[Az-Geocaching] A bit of history - question

[Trisha Brasher]

I had a micro moved, too, so that I didn't find it for quite a long time. In fact, I didn't find it, another cacher did! It was "Art Rocks!" at Yavapai College (Prescott) the gray-fake rock that blended in with all the rocks in the base of an artistic fountain. (Lighted only, except when it rained) The fountain base was at least 25 feet or more in diameter, and the cache (in one of it's three incarnations, I don't remember which one off hand) was secured by velcro to another rock. After a DNF I checked it, could not find it, replaced it, then had someone find the original that I thought was muggled, and IT (the original) was re-placed almost 180 degrees from where I had it hidden. Geez! That was annoying.
Now it was muggled again last year (around the same time, but I think earlier than when my last 6 remaining "PV Park Series" caches all disappeared on Thanksgiving weekend.)
For any Prescott area cachers that are reading this list, that artistic garden by the theatre building at Yavapai is a great place for a micro cache....maybe someone (else) (smart-pv, are you out there? meeper?) could put a very clever micro there.....something that fits in....
peace everyone,
Trisha - Lightning
Prescott Valley


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Scotti" <jscotti at pirl.lpl.Arizona.EDU>
> To: listserv at azgeocaching.com
> Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] A bit of history - question
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:31:16 -0700 (MST)
> 
> 
> Seems like you guys are inventing a new field of research - geocache
> archeology.  I'm sure there's thousands of interesting stories about caches
> and how they've met their demise and how perhaps some of them are still out
> there despite being pillaged or burned in a fire or whatever caused their
> archival.  I know when one of my caches are lost, there is only a certain
> amount of hunting around that one can do to be sure it isn't still in the
> area someplace - maybe tossed into a tree across the wash or moved somewhat
> from the original hiding spot so that the owner can't even find it (that
> happened to one of my micros - it moved a good 50 feet and I almost gave up
> on it before seeing it off in the distance!) or whatever.
> 
> Jim.
> 
> On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Roping The Wind wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: Bob Renner <>
> >>
> >> The cache was plundered only a short time after it was
> >> initally created.  It was in plain sight and had a
> >> combination lock on the box with the combination in
> >> the web page.  Someone riped the lid off and emptied
> >> the contents.  The empty shell was on the tree for a
> >> long time after that.
> >>
> >> Finally, about a year ago, the tree was cut down and
> >> the field plowed.  I assume the box was removed with
> >> the tree, but since the lid was ripped off and
> >> discarded earlier, it was in the field for you to
> >> find.
> >
> > Wow. That is some cool little history right there! I was wondering if the
> > rest of the box might be in the ground there. Now I know it isnt. So
> > everything fits together nicely and the mystery is solved! :) Looks like we
> > did find the lid from that cache then. It is interesting that we found the
> > lid almost precisely at the coordinates... not more than a few feet off...
> > considering it was plowed into the ground. Fun stuff!
> >
> > Team Ropingthewind
> > Scott
> >
> >
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> Jim Scotti
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> University of Arizona
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