Copper Town Tour and then Some

Last Saturday started with a stop at one of Hubby's favorite breakfast stops. We can't drive through Superior in the morning without eating at...

pancakes, of course

then onto Globe. This part of the day's adventure had three purposes: to see geocaching friends, Jon and Sherry; to add another county to Terry's AZ geo stats; and to do an Adventure Lab cache recently published giving all of us a little more experience with the newest geocache type from HQ. 

Terry & Jane's first cache in Gila County

they found it rather quickly

without Hubby's help

Then it was off to Claypool for the first stop on the Copper Town Tour and learning about copper mining and its importance to this area and Arizona.

looking for the correct answer to the first question,

making it much harder than it was

an average sized dump truck in a mine scoop

the smelter, one of two in AZ today

at the rod plant where pure copper sheets

are melted and cast into coils of copper wire

We completed the other two stops on the Adventure Lab Copper Town Tour and were awarded with

completed!

Sherry and Jon led us to a historic stop with a geocache in downtown Globe.

a replacement tree, but the story and location are historic

love learning things like this

(click on this and any photo to make it larger)

our time in Globe ended with a FTF

First To Find on a Lifeisguud geocache

A fun and successful morning before driving back to Superior and the Home Tour mentioned in the previous two blog posts. Three-fold mission accomplished and then some!