Rocky Canyon Geocaching


After a ward campout near Idaho City, we decided to take do some geocaching along a scenic route home.  We were favored with great weather and a list of ten geocaches in our GPS.  We had our most productive geocaching ever, having found nine caches in a single day.  And the tenth, we simply passed by because it was in a public park, and didn't want to draw attention to the cache.
  • Date: 
  • Location: 
6/14/2008
Rocky Canyon, ID
View from Boise Ridge looking towards Robie Creek and Lucky Peak State Park

Geocaches Attempted

Traditional Cache "E" Gas Found
Traditional Cache 'Snow Way Thru Found
Traditional Cache Aldape Raptors Found
Traditional Cache Dusty Rhodes Found
Traditional Cache Grayback Gulch Found
Traditional Cache James' Foothills Cache Found
Traditional Cache Rocky Canyon 1 Found
Traditional Cache Rocky Canyon Road cache Found
Traditional Cache Rooney's Robie Skipped
Traditional Cache Wrong Way to Robie Creek Found

GPS Info

We collected all of the following data from our GPS unit during the adventure:

Maps


This Google Map is provided by GPS Visualizer

Elevation Profile

The elevation profile conveys three different main coloring schemes.  
  • Blue/Purple: highway travel.  
  • Green/Yellow: dirt road travel
  • Red/Orange: walking (while finding geocache... as you can tell, there were some calf-burning slopes to climb for some of these.)

This profile s provided by GPS Visualizer

Coordinates and other details

  • Mileage: 
  • Time: 
  • Average Speed: 
  • Trailhead Coordinates: 
36.4 Miles
4:16:26
9 MPH
"Geocaches Attempted" links above contain coordinates, or GPX file below has waypoints to each cache.

If you would like to use this info with your GPS unit, the full GPX file is here.
If you want to view this in Google Earth, you can download the KMZ files of the track and topographic overlay.

Last Updated -- 10 November 2012