[Az-Geocaching] Most Frustrating Cache

[Trisha Radley]

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" <brian@snaptek.com>
To: <listserv@azgeocaching.com>
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
>
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