Geocaching, Billy Goat Style

Looking west while scrambling up the hill, no trail for this one


Looking north, my house is over there


Found the cache before sundown, time to go home

GC1GR6D

I placed my second geocache today.
Visit www.geocaching.com and search for GC1GR6D or "Frog Tanks Road Froggy Fun" and you'll find my cache details.
Oddly enough, the woman who seems to be attached to her camera at all times, has no photos of the cache site.

Neighborhood Humor

The work of a random tree hugger, sonoran desert style.

GC1GPYJ

I placed my first geocache today.
Visit www.geocaching.com and search for GC1GPYJ or "Think Green!" and you'll find my cache details.

The cache site, just west of the rocks you see along the trail, in a circle of palo verde trees

Always a comedian... view of the trail leading to the cache site

The cache site - can you see it? No? Good

9 Cache Map = 6 Cache Find

James created a list of 9 geocaches and drew a map for us to follow for a day of geocaching. We started in the city and made our way out in to the desert. We did not find 2 of them, skipped 1, and found 6. It was a fun, busy day!

Too big for the swing? I think not

Hey James, whatcha doin' by that tree?

Ahhh... clever place to hide a cache

James, king of the mountain. Look at the development below and we wonder where has the desert gone?

Me

Cool tree-like cactus at one of the trailheads, I'd like to know what this is called

Leaving the pavement, let the fun begin!

No honey, I did not drive your truck on whoopties designed for quads...

Mom and son having way too much fun in the desert

The Alaskamobile in the desert at a CAP canal

I found a heart shaped rock, and I took it home

Jooohhhhhnnnn... you want me to hike up there?! UGH!!!

James' view atop a CAP tunnel

James

The Alaskamobile in the Arizona desert

James near a cache site

James, smiling at our last cache find of the day

More, more, more - Geocaching, part 3

"Blue" (the truck) & Me, on my way up to Above It All

City view - my house is over there somewhere

Me - signing the geocache log at Above It All

James (he says the wind blowing his shirt makes him look fat - we all know he's not fat)

Saw some slow elk on the way to Burro

James near the Burro geocache. Interesting terrain with black rocks and a lot of cholla cactus

Me with Dark Duck travel bug and Traveling Princess travel bug

Geocaching, part 2

James - signing the log for Jamie's Froggy Fun

Me - Jamie's Froggy Fun (I'm not sure what this cache had to do with frogs)

James - No Fly Zone #1, this cache taught us where an airstrip used to be, an interesting history lesson because this is close to home and within a year or two it will be covered with shopping centers or new homes

James - No Fly Zone #1, signing the geocache log

The truck pointing to the cache - it knew better than we did where to look

Me - The PO, we almost gave up on this one, but good thing I didn't - I scored a free dinner in this one

Hiking, Geocaching and Me Learning How To Use The Evil GPS

James - geocache find #1, Eagle's Landing, West Wing Mountain

Me - geocache find #1, Eagle's Landing, West Wing Mountain

James - geocache find #2, King Of West Wing Mountain, West Wing Mountain

Me - geocache find #2, King Of West Wing Mountain, West Wing Mountain

A Travel Bug! This is Dark Duck with a view from King of West Wing Mountain; my house is down there somewhere

Dark Duck hitching a ride down the mountain on James' camelbak. We will move Dark Duck to another Phoenix area geocache this week

Cierra's Summer Montage (movie)

Happy Hiking Dog

This picture was taken this morning while hiking East Wing Mountain, in Peoria, AZ. Cierra is a happy dog!

The Lama, The Lake and The Waterfall (movie)

California (movie)

Most of my photos look like those of a tourist and her dog, but my heart is with the firefighters, I learned a great deal during this trip about the work they do and sacrifices they make.