[GeoStL] Re: Placing 100 was a 5/5!
- From: "GC-RGS" <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 17:10:04 -0500
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Jim,
Sounds like you had quite a weekend. Hope you didn't get too sunburned.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Bensman" <jbensman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2003 4:26 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Placing 100 was a 5/5!
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>
> Well, I am back in one piece (barely) but sore. I have number 100 placed
and
> the readings along the 20-mile trail to find it. Now I just have to
figure
> out how to use the reading to get the coordinates and write it up!
>
> Of all the 100 caches I have placed, this definitely was the hardest. Wet
> and flooding is an adept description. Was wet all weekend. Thunderstorms
> Friday and Friday night. Got up at the trailhead Saturday morning and the
> radio said the area had between 2-5 inches of rain in the last 24 hours.
No
> sun all trip, but drizzle and light rain Saturday and Sunday. Everything
> got wet, but I was comfortable except my feet.
>
> I ended up backpacking about 15 miles Saturday as I could not get into
> White's Creek float camp due to flooding. But the flooding was more
> problematic today as I had to do some wading.
>
> When I got up today, my Vista (which was freshly returned from Garmin with
> the strip glued back on) had water in the case. (I was a bit concerned as
I
> thought I was going to have to do some cross country travel to avoid
> floodwaters.) About 2.5 miles from the end of the trail, it died. But I
> was eventually able to get it going and I have all my waypoints on my
> computer.
>
> While it was challenging, I enjoyed it.
>
>
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