Thursday, May 18, 2006
Vedauwoo Rec Area, Medicine Bow Natl Forest, WY - May 16-17
Vedauwoo is very reminiscent of Jumbo Rocks at Joshua Tree NP, with large, rounded-off rectangular boulders piled all around. It's only a mile off of I-80, about a two-hour drive from Denver. No-hookup camping was only $3.50/night since the water wasn't turned on.
There is abundant hiking & rock-climbing, plus a few geocaches and letterboxes in the area. If you recall from our last tripnews, geocaching is a high-tech hide-and-go-seek, where you try to find a "cache" using a GPS device. Letterboxing is a low-tech counterpart, where directions are explicitly written. Both the letterbox and the finder have personalized rubber stamps; the finder stamps a page of the letterbox log & writes a brief note, and then stamps their own log with the letterbox stamp. While we haven't had a stamp made for us yet, we find letterboxing more satisfying than geochaching, both in concept and in results.# posted by Doug and Willie @ 3:39 PM 
