Today we decided it was time to get out on our quads and explore this OHV friendly area. So with our lunch packed and our GPSs ready with geocaches downloaded, we headed out. Steve was wearing his GoPro camera again....so the pictures below are "still captures" taken from the video streams he took along the way. When we last rode the quads at Lone Rock Steve noticed that the drive shaft seal to the front differential on my quad was wet but not dripping so we'll keep an eye on it today.
There was a light cloud covering but otherwise a beautiful day. We hear a lot of shooting in the area and came upon the long range shooting area one of our neighbours told us about.
There were targets along the roadway and up in the hills, which apparently go to a distance of 1500 yards from the shooting bench...
There were a string of geocaches along this road, so we thought we'd give it a try...it has been awhile. It took some hunting but after a couple of cries for fellow hound dog geocacher "Allison", we got our geocaching mo-jo back. It was a very sneaky hide...a mico container stuck in a drilled hole in a dead tree branch just laying on the ground...
It wasn't long before I had to take my hoodie off...the day was going to be a warm one! There I am with my nose glued to my GPS...there's a geocache here somewhere!
Ah ha, Steve found it!
Coffee Creek crossing...
Steve found another...
Dry water tanks...
On the hunt for another geocache...
Found this one in the rocks...
The GPS shows one near the cattle guard crossing...
Okay...it's around here somewhere!
Steve found it at the bottom of this fence post, another micro....
On the hunt again...
Steve found it...
Our last find...
Many of the geocaches were placed well off the road. We hunted high and low but couldn't find this one. Sometimes the co-ordinance are way off, or maybe an animal has carried it off, or we just can't find it....
We found 8 geocaches but there were some we just gave up on...however, we finally decided that it was just too hot for all of this "stop and go"...we needed some air-flow to cool us down!
The OHV trail we were on came out onto Billy Gray Road, a main gravel road. We took it for a short distance before...
...coming to the next section of the Ranch OHV loop trail...
Crossing bone dry Coffee Creek again...
Steve took a side road and hadn't noticed the "No Motor Vehicles" sign so I radioed him and he turned around at the water tanks...
We found a lot of side roads were closed to motor vehicles...
Lunch time at Spring Creek...
Looks like a good spot in the shade...
After lunch, we continued on the trail...it joined up with the main forestry road...
There are miles and miles of camping opportunities here, however the road has a lot of washboard...
This guy moved near us a couple of days later...
We stopped at the OHV staging area...
On the final stretch back to camp, we passed a couple of rigs heading out. We wouldn't want to take our rig in any further because the road is quite rough but others have no concern, venturing in quite a long way.
Back onto our road...
We passed Deb on her way into Cottonwood...
One of our neighbours, our rigs are on the top far right...
And we're home...completing the OHV loop. A good 3 1/2 hours out on the quads. Unfortunately, it is going to be my last ride until we can get my quad serviced...apparently the front drive axle seal is starting to develop a drip.
And another end to a great day in this beautiful area!
Great campfire with great company. :)
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