[GeoStL] Re: NGR: St. Francious County: How to Shoot an Anvil 200 Feet in the Air

  • From: pandyandy3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:57:17 +0000

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As a learning tool you could watch the movie Sweat Home Alabama where the old 
Civil War Colonel was firing anvils.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Wolpert <tom_wolpert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:34:26 
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR: St. Francious County: How to Shoot an Anvil 200  
Feet in the Air

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Are anvils and explosives considered special equipment, making it a terrain 5 
as well?
Tom




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From: Steve Bromley <steve.bromley@xxxxxxxxx>
To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:16:59 AM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR: St. Francious County: How to Shoot an Anvil 200 Feet 
in the Air

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To make it a 5 difficulity, you must launch an anvil to a height of not less
than 75 feet and catch it before it hits the ground.
Steve

It's not only the destination but the path you take and the friends you make
along the way


On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Jon Mertz <jemertz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Easy: Hide a cache in the anvil crater
> Medium: Hollow out an anvil
> Puzzle: Calculate the correct amount of powder to launch an anvil X
> feet in the air. Given hurricane-force wind speed Y and a directly
> vertical launch trajectory, calculate the number of feet from start
> that the anvil lands (or calculate the required winds to move the
> anvil a given distance). Use both calculated values to determine
> latitude and longitude
> Locationless: Have people launch their own anvil in order to log the cache.
>
> Happy Hunting!
> -Jon
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Glenn <potbellystove@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > thats pretty neat.
> >
> > On Oct 25, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Arlene Jones wrote:
> >
> >> -
> >> I do know him. I can talk to him and see if he would like to do
> >> anything to help get a cache going that somehow honors his
> >> nontraditional sport.
> >>
> >>> From: alindb01@xxxxxxx
> >>> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>> Subject: [GeoStL] NGR: St. Francious County: How to Shoot an Anvil
> >>> 200 Feet in the Air
> >>> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:16:14 -0500
> >>>
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> >>> Firearms-aficionado friend sent this. Arlene, do you know this gent?
> >>> Glenn, I don't suppose there's any way to work this into a cache,
> >>> although
> >>> it's likely to be hard on log books. However, it certainly has
> >>> possibilities as a bomb-squad proof cache container. I'm going to
> >>> start
> >>> watching the flea market for used anvils, harder to hide than film
> >>> canisters, but more muggle-proof.
> >>> Wayne
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> _____
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> >>> _____
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> >>> What the.....? Not much to do in Farmington? "Anvil Days"
> >>>
> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQ4dE_RGnQ
> >>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhQ4dE_RGnQ&feature=player_embedded>
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