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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Paul Konopacki > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 12:56 PM > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dave D > > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 6:26 AM > > To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: [GeoSTL] Konopapw hits 200 > > > > 200 caches found. > > > > Congratulations Paul. > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Join the world's largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. > > http://www.hotmail.com > > > > > **************************************************************************** > > * > > Our NEW WebPage! 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