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A Horse With No Name LbNA #73585

Owner:Wisconsin Hiker
Plant date:Jan 30, 2019
Location:
City:Oro Valley
County:Pima
State:Arizona
Boxes:3
Found by: shooting starz (2)
Last found:Jan 9, 2024
Status:FFFFFF
Last edited:Feb 20, 2019
Last checked/found: 2-FEB-2019

These boxes were carved by Tiptoe (of Tiptoe & Tonto)

Location: kraP etatS anilataC (FEE)
Distance: 1-1.4 miles, little elevation change
Time: 30-45 minutes depending on your pace.
Terrain: Easy walking along a sandy horse trail.

Note: Before you hit the trail, please be sure you have plenty of water with you because it can get hot on the open trails. Wearing a hat and sunscreen will protect you from the desert sun. Hiking poles will be helpful in some spots. You may encounter horses on the trails. Please step aside to give them right of way. Although we never saw any, you should be alert for snakes and scorpions. Also be careful of the cactus – we can verify that they do tend to “attack” the unwary! Please remember to seal all baggies and boxes well. You may be the last person to find the box for quite a while, so do your best to protect all the contents from wet weather. Also be sure to rehide well to avoid accidental discovery by noxers.

Enter the park (fee) and head to the first parking area on the left after the road to the picnic area. Park on the west end of the lot. The lot does not have an official name (hence the title of this series). If you reach the Romero Ruins parking lot you went too far.

Once parked, take one of the small trails through the trees and then cross the main park road. You’ll soon reach a “T” with a sandy trail. Proceed to the right and very quickly come to a fork in the path. Take the faint right fork for 30 steps. Rodeo Clown is hiding behind the nearest mesquite tree on the right.

Once logged in, return to the fork and continue on the left branch. Cross a sandy wash. Moving on you will cross a larger wash, than a few small ones and finally a wider one. Cross it and then from the bank take 40 steps along the trail. Turn left and then take 23 more steps in. Real Men Wear Fringe is behind a triple-trunked mesquite tree under rocks.

Return back to the trail and continue on. As you proceed, watch for a saguaro and mesquite grouping a few steps off the trail on the left. From there, take 15 steps along the trail, then 12 steps up to the left. Rodeo Sundown is at the base of a palo verde tree under rocks.

Return to the trail and retrace your steps to return back to your car OR continue on to find 3 boxes by Lionsmane: “Vaquero Al Atardecer”, “Riding in a Stage” and “Bulls & Blood, Dust & Mud”.

Please send an email to let us know how the boxes are doing – Thanks!


Hike length: 1-2 miles