Highway 50 Obelisk

12/22/2019 By CacheKings007
Dig these obelisks. Who has the time? Tftc.

10/08/2019 By Charlie-n-Geri
Out on a beautiful afternoon to replace our Old Santa Fe Trail geocache which had been muggled. Odd place for a Obelisk. Interesting black volcanic rocks around this area of the desert. Liked the container! TFTC

08/15/2019 By BG2015
Nice overlook, not sure why you need one of these here, but okay. Thanks for the new set of caches.

08/11/2019 By OA Vigil Honor
Found in the darkness with EXP and Quinn the Explorer, Tom the Turtle, and Freddy the Frog. Traded some trinkets and signed log along with EXP.

07/04/2019 By packerle
Found it

07/04/2019 By ColoCan
Out caching with packerle on here quest to get to her 1000 find. Tftc

07/02/2019 By kekj
to answer question about who and why
These are located all over the Southwest, have seen hundreds, some as large as 5-6' in diameter and as tall as a man can reach.
No real exact history on them but it's assumed that explorers, hunters, trappers, sheep herders, and cattle men (and now hikers and geocachers) just have an innate desire to prove they were THERE so piled a few rocks on a high point, next person along placed another and so on. Kind of like 'where is Waldo" In some cases it may have been as a bread crumb trail to be able to back track your trail but mostly mans desire to be known as having been present.

06/30/2019 By Rojo464
Took a break from shelling pecans to go jeeping for a couple of quick caches. TFTC

06/30/2019 By kekj
Thanks for FTF below. Started out on wrong foot by heading toward the obvious (well that WAS the general direction the gps pointed!) got there and found queen ants SWARMING. Still swatting them off of me after having finally REALLY LOOKED at GPS, made the quick and easy find, took the FTF prize, found that did not have writing stick so used staple from FTF prize baggie to poke holes in log paper to sign KEKJ (indelible for sure!) and killed the last of the queens as I crawled back into the cachemobile.

The crazy part of this is that we had gone out geocaching earlier in the day and ended up on this very road about mid afternoon as wanted to look at the ruts of the Old Spanish Trail from above, then left and went on to find some more caches, ending up at home about 6 p.m, just in time to receive notification that these caches had gone active at 5:38. Had taken the smaller 4x4 as is more nimble and has softer ride for the rough roads. Having just taken this road (for about the first 1.5 miles, felt we could take the big diesel crewcab long bed and do fine as has a lot more speed and acceleration and the race was on for the FTF (or so we thought) and the Dakota does the grades on Hwy 50 at 40 mph in 3 gear! Well GUESS AGAIN for the rough road, the first two FTF caches were easy finds and not too bad of road but once we started for the third one (DNF - Hello, no communications available) I quickly decided we needed to air WAY down (20 psi) which meant we had to air WAY up once we hit the hwy - air down and up costs 45 minutes so we did ALL of the return trip in the dark getting home about 10:30. Bright side is we got two FTFs, traveled a new road we did not know existed, and left an FTF for the next daring geocacher. Dark side is - it was DARK outside and we won't talk about the rest of it . . . .