Another Day of NRV Caches in Ardmore 5/24/2010

Well we were off again this morning into Ardmore to finish up what caches we hadn't found as yet, that is if they were still there. Well it started off fine when we found the first cache at the Carmike Cinemas but then it went downhill fast when we couldn't find the next 2, one at Lowes and the other at Santa Fee Cattle Co. Restaurant. Then the rest of the day was fine as we found all the other 8 caches we had. There were 2 at a Love's Gas Station, one at the Ardmore Convention Center, and one at the sign advertising Crystalwood Apts. Then we drove out in the country for 2 caches hidden on guardrails on bridges crossing Caddo Creek. Then it was even farther out in the counry for a nano container hidden on a cattle guard (a cattle guard is also known as a vehicle pass, or Texas gate – is a type of obstacle used to prevent livestock, such as sheep or cattle, from passing along a road which penetrates the fencing surrounding an enclosed piece of land. It consists of a depression in the road covered by a transverse grid of bars or tubes, normally made of metal and firmly fixed to the ground on either side of the depression, such that the gaps between them are wide enough for animals' legs to fall through, but sufficiently narrow not to impede a wheeled vehicle. They rely for their effect (of barring passage to animals but not to wheeled vehicles) upon animals' reluctance to set foot upon them. Cattle guards are usually installed over roads where they cross a fenceline, often at a boundary between public and private lands. They are an alternative to the erection of gates that would need to be opened and closed every time a vehicle passed, and are common where roads cross open moorland, rangeland or common land maintained by grazing, but where segregation of fields is impractical.)

Our last cache was a Earthcache also located in the country. The cache had to do with "tombstone topography". The "Tombstone topography," which we saw looked like rows of tombstones in a field, results from differential weathering and erosion of alternating layers of hard and soft limestone that dip steeply into the ground. "Tombstone" formations document uplifts from prehistoric times. Such geologic evidence of the earth's development is present at only two other sites in the U.S.: the Grand Canyon and South Dakota's Black Hills. See pictures.

Then we drove back to the coach for the rest of the day. Well that's about all for today so until tomorrow we love and miss you all. Mom & Dad Dori & Dick