Geocaching While Bike Riding

Last night I got a chance to go on a bike ride with my wife and kids in Arvada.  The kids enjoy riding along parks and greenbelts, after all, it's a change of scenery compared to just riding around the street in front of our house.  Since we would be out and about anyway I figured we would try for some geocaches while we were at it.

I decided to upload a couple caches to my GPSr before the trip so that we could watch for them as I used the GPS to track our distance.  We only ended up really going by one of the caches that I though we would, but we still took the time to stop and look for it.  The kids always have to have a part in the caching, one kid found the cache and another had to put it away.

All in all, it was a fun trip, we got some exercise and got to find a new cache.  Unfortunately we forgot to bring a camera, so I will have to bring it the next time.  I think this blog needs some more pictures.  Let me know what you think about caching on bike trips and about geocaching photos.

Wheat Ridge Greenbelt

A couple days ago my family went to the Wheat Ridge Greenbelt for a bike ride.  The Wheat Ridge Greenbelt consists of 300 acres of open space within the city of Wheat Ridge.  This trail system also connects with trails in Golden and part of the Denver trail system.  This not only provides miles and miles of trails for biking, hiking and horse back riding, but also offers opportunities for fishing, bird watching and wildlife sightings.

While we were there, we had to find a couple geocaches of course.  We had already found several in the area on a previous trip.  If you have been reading some of my previous posts you will recall that was when we saw the peacock that another hiker thought was a wild turkey.

This time, we biked to the west of the parking lot indicated at the bottom of this past.  While traveling along the bike path between caches we noticed a muskrat in a small pond.

Muskrat swimming at the Wheat Ridge Greenbelt

Later we saw three more muskrats in the ponds to the east of the parking lot. 

 If you are interested in getting out into the outdoors, without having to leave the Denver Metro area, make sure you check out the Wheat Ridge Greenbelt for hiking, biking, fishing and just enjoying the outdoors.