Palisade and Sanpete (Jared's Wedding Day)

Saturday, 17 July 2010

My brother got married today in Manti, Utah.. I had planned on geocaching my way from there to home between the wedding and the reception, but my uncle Dan and aunt Lynette mentioned that they were going to go up to Palisade State Park and said I could come too, I knew there were caches to find there and they had been wanting to try out geocaching and see what it is that I'm always off doing, so we found a few, I gave them the GPS and they were quick learners, found them quite well!

First we found Palisade State Park (V2), a nice big ammo can along the roadside.





From there we went down the street and found Life at Palisade, a micro that was cleverly hidden.


I gave Dan and Lynette the GPS and they led the way to Welcome to 6-mile!, a tiny cache on the guardrail, they were impressed with how small these can be.







We also tried Palisade Road, but couldn't find that one.

From there we split up, but of course I couldn't resist getting a few more on the way home... I found "Deer" Cindy, A summer snow man !!, Charlie and Milo.

Night caching in Palmyra

Friday, 16 July 2010

There were a few new caches published this evening, I have recently enjoyed trying to get all the local new caches the first day they come out, so I went after them. Nothing too exiting, I was at Look, George... There's Josh! and a new one was published, so i hurried and got Cache Maintenance and Cache Permanence and started out after it just as I got a text from Jay that he and Ben were going after it too, since it was hidden by Ben's friend Trevor. We met at it, found it together and I headed home, hiding a couple and finding IM A GEOCACHER NOT A DOCTOR before calling it a night.








- night caching!

Diamond Fork Canyon with firennice

Dick asked me what I was doing, I was watching a movie in bed and being lazy, he convinced me to go for an evening adventure and I picked Diamond Fork Canyon, I love that place.

We started out at Entertainment Tonight (GC1277M) , which I had previously found but he had not.

From there we found a little old dirt road and followed it to the end, hiding two caches. It was a "wee-fun-jaunt."


We did our usual goofing off and found and hid more caches... We were both feeling pretty lazy and complained the whole time hiking up the hill to Our First, for kids by Our kids (GC1TPPA) , I mean... it was like 200 feet!


Dick had to sit on the can for a while when we got there.


I think it's beautiful around there.



I grabbed Tree of Friendship by Woottons (GC1VGTY) while Dick sat in the Jeep "so nothing would get stolen." What a good friend!

We stopped by my cache The Sun Also Rises Again (GC13BXK) and hiked around, took picture of the old sun carving and some rock climbers and enjoyed that little gem of red rock, great area.







The next stop was cow pies and cactus by Art Vandalay (GC1HK3X), it really lived up to its name... plenty of both around. Dick did an Ammo Can photoshoot for me. I liked the one where I couldn't see his face.





From there we went to the trailhead to hike up to the hot pots and found The Latrine M*A*S*H Cache by Col. Henry Blake (GC23QGE), Dick's GPS was pointing to the right spot, mine was 110' off... not sure what that's all about. Another Ammo Can, it was apparently National Ammo Can Day.





We couldn't find Moonshadow - Cat Stevens by Dawg the Cat (GC1HZ46).

We stopped by a spring and goofed off some more... stinky stinky sulphur...


Mmmmm delicious sulphur water.

We were headed home for the night and noticed that were were going by the road that goes to Mollies Nipple by I Am Lost Again (GC1ECX7), it hadn't been found in about 2 years and we decided that even though it was dark we would take the 7 mile detour and go grab that one too... We battled cattle and mice but finally arrived and hiked up to it.

Name Challenges

I was up in Salt Lake County for work so I stopped to grab a couple of "Challenge Caches" that were recently published, a Challenge Cache is a cache that, in order to log as found you have to in addition to finding it also complete a geocaching related task or goal, for example "Find a cache in each county in the state." Challenge caches have become pretty popular lately and people are getting creative, these two were "to find caches named for people's first names, and one for each letter of the alphabet." and "to find 10 caches, 5 duplicates of cache names using the same first name," here are my lists...

