[Az-Geocaching] Coronado National Forest Closed

[Jim Scotti]

Hey Scott, you are not the only one who has marked his Coronado National
Forest geocaches as unavailable, but most of them are still listed as active.  
I also suspect that there are a few of them whose owners pay them no
attention, so we are not likely to see them deactivated temporarily.  None of
my caches are affected by the current closure, though one of them is pretty
close.  It sure seems prudent to retreat into the cities for hiding and
finding caches until we get some rain.  Thanks to you and the other cache
owners who have temporarily deactivated their unavailable caches - it sure
saves time on the webpage while looking for potential searches.

I'll look forward to seeing your new urban caches.  I've been making plans
for a few more as well.  I've got a huge stack of Altoid cans that I could
press into service (I went through a phase where I was eating cinnamon
altiods like jellybeans...  Happily, I've reduced my altoid habit
considerably lately...).

It looks to me like the location of Scary has probably been overrun by the
Bullock Fire in the last day or so.  My curiosity as a scientist makes me
look forward to finding out what happens to any caches that do get overrun by
fires.  Hopefully the owners of any ill-fated caches will give us some
reports once they can reach their cache sites.  Hopefully there will not be
any overrun, though....

Jim.

On Tue, 28 May 2002, Scott Wood wrote:

> I have temporarily disabled both caches that I currently have on National 
> Forest land.  I would suggest that anyone that has one in the Coronado do 
> the same thing.
> 
> Given the conditions out there, I think we are about done going after 
> caches that are off the beaten path until we see some rain.  We went out to 
> Ironwood this weekend and found a couple of the caches out there.  It was 
> so dry that I was somewhat uncomfortable even being out there.
> 
> I want to thank the teams that have hidden some of the new urban caches 
> here in Tucson, and we will be hiding 2 or 3 new urban caches over the next 
> week or so.  That way we can keep our "fix" going.
> 
> Again, if you have a cache in the Coronado National Forest, or you need to 
> travel through the Coronado National Forest to get to your cache, please 
> take a few minutes to temporarily disable it.  As much as I hate see any 
> closure of the national forest, things are not normal right now and there 
> is no reason to be out there right now.
> 
> 
> Scott
> Team My Blue Heaven
> www.myblueheaven.com/geocache
> 

Jim Scotti                              
Lunar & Planetary Laboratory         jscotti@pirl.lpl.arizona.edu 
University of Arizona                
Tucson, AZ 85721 USA                 http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/