[Az-Geocaching] "Obsessed geocacher found stuck in mud, film at 11"

[Scott Nicol]

>From: trisha@brasher.com
>Reply-To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
>Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] "Obsessed geocacher found stuck in mud, film 
>at 11"
>Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:57:34 -0800 (PST)
>
>(disclaimer: the following is meant in FUN, but has an important
>message imbedded in the sarcasm. Please remember that I have had to
>deal with people who go where they shouldn't and get stuck. It
>happens.) :-)
>
>Yeah, that's a smart idea, Scott. Go in the morning when the mud is
>"still frozen" (i.e. ICE). Drive on ICY dirt roads, that's a great
>idea. (Hope you have good comprehensive insurance!! :-)) Oh, be sure
>to go WAY back in the boonies, at least 8 miles from the nearest paved
>road. Stay long enough for it to warm up enough for the ICE to turn
>into impassable mud.............
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Just to clear this up..  :)

That message about driving on the ice before it turns muddy was made by one 
of the Snaptek boys. Not me!

MY message was to ask whether the roads are passable in the winter and 
whether they are MUDDY or not. Do they dry up quickly or do they stay muddy 
all winter long? I hate mud! AND I dont like to drive on dirt roads when 
they are muddy! It irritates me (to say the least) when I am driving down a 
forest/dirt road and it is all rutted up. There is nothing more annoying 
than that. As Trisha said.. these roads are not really maintained and if 
they become very rutted up.. they will probably stay that way!

I can think of many dirt roads that used to be very smooth. Then, I come 
back months later to find it all rutted up after a heavy rain because 
someone drove down it when it was muddy. When it dries... it becomes a very 
bumpy road and it will likely stay that way for a long time to come.

Now, there are those folks that perhaps need to use these roads.. like 
forest workers, those who man the towers, folks who work on the radio 
towers, etc. But, for the rest of us who are just out there on a 
recreational level.. probably dont need to be out there. I fall into that 
catagory. I have no interest in driving on muddy roads. It is no fun. Now, I 
love a good off road challenge... but, mud is not one of them!

Anyways, just wanted to clear that up!!!!!

Scott
Team Ropingthewind

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