I definitely agree with Glenn on this. This is one that even I would not
bushwack on. I road my bicycyle on it and it was a good ride. Only steep
at the beginning of the trail but lots of turns.
Bruce
From: Glenn <GLNash@xxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoSTL] Re: Konopapw hits 200 Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 18:22:57 -0500
BIG HINT. Bushwhacking would take you lots longer and you would be much tired-er. It is very rugged & steep territory around there and the trail runs level (mostly) along the ridgelines.
gln
-----Original Message----- From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul Konopacki Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 5:41 PM To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoSTL] Re: Konopapw hits 200
I read the log of your adventure on the Berryman. Even with soggy boots, my plan was to bushwhack at a steady pace to get in and out, knowing it might be a couple miles of treking round trip. If I had noticed the turnoff in time, I would have been in the Brazil lot about 7:15pm. My GPS said that sunset was about 8:30pm. I figured I had a solid hour to complete the hunt. But it wouldn't have been a smart move, seeing that I would be tired, in the woods alone, with the light fading and noone around to hear me scream for help!
Glenn wrote:
> Since the berryman trail was a longish walk, you made the right choice on
> that one. You would have been on the trail in the dark. It's a nice trail
> but I hear that spooks come out at night. Barramus captured some of these
> spooks at flashback, at night, on film. There very spooky. :-0
> http://img.groundspeak.com/cache/12615_200.jpg
>
> Glenn
>
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> [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul Konopacki
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> Subject: [GeoSTL] Re: Konopapw hits 200
>
> It took about an hour of driving to finally find the right
> road for Man's Best Friend. It is a neat place once you
> get there. The dirt road was very dusty. I feel sorry
> for the folks who live right next to it.
>
> Someone posted new coordinates for Nature Nut and
> I used those instead of the ones at the top of the cache
> page. But you know my GPS, it took me 15 strides
> away from where the cache really was, anyway. The
> people who logged the cache find before me gave away
> the cache location in their description. One of them left
> a walking stick leaning against the object and they left
> the cache very much exposed.
>
> I used info from someone's log to pretty much take
> me right to where I thought the Pickle Creek cache might
> be. I read the logbook a bit and there were some young
> partiers who found the cache by accident. They wrote
> that they thought it was a neat idea (and that they were
> stoned at the time...) Nice of them to put it back.
>
> Twice I almost bailed on Red Bluff. The first time,
> I thought the map was lying to me because I was
> trying to cross the water by road and the road I
> was on wasn't going that direction.The second time I
> thought I was on the wrong side of the water, which
> I didn't find out later was just a shallow creek and
> not a big raging river.
>
> The caretaker who took my $2 parking fee gave me
> an idea of where a trail might be to get to the top of
> the bluff. I showed him on my printed topo map
> where I wanted to go, but he didn't ask me why.
>
> I tried real hard to get to Berryman #1 cache, but
> missed the turnoff to the Brazil creek campground. I
> was tired, I was still wearing my soaking wet
> hiking shoes from Red Bluff and there was only an
> hour of daylight left, so maybe it was for the best!
>
> Glenn wrote:
>
> > GOOD WORK, YA Hooooo, PARTY TIME !!!
> >
> > You've been doing a couple of tough (and high) ones lately. I was
> wondering
> > where everybody has been.
> > I remember Nature Nut being 130 or so feet off when we were there too.
> > Didn't think to get the new coords at that time.. Red bluff was great.
> > Another Butch gem of a cache and at Mans Best Friend, it WAS harder to
> find
> > the park than the cache. :) Pickle Creek was a lesson in tricky. Did
this
> > onw a few times already. I thought these were pretty good caches and
well
> > worth the time invested.
> >
> > gln
> >
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> > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 6:26 AM
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> > Subject: [GeoSTL] Konopapw hits 200
> >
> > 200 caches found.
> >
> > Congratulations Paul.
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