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Tucson EarthCache – Making you Work for it!

lucy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 20:11:08 +0000

Earthcaches are geocaches that teach you about geology in the points of interest that you visit around you.

When in Tucson, I went to the “Leaning Towers of … Arizona” Earth cache which shows you the pinnacles that have been formed over millions of years from different types of minerals and the natural elements of water and wind.

To log the cache – you needed to ‘measure the verticality’ of the pinnacles. What does that mean? Not quite sure….but then the geocacher required you to make a plumb line….what? Here’s the description given…

So I rummaged the tourist backpack and came up with…a carbinger clip, a hairband, and a bottle of water….and put together this below….quite proud of myself – this Earth Cache made me work for it!

This geocache blog post is about finding an EarthCache geocache whilst in Tucson for a geocaching vacation

Interested in knowing more about EarthCache geocaches? This blog entry talks about the certificate levels and this is an example of an Earthcache in Zimbabwe, Africa.

Tucson Geocaching Adventures that take me to a Fantastic Places

lucy — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:36:59 +0000

Do you like to have adventures? Do you like to visit places and wonder what you’ll see, what you could learn?

Geocaching took me on the Catalina Highway in Tucson – and to this rock on the edge of a tourist pullout.

What an amazing adventure to have a picture and experience like this….and yes at the base of the rock is a geocache!

This geocache blog post is about the Tucson Geocaching Adventures that took me to fantastic places

Geocaching with Animals – ‘Moo’ve off the road

lucy — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:25:35 +0000

Geocaching will take you to all sorts of places – especially those back roads that you never see another car for miles.

In this geocache blog post I was driving along this road but had to fight the traffic with the Tucson geocaching locals…asked them to ‘moo’ve off the road

Geocache Hiking in San Diego

lucy — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:24:21 +0000

One thing I love about Geocaching is that it takes you to interesting places – and makes hiking much more interesting. This blog post shares our geocache hike in Penasquitos Canyon in San Diego to find a Waterfall which was also a virtual geocache.

We had a 2 mile hike to the waterfall from the parking lot and we just kept following the Garmin Colorado GPS to take us to the right place. We got there and it was a lovely view.

Then on the other side of the river there was another geocache….we were not sure how to get across and could not see a trail, so decided we would have to cross the river and get wet – it’s worth it for a geocache!

After crossing the river (yes, we got wet!) we had to hike to the top of the hill and then foudn it was pointing towards a huge pile of giant rocks….walked around it but knew what we had to do….go to the top.

We scrambled and huffed and puffed but we finally made it to the top. Got to say the view (and the geocache) was worth the effort!