Eeny, Minnie, Miny, Moe - A Name Challenge
A - Allen's Town Cache GC85BB
B - Bubba's First GC11GXT
C - Chancy's Home GC12JZA
D - Denali's Cliff GC3E9
E - Elmo's Cache GCFA19
F - Franklin the Swimmer GCE2A4
G - GordaMickey GC1843
H - Hap GC8214
I - Ingvar Kamprad's Pride & Joy GCJBAZ
J - Jacob's Canyon (named for me by my friend Patti) GC132BN
K - Kai's Cache GCH7P0
L - Lee's Ferry - Emma's Cabin GC81C5
M - Mike's Memorial GCC5D
N - Noah's Ark GC8AD0
O - Obi Wan Kenobi - Jedi GC1JTH1
P - Paul Bunyon's Woodpile GCC68
Q - Qui-Gon Jinn - Jedi - Star Wars Series GC1JVM6
R - Richard Sanner Gazebo Cache GCB6CF
S - Shirley You Jest GC874F
T - Terra GCB5D
U -
V - Victor Cem GCZZ7J
W - William Blackstone Memorial GCDFBF
X - xander GC1A99A
Y - Yoda - Jedi GC1JVM5
Z - Zeke's Hole GCTDT7

The Name’s the Same Challenge

1. Jacob
- I Less Than Three Jacob GC23J8B
- Jacob's Canyon GC132BN
- Jacob and Jay's date night cache GC1X65A
- Jacob's Senior Center GC22EJA
- Bases Covered OR "Jacob's Eye Exam" GC22F5Y
- Jacob Lake Riches GC1CC8T

2. Benjamin
- Benjamin's Bell GCG5HX
- Benjamin With A Twist GCTA1A
- Benjamin's Lethal Cache GCRYYT

3. Brian
- Our Date with Brian and Jac0b GC27XYN
- Brian's Christmas Present Cache GC1849Y
- Brian Myalgia GC19HM1
- Brian's Urban Mini Cache GC21A

4. Dave
- Dave's cache GC1NZZX
- Dave's 1000th found cache GC1AC89
- caching dave GC224DM
- A forgetten Bridge (Dave) GC1EY2J

5. Daniel
- Who is this Daniel guy anyway? GCYBQC
- Daniel's Scouting Cache #1 GC21TH7
- Daniel Wood...Pioneer "Quiet" Place GC1ZT3Q

While in the area I stopped to find one more cache, USED TIRES ?! #2. I found it in the same spot where I have both found a cache previously and owned a cache previously.

Squaw Peak Road

I randomly ended up at the Squaw Peak Overlook with my cousin and several friends, just hanging out and taking pictures, I remembered that there was a new unfound cache further up and several others I still needed to find so when they went down the mountain I went up and had a fun afternoon caching in the mountains. The first cache was a first to find on : Finally a smooth road.

I had read the log previous where Nolan had been unable to find it so I assumed the coordinates must be bad, I looked a little at the coordinates but assuming he had searched that area I moved out and looked in all kinds of other places, before giving up and leaving I noticed I had a little bit of phone service so I called Dick, the hider and asked him about it... He told me where it was and yup, there it was... within 2 feet of the coordinates.

From there I went to a nearby letterbox cache and couldn't find it, but I hid one at the trail to it.

I found a nice old cache after that, Rock Canyon Overlook and took a travel bug You Rock TB.













I then found Pluto's Cache, I wasn't sure how to get to it but eventually spotted a dirt road that took me almost to it. A nice Ammo Can off in the woods.



A little further down the road I parked and hiked down to Forest Gnome, an ammo can with a garden gnome sitting by it way off in the woods, I didn't bring my camera because the hike was through some thick stuff but I should have for that one.

And the last cache of the day as the sun was starting to go down was Butterfly Circle Letterbox.