Bummer! The powers that be at geocaching.com rejected my idea
for a virtual cache at a thermometer, which is hidden right off
the Groom Creek trail (trail 307), 6 miles south of Prescott!
I thought that would be a cool thing for people to find. Oh well...
I was up there on May 25, and while stopping at the thermometer
to check the reading, decided to get coordinates, and set it up
as a virtual cache. This thermometer has been there, on the back
side of a tree, for many years B.C. (before caching), I first
noticed it in 1992. Who put it there is a mystery.
The cache is now in an archived state, and I believe it will
be viewable IF you are logged in to geocaching.com, at this URL:
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=71199
Geocaching.com's position was that if you are able to place a
physical cache at a location, then ONLY a physical cache may
be placed there- no virtuals.
If anybody who will be hiking the Groom Creek Trail during the
next several months wishes to see if they can find the thermometer,
it is located at:
N 34 27.750 W 112 25.526
It is on the back side of a tree on the north side of the trail.
If anybody does actually find it, please let me know, by sending
an email to
malthusian@mindspring.com, even though you can't log
a geocaching.com cache find for it.
Mike
Team Malthusian
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