[Az-Geocaching] need an opinion

[ShadowAce]

When looking for the cache you don't need to go too close to the cliff so
stay back and be careful with the kids.

Sounds to me like it might be at the top of cliffs.

On 8/4/06, Roping The Wind <arizcowboy at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Well, this is the cache that I am refering to the climb to...GCXD8W. This
> cache is on top of Oak Creek Canyon (on the east side, about straight up
> from West Fork trailhead... which is just up the road from Slide Rock).
> There is 1000' feet of elevation gain in less than 1/4 miles (0.23 to be
> exact, from the closest spot on highway 89A). To get to the cache, you can
> drive in on 4x4 and quad roads off of I-17. Of course, that requires alot
> of
> miles of driving alot of miles south on 179 and then driving back north on
> I-17. Plus, I need a good off roadable vehicle to get back there
> (possibly,
> so says the cache page). Why spend all that money in $3 a gallon gas and
> help support the record profits the oil companies are enjoying (at our
> expense) when I can drive a short 10 minute drive up the road from my
> house
> and park less than 1/4 mile away and hike to this cache? It saves money in
> gas, saves wear and tear on the truck and gives me some much needed
> exercise! :) Anyways, I was planning on going for the first find on this
> cache a few days ago when it posted. I was going to drive up the road and
> scope it out and if it looked doable, make the climb to the cache. Well,
> that day was the day of the mudslides in Oak Creek Canyon (OCC) and the
> highway was closed. Well, that day or the next... someone else got the
> first
> find by taking quads into the cache from on top by I-17. :(
>
> Anyways, I might have answered my question with this cache.... GCXCMM. I
> just got the first find on it a couple of days ago. It is an 840 foot
> climb
> in 0.30 miles. But really it is about 700 plus feet of climbing in 0.19
> miles, where the climb really starts. It was steep! I dont think I have
> climbed a slope that steep, other than actually climbing rocks almost
> straight up! The angle of attack on this cache, as per the profile on
> mapsource software, is pretty consistant with the angle of attack for
> GCXD8W. Except, there is a couple hundred more feet of elevation for this
> cache than there was for GCXCMM.
>
> The vegetation in OCC is mostly pine trees in the area where I would have
> to
> climb it. The lower part of the canyon is not very hiker friendly if you
> arent on a trail. It is very thick in manzanita bushes and catclaw and
> stuff. However, the upper part of the canyon is more navigable off trail.
> I
> still hope to try and make the climb up from the bottom for GCXD8W
> sometime
> soon. That is, at least go out and take a look at it and see if it is even
> doable.
>
> Scott
> Team Ropingthewind
>
>
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