Los Lunas Hill Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 6/23/2007
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
4 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Rocky, sandy, some smooth, about 5500' elevation, sand temperature when cache placed - 150, no kidding, avoid days over 90 degrees

The cache is a simple rubbermaid container, partially burier in rock. The rock is capped with a remnant from the 1920s when the area was used as a dumby bombing range for the Army Air Corps. Come on up and find out what it is. After it rains the whole mountain explodes with color. The cactus blooms mid summer (about 8 varieties). STAY OFF THE MOUTAIN WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED. The mountain is covered with lava rock from lava flows from Mt Taylor near Grants and the volcanos west of Albuquerque. Because of the numerous (billions) lightning strikes, there are lots of fulgerites. Fulgerites are forms when lightning strikes the sand and fuses the particles together. We have found some in the form of boiling water and most are the tubular form that branch out from the point of contact. There is a formal trail system that has just been completed. Cairns mark the trail with some trail posts. Several parking areas are in the works as the area will soon be surrounded by new housing developments. The Overlook trail is about 7 miles long from the two Village water tanks off NM 6. There are few trees that provide any shade. There is currently one shade structure (nowhere near the cache, but one will be built near the cache by September 07). This is a great place the see the entire Rio Grande Valley. TAKE PLENTY OF WATER!!!! And a lunch. There are Rattlesnakes on the mountian but I have never encountered one or even seen any signs of one and I have spent over a thousand hours on this mountain. When we placed the cache it was the first time any group had hiked the new trail system.

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