Monday we decided geocache near Laurel, MT. We also hoped to find a good place to hike. Most of the geocaches we found were in the rolling grasslands north and east of Laurel.
We finally found a few on the a road heading toward Billings. Just northwest of Billings we found Phipps Park. It starts at the bottom of the bluff and has several trails winding their way to the top. Well, the trails turned out to be paths for people playing disk golf! We took one of these paths to find a geocache. Unfortunately, it was guarded by the largest one of these critters we have seen on this trip. This makes number four of the slithering critters---UGH!
We waited until he moved away from the area and then Bob used his walking stick to check and make sure he didn't have any more friends guarding the cache. He retrieved the container as I made sure the critter stayed away! We worked hard for this cache!
Then it was back to hiking and caching. There were many caches to find, but the area was larger than we expected so we didn't find them all. Some of them were down along the rocks just below the ridge, but they were easy to reach. I guess other cachers didn't think they would be easy to get to because some of the logs hadn't been signed since 2013!
This is a view from the top of the ridge. We had a great time hiking
Phipps Park and wished we had found it sooner.
The disk golf course looked extremely challenging! If you click on this picture, there is a golf hole near the rocks with holes in them. The holes start at the base of the ridge and climb almost to the top.
Columbus, MT, was a great place to use as a base while exploring the area. But, we do have to keep moving. We are meeting friends in northwest Washington in early May. From there we will cross into Canada on our Alaskan Adventure! I sure hope the weather warms up a bit before that time. It has been in the mid to lower 30s just about every night for the last month!
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