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.

Preparing for Sedona

Who knew there'd be on in the fence post?

We are going camping in Sedona in a couple of weeks, so Melanie thought it would be a good idea to celebrate finding out 100th Geocache when we are in Sedona. Since we were on number 91, and the weather is a little cooler, we thought we had better get out there.

We found 5 more today so we will have to find a few more next weekend.  There were a couple of very creative designs.

Martin found this one!

Cute one

Braving the heat 9/4/11

Can you spot the Geocache?

After a month of inactivity and a cancelled camping trip (due to me breaking one of my toes again), I swear the walls moved and the withdrawal shakes got the better of me so we had to go and brave the heat geocaching in Arizona.  We found a couple of very creative caches. Have a look and see if you can guess where the geocahse is in the photo. Answer is below.

We found this large geocache under a fake cable utility box. It still amazes us the creativity that some people have.  We dropped off a couple of travel bugs to continue their journey.

The most ingenious cache of the day - someone painted some pipes with the same color as the utility boxes and used magnets to attach them.  The log book was in the pipe.

Log was in the pipe!

Camping, Fishing, Hiking and Geocaching in Flagstaff - July 2011

We had such a great time on our first camping trip that we went to Flagstaff for our second camping trip just after the Fourth of July.

Of course, we did some geocaching on our trip.   "Indie" Martin found this one inside the "Well of Souls" at the top of a steep hill on the Fatman's Loop Trail.   He made it up and down without bodily injury, thank goodness.  He found a traveling bug that we discovered came from Germany and is making its way to Mexico.  We will place it in a local geocache and hope someone will get it to its desired destination.

Martin caught this very large Pike fish on Lake Mary.  He caught 7 or 8 fish in all.  I caught 3, but they were much smaller than this fish.  We even saw a huge bird swoop down for a fish not 10 feet in front of us.  That was an awesome sight to see.

We went to Walnut Canyon National Monument to see the cliff dwellings.  It was a steep trail, but we made it and took some great photos along the way.  I'm sure Martin will be thrilled when I am done seeing cliff dwellings.  

Who says you can't camp in style?

 Not as large a fish as Martin's, but I was excited.  I couldn't believe I actually caught one that was bigger than my fist.

 I was caught between a rock and a hard place at Walnut Canyon National Monument.

We had another wonderful trip camping, hiking, fishing and geocaching.  We are planning future excursions in September!

Our First Camping Trip - Flagstaff Gone Wild!

Martin-Griffith Spring Trail in Flagstaff

Look at me.  I can be on both sides at once!

Martin and I planned our first camping trip to Sedona in June.  Yes, I know the title says Flagstaff Gone Wild!  That's because Sedona had no available campsites so we ended up at the Flagstaff KOA.  It was disappointing at first, but we adapted quickly and ended up having a great time!  It was nice to know that we could have as much fun on the road as we have at home.

King of the Hill finding the geocache at the top!

Martin-Lava Tube Cave in Flagstaff

Melanie-Lava Tube Cave in Flagstaff preparing for 30 degree weather!

Way too close to the edge, Martin!