What a good pic, Brain......(vertigo and knee pain setting in .......) ~~trisha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Cluff" To: 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" > > To: > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Az-Geocaching mailing list > > > listserv@azgeocaching.com > > > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > > > > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > > > http://www.azgeocaching.com > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Az-Geocaching mailing list > > listserv@azgeocaching.com > > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > > http://www.azgeocaching.com > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list > listserv@azgeocaching.com > http://listserv.azgeocaching.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching > > Arizona's Geocaching Resource > http://www.azgeocaching.com >