[GeoStL] Weldon Springs access
- From: Stephen Martin <faery_generic@xxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:06:56 -0700
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There is a access trail that gets you to the Weldon Springs area from the Katy
trail. It is marked with brown signs on both sides of the trail. It is
located about a quarter mile to the northeast of Acts of Congress... and a bit
lower elevation. If you leave your bike chained near there and do the loop,
you can get the caches and come back to your bike, but you will hike a long
way. It is worth it for the scenery. Bring repellent though, and plenty of
h2o.
You can park at these coordinates to get to the access from Katy Trail N 38
39.605 W 090 44.600 or if you just want to drive there, the parking lot off 94
is at N 38 41.470 W 090 43.470. be aware of hunting season too.
ha ha on the ER! I have gotten better at watching the trail, and stopping for
sight seeing. However, trying to climb to Acts of Congress is not so smart.
Also, I will only visit an ER when I absolutely must from now on. Using urgent
care type clinics is much safer in regard to avoiding contracting a staph
infection... which by the way suck hard core in a bad way!
I plan to cache tonight if someone will let me ride with them to the cache hunt
location. ON THAT NOTE: I really want to go after Cesar's Cat Box GCNNGA
tomorrow either earlier am or earlier evening. I have the key TB and the code
figure(thanks to a hint from Strider). The cache is kind of far from Metro
service though. Would anyone want to take me to that area and retrieve the
caches near there? I have a 3 day limit so it must be today, tomorrow or
Thursday. If not I will get there on my own, but a ride would help so much and
get the ride giver Cesar's gift... which is not a usual cat's gift in a box I
hope.
Thanks, Stephen
On Tuesday, July 17, 2007, at 08:29AM, "Andrew Senger"
<asenger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>-
>I'm just surprised you didn't have to go to the ER. Then again, you were
>WALKING the bike, not riding it.
>
>2. So it's not accessible easily from the Katy Trail? Where is it
>accessible from?
>
>See you this evening. Are you planning on caching, too, or just eating?
>
>Andrew (yawetag)
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Stephen Martin" <faery_generic@xxxxxxx>
>To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 07:56
>Subject: [GeoStL] Re: NGR: not for the faint of heart or stomach
>
>
>> -
>>
>> In regard to your subject line... or part of it... Weldon Springs area
>caches are in a beautiful setting, but not for anyone who is faint of
>anything. However, walking a bike, wearing a book bag with a laptop and
>geoschwag galore while hiking this crazy hilly, long and needle defying land
>could kill a person, so a normal hiker/cacher may survive. Thank (insert
>higher power) that I woke up at 5:30am and atleast beat most of the heat
>yesterday. I loved this cache day and only got 5, but felt very proud once
>finished.
>>
>> Two notes:
>>
>> 1 Brawny Bear's hint for My favorite tree GCQV1J could have made me extra
>scared while finding the cache had I read it first... i was a little creeped
>out without reading it :-p Did you actually read, eat lunch etc where the
>actual cache placement is?
>>
>> 2 Do not attempt to climb up to Acts of Congress from the Katy trail. It
>will work your muscles to near exploding and you get to a wall of
>sedimentary rock... which has the nature of The Sugar Ray song Falls apart.
>>
>> just up early and finding any reason to type. Excuse my nonesense. Now I
>need to bike across the river so i may find Cesar's cat box and surrounding
>caches. Chat with y'all later and see some of you at BBQ tonight. Feel
>free to discuss how awesome, fearless and clever(read cool enough, crazy and
>lucky) I am.
>>
>> stephen
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