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Here are some of my cache hunting (or other) adventures, with a few other items scattered throughout:
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Finding Canyon High
Saturday, 06 April 2002 11:45 AM MST
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Cache Visited: Canyon High by geocircus
Saturday, 6 April 2002 - 11:45 AM MST (-0700) Stunning! How else can I describe the view at this cache site? Words fail me. After my brother and I broke away from the Dusty Trails (or maybe not) event cache by GrizzlyRider and Drifty, this cache was the first on our hit list. We drove up the road from St. George towards Veyo to where the Ivins Red Mountain trail starts, then... Read the rest of this article... Meeting Fellow Cachers At the Dusty Trails (or maybe not) Event Cache
Saturday, 06 April 2002 9:45 AM MST
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Event Cache Visited: Dusty Trails (or maybe not) by GrizzlyRider and Drifty
Saturday, 6 April 2002 - 9:45 AM MST (-0700) My brother and I couldn't resist the chance to stop by at the event cache meeting place on this beautiful April morning and meet some of the faces behind the cache hunter handles we've seen... Read the rest of this article... Cache Hunting Trio Finds Drifty's Virgin Gorge #4 I-15 Rest Area Cache
Saturday, 02 March 2002 5:55 PM MST
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Cache Visited: Virgin Gorge #4 I-15 Rest Area
Saturday, 2 March 2002 - 5:55 P.M. MST (-0700) I was pleasantly surprised that this cache hunt included a very short hike up the hill. I guess I didn't read the description or comments of others very carefully. I was expecting one of those drive-right-up-to-the-cache type hunts. I should have known better, having visited Drifty's two north overlook caches. When we exited the freeway at the Cedar Pockets (a trio of hunters, myself, my brother, and his friend) after having found the Black Rock Exit cache, the sun getting low (and down in the gorge, already hidden from view), my brother, the navigator with my G.P.S. pointed northwest, so we turned up the same road that... Read the rest of this article... Return to Flying Monkey Mesa
Thursday, 30 August 2001 7:30 PM MDT
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Cache Revisited: Flying Monkey Mesa by CodyC
Thursday, 30 August 2001 - 7:30 P.M. MDT (-0600) My youngest brother just got back from serving a full-time mission for the L.D.S. church (www.lds.org) for two years on Tuesday. I decided to introduce him to GPS Stash Hunting (Geocaching) right away. My roommate, my brother, and I drove to the cache site, my brother acting as navigator with the GPS. Once at the site... Read the rest of this article... Drive-By Cache Check-Up at Sunset
Saturday, 04 August 2001 8:40 PM MDT
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Cache Revisited: WEST OF WORK (#4) by MAGNUM (Log of my original find is online here.)
4 August 2001 - 8:40 P.M. MDT (-0600) I was on my way home to St. George, Utah after visiting the State Line Cache about an hour's drive west of Cedar City at the state line between Nevada and Utah, and since the highway I was on went past this cache... Read the rest of this article... A Cache Hunt and a Pleasant Sunset in Cedar City, Utah
Friday, 13 July 2001 9:00 PM MDT
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Cache Found: WEST OF WORK (#4) by MAGNUM
Friday the 13th of July, 2001 - 9:00 P.M. After finding the Skyway to History cache in the foothills of Kanarra Mountain (just a few miles south of Cedar City, Utah), even though the sun had set, I thought I'd try for this cache too while I was in the area. Imagine my surprise when my eTrex led me to the Metalcraft parking lot. Magnum, do you work for Metalcraft? Do you know the big bossman Dave? In the slowly dimming light of a very pleasant sunset... Read the rest of this article... A Skyway to a Reprieve from the Heat
Friday, 13 July 2001 8:40 PM MDT
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Cache Visited: Skyway to History by Tom and Brenda (BIGTom)
4 August 2001 - 8:40 P.M. MDT (-0600) Friday the 13th of June, 2001 - Sometime around 8:30 P.M. I arrived at the large wooden structure beside the road only a few minutes before the sun touched the top of the western hill. It looks like this area is popular with shotgun shooters as there were lots of discarded, spent shotgun casings scattered about. The weather was miraculously wonderful (for someone who spent the day in St. George, Utah where the summer heat was oppressive, and this very evening when I left St. George, it was 103 degrees Farenheit), a cool 79 degrees farenheit according to my thermometer. Admittedly this site is 3300-3500 feet higher in altitude than where I live in St. George. Still, I didn't expect a 24 degree difference in temperature. Maybe the clouds building over the mountains were indicative of a cooler mass of air. The cache was easy to spot beneath... Read the rest of this article... Evening Hunt at Gunlock Reservoir
Wednesday, 11 July 2001 8:55 PM MDT
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Cache Visited: Gunlock Cache
Wednesday, 11 July 2001 - 8:55 PM MDT (-0600) Gunlock Reservoir, Utah This is only my second day ever hunting GPS stashes, so I'm hitting all the ones close by. After a blistering hot Southwestern Utah summer day (100+ degrees Farenheit) I decided to wait for evening in hopes of cooler temperatures. Wise move. The drive from St. George, Utah to Gunlock Reservoir was a pretty one as the sun was setting. The red mountain north of Ivins, Kayenta, and the Shivwits Paiute reservation looks best in the long light of sunset. The Santa Clara river bottom, where the road follows, winding along the side of the river valley, was in places 10-15 degrees cooler than the hot desert air back in St. George. The cooler air beneath the cottonwood trees made the drive very pleasant with all my windows rolled down. Read the rest of this article... My Second Cache Find
Tuesday, 10 July 2001 8:25 PM MDT
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Cache Visited: The Silver One
Tuesday, 10 July 2001 - 8:25 PM MDT (-0600) Hey, thanks for a fun evening jaunt to gorgeous country. Today I found my first cache (Flying Monkey Mesa) and had so much fun that when I got home to St. George, UT, I had to find another nearby cache and go again. I grabbed my roommate and we headed for Leeds and Silver Reef. This cache was my first blind cache, searching without a map. I ended up heading down a dirt road into the ravine or valley due west of the cache, a road blocked near the bottom by a large round boulder. I'm not exactly a skilled 4-wheel-drive in-reverse driver on narrow roads with no room to navigate, but I made it back up. Then I misread my GPS and headed too far south, around the metal gate (if you've explored the dirt roads near the cache you'll know which gate I mean). Finally I got a clue and paused to read the GPS coordinates and compare them to the cache's coordinates like any sane or experienced GPS stash searcher could have told me to. But hey, it's only my second find! I took the green Hot Wheels car and left a shark pen and six one-dollar bills. Perhaps any kids in a cache-finding group would find money and a toy a fun find. - Astounding out. Oh, if this post has a bunch of HTML line break stuff between paragraphs, forgive me as I'm attempting to add a bit of formatting and I'm not terribly familiar with how this web side does such things yet. Got a New GPS - Found My First Cache
Tuesday, 10 July 2001 4:00 PM MDT
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Cache Visited: Flying Monkey Mesa
Tuesday, 10 July 2001 - Afternoon Thanks for a fun cache find. It was my very first. My new eTrex Vista arrived by mail just yesterday and I couldn't wait to try it out. I drove to Hurricane, UT from St. George, UT, and grabbed my father. We looked up the coordinates using Topo! topographic map software, printed out maps with a guesstimated route to the site, and hit the road. When we were almost there I realized I'd forgotten to write down the coordinates, so my GPS unit didn't really guide us to the spot - the map did. Oops! *grin* Read the rest of this article...
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