[Az-Geocaching] Most Frustrating Cache

[Trisha Radley]

What a good pic, Brain......(vertigo and knee pain setting in .......)
~~trisha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Most Frustrating Cache


>
> I would like to add an item that cause frustration to the cache as well.
> The fact that I have a picture that I took of the supposably correct
> coordinates while standing within 2 feet of the actual cache....
> AAAARRRGGG!  If I had set my camera bag down I would have found it :)
> Oh well...
>
> Here's the pic of me standing with the cache at me feet.  The actual
> coordinates would have you standing in the just in front or inside the
> bushy tree that is dead center.
>
http://snaptek.com/cachepics/?mode=view&album=rim_rr_depot&pic=p8111452.jpg&
dispsize=640&start=0
>
> Brian Cluff
> Team Snaptek
>
> > Let me second what Brian said, this was a very difficult cache. Altho we
> > didn't have the unfortunate and exhausting experience of making more
than
> > one trip to this site, once was bad enough!!! Literally crawling up the
> > unstable steep hillside.....not anything I want to repeat. I agree, the
> > company made it good.  And I take friendly exception to the comment that
the
> > cache was found "by accident". Yes, we (Cody, actually, of CBx2, but I
was
> > closest to him) kinda stumbled upon it, but it was only after
painstaking
> > and thorough and, believe it or not, systematic searching up the
hillside
> > from where I stood on the EXACT (incorrect) coordinates that it was
found!!!
> > :-) Maybe an accident, I prefer to think of it as a planned and careful
> > attack. At least that makes me FEEL like I knew what I was doing! ha ha
ha
> > ~~trisha  ~Lightning
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com>
> > To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 7:16 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Most Frustrating Cache
> >
> >
> > > > A quick, informal survey of something I'm curious about.  What
stands
> > > > out in your mind as the most frustrating cache you've encountered?
> > > > Whether it was difficult to find, you were wounded on the
expedition,
> > > > or maybe Wyle E beat you to First Find by 10 minutes... what was the
> > > > cache and what made it so annoying?
> > >
> > > Thats an easy one.... "Rim RR Depot" by far....
> > >
> > > Not only did I almost fall off he edge of the rim, but when we finally
got
> > > there the cache was nowhere to be found and we has to give up.  Later
it
> > > was found by accident in a location that was nowhere near the
coordinates.
> > >
> > > This cache can be quite dangerous to actually get to unless you notice
the
> > > trail that leads to the landmark that the cache is named after.  In
Team
> > > Snapteks case we decided to make a bonsai for it and took the direct
> > > route.  It is possible to straight for it, but you need to take the
> > > slightly longer route which is a lot less steep and slippery, but it's
> > > still steep enough that if you lost your step and started to fall, you
> > > probably wouldn't stop.
> > >
> > > Anyway, with the canyon causeing innacuracies and the angle of the
incline
> > > the cache is on also magnifying the distance that you have to cover to
> > > look for it, and in my opinion having the coordinates wrong in the
first
> > > place.....  ok I'm rambling now due to the bad memories.
> > >
> > > The only thing that made this cache less of a nightmare was having
> > > actually found it.... *sortof... and having found it would a group of
good
> > > people.
> > >
> > > * I never physically touched the cache, and has it logged by proxy.  I
> > > could see where the cache was and watched everyone log it, but I was
so
> > > exhaused from having gone the cache twice in a row that I just didn't
> > > think that I was going to be able to make it to the cache and then
back
> > > out of the canyon alive :)
> > >
> > > Brian Cluff
> > > Team Snaptek
> > >
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