Arkansas Geo Trip

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April 28-29-30, 2022 Once again Grampa Bob 14 (Uncle Bob) and I (ddvdude) head out on another one of our grand adventures. This time we'll meet up with Bob's grandson Luke up in Arkansas where he is attending school at UA. We had a good trip with a bunch of Earthcaches snagged. Click on any photo to see an enlarged version.
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We stopped for a regular cache on our way up and I spotted this MEAN tree...Yikes!	We saw this incredible red wildflower growing so I used my plant app to ID it. It is Crimson Clover.	One of our Earthcaches can be done from the side of a highway.
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	Here is a wide landscape view of it.	It had a ton of tombstones very close together. Never saw them as packed as here.
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Then to our first of many waterfalls for the day.	A park bench near some man made falls	Then Luke joined us and climbed this mountain to get a cache up there for us!
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And he did it in his sandels!! :)	Then we headed to a nature preserve that was kept in excellent condition.	It was here where we got like 16 of our 20 Earthcaches for the day!
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20 years ago, I would have seen how far back that cave goes.... now a days, nope... nice cool air coming out though!	A giant rock split down the middle.	Bob with his notebook taking all of the notes needed for solving these earthcaches.
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Luke in the background doing it all on his phone.	working on another cache near the cave entrance	There are infomation signs everywhere... you just have to sometimes hunt them down for answers.
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We had to cross this creek numerous times...	I kept waiting to fall in on any or all of them... but I didn't!	Luke meanwhile just walks up a fallen tree to the ledge about 15 feet up
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No problem!	I've seen Gypsum breakdown but here is a slab of limestone that just calved off the cliff side.	Dripping wall
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