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Weekend Hiking
Have been getting some hiking in every day for the past 3 days- feels good - like training for the daily hikes in Yellowstone in just a few short weeks.
Friday we took the entire core (70+ kids) down 6 1/2 miles of the Monument Canyon trail in Colorado National Monument. With bus schedules dictating our day ... and a return trip to the "bus barn" after leaving the school, to trade buses as something was broken and the first bus could not make the trip up into the Monument.... we had a mere 3 1/2 hours to make the entire trek . . . a process I lovingly call the "death march". It turned out to be a great day, though... the kids were all troopers and I think most if not all of them had some fun! Here are a few being eaten by FROG ROCK! LOL!
Yesterday I grabbed a friend who was with me when we missed a cache.... ended up on a trail way above the desired location... so, looking down on it some weeks ago, we pledged to return.... Turned out to be "Mike the Headless Chicken" Days in Fruita so the area was alive... and there was a "Hike for Mike" event going on in the very same area we were headed for. We discovered that the Mike this event was dedicated to was a fellow science teacher that died while on a field trip with students - hiking to Delicate Arch a couple of years ago. The proceeds will be used to help fund the extension of our riverfront trail - hopefully from one end of the valley to the other someday! After we went and retrieved the cache... I dug in my pocket and found enough to sponsor myself in the hike... seemed like a fitting memorial and a good cause! Today I called another friend (don't want to burn out hiking buddies!).. and off we went to walk down a streambed strewn with petroglyphs (technically pictographs, I believe)... headed to the Colorado River. A little over 2 miles each way.. and such a beautiful day! The cactus are just starting to bloom. So nice
She found the first stage of this multi-cache!
The Indian Paintbrush is in bloom- this is one of the largest clumps I have ever seen!
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Above.... look deep under the overhang to see the pictographs
and the claret cup cacti are just beginning to open up... my favorite!
Prickly pear cactus blossoms and yucca blooms in background
More pictographs...
No picture of the final adventure... there was another geocache just across the road when we got back to the parking area... so I headed over to grab it. Finding it under the juniper tree was no problem.. a large cookie tin covered with rocks. I moved the camo and reached for the can when the bright pattern of yellow and black caught my eye from under the can. Three coils of a snake, about and inch in diameter, were visible - it never moved, but I was frozen in my tracks... pretty sure I wasn't brave enough to continue retrieving ... and then replacing the can. But a bit hesitant to replace the camo, also. Finally I decided it was happy where it was and would allow me to push the rocks up around the can. I'll save signing THAT log for another day!
Friday we took the entire core (70+ kids) down 6 1/2 miles of the Monument Canyon trail in Colorado National Monument. With bus schedules dictating our day ... and a return trip to the "bus barn" after leaving the school, to trade buses as something was broken and the first bus could not make the trip up into the Monument.... we had a mere 3 1/2 hours to make the entire trek . . . a process I lovingly call the "death march". It turned out to be a great day, though... the kids were all troopers and I think most if not all of them had some fun! Here are a few being eaten by FROG ROCK! LOL!
Yesterday I grabbed a friend who was with me when we missed a cache.... ended up on a trail way above the desired location... so, looking down on it some weeks ago, we pledged to return.... Turned out to be "Mike the Headless Chicken" Days in Fruita so the area was alive... and there was a "Hike for Mike" event going on in the very same area we were headed for. We discovered that the Mike this event was dedicated to was a fellow science teacher that died while on a field trip with students - hiking to Delicate Arch a couple of years ago. The proceeds will be used to help fund the extension of our riverfront trail - hopefully from one end of the valley to the other someday! After we went and retrieved the cache... I dug in my pocket and found enough to sponsor myself in the hike... seemed like a fitting memorial and a good cause! Today I called another friend (don't want to burn out hiking buddies!).. and off we went to walk down a streambed strewn with petroglyphs (technically pictographs, I believe)... headed to the Colorado River. A little over 2 miles each way.. and such a beautiful day! The cactus are just starting to bloom. So nice
She found the first stage of this multi-cache!
The Indian Paintbrush is in bloom- this is one of the largest clumps I have ever seen!
.
Above.... look deep under the overhang to see the pictographs
and the claret cup cacti are just beginning to open up... my favorite!
Prickly pear cactus blossoms and yucca blooms in background
More pictographs...
