Thursday, July 21, 2016

Driving through the mountains and geocaching

Spent a fun day just driving along different canyon roads and looking for geocaches.  We picked up 11 today and found another travel bug and a geocoin.  I took lots of pictures because Delaney would not be happy with me if I didn't.  You can see the views and some of the caches below.

David got the first find of the day in a cammo rock.

This one was staring us in the face as we looked all over at ground level.

View looking across at Park City from Deer Valley

This one baffled us yesterday, but we returned again today with a new perspective and found it (see next picture)

Its a magnetic micro stuck behind the sign.  Tiny little scrolled log to sign.

This one was lodged in the rock next to the sign.

David spotted this one before I even approached the electric pole. (See the up close shot below)

Tiny little capsule hanging about 7 ft up on a nail!
 We drove into SLC to have a look at the capitol building and the tabernacle, but decided not to hang around and wait for rush hour traffic to build.



 This was our picnic spot after we returned to the canyons.
 With highs in the 90s, it was lovely to sit by this stream at 9000 ft and just relax (temp maybe 80 or so).



 We found several travel bugs.  I thought the moose was adorable, but he wanted to see other mountains (and maybe some hills), so I decided a trip to Kansas was probably not on his 'to do' list.  We took the civil war soldier instead (he has a union uniform on one side and confederate on the other).  He wants to travel to civil war battlefields, so we'll see what we can do.

The view from the summit was fabulous.  I don't know how far we could see, but it seemed like forever.

 Real moose!!  (Not the travel bug kind)

 Beaver lodge.  We also saw a beaver dam along a stream, but were unable to get close to the travel bug that was hidden near by.  We did manage to get scraped up a bit and walked through a bunch of sticker burrs and thistle, but emerged mostly unscathed from our adventures.

 View of Heber and the reservoir.

We were the first to find this newly placed geocache.  The clue was "follow the arrow", couldn't be more obvious!

We haven't had any rain, but the thunderheads were building in the distance.  Really pretty!

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