DAY 1:10 Years! We each got one for our hats.
May 1st, 2000: Announcement made that "selective availability" was being turned off.May 2nd, 2000: "Selective availability" was turned off.
May 3rd, 2000: First Geocache placed and found.
May 2010: World-wide multi-events for the 10 Year Anniversary of Geocaching are held.
Here we are at Barnes Park in Kaysville for the closest 10th Anniversary Event. (There were many (10-20) held up and down the Wasatch Front.) It was cold and windy and rainy, but when did that ever stop the true blue geocacher?
us on the end...Pizza was provided for everybody along with a lot of potluck dishes. There was a drawing for prizes, which we didn't win, but it was fun to be part of the celebration.
Of course we had to pop ($10) for the way-cool commemorative coin. It is a trackable, but we'll keep this one for ourselves.
After the Geo Party we headed south to Cedar City for some geocaching and to get to St. George for my 2-day conference given by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Here's Dad at 3 Peaks Recreation Area in Enoch (a little northwest of Cedar.)
Lichen and cedar
Oogie Boogie Man
Mom at a cache at 3 Peaks
looks like some kinda trail in Enoch
Lots of sheep with newborn lambs
curious cute faces
DAY 2:
Great way to start the day.
We drove west out of Cedar City to take the scenic route to St. George. We drove along the Old Spanish Trail to New Castle and Enterprise and Pine Valley....places we've never seen before. The weather was cold and mostly cloudy and it seemed like every time we got out of the car it started to blow and snow (little pellets.) But we forged on and laughed a lot about putting our jackets on and off 50 times!
The Whomping Willow at Calf Springs.
Honeycomb Campground at Enterprise Reservoir.
The charming little town of Pine Valley...formerly a lumber camp, now mostly summer homes. Pines from this area were hauled to Salt Lake for the organ in the Tabernacle.
The famous Pine Valley Chapel...oldest LDS Church still in continuous use. We found several geocaches in this area for a total of 12 for the day.
DAY 3:
Of course we had to pop ($10) for the way-cool commemorative coin. It is a trackable, but we'll keep this one for ourselves.
After the Geo Party we headed south to Cedar City for some geocaching and to get to St. George for my 2-day conference given by the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. Here's Dad at 3 Peaks Recreation Area in Enoch (a little northwest of Cedar.)
Lichen and cedar
Oogie Boogie Man
Mom at a cache at 3 Peaks
looks like some kinda trail in Enoch
Lots of sheep with newborn lambs
curious cute faces
DAY 2:Sunday morning we woke up to a blizzard.
Great way to start the day.
We drove west out of Cedar City to take the scenic route to St. George. We drove along the Old Spanish Trail to New Castle and Enterprise and Pine Valley....places we've never seen before. The weather was cold and mostly cloudy and it seemed like every time we got out of the car it started to blow and snow (little pellets.) But we forged on and laughed a lot about putting our jackets on and off 50 times!
The Whomping Willow at Calf Springs.
Honeycomb Campground at Enterprise Reservoir.
The charming little town of Pine Valley...formerly a lumber camp, now mostly summer homes. Pines from this area were hauled to Salt Lake for the organ in the Tabernacle.
The famous Pine Valley Chapel...oldest LDS Church still in continuous use. We found several geocaches in this area for a total of 12 for the day.
DAY 3:We woke up in St. George to 70 degree temperatures and lots of sunshine and blue skies. Since this was the Official 10-Years-of-Geocaching Day, we decided to go for as many caches as we could without succumbing to the easy ones. We actually spent most of the day hiking and by 11:00pm that night we had 15 caches and 4 Travel Bugs. Here's dad at the first cache in Santa Clara with Snow Canyon in the background.
Entrance to the Santa Clara River Reserve...nice trail.
View of Ivins and cliffs from the trail
Cacti and flowers along the trails...pink prickly pear
lavender sego lily-ish
Orange blossom cactus
Tiny flowers
Tiny flowers up close
Little purples
Sunny yellows
Split Rock and sculptures in Santa Clara close to the entrance of Snow Canyon, in front of a resort
View of white rocks in Snow Canyon from a ridge
Another view of Snow Canyon from above
One more view from up in the lava rocks
Starting down the White Rocks Trail
Dad on the Trail
Little lizard tracks in the sand. You can see the tiny toe prints and the line from the tail that runs between them.
Near the end of the White Rocks Trail
The white cliffs
Approaching the bowl of sand. At the end of the trail the sand was deep and soft and hard to traverse.
This hike was the highlight of the day. Here's a poem I jotted down the next day (the formatting/spacing will be off):
At the Kit Carson Cache in Snow Canyon...his name (including the "son"!)was scratched into the cliff.
