Mark and I went geocaching down 115 to Brush Hollow Reservoir. In several of the captions I have links to more information about some of the locations and history.
The caches we found - these are linked, click for the cache pages:
Wonderful View
Robin and Little John
Belated Anniversary
9-er/Axe
Pet Cemetery
Deadman's Canyon
Schaeffer Dam
Fremont Cache Box
Abe's Hideaway
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| Robin and Little John is a cache that is a fake rock. Sherlock takes a break sitting in the cache cavity. |
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| Sherlock proudly displays one of the day's harder finds - Belated Anniversary. |
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| Sherlock of course needed the obligatory picture at the May Museum Giant Bug near one of the caches. |
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| The next cache was at the Pet Cemetery. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2441016 |
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| One of the owners placed a cache to bring visitors to his pet. |
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| Sherlock checked in with the Hound of the Baskervilles.... |
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| So do you think that is the family surname or just for the pets? |
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| Several owners placed pet collars at the graves. |
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| I think this is the oldest headstone I noted. Newest was last year. |
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| We next went on to Henry Harkins's grave at Deadman's Canyon a.k.a. Sawmill Gulch. He was killed by the Espinosa gang. |
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| Remnants of the original 1863 headstone barely remain. Coins are on top of the grave to ward off his ghost. |
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| Sherlock checks in with a dinosaur at the Schaeffer Dam cache. |
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| Schaeffer Dam was on Beaver Creek to the line drawn. It failed in the flood of 1921. |
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| Beaver Creek passing under 115 today. |
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| The old Penrose downtown along the banks of Beaver Creek. The Pen-Mac Hotel, the tall distant building behind the car, still stands on Broadway Street east of 115, but most of the other buildings are gone. |
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| A Kestrel sitting on top of an irrigation wheel near Beaver Creek. |
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| Brush Hollow Reservoir |
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| Abe's Hideaway. Inside the lid of this camouflaged pill bottle a penny is glued. Hence the name of the cache. |
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| Sherlock visits Abe. |
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| Brush Hollow Reservoir |
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| Mark is looking for a cache but we find out this is the wrong side to approach from. |
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| There was more snow here than in town and a fog/mist hung over the valley into the afternoon. |
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| The Red Baron buzzed us at the reservoir. |
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| Brush Hollow Reservoir supplies the water for Penrose today instead of Lake McNeil, which had been behind the Schaeffer Dam when it failed. |
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| Brush Hollow Reservoir |
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| Mallards create wakes as they cross the reservoir. |
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| Gold and silver |
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| Happy Trails |
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