No picture of the final adventure... there was another geocache just across the road when we got back to the parking area... so I headed over to grab it. Finding it under the juniper tree was no problem.. a large cookie tin covered with rocks. I moved the camo and reached for the can when the bright pattern of yellow and black caught my eye from under the can. Three coils of a snake, about and inch in diameter, were visible - it never moved, but I was frozen in my tracks... pretty sure I wasn't brave enough to continue retrieving ... and then replacing the can. But a bit hesitant to replace the camo, also. Finally I decided it was happy where it was and would allow me to push the rocks up around the can. I'll save signing THAT log for another day!
A Repost ....... Or Two ...... A coin on a meaningless journey.
So close yet so far.
Purpose has faded.
So has a heart.
February 1, 2008 7:12 PM
letting the warm breezes of a summer evening flow over her sun baked mind.
"There has to be a reason I'm here." She thought. Her life had been one of friends coming and going. And once gone .... they never seemed to return. She looked to the stars ....
to find an answer. It was slow to come. Thoughts rolled .... memories of times past. Laughs and good times .... the anticipation of sharing ....
A lightening bug flew past slowly right then. Not in any hurry to get where he needed to be. "Are you lonely too?" she asked. He flashed ..... circled and returned as if to say yes. She held out her hand ..... he landed.
No words were spoken ..... silence was shared ..... she just shed a tear as he lifted and flew off into the night with one last flash. "seems once they are gone .... they are gone." As she lifted her eyes back to the stars she realized she wasn't completely alone .... she had friends in the stars .... friends in nature .... and most importantly she realized that what friends she had was all that she needed .... to have purpose.
Peace. J.
November 6, 2007 7:45 PM
So close yet so far.
Purpose has faded.
So has a heart.
February 1, 2008 7:12 PM
She Sat On The Porch ....
this is your brain on drugs"There has to be a reason I'm here." She thought. Her life had been one of friends coming and going. And once gone .... they never seemed to return. She looked to the stars ....
to find an answer. It was slow to come. Thoughts rolled .... memories of times past. Laughs and good times .... the anticipation of sharing ....
A lightening bug flew past slowly right then. Not in any hurry to get where he needed to be. "Are you lonely too?" she asked. He flashed ..... circled and returned as if to say yes. She held out her hand ..... he landed.
No words were spoken ..... silence was shared ..... she just shed a tear as he lifted and flew off into the night with one last flash. "seems once they are gone .... they are gone." As she lifted her eyes back to the stars she realized she wasn't completely alone .... she had friends in the stars .... friends in nature .... and most importantly she realized that what friends she had was all that she needed .... to have purpose.
Peace. J.
Evil Cow Pie
You know it can't be good when you open up your email to a message:
Evil Cow Pie contacting you from Geocaching.com:
Evil Cow Pie posted a note for Charmed Bug (Travel Bug Dog Tag) at 4/25/2008
Log Date: 4/25/2008
Sad to say, but my double wide ammo box.....subscriber-only cache...was muggled along with this darling bug inside. Will place on my watchlist and keep my fingers crossed that it will re-appear someday.
Another cache muggled ..... another travel bug gone .....
Such is my life .......
Peace. J.
Evil Cow Pie contacting you from Geocaching.com:
Evil Cow Pie posted a note for Charmed Bug (Travel Bug Dog Tag) at 4/25/2008
Log Date: 4/25/2008
Sad to say, but my double wide ammo box.....subscriber-only cache...was muggled along with this darling bug inside. Will place on my watchlist and keep my fingers crossed that it will re-appear someday.
Another cache muggled ..... another travel bug gone .....
Such is my life .......
Peace. J.
Troubled Waters
Woke up to a newly posted cache called "Troubled Waters" and it was just about 6 miles from home. So I quickly changed out of my pj's and with Dave in tow headed out for a first to find .... hopefully.
No luck. And the ground around was pretty tore up ..... so either someone had been there prior to myself or the hider was fairly sloppy. I went to where the GPS took me within a few feet and checked all the logical hiding spots. Nothing. Pretty soon here comes my biggest pain in the butt fellow geocacher "hafhas" ..... and I concede the first to find to him ..... when he tells me that I am not the first out there who did not find and finally drove away giving up. And off he goes to find. He didn't find it either. Now this is on a extremely steep hillside ..... which just sucked. My legs are telling me so. Bastard. Finally we all gave up and drove off disgusted.
