Papago Park and Riverview

Went on a scavenger hunt puzzle cache and finished this one after dark!

Can you see it!

Melanie walked right up to this one.

Can you figure out where the geocache is?

Some are just simple cute

View for Papago Butte

Martin finally finds one

In our drive for 500, we have been getting off the coach and geocaching locally here in Awatukee and the surrounding areas, We have managed to get 200 and blow past that to now 225!!  We  had a lovely day in the Papago Park area and also went to visit some caches created by a geocaching couple Joey2 that we met a whiel back. Boy, did they have some challenges and creative caches.Thankfully we manged to find a quite a few , but we did notice that a bunch of people have troubel with those ones

Peppersauce Cave with Boy Scouts 10-20-11

I went camping with Phil's Boy scout troup to Mt Lemmon, actually Peppersauce cave. We did some hiking on Mint Springs trail after quite a long trip on dirt roads, about a 45 mile round trip. Glad I had the Jeep. We had quite a traffic Jam as you can see below. We visited the cave and maanged to find a coupel of geocaches, including one at the top of Mt Lemon. On the way home we found a couple of others and dropped off a travel bug.

View from the Mint Springs Trail

Traffic Jam

Faul Foliage beginning



Phil was quite ready for his trip into the cave.I had checked it out earlier with the scoutmasters.

Martin at Peppersauce Cave

Travel Bug we dropped off at Mt Lemon

Our First FTF (First to Find)!

Here's Martin finding the cache - My Favorite Watering Hole. It was in a QT parking lot.  We earned $1 for being the FTF.  What a great ending to a wonderful day!  He's glad I pushed him out the door and within 15 minutes we had our first FTF.

185!

Martin had a plan to get a few geocaches today (47!).  His plan was to do the Sonoran Wildlife Animal series of caches.  They were all named after animals native or inhabited in Arizona.  It was quite fun as you will see below.

Our first cache of the day - 7:30 am!  Little did I know that a few feet behind me was a Western Diamondback rattlesnake. I knew something was up when Martin said, "Uh, honey, stand up."  I figured it was a scorpion so I stood up.  Then he said, "Move slowly this way." At that point, he said I jumped and moved behind him (giving him the death grip, of course).  

Here he is.  I'm glad I didn't know what kind of a snake it was at the time.   Look at that rattler!

Here's Martin finding another one!  Way to go, honey.

We found this magnetic one inside the guardrail.  

Another magnetic one!

 

This is the beautiful view we had all day at McDowell Mountain Regional Park.

We found this cache at Tempe Town Lake.  It was a beautiful day there.  By the time we finished the day, we had found 60!!!!

Moving on, but to 500!?!

Semaphore Puzzle Cache

Phil at "Walkway, What wallway?" cache

Bagel Not - So creative

Bagel Not Cache

Melanie has set an ambitious goal of getting to 500 geocaches by the end of the year, which means we will definitely be getting off the couch. I guess we were both kind of lazy over the summer so on a lovely cool evening here in Arizona we decided to go and do some geocaching.  With a bit of help from another geocacher we found one of our nemisis caches that we had tried 3 times to find. We even managed to drag Phil out to help.

Sedona and a Milestone 9/28/11

Way of the Wildcat geocache hiking off a dirt road

Home on the Porch Cache. Can you spot it?

Corder Junction Ghost Town cache site

Cache at the Seven Sacred Pools

Devils Sinkhole

CoffeePot Rock

Melanie with the Spider at Little Miss Muffet cache

Being Stealthy waiting for muggles to leave at Lync cache

99 Bottles of Beer on the wall 9/25/11

This one had been bugging us for months.

This was aptly named Lucky 13

Well, we finally made it to 99 so we are all set for our trip to Sedona!! We found the remaing 4 here in Ahwatukee, so we have so more smiley faces on our geocaching map for Arizona! We also conquered on of our nemisis caches, which was #99.