for geocache

yep geocache- a tube in a pvc pipe in ground

Laughlin 5/4-6

Trip to Laughlin NV
Sat 5/4/13
Left MC rv park around 8am, heading for Laughlin.  Checked in at the Riverside hotel. Then off to playing slot machines.  Fun.  Took a nap and then a snack. Went to movie at the hotel to see 42.   After that played some more slots until midnight. Wow way past my bed time.
Sunday  5/5
Its Cinco de mayo day.  A nice buffet breakfast, free.  Then off to do some geocaching along the river.  Its called the River walk  caching.  So I walked 4 mi ( 8mi around triip). Long day since I stopped at every casino to check them out.  Had  some rum & cokes, playing slots.  At the Golden Nugget there was a big BaJa music event .   Fun.  Moving on for more geocaching. Getting dark. Stopped at Panda Express for dinner.  Returned to hotel around 10pm.
Monday 5/6
Slept in .  Packed my bag.  Then down to the buffet for breakfast. After that went to the bridge , crossed it to AZ for some geocaching.  Back to hotel and checked out.  Drove back to MC rv park. Arrived about 4pm.
Fun weekend.

approching Laughlin

river

caching along the river walk

hotel I stayed at

Breakfast buffet

River walk

cach attached to spider

nice view

geocache hidden behind monkey