The Eclipse, while out caching

[+DragonsWest]

I goofed off quite a lot on Saturday, one find, some errands run and plotting caches along routes and in areas I'll be visiting on a trip.

 

Sunday was all about restoring my Caching Karma with some good old fashioned suffering on the trail to several caches -- with a twist, after about 11 miles I was atop Santa Rosalia and found a fellow up there with dark glasses to give away (darn few people in the trails, anywhere late on a Sunday in any case) so we had the clearing to view the eclipse -- I didn't find the cache I was up there for, though.

 

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=1587715

 

At some point I'll create a slide-show with the progression, but there it is a the turn-around point on Sunday's hike. My extremely stupid camera actually took some good pics (how do you get the original 1024 resolution to show up on that site?)

 

A dozen caches and some pictures of an eclipse. Not bad, but sure had to march back out of the park on the double time to beat the real sunset.

[+DragonsWest]

Progression of the eclipse. Geocaching sure takes you to some way out places for some amazing sights.

 

[+Lady Loki]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing... we weren't in an area that got to see the eclipse, so being able to see it this way is nice.

[+lamoracke]

we were about 1 mile south of this cache when we saw the eclipse through the clouds to the west and pulled over and looked at it. Others in the group took pictures which I have not seen yet.

 

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=70785764-4f3e-41bd-9600-1263476a6c08

[+Trekkin' and birdin']

Nice sequence of photos! In my area--the Wisconsin/Minnesota border--an inspired event host set up an eclipse viewing event at a historic fire tower. One of the most unique events I've had the pleasure of attending. We had about 67% coverage here, so pretty awesome sight.

 

Oh, and to get there, everyone had to climb 553 steps from the parking area. I chose to do so twice, to get my other camera. Feeling it in the calves today, but worth it.

[+Ambrosia]

I was caching most of the day and into the early evening, but there were too many clouds to see anything. Got a nice, pink sunset, however.