Greer>Pinetop 8/02

Sunday 8/02/15

Here at Motel 6 in Pinetop for my over night stay. It was too expensive to stay in Greer.

My day's journey started from Meteor Crater to St John's geocaching along hyw 180. From there to Springerville then to Greer. Greer is so beautiful with the mountains, rivers, lakes and campgrounds. Elevation is over 8600. Late lunch in Greer. Lots of hiking and geocaching. Found 20 caches. One of the high lites was a visit to the Butterfly lodge Museum. Got a 15 min lecture on the life of Jame Schultz (1859-1947). Very interesting. Weather turned out to be OK-no rain.
  Tomorrow more geocaching Pinetop & Show low.  Some shopping and to get the truck wash before heading back to MC.

 

hyw 180 red rocks

a geocache

mooo

St John's 

Springerville - high school

Butterfly lodge museum

In Greer- cold water



Late lunch  3pm

cherry clobber

Greer lake

geocache

geocache

geocache
 

Motel ^ - nice room

Flagstaff/hike 8/01

Saturday  8/01
Wow its August.
Went to Flagstaff Harkins to see the movie Mission Impossible.  Good one.
Lunch at Panda.  Then headed over to Fort Tuthill to do some hiking and geocaching.
Fort Tuthill is where the County Fair is held and concerts, Also camping, hiking trails and horse trails.   Got on the Flagstaff Urban trail.  Hiking and finding geocaches.  Nice day.

 

Movie
 

 

 

 

 

1st stop for a geocache

water tank

geocache
 

Painted Desert Nat'l Park 7/27 part II

* Monday 7/27/15
After the Canyon de Chilly trip, headed south to Hy 40 which is a two hr drive.  Then to the Painted desert Visitor center.  Had lunch.  Then out to find two geocaches.  Normally no caches are allowed in Nat'l Parks but these were created by the Headquarter Staff.  The second cache I had to hike about a mile to get it.  Hiking along the rim.  Then a stop in Holbrook for some DQ ice cream .

The Painted Desert encompasses over 93,500 acres and stretches over 160 miles. It begins about 30 miles north of Cameron, Arizona near the southeastern rim of the Grand Canyon to the Petrified Forest about 26 miles east of Holbrook, AZ. Along the way, it grazes the backyard of the Wupatki National Monument Indian Ruins. The Painted Desert derives its name for the multitude of colors ranging from lavenders to shades of gray with vibrant colors of red, orange and pink. It is a long expanse of badland hills and buttes and although barren and austere, it is a beautiful landscape of a rainbow of colors.

geocache behind sign

Hike to the juniper tree (right) then along the rim to get the 2nd geocache

quick stop for this cache

Canyon de Chelly 7/27

Monday 7/27/15
Canyon de Chelly (d'SHAY)

Spent the night at the Best Western in Chinle. Up early and worked on the computer then headed over for some Breakfast. Packed up and drove over to the Canyon. Stopped in the Visitro center. Then to first look out called Antelope House overlook.

The Canyon Nati\'l Monument was established in 1931 to preserve this record of human history. Embracing nearly 84,000 acres within the Navajo Reservatin, the monument is administered by the National Park Service.