Geocaching FSR515/Shultz pass

Monday 10/10/11
We (kim, kathy/derek,me) headed out to the Flagstaff area to do some geocaching. At the end of the day we had found 12.
Our first stop was in a small park off of Rt66/old bus 40. Cache was hidden in the pipe which was hard to get the sm container out.  Then off to Forest service road 515. Found about  6 caches. One of them was a multi-cache which means U go the first stage to get  co-ords for the second stage etc until the final 4th stage all within walking distance.  Fun.  This dirt road will finally take U down into Thorp Park in Flagstaff.  Stopped at Windy's for a late lunch.  Off again to the SW side of Flagstaff on hyw 180.  Turned onto Schultz Pass road for a dirve on a rough dirt rd to a elev of 8035. Great area and popular for hiking and biking.  We parked and hike to Schultz Pass tank to get another geocache. Back down the moutain.  Found 3 more caches along hwy180 before returning to the RV park. 7pm.

1st cache-inside air release valve

cache name - upside donw pineapple cake

view of San Fran peaks with recent snow

stage 4/final of a multi-cache

natural water tank for wild life

forest service rd 515, lot of mud/water holes

elev 8036 here for a geocache-shultz pass

shultz pass water tank

kim,me,kathy

kathy/derek

san fran peaks- 2 caches off of urban trail

MC Annual BBQ 9/30

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. 

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. 

cell phn pic- royal opera house, London

cell phn pic- Faust, singer V. Grigolo

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.

Sow low lake

climbing to the top

rocks & ply wood

Oh no- have to go down there!!!

geocache cookie tin

show low lake

yes donkey's

aspens changing color

Greens peak

in the forest off of FR 117

top of Greens peak

top of greens peak

Hiding our new geocache base of rock

in the aspens

hello there

FR 117a

Bill- we are walking back to Jeep

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.

Derek finding the cache

replacing our cache at schnebly hill vista. 1st one went mising.

going down schnebly hill rd

Kim finding a cache

Kathy/Derek

Derek

View of Bat View rock

View from schnebly rd looking towards Sedona

Later lunch-Sedona -Red Planet cafe

Me and new friend   :)