[Az-Geocaching] Old mines

[Lisa G.]

Wow.  I hadn't heard about the girls near Chloride, and it never even 
dawned on me that old mines would be an issue while out geocaching.  
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.  We often cache in the 
forest with our two young boys; the thought of something happening to 
them makes me ill.  Thanks so much.

-Lisa a.k.a. PoledraDog

Gale wrote:
> By now, most of you have heard about the 3 girls on their atv near 
> Chloride who fell into an old mine shaft. Ive lived in Arizona for 
> decades. I had the dangers of old mines drilled into me. Ive always 
> been careful when Ive been out wandering in the desert. Despite that, 
> I nearly fell into an old mine myself back in 1986 or 1987. I was 
> watching where I was going, in an area around Pearce in southern 
> Arizona. I took a step over a rise, around a bush, and nearly stepped 
> right into a shaft. The angle of it prevented me from seeing it. I 
> tossed rocks into it, and could hear them land far down the shaft. As 
> geocachers, many of us go out in the areas where there are old mines. 
> I urge people (especially those new to Arizona) to be careful and 
> never underestimate the dangers of those old mines.