Logs for Nikkchick
16-Sep-21
Wow! This may have been my first ever find from 2000! Out on Lake Powell with my family for the week and I was excited to grab some caches here - though a bit nervous, since I was so close to my 60-day streak and I noticed there were only a handful of caches here.
Something I was surprised about - the water levels are WAY lower here than when many of the caches were hidden, so most finds now are going to be either a rock climb or a hike.
This was my third and final find at Lake Powell, and it was such a great way to end the week. After reading the most recent logs, we thought we could try getting through the thin area with paddle boards and kayaks instead but we also got to a place where it was too tight to keep going forward and the walls were way too high to even consider climbing. The coordinates for the beach in the most recent log helped tremendously - we parked at another little sandy area nearby since a houseboat was occupying the beach at the exact coordinates.
We started the hike from here - though the temperatures seem to be cooling down, it still felt like we were walking through a desert - especially since I managed to forget my water! My map said 1.2 miles but it may have been ended up being 1.5 or so to get to the cache. There was a flash flood in this canyon a few weeks ago, so we had to go around the mucky creek that had formed.
The hike itself wasn’t too bad (lots of little hills to go up and over though) but we finally reached close to the cache! Since it looked like we were going to have to go up, I went ahead and completed the last stage by myself. When my coordinates were really close, I still didn’t see anything so I started to go to a higher viewpoint when I spotted it! Had to do a little bit of rock climbing to reach the cache but it was the perfect way to end this great adventure! This was such an amazing end to the week and definitely my most triumphant cache at Lake Powell. It was also great to share this experience with my family and get them more involved in geocaching. Thank you for this experience and for my first 2000 cache!
Something I was surprised about - the water levels are WAY lower here than when many of the caches were hidden, so most finds now are going to be either a rock climb or a hike.
This was my third and final find at Lake Powell, and it was such a great way to end the week. After reading the most recent logs, we thought we could try getting through the thin area with paddle boards and kayaks instead but we also got to a place where it was too tight to keep going forward and the walls were way too high to even consider climbing. The coordinates for the beach in the most recent log helped tremendously - we parked at another little sandy area nearby since a houseboat was occupying the beach at the exact coordinates.
We started the hike from here - though the temperatures seem to be cooling down, it still felt like we were walking through a desert - especially since I managed to forget my water! My map said 1.2 miles but it may have been ended up being 1.5 or so to get to the cache. There was a flash flood in this canyon a few weeks ago, so we had to go around the mucky creek that had formed.
The hike itself wasn’t too bad (lots of little hills to go up and over though) but we finally reached close to the cache! Since it looked like we were going to have to go up, I went ahead and completed the last stage by myself. When my coordinates were really close, I still didn’t see anything so I started to go to a higher viewpoint when I spotted it! Had to do a little bit of rock climbing to reach the cache but it was the perfect way to end this great adventure! This was such an amazing end to the week and definitely my most triumphant cache at Lake Powell. It was also great to share this experience with my family and get them more involved in geocaching. Thank you for this experience and for my first 2000 cache!
