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I was able to find a good number of excellent earthcaches during a trip to Iceland last year. The weather was often rather gloomy, which doesn't always make for the best photography, but here are some of the nice spots we visited.

 

Landmannalaugar - Fjallabak Reserve:

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Latrabjarg :

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Hverfjall - Mývatn:

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HLJÓÐAKLETTAR (ICELAND):

Eating huckleberries (which didn't appear to have been being picked by anyone else!) with Kirkjan in the background

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We were supposed to have done a petroglyph tour at China Lake Naval Air Base, but when the navy wanted to blow things up at the base we had to make other plans. So we decided to go up the eastern Sierras on our way home. It was completely unplanned, but during breakfast at the Alabama Hills cafe in Lone Pine, we decided to take a quick look at the hills. Sure enough, there was earthcache focused on Arches and Tafoni.. As soon as we were on our way, it became apparent that we would have to return. A hour or two was not nearly enough.

 

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We were supposed to have done a petroglyph tour at China Lake Naval Air Base, but when the navy wanted to blow things up at the base we had to make other plans. So we decided to go up the eastern Sierras on our way home.

 

 

The eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada is one of my favorite places in the world. I'd live to take about a week driving from Lone Pine north on 395, finding caches along the way and flyfishing many of the lakes and streams in between 395 and the Sierra crest.

 

 

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We had come to Mono lake on the eastern side of the California Sierras hoping to kayak and camp out to an island to do an earthcache there, but the rangers told us we would be taking our lives in our hands with the way that expected wind would hit the water. What is a person to do? Find another earthcache, of course. So we ended up inside Volcanic Fissures that were like small slot canyons. Only fissures.

 

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We made a spur of the moment decision to visit Wupatki NM during a recent trip to Arizona. There were several earthcaches there that were very good -- who would have thought that there would be a blowhole blowing hard in the middle of the high desert? It was a great way to learn about how the geology contributed to people's adaptation on the land, with several ruins reminding me of some of the castles we have visited elsewhere.

 

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Natural Bridges (near Angels Camp, California) was a stunning place, where a stream has cut through marble, forming a short tunnel that is long on beauty. We took the advice of others and got there early, before the crowds, carrying floating tubes down the trail so that we could slowly meander up and down the tunnel rather than swim through it. The experience would not have been the same if we had arrived later, with the area filled with people and noise.

 

For simplicity - and because I was not sure what to expect with the water - I just brought the phone. When we return I will bring a better camera (with a dry bag).

 

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