[Az-Geocaching] Fwd: Bronco Butte

[Bob Renner]

I received the following message from the owner of
the Bronco Butte cache.  I thought everyone who is
planning on going would be interested in it.

Bob


--- William <tek465m@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: "William" <tek465m@yahoo.com>
> To: <renner001@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Bronco Butte
> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:29:59 -0700
> 
>     I'm glad to see you're up to the challenge. Just
> remember to bring a
> camera. I really did put the cache together at the
> last moment, just some
> stuff raided from the kids box. The cache container
> is a margrine tub. It is
> hidden underneath the big boulder close to the
> windsock. I did put a few
> rocks around the base of it to keep it in place.
>     (If you could, I would greatly appreiciate if
> you could replace the
> container with something more presentable. In
> hindsight, the cache is pretty
> trashy looking for such a difficult location.)
> 
>     The story behind the cache is that I am a
> radiotechnician for the state.
> As you will see, Bronco Butte is one of many sites
> around the state. The
> higher building belongs to the state and the lower
> building (with many solar
> cells) belongs to the county.
>     Normally the site is pretty self-sufficient.
> But, when it goes down it
> needs to be fixed asap. Well, I was a trainee at the
> time and was asked to
> assist. I only had a few minutes to get things ready
> and, in the wee hours
> in the morning, I thought the cache was a good idea.
> This is one of the
> great perks of my job. Being able to see the city
> lights below; a star
> filled sky above. And watching the sun rise above
> the mountains. Nothing
> else like it.
>     I will not be able to return to the site because
> I am being transfered
> to the northern part of the state. So look for some
> better caches from me in
> the navajo/apache county area.
> 
>     The best I can tell you about getting to the
> site is to try to follow
> the stream beds on the west side. The engineers came
> that way for the
> initial survey. Don't try to climb up those steep
> walls. Please try to be
> careful around the buildings, they do have entry
> alarms. But around the base
> of the upper tower you might be able to find some
> pottery shards that other
> technicians have found while up there.
> 
> I wish you good luck, and Be Careful.
> 
> William, Tek465M
> 
> P.S.     If you find it too difficult or dangerous,
> please email me back so
> that I can archive the cache.
> 
> 
>
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