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Saturday, 28 January 2006 5:00 PM MST
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 Fascinating Sky Over the Rio VirginCache Found: A Bridge Over Troubled Water by call2teachfamily
Saturday, 28 January 2006 - 5:00 PM MST (-0700) Found at last!  Nests on the BridgeYou might not know it, but there's been an unregistered cache hidden only 50 feet away in the rocks by the trail since March of 2003 (Wednesday, 19 March 2003 at 3:45 PM MST (-0700) to be precise). I hid it when my sister from Colorado was visiting, then promptly forgot to register it with Geocaching.com. I even visited it again in the summer of 2003 (Saturday, 20 Sept. 2003 at 7:00 PM MDT (-0600), with a friend) with the intent to register it.
 The Setting SunThat's what I get for not being diligent in registering it with www.geocaching.com. Besides, I love the name you picked for this cache, and I love the little bit of history of the Quail Creek Reservoir dike-break flood of 01 January 1989 washing out the bridge that you included in the cache, call2teachfamily!
 Spiky SilhouetteI took a Dory toy (You know, Dory from "Finding Nemo") and left a "Polar Express" DVD in exchange.
 Riverside Grass Silhouette Another SilhouetteAfter writing in the log book, I extracted the old 2003 cache from the nook in the rocks by the bike/walking trail. Apparently it didn't survive the January floods of 2005 unscathed. It was completely submerged by the flood. In spite of an otherwise weather-proof plastic jar container, the contents inside were still soaked, though the log book was only damp, having had an additional layer of protection in the form of a ziploc plastic bag.
It was surprising to see that lewmil, who registered a find of this cache on the 13th of December 2005, apparently stumbled across my old unregistered cache a day earlier on the 12th, and made a note entry in the log book. Wow! That's funny.  Sky Over Bloomington Hill Power Pole SilhouetteI've removed the unregistered cache so no one else will accidentally find it and think that it it this cache. I'll go hid it somewhere else once I clean it up and dry it out.
Thanks, call2teachfamily, for a fun evening find! Oh, and the sunset was absolutely stunning. I stuck around for over an hour just to watch the colors change in the sky. Then I grew impatient and left shortly before the sun broke through the clouds on the horizon and lit up the whole sky in a blaze of glorious color, illuminating the clouds from beneath. When I did notice, looking up out my car window, I immediately pulled over and snapped a few more pictures of the sky. -Astounding St. George, Utah | |