of barbershop, canyons, and caching

Full, fun weekend for two.  We finally got around to checking out the Chinese restaurant we kept meaning to try out when we lived here 7 years ago.  It is worth going again, which we plan to do soon.

We took in the area Barbershop Chorus and Quartets annual concert.  I don't remember going to any concert at which I smiled and laughed more.  The guys are from both Delta and Montrose Counties and except for 3 or 4, are all retirement age plus (I'm fairly certain a few were crowding 80.) They were a hoot. Listening to Barbershop harmony just makes me smile, anyway. They had the Sweet Adalines as guest to do several numbers, and a pro quartet of guys in their twenties finish out the program with a 40 minute segment.  Loved it all!

Dominguez Canyon overlook

Sight seeing at elevations under 9,000 ft. is finished until after the first frost.  The bugs nearly drove us nuts.  I have so many itching bug bits on my neck, throat and scalp; I'm not wanting a repeat.

When I return from Arizona at the end of the month, we will head to the San Juan mountains on the weekends.  I love alpine tundra; primitive roads and off road trails are about the only way to see it.  By the first of July most of the snow should be gone on most of the passes.

A gorgeous day on the Western Slope of Colorado

Today we met one of the local geocachers who Karl has communicated with online.  He had put up a new set of geocaches a couple weeks ago, and no one had gone out to find them yet, so when Karl consulted him, per telephone, on what would be a special geocache to discover for our 500th find he said to come out to Orchard City Park.  He wanted to meet us and would love for us to be the first to find his brand new six stage multi-cache.  So that is what we did for our 500th.  He walked it with us to observe how close he had figured his coordinates comparing to our GPS and see how much difficulty or ease we might have in finding each stage.  A really nice guy in his late 70's, he and Karl have made tentative plans to cache together while I'm gone to Arizona over the next couple weeks.  When Karl suggested it to him, he perked up.  He does not own a high clearance vehicle and has been wanting to catch a few interesting ones that he just hasn't been able to get to in the area.

Just found our 500th geocache