Hike: Roughly 1/4 mile from Cottonwood Trailhead, or 1/2 mile round-trip
Terrain: Mostly smooth on well-established trails, slight elevation gain out of the arroyo up to the cache location.
Difficulty: Traditional 50 caliber ammo can cache, should be easy to spot when you get to GZ.
No field puzzle.
I carved this stamp for a letterboxing event called "Love From a Distance: Spread Hearts, Not Covid" which was held virtually in January 2021. The idea of this was to bring together our community and share the love of letterboxing, stamp making, and the outdoors, while apart and keeping safe distances. All of the stamps for this event include a heart and have the theme of sharing love. I thought it would be fun to share some hearts with the Geocaching community as well.
The Galesteo Basin Preserve is a great place to share the love of the trails at a safe distance. It is one of my favorite places to hike and take my dogs. There are some great views without too difficult of terrain.
This letterbox can be found at the published coordinates. It is about 1/4 mile walk up from Cottonwood Trailhead. It is relatively smooth terrain and not very steep.
I noticed that the Preserve didn't yet have any classic ammo can caches, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to create one. This location seemed nice, with views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains to the northeast, views of the Ortiz Mountains to the southwest, and "The Wave" to the south.
There is no ink in the box, so if you want a copy of the stamp, please bring your own, I would suggest red. Happy caching!
As always, please do not take the letterbox stamp.
The Galisteo Basin Preserve is public open space, open from sunrise to sunset. There is spotty phone service in the area, so I'd suggest downloading the cache information for offline mode.
Circle Poem Letterboxes in this series:
Arroyo Hondo:
I-25 Glorieta Pass:
Eldorado at Santa Fe:
Galisteo Basin Preserve (near Lamy):
Pueblos del Sol, Santa Fe:
Rancho Viejo, Santa Fe:
Dorothy Stewart Trail, Santa Fe:
Sandia Heights/Albuquerque:
Lompoc, CaliforniaPart of the Landsat GeoTour (cache owned by LandsatInLompoc):