Here it is days after the event and I am just getting around to blogging it for the family. The RV park has a very slow internet and it is a long drawn out process blogging with photos, which is what I mostly do. Excuses and whining over....
We slept in a little on the birthday and stayed closer to home, driving to the other side of Grand Junction to spend the day discovering Colorado National Monument.
Some of the geological formations had virtual earth caches attached, so that made us more purposeful in the way we looked at the place.
The spring flowers are still showing off. I know the camera in my phone does not do them justice, but I simply can't quit trying to capture their color and appeal in the semi-arid landscap.
We left the National Park in the mid afternoon. However, the area just outside the park is a recreational area with lots of trails and primitive roads. We headed down McInnis Canyon road a little ways because we saw a number of caches were planted out there. We did only one rock scramble, but it afforded us a fantastic view.
We did only one more hike/climb of any length. It had been described as having "mucho cactus". Now that was an understatement! Colorado cactus is a lot sneakier than AZ cactus. In Arizona, the cactus stands up and is counted... Colorado cactus is short and prickly and hides among rocks and hummocky mounds of other growth...sneaky. The geocache found on this hike was incredible, size wise. We have never seen such a huge cache. It is one for the record books.
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