[GeoSTL] Re: NO FINDS
- From: Paul Konopacki <konopapw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 19:15:40 -0500
Don't go looking for any of my caches.
Jeremy has been right behind you,
archiving all the caches you can't find!
Glenn wrote:
> Went out today and had NO luck. I hade been to both of these caches
> tree times before so these were to be a quick in/out confirmation
> visit? NOT
>
> Glenn
>
> GWP. Been here three times already, might as well make a forth. I have
> an old track log, follow the arrow. Easy find?? It amazes me that I
> can remember names and locations of almost all of the caches I have
> been to and then can COMPLETELY even recall other significant
> landmarks. Oh yea, like I didn?t remember the creek at Rockpile Mtn.
> This time There was a footbridge crossing a body of water that I had
> absolutely NO recollection of from the previous visits. Odd. Yet, I
> did remember the bif ole tree with the cool hole in it. Anyway, I did
> NOT find the cache this time. The water had been 3-4 feet deep here
> with all the rain and the cache may be cone. I aint saing that it IS
> gone, just that *I* couldn?t find it this time.Oh well, better luck on
> the next cache. Off to The Mississippi.
>
> Mississippi: Armed with only a set of downloaded cords, a track log
> and the knowledge that I had been here on three other occasions, this
> was to be a fast In/Out confirmation. My track log took me down the
> tracks again. While this is a nice walk, reminds me of the movie
> ?Stand by Me?, and generally safe due to plenty of room next to the
> tracks and NO trestles, I don?t think it is the most legal thing to do
> but, what the heck.. It is only 300+ feet and I covered the distance
> rather quickly (for an old fat guy). I left the tracks where I had
> done three times before and traversed 60 feet or so of nearly
> impenetrable undergrowth and swampy land. Reminds me of the time in
> Everglades Swamp Survival school where we.. , anyway that?s another
> story. I continued to follow my tracks from before when up ahead is?.
> A roadway! I don?t remember a ROAD in here, continues to climb up onto
> the roadway, It?s a very nice, wide road too. Right in the center of
> the roadway my etrex said STOP. 0.0 feet! I circled around in the road
> a bit, yep. We?re here. A conundrum I say to myself. I hopped back
> down off the road trackside and searched around, Then up and the road
> and off on the riverside, looked around. Each time I was dead on in
> the center of the roadway. I think the cache MAY have been buried
> UNDER the new ROAD and I aint diggin for it. Took the easy way out and
> walked down the road to the street in the park?. OOPS. ?DANGER, KEEP
> OUT, BLASTING AND MINING?two signs at the entrance to the road. Hmmm,
> Oh well. If anyone has found this cache SINCE THE ROAD was built, let
> me know.. WAS it trackside? Or riverside?? Now I am curious.
>
> Glenn
>
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