I was the first to post the no find. And questioned his clues, his hiding abilities and a few other things. In the nicest way possible of course. Next thing you know he posts that he had gone out and checked and all is well ... and gives a new clue ..... "its steep" ...... NO FUCKING SHIT ASSHOLE! I had complained about the fact that it was steep in my previous no find post ..... I knew it was steep ...... and also with this new clue .... "come on now, you are the expert ...." talk about setting me off ..... so off I go again ..... pissed as hell .... and bound and determined to find this son of a bitch.
Dave stays home this time so I take Petey. Well, I rolled down the fucking hill and now have some bumps and bruises to prove it. Petey was no help. Except for licking the bloody wounds. Sitting in the truck .... bewildered and angry .... staring at the hillside .... I realized this jerk is out of his fucking mind. So I drove home again and told him so. Told him the next time I needed a butt load of abuse I'd head out and look for that son of a bitch again. Bastard.
****heavy sigh****
On my second beer ..... trying to calm these geo-nerves down. What kind of a freaking clue is "its steep" ...... holy fucking cow ..... no shit Sherlock .....
Ok ..... done ranting ..... off to the shop to sit in front of the wood stove and contemplate madness ..... grrrrr !
Peace. J.
No luck. And the ground around was pretty tore up ..... so either someone had been there prior to myself or the hider was fairly sloppy. I went to where the GPS took me within a few feet and checked all the logical hiding spots. Nothing. Pretty soon here comes my biggest pain in the butt fellow geocacher "hafhas" ..... and I concede the first to find to him ..... when he tells me that I am not the first out there who did not find and finally drove away giving up. And off he goes to find. He didn't find it either. Now this is on a extremely steep hillside ..... which just sucked. My legs are telling me so. Bastard. Finally we all gave up and drove off disgusted.
I was the first to post the no find. And questioned his clues, his hiding abilities and a few other things. In the nicest way possible of course. Next thing you know he posts that he had gone out and checked and all is well ... and gives a new clue ..... "its steep" ...... NO FUCKING SHIT ASSHOLE! I had complained about the fact that it was steep in my previous no find post ..... I knew it was steep ...... and also with this new clue .... "come on now, you are the expert ...." talk about setting me off ..... so off I go again ..... pissed as hell .... and bound and determined to find this son of a bitch.
Dave stays home this time so I take Petey. Well, I rolled down the fucking hill and now have some bumps and bruises to prove it. Petey was no help. Except for licking the bloody wounds. Sitting in the truck .... bewildered and angry .... staring at the hillside .... I realized this jerk is out of his fucking mind. So I drove home again and told him so. Told him the next time I needed a butt load of abuse I'd head out and look for that son of a bitch again. Bastard.
****heavy sigh****
On my second beer ..... trying to calm these geo-nerves down. What kind of a freaking clue is "its steep" ...... holy fucking cow ..... no shit Sherlock .....
Ok ..... done ranting ..... off to the shop to sit in front of the wood stove and contemplate madness ..... grrrrr !
Peace. J.
Somewhat Subjectless
Another Saturday gone.
The mind is fleeting in so many directions ..... and to choose a single topic right now to attempt to post about is just not in the picture.
Think I will just crawl into bed and snuggle with Petey. Who knows when Dave will find his way in from the shop. Its still chilly here ..... very.
Petey is snoring ..... and that sounds mighty inviting ..... sleep.
If the sun shines tomorrow I believe a bit of caching may be in order ..... again, its been awhile since me and Petey have had a good mom / dog day ..... we are due. So think the geo-dog will accompany me.
Sweetest of dreams to you all ...... and a wonderful Sunday too.
Peace. Julie
The mind is fleeting in so many directions ..... and to choose a single topic right now to attempt to post about is just not in the picture.
Think I will just crawl into bed and snuggle with Petey. Who knows when Dave will find his way in from the shop. Its still chilly here ..... very.
Petey is snoring ..... and that sounds mighty inviting ..... sleep.
If the sun shines tomorrow I believe a bit of caching may be in order ..... again, its been awhile since me and Petey have had a good mom / dog day ..... we are due. So think the geo-dog will accompany me.
Sweetest of dreams to you all ...... and a wonderful Sunday too.
Peace. Julie
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