[Az-Geocaching] Photograph Arizona virtual cache

[Roping The Wind]

Bob,

Yea, I saw that one pop up on my geocache radar screen just a few minutes 
ago! Actually, from what I can tell, it isnt really in the Sedona area at 
all. It appears to be in the Secret Mountain Wilderness area. It appears 
that you have to come south off of I-40 to get to it. West of Flagstaff. 
There are a number of forest routes and such that come WAY south from I-40 
to get back to that area. Or perhaps it is possible to come south from 
Rogers Lake area. Basically, it is 'way back in there'. It is a long drive 
around from Sedona to get to that area. I took a good look at my newly 
updated Mapsource software and it shows a trail coming in from the west... 
above the rim. There is a canyon to the south and east of the cache, which 
it might be possible to hike up it to the cache. The next canyon over from 
that one is Boynton Canyon. I hiked Boynton Canyon all the way to the end of 
the trail and there is no way to climb up and out of that canyon. Well, 
there might be. It would be a fun climb though. Many of the finger canyons 
along that stretch are much the same... steep walls at the top end of the 
canyons. There is the secret canyon area and I beleive there is a trail that 
goes back there, but I havent been on it yet. It looks like a REALLY long 
hike though if that trail went up the canyon to the north of the cache and 
then back to it. But I dont think it does. I will have to consult some trail 
maps for the area to find out if there is a way to get to it from Sedona 
side... if so, I would be up for the challenge. If I have to approach from 
south of I-40... it doesnt look like a cache I would be doing anytime soon. 
Anyways, I only live a few minutes from Boynton Canyon area... I will take a 
drive down there and take a look at the forest trail maps and see if any 
trails go up there. I beleive there are trailheads to the Secret Mnt 
Wilderness area near here... I just dont think that is how you get to that 
cache location. It would be one hell of a hike if so. This one might sit for 
another year.... or more!!!

Scott
Team Ropingthewind

>From: Bob Renner <renner001 at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
>To: Arizona Geocaching List <listserv at azgeocaching.com>
>Subject: [Az-Geocaching] Photograph Arizona virtual cache
>Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 14:52:11 -0700 (PDT)
>
>After over a year of inactivity, Flag_Mtn_Hkrs has
>finally found and photographed this cache site.  He
>picked out a new location in the Sedona area (are you
>listening Scott RTW?).  I also changed the date of the
>cache so it will show up on the new cache listings.
>
>Anyone out there up to beating Scott to this cache???
>
>Bob Renner