Easy Now

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N/S ? ??.??? W/E ??? ??.???  [] In Nevada, United States

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This is a geologically themed cache on an inactive volcano. The container is a medium-sized plastic cylinder containing mineral samples, Topo Buck, and a variety of other geologically themed swag. Well worth the hike!

This cache site is a great spot to find volcanic bombs and a variety of unusual mineral crystals that formed in magma deep below the Earth’s surface. See the gallery for photos of some of the rocks and minerals that may be collected here. Enjoy the geology lesson in the cache container; it describes the geology of the area and the rocks and minerals that can be found here.

WAYPOINTS to follow to access cache site:
N38°28.720', W116°03.299' : on the south side of the U.S. Highway 6, where it intersects with the road to Lunar Crater.

N38°26.419', W116°03.481': where a road comes in from the left; turn left and drive southeast along this road.

N38°26.290', W116°02.209': parking lot on the north side of the cinder cone.
The small to medium cache container has many small geologically themed trade items.

Please keep your vehicle on the established roads. Obey laws that prohibit collection or destruction of artifacts. Thank you

Additional Hints ( Decrypt ) 

Decryption Key
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z
(letter above equals below,
and vice versa)

Xrrc ba ebpxva'! (Decrypted Hints)

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Easy Chair Crater, a Quaternary cinder cone.

Easy Chair Crater, a Quaternary cinder cone shaped like an arm chair, is in the Lunar Crater field, Nye County. Girl is holding an unusually large crystal (megacryst) of clinopyroxene, which has odd holes that are about a millimeter in diameter and as long as the crystal (3 centimeters).
Example of amphibole cleavage

Unusually large crystals of several minerals may be found here as inclusions in the lava at at Easy Chair Crater. This is a specimen of a fairly large black amphibole crystal showing characteristic amphibole cleavage angles.
Large glassy clinopyroxene crystal found here

Unusually large crystals of several minerals may be found as inclusions in the lava at this crater. This is a specimen of glassy green clinopyroxene found on th eslopes of Easy Chair Crater.
Variety of minerals

Here is a sampling of the variety of minerals that may be collected at this locality in a relatively short time. Pyroxene, amphibole, olivine, and plagiclase feldspar are fairly common as large crystals within the lavas of Easy Chair Crater.

Logged Visits ( 17 total. Visit the Gallery (13 images) )

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Cache Logs

August 21 by Me & Bucky (7375 found) Bucky & I found this one while cruising south on the fifth day of our trip down to Las Vegas from Northeast Oregon. We stayed last night in the parking lot of Lunar Crater, and would visit several volcanic features, Project Faultless, and the oldest cache in Nevada before getting to Las Vegas by the end of the day. Up to the rim to take some pictures for the EarthCache, then side-sloped inside the crater to the area of the cache. The soil was very soft, and my boots were making tracks about 3" deep. Found the cache quickly, then checked out the different rocks in the area. Thanks for the great cache!! [view this log] Bucky at the Rim of Easy Chair Crater Cone Cache Guardian Bucky at the Easy Now Cache!! South from the Top of the Rim

February 6 by R_and_C (119 found) was there with a professional photographer "doing" the lunar pit area. thanks for the cache sltnln R_and_C [view this log] easy chair pit

November 29, 2008 by SKWERL (3082 found) This was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be when I said "what's another 0.26 miles???" Gaining access to the cache site was a bit more challenging than I'd anticipated from the terrain rating, but there were a lot of great views and interesting formations to keep us occupied. NevadaWolf and I spent a few moments trading rocks (and of course Acorn the Squirrel was there to pose for pictures). Took a couple of rocks, left a signature SKWERL pathtag. The SKWERL [view this log]

November 29, 2008 by NevadaWolf (2799 found) Enjoying caching out in this beautiful state with SKWERL and Team GeoDragon! After the Earthcache, we made our way over here. Wish I'd known about the location and distance for this one beforehand as it would have made it easier and safer. We hiked along the ridge, which wasn't bad but the wind was blowing hard causing my asthma to act up. We ended up above the cliffs and discovered that in fact we needed to be below. I'm comfortable on bare rock, but that direction is the most dangerous approach. Working our way down, we came upon GZ. Note that the large wall is blocking half the sky, so coords are off. Look about 30 feet north for the cache. Made our mark and made our way out of the site. [view this log] Skull rock

September 25, 2008 by Grand High Pobah (16483 found) 7:19. I hiked over to the cache after doing the earthcache. I stayed up a little to long and needed to backtrack down to the level of the cache. TFTC. TNLNSL [view this log]

Current time: 11/22/2009 11:27:22 AM
Last Updated: 8/27/2009 3:09:17 AM
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Coordinates are in the WGS84 datum