Can you see "Kit Carson" and "US Parks Service"?
Last photo in Snow Canyon. Sun was going down. We found 4 more easy micro caches after dinner between 10 and 11pm.
DAY 4: This is trista74 (from Minneapolis) at The Rio!!!
Entrance to the Santa Clara River Reserve...nice trail.
View of Ivins and cliffs from the trail
Cacti and flowers along the trails...pink prickly pear
lavender sego lily-ish
Orange blossom cactus
Tiny flowers
Tiny flowers up close
Little purples
Sunny yellows
Split Rock and sculptures in Santa Clara close to the entrance of Snow Canyon, in front of a resort
View of white rocks in Snow Canyon from a ridge
Another view of Snow Canyon from above
One more view from up in the lava rocks
Starting down the White Rocks Trail
Dad on the Trail
Little lizard tracks in the sand. You can see the tiny toe prints and the line from the tail that runs between them.
Near the end of the White Rocks Trail
The white cliffs
Approaching the bowl of sand. At the end of the trail the sand was deep and soft and hard to traverse.
This hike was the highlight of the day. Here's a poem I jotted down the next day (the formatting/spacing will be off):SNOW CANYON WHITE ROCKS TRAIL
Bone-white peaks reach into the cloudless canopy.
Winding through greasewoods,
clamoring over cross-hatched mounds,
reach the bowl where
sunbathing desert lizzards scurry away leaving swerving tracks
agaves burst at random with single shafts of pending blooms
mountains weather into fine-grained dunes.
Let sand slip though your hands almost expecting sounds of surf and seagull,
Noting time and dry winds soften rough edges.
At the Kit Carson Cache in Snow Canyon...his name (including the "son"!)was scratched into the cliff.
Can you see "Kit Carson" and "US Parks Service"?
Last photo in Snow Canyon. Sun was going down. We found 4 more easy micro caches after dinner between 10 and 11pm.
DAY 4: This is trista74 (from Minneapolis) at The Rio!!!OK here is a funny story...only appreciated by geocachers. On Day 2 we received an automatic geocaching email stating that a couple (geo-named trista74) in Minnesota had picked up our Nuevo Jersey Travel Bug. This is one of the original 4 competing TBs sent out in August of 2004...one for each kid with a goal to go to their mission locations and return. Escargot (Briton's with 16,236 ,miles) made it to France and back to Farmington in August of last year. Futebol (Baron) and Taiko (Autumn) were eventually lost, and Nuevo Jersey (10,877 miles) has been back and forth after reaching New Jersey, but mostly on the East Coast. The log from trista74 only said "moving to Las Vegas." We didn't know if the cachers were moving to Las Vegas or going on a trip to Las Vegas or what and we certainly didn't know when. But I replied with an email to see if they might be there on Monday or Tuesday night. Sure enough they were!!! SO, after my day at the conference ended, we drove the 2 hours (I know, but we're not called Idiots for nothing) and met them at the Casino Royale Cache on top of the Parking Terrace at The Rio Casino and retrieved the yellow rubber magnet! Pretty exciting for us to see the TB after 5-1/2 years and bring it home. We ate at the Cheesecake Factory at Caesar's Palace, of course, and had the Godiva Chocolate Cheesecake and had to take in 4 performances by the Bellagio Fountains which never cease to overwhelm.
Nuevo Jersey back home, m'oh boy!
Looking across the Bellagio pond to the Tour Eiffel.
Wathcing the fountains from Las Vegas Boulevard..."Fly Me to the Moon", "Hey Big Spender", "My Heart Will Go On", and "The Pink Panther.
Shrooms and frog inside the Bellagio Conservatory.
Spilled pot of posies.
DAY 5:
Nuevo Jersey back home, m'oh boy!
Looking across the Bellagio pond to the Tour Eiffel.
Wathcing the fountains from Las Vegas Boulevard..."Fly Me to the Moon", "Hey Big Spender", "My Heart Will Go On", and "The Pink Panther.
Shrooms and frog inside the Bellagio Conservatory.
Spilled pot of posies.
DAY 5:While I spent the day in workshops, Dad visited the St. George Temple and other spots.
From the back
From the side
Purple pansies
Yellow pansies
Pansies and snapdragons
Orange Dahlias
Pool Fountain at the temple...check out the droplets.
From the back
From the side
Purple pansies
Yellow pansies
Pansies and snapdragons
Orange Dahlias
Pool Fountain at the temple...check out the droplets.
1 comment:
Boy that DOES look like Oogie Boogie. And what cute little baa-baas. Glad you guys had a fun time. And I'm sure that funny yellow magnet had "an adventure to remember." WOW! :)
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