Our Saturday evening was spent in Globe attending a geocaching event. The event was held at a small Mexican restaurant where great food and drinks were served. We especially enjoyed the Margaritas (yum). Globe is an hour east of Queen Valley, so of course, we managed to find 7 caches while on the way there. There was a great turnout and everyone had a great time visiting with each other and exchanging all kinds of cache stories. We are hoping that they will hold more in the future.
Monday was a quiet day after our weekly morning coffee social. Ken worked in the rock shop as usual and probably will be involved there through mid April. He is president of the club and spends a great deal of time involved in rock shop stuff... but he too has had more time to work on his own stuff and hopes to have a lot more jewelry done for next year's craft sale.
On Tuesday the 17th, we led a small group out on a back road trip to show them how we geocache. They had their own GPSes and had previously checked out GC.com, but hadn’t really done anything on it. Our trip took us east towards Globe where we turned south on a dirt and rocky road called Pinto Valley Road. The road was really in a lot better shape than we expected, but the drive still involved many steep ups and downs, plus some hairpin turns all the while climbing towards an 8,000 foot high mountain (Pinal Peak). Along the way, we all managed to find 8 caches and all had a great time. We even found a nice shady spot to have lunch.
This is a view from where we had lunch.
Our last cache was at a junction where we could either try to reach the mountain top or head back down to the town of Globe. A couple weeks ago, we would never have had the choice because that area was then inches deep in snow. However, when we got there on Tuesday, it was clear (and warm) and no snow in sight, so we decided to travel the next 3 miles up to the top. However, as we made our way up there, we encountered some snow on the sides of the road, then about 1/2 mile from the top we had to stop because the road was covered with snow and we could see where someone had recently slipped off the road.
We knew we could make it to the top, but coming down may have been much trickier and we didn't want to take the chance, so we stopped and just played in the snow there. 
It was a beautiful sunny warm day, but there it was quite cool and refreshing. Coda (the shepherd) loved it!! She played in the snow and even caught scent of a wild animal, but thankfully, she was on a leash and couldn’t run after it.
After our own playing in the snow and taking pictures, we decided it was time to head back down to town (Globe) and then head back to home.
That is Globe in the distance.
It was a great day to be out with friends and enjoy some country we hadn’t had the chance to explore before.
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