Doh! I are stupid...

[kengr]

I forgot to list the *first* cache * looked for Sat.

GC14XWY O.I.C.U. Found-R-Cache

I think this was my fourth attempt. And it wasn't until I was reorganizing the "cheat sheets" that I noticed the clue on the one for that cache. Worse. I realized that I'd *seen* what it was talking about.

So why didn't I find it? Because my GPS had told me it was farther down last time. And I hadn't taken out the cheat sheet.

Arrrggghhhh!

At least I know *exactly* where to look next time I get down there. Which may be a while.

Oh yeah, while looking in the wrong spot, I spotted a tree that'd obviously been cut down fairly recently by a beaver. Took a couple of photos. If they came out ok, I may post them in the afternoon.

Comments

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Ah, you kids have it too easy, today. :-)

I remember finding benchmarks in surveying camp - and, later, as part of a Summer job - decades before GPS.

[kengr]

Oh, geocaching.com has benchmark listings too.

But at least with benchmarks, folks aren't *trying* to make them hard to find. Several of the microcaches I've found have been these containers about the size of a 35mm film can that are painted to match the bark of the trees they were nailed to.

And being plastic, a metal detector wouldn't help.