Jemez Caldera
A Kansas Heartland Geocache
It started out as an
up-coming trip to west of Seattle, Washington, for a wedding in the
family. Then we considered driving instead of flying. Then, the
thought that if we drove that far, why don't we swing through New
Mexico "on the way back" and visit some good friends from old
times. And then the trip plans just went crazy. We visited every
state west of Kansas within a timespan of A WEEK AND A HALF, except
for Utah, and that was because forest fires were killing people
driving through on the highway that we initially planned on
taking.
During our visit with good
friends in New Mexico, they took us on a tour of the Jemez
Mountains. We visited a spot in the middle of the Jemez
Caldera, the largest supervolcano in the United States. When at
the site, the place looks like a grassy plain with wildlife and
some hills off in the distance, except that the hills way out there
in the distance are actually the rim of the top of an ancient
volcano. That was an awesome site.
We also hiked the Las
Conchas Canyon trails. That was one of the most beautiful sites any
of us had ever seen. I pictured New Mexico to be a desert state,
and here we find paradise.
You are looking for a black
ammo box with a cantuland-geocache-logo painted on the sides.
Original contents include a Guide to Geocaching, a Sacagawea gold dollar
coin, a Kansas quarter, a Lewis-and-Clark edition nickel, one of
those new-Lincoln-image-on-the-back pennies, an old wheat penny,
and lots of other miscellaneous trade items.
Congratulations to SilleB for being First To
Find!
See waypoint GCQAR5 for the next Heartland
Geocache.
REMEMBER:
- Make the fair trade.
- Log your visit.
- Leave the site better than you found
it.
- Protect the environment —
always.
- Educate those around you.
- Find another cache!
Good luck, and may all your cache dreams
come true.
—cantuland
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